language_id = tokenizer.lang2id["en"] # 0 langs = torch.tensor([language_id] * input_ids.shape[1]) # torch.tensor([0, 0, 0, , 0]) We reshape it to be of size (batch_size, sequence_length) langs = langs.view(1, -1) # is now of shape [1, sequence_length] (we have a batch size of 1) Now you can pass the input_ids and language embedding to the model: outputs = model(input_ids, langs=langs) The run_generation.py script can generate text with language embeddings using the xlm-clm checkpoints.