diff --git a/src/transformers/models/zamba/modeling_zamba.py b/src/transformers/models/zamba/modeling_zamba.py
index efa7b3d9ec974f..ed985ac5f0ded6 100644
--- a/src/transformers/models/zamba/modeling_zamba.py
+++ b/src/transformers/models/zamba/modeling_zamba.py
@@ -1002,9 +1002,9 @@ def forward(
 
 
 class HybridLayer(nn.Module):
-    def __init__(self, shared_transf: ZambaAttentionDecoderLayer, linear: nn.Linear, mamba: ZambaMambaDecoderLayer):
+    def __init__(self, shared_transformer: ZambaAttentionDecoderLayer, linear: nn.Linear, mamba: ZambaMambaDecoderLayer):
         super().__init__()
-        self.shared_transf = shared_transf
+        self.shared_transformer = shared_transformer
         self.linear = linear
         self.mamba = mamba
 
@@ -1040,7 +1040,7 @@ def forward(
                 Indices depicting the position of the input sequence tokens in the sequence.
         """
 
-        layer_outputs = self.shared_transf(
+        layer_outputs = self.shared_transformer(
             hidden_states,
             original_hidden_states=original_hidden_states,
             layer_idx=layer_idx,