diff --git a/examples/pytorch/token-classification/run_ner.py b/examples/pytorch/token-classification/run_ner.py
index ef1c0ac917b767..d2a4c3dabfd63c 100755
--- a/examples/pytorch/token-classification/run_ner.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/token-classification/run_ner.py
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ def get_label_list(labels):
     )
 
     tokenizer_name_or_path = model_args.tokenizer_name if model_args.tokenizer_name else model_args.model_name_or_path
-    if config.model_type in {"bloom", "gpt2", "roberta"}:
+    if config.model_type in {"bloom", "gpt2", "roberta", "deberta"}:
         tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
             tokenizer_name_or_path,
             cache_dir=model_args.cache_dir,