diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/models.py b/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
index ca56e79d8..ab5bbc267 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
@@ -302,7 +302,10 @@ def load_model(
         if cfg.resize_token_embeddings_to_32x
         else len(tokenizer)
     )
-    model.resize_token_embeddings(embeddings_len)
+    if model.get_input_embeddings().num_embeddings < embeddings_len:
+        model.resize_token_embeddings(embeddings_len)
+    else:
+        model.tie_weights()
 
     if (
         hasattr(model.config, "max_position_embeddings")