diff --git a/src/pytorch_tabular/tabular_datamodule.py b/src/pytorch_tabular/tabular_datamodule.py
index 3d09bb2e..7fd68dbf 100644
--- a/src/pytorch_tabular/tabular_datamodule.py
+++ b/src/pytorch_tabular/tabular_datamodule.py
@@ -758,7 +758,7 @@ def _load_dataset_from_cache(self, tag: str = "train"):
                 )
         elif self.cache_mode is self.CACHE_MODES.DISK:
             try:
-                dataset = torch.load(self.cache_dir / f"{tag}_dataset")
+                dataset = torch.load(self.cache_dir / f"{tag}_dataset", weights_only=False)
             except FileNotFoundError:
                 raise FileNotFoundError(
                     f"{tag}_dataset not found in {self.cache_dir}. Please provide the" f" data for {tag} dataloader"
diff --git a/src/pytorch_tabular/utils/python_utils.py b/src/pytorch_tabular/utils/python_utils.py
index d94ea714..57176fdc 100644
--- a/src/pytorch_tabular/utils/python_utils.py
+++ b/src/pytorch_tabular/utils/python_utils.py
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ def pl_load(
     """
     if not isinstance(path_or_url, (str, Path)):
         # any sort of BytesIO or similar
-        return torch.load(path_or_url, map_location=map_location)
+        return torch.load(path_or_url, map_location=map_location, weights_only=False)
     if str(path_or_url).startswith("http"):
         return torch.hub.load_state_dict_from_url(
             str(path_or_url),
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ def pl_load(
         )
     fs = get_filesystem(path_or_url)
     with fs.open(path_or_url, "rb") as f:
-        return torch.load(f, map_location=map_location)
+        return torch.load(f, map_location=map_location, weights_only=False)
 
 
 def check_numpy(x):