diff --git a/src/transformers/trainer.py b/src/transformers/trainer.py
index 3fd067edfc5b06..46add00b018e3a 100755
--- a/src/transformers/trainer.py
+++ b/src/transformers/trainer.py
@@ -272,6 +272,25 @@ def _get_fsdp_ckpt_kwargs():
         return {}
 
 
+def safe_globals():
+    # Starting from version 2.4 PyTorch introduces a check for the objects loaded
+    # with torch.load(weights_only=True). Starting from 2.6 weights_only=True becomes
+    # a default and requires allowlisting of objects being loaded.
+    # See: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/137602
+    # See: https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/notes/serialization.html#torch.serialization.add_safe_globals
+    # See: https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate/pull/3036
+    if version.parse(torch.__version__).release < version.parse("2.6").release:
+        return contextlib.nullcontext()
+
+    np_core = np._core if version.parse(np.__version__) >= version.parse("2.0.0") else np.core
+    allowlist = [np_core.multiarray._reconstruct, np.ndarray, np.dtype]
+    # numpy >1.25 defines numpy.dtypes.UInt32DType, but below works for
+    # all versions of numpy
+    allowlist += [type(np.dtype(np.uint32))]
+
+    return torch.serialization.safe_globals(allowlist)
+
+
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     import optuna
 
@@ -3055,7 +3074,8 @@ def _load_rng_state(self, checkpoint):
                 )
                 return
 
-        checkpoint_rng_state = torch.load(rng_file)
+        with safe_globals():
+            checkpoint_rng_state = torch.load(rng_file)
         random.setstate(checkpoint_rng_state["python"])
         np.random.set_state(checkpoint_rng_state["numpy"])
         torch.random.set_rng_state(checkpoint_rng_state["cpu"])