diff --git a/src/transformers/models/auto/tokenization_auto.py b/src/transformers/models/auto/tokenization_auto.py
index 3d12426caa6f..551df77478e5 100644
--- a/src/transformers/models/auto/tokenization_auto.py
+++ b/src/transformers/models/auto/tokenization_auto.py
@@ -373,6 +373,7 @@
     "phi3_v",
     "phimoe",
     "step3p5",
+    "step3_vl",
     "vipllava",
     "cohere_asr",
 }