diff --git a/lm_eval/models/huggingface.py b/lm_eval/models/huggingface.py
index c0f194cceac..d10ec7f2f98 100644
--- a/lm_eval/models/huggingface.py
+++ b/lm_eval/models/huggingface.py
@@ -1575,3 +1575,110 @@ def get_model_sha(pretrained: str, revision: str) -> str:
         if self.delta:
             model_info["delta_sha"] = get_model_sha(self.delta, self.revision)
         return model_info
+
+
+class HFLM_Accelerate(HFLM):
+    """
+    Supports custom HF models with accelerate already loaded.
+    """
+
+    AUTO_MODEL_CLASS = None
+    _DEFAULT_MAX_LENGTH = 2048
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        pretrained: PreTrainedModel,
+        tokenizer: PreTrainedTokenizerBase,
+        accelerator: Accelerator,
+        backend: Literal["default", "causal", "seq2seq"] = "default",
+        # override whether the model should be treated as decoder-only (causal) or encoder-decoder (seq2seq)
+        revision="main",
+        subfolder: str = "",
+        truncation: bool | None = False,
+        logits_cache: bool = True,
+        max_length: int | None = None,
+        softmax_dtype: str | torch.dtype | None = None,
+        mixed_precision_dtype: str | torch.dtype | None = None,
+        batch_size: int = 1,
+        max_batch_size: int | None = 64,
+        trust_remote_code: bool | None = False,
+        use_fast_tokenizer: bool | None = True,
+        add_bos_token: bool | None = False,
+        prefix_token_id: int | None = None,
+        # PEFT, delta weights and quantization options
+        peft: str | None = None,
+        delta: str | None = None,
+        gguf_file: str | None = None,
+        # end token for thinking, either the string or int token id.
+        # splits to get response after this token (if provided).
+        think_end_token: str | int | None = None,
+        enable_thinking: bool | None = None,
+        chat_template_args: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
+    ) -> None:
+        TemplateLM.__init__(self) # Do not instantiate parent (HFLM), only instantiate grandparent (TemplateLM)
+        # optionally: take in an already-initialized transformers.PreTrainedModel
+        self._model = pretrained
+        self._config = self._model.config
+
+        self._get_backend(
+            config=self.config, backend=backend, trust_remote_code=trust_remote_code
+        )
+
+        # load tokenizer so we know tokenizer vocabulary size before loading model and PEFT
+        self._create_tokenizer(
+            pretrained,
+            tokenizer,  
+            revision=revision,
+            subfolder=subfolder,
+            trust_remote_code=trust_remote_code,
+            use_fast_tokenizer=use_fast_tokenizer,
+            gguf_file=gguf_file,
+            add_bos_token=add_bos_token,
+        )
+
+        self.think_end_token = (
+            int(think_end_token)
+            if (isinstance(think_end_token, str) and think_end_token.isdigit())
+            else think_end_token
+        )
+        self.truncation = truncation
+        self.logits_cache = logits_cache
+        self.vocab_size = self.tokenizer.vocab_size
+        # select (or create) a pad token to use
+        self.tokenizer = configure_pad_token(self.tokenizer, model_config=self.config)
+        self.chat_template_args = (
+            chat_template_args or {} | dict(enable_thinking=enable_thinking)
+            if enable_thinking is not None
+            else {}
+        )
+
+        self.add_bos_token = add_bos_token
+        if "gemma" in getattr(self.config, "model_type", ""):
+            self.add_bos_token = True
+
+        self._max_length = max_length
+        self.pretrained = pretrained
+        self.delta = delta
+        self.peft = peft
+        self.revision = revision
+        self.batch_schedule = 1
+        self.batch_sizes = {}
+        self.max_batch_size = max_batch_size
+        self.softmax_dtype = (
+            get_dtype(softmax_dtype) if softmax_dtype is not None else None
+        )
+        self.mixed_precision_dtype = (
+            get_dtype(mixed_precision_dtype)
+            if mixed_precision_dtype is not None
+            else None
+        )
+        self.batch_size_per_gpu = int(batch_size)
+        # Accelerate already loaded
+        self._device = torch.device(f"{accelerator.device}")
+        self.accelerator = accelerator
+
+        self._rank = self.accelerator.local_process_index
+        self._world_size = self.accelerator.num_processes
+
+        self.custom_prefix_token_id = prefix_token_id
+        self.model.tie_weights()