diff --git a/megatron/tokenizer/tokenizer.py b/megatron/tokenizer/tokenizer.py
index 13085a81c..c6551cdfb 100644
--- a/megatron/tokenizer/tokenizer.py
+++ b/megatron/tokenizer/tokenizer.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 from .bert_tokenization import FullTokenizer as FullBertTokenizer
 from .gpt2_tokenization import GPT2Tokenizer
-
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer
 
 def build_tokenizer(args):
     """Initialize tokenizer."""
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ def build_tokenizer(args):
               flush=True)
 
     # Select and instantiate the tokenizer.
-    assert args.vocab_file is not None
+    assert args.vocab_file is not None or args.tokenizer_type == "PretrainedFromHF"
     if args.tokenizer_type == 'BertWordPieceLowerCase':
         tokenizer = _BertWordPieceTokenizer(vocab_file=args.vocab_file,
                                             lower_case=True,
@@ -41,6 +41,13 @@ def build_tokenizer(args):
     elif args.tokenizer_type == 'GPT2BPETokenizer':
         assert args.merge_file is not None
         tokenizer = _GPT2BPETokenizer(args.vocab_file, args.merge_file)
+    elif args.tokenizer_type == "PretrainedFromHF":
+        assert args.tokenizer_name_or_path is not None
+        print(
+            " vocab file is un-used. loading tokenizer from pre-trained model",
+            flush=True,
+        )
+        tokenizer = _AutoTokenizer(args.tokenizer_name_or_path)
     else:
         raise NotImplementedError('{} tokenizer is not '
                                   'implemented.'.format(args.tokenizer_type))
@@ -289,3 +296,36 @@ def detokenize(self, token_ids):
     @property
     def eod(self):
         return self.eod_id
+
+
+class _AutoTokenizer(AbstractTokenizer):
+    """AutoTokenizer for Hf Pretrained model loading."""
+
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer_name_or_path):
+        name = tokenizer_name_or_path
+        super().__init__(name)
+        self.tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(tokenizer_name_or_path)
+        self.encoder = self.tokenizer.get_vocab()
+        self.decoder = {v: k for k, v in self.encoder.items()}
+
+    @property
+    def vocab_size(self):
+        return self.tokenizer.vocab_size
+
+    @property
+    def vocab(self):
+        return self.tokenizer.encoder
+
+    @property
+    def inv_vocab(self):
+        return self.tokenizer.decoder
+
+    def tokenize(self, text):
+        return self.tokenizer.encode(text)
+
+    def detokenize(self, token_ids):
+        return self.tokenizer.decode(token_ids)
+
+    @property
+    def eod(self):
+        return self.tokenizer.eos_token_id
diff --git a/tools/preprocess_data.py b/tools/preprocess_data.py
index c9ecb6af2..da05b4e4d 100644
--- a/tools/preprocess_data.py
+++ b/tools/preprocess_data.py
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ def get_args():
     group = parser.add_argument_group(title='tokenizer')
     group.add_argument('--tokenizer-type', type=str, required=True,
                        choices=['BertWordPieceLowerCase','BertWordPieceCase',
-                                'GPT2BPETokenizer'],
+                                'GPT2BPETokenizer', 'PretrainedFromHF'],
                        help='What type of tokenizer to use.')
     group.add_argument('--vocab-file', type=str, default=None,
                        help='Path to the vocab file')
@@ -113,7 +113,8 @@ def get_args():
                        help='Path to the BPE merge file (if necessary).')
     group.add_argument('--append-eod', action='store_true',
                        help='Append an <eod> token to the end of a document.')
-
+    group.add_argument("--tokenizer-name-or-path", type=str, default=None, 
+                       help="Name or path of the huggingface tokenizer.")
 
     group = parser.add_argument_group(title='output data')
     group.add_argument('--output-prefix', type=str, required=True,