diff --git a/nemo_reinforcer/models/policy/dtensor_policy_worker.py b/nemo_reinforcer/models/policy/dtensor_policy_worker.py
index cf0f06bbfa..ac94d49120 100644
--- a/nemo_reinforcer/models/policy/dtensor_policy_worker.py
+++ b/nemo_reinforcer/models/policy/dtensor_policy_worker.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     FSDPModule,
 )
 from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
-from transformers.modeling_utils import _get_tied_weight_keys
+from transformers.integrations.accelerate import find_tied_parameters
 from nemo_reinforcer.models.dtensor.parallelize import _parallelize_model
 
 from nemo_reinforcer.algorithms.interfaces import LossFunction
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ def train(
         mbs: Optional[int] = None,
     ) -> Dict[str, Any]:
         """Train the policy on a batch of data with a given loss function."""
-        num_tied_weights = len(_get_tied_weight_keys(self.model))
+        num_tied_weights = len(find_tied_parameters(self.model))
         skip_tie_check = os.environ.get("NRL_SKIP_TIED_WEIGHT_CHECK")
         if (
             num_tied_weights != 0
diff --git a/nemo_reinforcer/models/policy/fsdp1_policy_worker.py b/nemo_reinforcer/models/policy/fsdp1_policy_worker.py
index 89b46fd6ac..5e8a8f6bc5 100644
--- a/nemo_reinforcer/models/policy/fsdp1_policy_worker.py
+++ b/nemo_reinforcer/models/policy/fsdp1_policy_worker.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 )
 
 from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
-from transformers.modeling_utils import _get_tied_weight_keys
+from transformers.integrations.accelerate import find_tied_parameters
 from nemo_reinforcer.models.policy import PolicyConfig
 from nemo_reinforcer.models.policy.utils import import_class_from_path
 from nemo_reinforcer.distributed.virtual_cluster import (
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ def train(
     ) -> Dict[str, Any]:
         """Train the policy on a batch of data with a given loss function."""
         # Check if the model has tied weights
-        num_tied_weights = len(_get_tied_weight_keys(self.model))
+        num_tied_weights = len(find_tied_parameters(self.model))
         skip_tie_check = os.environ.get("NRL_SKIP_TIED_WEIGHT_CHECK")
         if num_tied_weights != 0 and not skip_tie_check:
             raise ValueError(