def from_pretrained(cls, pretrained_model_name_or_path, cache_dir=None, *inputs, **kwargs):
        """
        Instantiate a PreTrainedBertModel from a pre-trained model file.
        Download and cache the pre-trained model file if needed.
        """
        if pretrained_model_name_or_path in PRETRAINED_VOCAB_ARCHIVE_MAP:
            vocab_file = PRETRAINED_VOCAB_ARCHIVE_MAP[pretrained_model_name_or_path]
            merges_file = PRETRAINED_MERGES_ARCHIVE_MAP[pretrained_model_name_or_path]
            special_tokens_file = None
        else:
            vocab_file = os.path.join(pretrained_model_name_or_path, VOCAB_NAME)
            merges_file = os.path.join(pretrained_model_name_or_path, MERGES_NAME)
            special_tokens_file = os.path.join(pretrained_model_name_or_path, SPECIAL_TOKENS_NAME)
            if not os.path.exists(special_tokens_file):
                special_tokens_file = None
            else:
                logger.info("loading special tokens file {}".format(special_tokens_file))
        # redirect to the cache, if necessary
        try:
            resolved_vocab_file = cached_path(vocab_file, cache_dir=cache_dir)
            resolved_merges_file = cached_path(merges_file, cache_dir=cache_dir)
        except EnvironmentError:
            logger.error(
                "Model name '{}' was not found in model name list ({}). "
                "We assumed '{}' was a path or url but couldn't find files {} and {} "
                "at this path or url.".format(
                    pretrained_model_name_or_path,
                    ', '.join(PRETRAINED_VOCAB_ARCHIVE_MAP.keys()),
                    pretrained_model_name_or_path,
                    vocab_file, merges_file))
            return None
        if resolved_vocab_file == vocab_file and resolved_merges_file == merges_file:
            logger.info("loading vocabulary file {}".format(vocab_file))
            logger.info("loading merges file {}".format(merges_file))
        else:
            logger.info("loading vocabulary file {} from cache at {}".format(
                vocab_file, resolved_vocab_file))
            logger.info("loading merges file {} from cache at {}".format(
                merges_file, resolved_merges_file))
        if pretrained_model_name_or_path in PRETRAINED_VOCAB_POSITIONAL_EMBEDDINGS_SIZE_MAP:
            # if we're using a pretrained model, ensure the tokenizer wont index sequences longer
            # than the number of positional embeddings
            max_len = PRETRAINED_VOCAB_POSITIONAL_EMBEDDINGS_SIZE_MAP[pretrained_model_name_or_path]
            kwargs['max_len'] = min(kwargs.get('max_len', int(1e12)), max_len)
        # Instantiate tokenizer.
        if special_tokens_file and 'special_tokens' not in kwargs:
            special_tokens = open(special_tokens_file, encoding='utf-8').read().split('\n')[:-1]
        else:
            special_tokens = kwargs.pop('special_tokens', [])
        tokenizer = cls(
            resolved_vocab_file,
            resolved_merges_file,
            special_tokens=special_tokens,
            *inputs,
            **kwargs)
        return tokenizer

        Instantiate a PreTrainedBertModel from a pre-trained model file.
        Download and cache the pre-trained model file if needed.
        
megatron_lm/megatron/deprecated_data_utils/tokenization_gpt2.py