diff --git a/src/vocabulary/locator.rs b/src/vocabulary/locator.rs
index 4b417789..782b621a 100644
--- a/src/vocabulary/locator.rs
+++ b/src/vocabulary/locator.rs
@@ -89,15 +89,28 @@ struct EosTokenLocation {
     location: EosTokenField,
 }
 
-/// Locates eos token id by searching in defined common locations.
-pub(crate) fn locate_eos_token_id(
-    model: &str,
-    tokenizer: &Tokenizer,
-    parameters: &Option<FromPretrainedParameters>,
-) -> Option<TokenId> {
-    COMMON_LOCATIONS
-        .iter()
-        .find_map(|location| location.lookup(model, tokenizer, parameters))
+/// Locates eos token id.
+pub(crate) trait Locator {
+    fn locate_eos_token_id(
+        model: &str,
+        tokenizer: &Tokenizer,
+        parameters: &Option<FromPretrainedParameters>,
+    ) -> Option<TokenId>;
+}
+
+/// Locates eos token id by searching in defined common locations in hugging face.
+pub(crate) struct HFLocator;
+
+impl Locator for HFLocator {
+    fn locate_eos_token_id(
+        model: &str,
+        tokenizer: &Tokenizer,
+        parameters: &Option<FromPretrainedParameters>,
+    ) -> Option<TokenId> {
+        COMMON_LOCATIONS
+            .iter()
+            .find_map(|location| location.lookup(model, tokenizer, parameters))
+    }
 }
 
 impl EosTokenLocation {
@@ -186,8 +199,8 @@ mod tests {
             ("hf-internal-testing/llama-tokenizer", 2, "</s>"),
         ] {
             let tokenizer = Tokenizer::from_pretrained(model, None).expect("Tokenizer failed");
-            let located =
-                locate_eos_token_id(model, &tokenizer, &None).expect("Token id is not located");
+            let located = HFLocator::locate_eos_token_id(model, &tokenizer, &None)
+                .expect("Token id is not located");
 
             assert_eq!(located, *expected_token_id);
             assert_eq!(
diff --git a/src/vocabulary/mod.rs b/src/vocabulary/mod.rs
index e3e24e51..eca4232d 100644
--- a/src/vocabulary/mod.rs
+++ b/src/vocabulary/mod.rs
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ use tokenizers::{FromPretrainedParameters, NormalizerWrapper, Tokenizer};
 use crate::prelude::*;
 use crate::{Error, Result};
 
+use locator::{HFLocator, Locator};
 use processor::TokenProcessor;
 
 mod locator;
@@ -44,6 +45,15 @@ impl Vocabulary {
     pub fn from_pretrained(
         model: &str,
         parameters: Option<FromPretrainedParameters>,
+    ) -> Result<Self> {
+        Self::from_pretrained_with_locator::<HFLocator>(model, parameters)
+    }
+
+    #[doc(hidden)]
+    #[inline(always)]
+    fn from_pretrained_with_locator<L: Locator>(
+        model: &str,
+        parameters: Option<FromPretrainedParameters>,
     ) -> Result<Self> {
         let mut tokenizer =
             Tokenizer::from_pretrained(model, parameters.clone()).map_err(|_| {
@@ -53,7 +63,7 @@ impl Vocabulary {
             })?;
         Self::filter_prepend_normalizers(&mut tokenizer);
 
-        let eos_token_id = locator::locate_eos_token_id(model, &tokenizer, &parameters);
+        let eos_token_id = L::locate_eos_token_id(model, &tokenizer, &parameters);
         let Some(eos_token_id) = eos_token_id else {
             return Err(Error::UnableToLocateEosTokenId {
                 model: model.to_string(),
@@ -358,6 +368,28 @@ mod tests {
         }
     }
 
+    struct NoneLocator;
+    impl Locator for NoneLocator {
+        fn locate_eos_token_id(
+            _model: &str,
+            _tokenizer: &Tokenizer,
+            _parameters: &Option<FromPretrainedParameters>,
+        ) -> Option<TokenId> {
+            None
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn unable_to_locate_eos_token_id_error() {
+        let model = "hf-internal-testing/tiny-random-XLMRobertaXLForCausalLM";
+        let vocabulary = Vocabulary::from_pretrained_with_locator::<NoneLocator>(model, None);
+
+        assert!(vocabulary.is_err());
+        if let Err(Error::UnableToLocateEosTokenId { model }) = vocabulary {
+            assert_eq!(model, model.to_string());
+        }
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn prepend_normalizers_filtered_out() {
         use tokenizers::normalizers::{Prepend, Sequence};