diff --git a/aria/model/configuration_aria.py b/aria/model/configuration_aria.py
index 7bfe8fa..20d9704 100644
--- a/aria/model/configuration_aria.py
+++ b/aria/model/configuration_aria.py
@@ -66,12 +66,13 @@ def __init__(
         },
         ignore_index=-100,
         image_token_index=32000,
+        tie_word_embeddings=False,
         **kwargs,
     ):
         super().__init__(**kwargs)
         self.ignore_index = ignore_index
         self.image_token_index = image_token_index
-
+        self.tie_word_embeddings = tie_word_embeddings
         attn_implementation = kwargs.pop("attn_implementation", None)
 
         # Set the default attention implementation to flash_attention_2 if not specified
diff --git a/aria/model/modeling_aria.py b/aria/model/modeling_aria.py
index 9809816..3d89a05 100644
--- a/aria/model/modeling_aria.py
+++ b/aria/model/modeling_aria.py
@@ -164,11 +164,11 @@ def get_input_embeddings(self) -> nn.Module:
     def set_input_embeddings(self, value):
         """Set the input embeddings for the language model."""
         self.language_model.set_input_embeddings(value)
-    
+
     def get_output_embeddings(self):
         """Retrieve the output embeddings from the language model."""
         return self.language_model.get_output_embeddings()
-    
+
     def set_output_embeddings(self, value):
         """Set the output embeddings for the language model."""
         self.language_model.set_output_embeddings(value)