UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xbe in position 2: invalid start byte

Do you know how I can fix this problem in PyTorch 1.9?

File "main.py", line 138, in main
    checkpoint = torch.load(args.resume)
  File "/scratch3/venv/fashcomp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/torch/serialization.py", line 608, in load
    return _legacy_load(opened_file, map_location, pickle_module, **pickle_load_args)
  File "/scratch3/venv/fashcomp/lib/python3.8/site-packages/torch/serialization.py", line 787, in _legacy_load
    result = unpickler.load()
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xbe in position 2: invalid start byte

I have:

$ pip freeze
h5py==3.3.0
joblib==1.0.1
numpy==1.21.2
Pillow==8.3.1
scikit-learn==0.24.2
scipy==1.7.1
sklearn==0.0
threadpoolctl==2.2.0
torch==1.9.0
torchaudio==0.9.0
torchvision==0.10.0
typing-extensions==3.10.0.0

checkpoint = torch.load(args.resume, encoding='latin1')

added encoding='latin1' and it’s working now.