diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1c1e525b..736244e5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ### Added
 - Python 3.13 support ([#227](https://github.com/MobileTeleSystems/RecTools/pull/227))
 - `fit_partial` implementation for transformer-based models ([#273](https://github.com/MobileTeleSystems/RecTools/pull/273))
+- `map_location` and `model_params_update` arguments for the function `load_from_checkpoint` for Transformer-based models. Use `map_location` to explicitly specify the computing new device and `model_params_update` to update original model parameters (e.g. remove training-specific parameters that are not needed anymore) ([#281](https://github.com/MobileTeleSystems/RecTools/pull/281))
 
 ## [0.13.0] - 10.04.2025
 
diff --git a/rectools/models/nn/transformers/base.py b/rectools/models/nn/transformers/base.py
index 735bf4b6..c2699978 100644
--- a/rectools/models/nn/transformers/base.py
+++ b/rectools/models/nn/transformers/base.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 from rectools.dataset.dataset import Dataset, DatasetSchema, DatasetSchemaDict, IdMap
 from rectools.models.base import ErrorBehaviour, InternalRecoTriplet, ModelBase, ModelConfig
 from rectools.types import InternalIdsArray
-from rectools.utils.misc import get_class_or_function_full_path, import_object
+from rectools.utils.misc import get_class_or_function_full_path, import_object, make_dict_flat, unflatten_dict
 
 from ..item_net import (
     CatFeaturesItemNet,
@@ -623,20 +623,36 @@ def __setstate__(self, state: tp.Dict[str, tp.Any]) -> None:
         self.__dict__.update(loaded.__dict__)
 
     @classmethod
-    def load_from_checkpoint(cls, checkpoint_path: tp.Union[str, Path]) -> tpe.Self:
-        """
-        Load model from Lightning checkpoint path.
+    def load_from_checkpoint(
+        cls,
+        checkpoint_path: tp.Union[str, Path],
+        map_location: tp.Optional[tp.Union[str, torch.device]] = None,
+        model_params_update: tp.Optional[tp.Dict[str, tp.Any]] = None,
+    ) -> tpe.Self:
+        """Load model from Lightning checkpoint path.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         checkpoint_path: Union[str, Path]
             Path to checkpoint location.
-
+        map_location: Union[str, torch.device], optional
+            Target device to load the checkpoint (e.g., 'cpu', 'cuda:0').
+            If None, will use the device the checkpoint was saved on.
+        model_params_update: Dict[str, tp.Any], optional
+            Contains custom values for checkpoint['hyper_parameters']['model_config'].
+            Has to be flattened with 'dot' reducer, before passed.
+            You can use this argument to remove training-specific parameters that are not needed anymore.
+             e.g. 'get_trainer_func'
         Returns
         -------
         Model instance.
         """
-        checkpoint = torch.load(checkpoint_path, weights_only=False)
+        checkpoint = torch.load(checkpoint_path, map_location=map_location, weights_only=False)
+        if model_params_update:
+            prev_model_config = checkpoint["hyper_parameters"]["model_config"]
+            prev_config_flatten = make_dict_flat(prev_model_config)
+            prev_config_flatten.update(model_params_update)
+            checkpoint["hyper_parameters"]["model_config"] = unflatten_dict(prev_config_flatten)
         loaded = cls._model_from_checkpoint(checkpoint)
         return loaded
 
diff --git a/tests/models/nn/transformers/test_base.py b/tests/models/nn/transformers/test_base.py
index c2ceba08..da3df2c7 100644
--- a/tests/models/nn/transformers/test_base.py
+++ b/tests/models/nn/transformers/test_base.py
@@ -154,10 +154,37 @@ def test_save_load_for_fitted_model(
 
     @pytest.mark.parametrize("test_dataset", ("dataset", "dataset_item_features"))
     @pytest.mark.parametrize("model_cls", (SASRecModel, BERT4RecModel))
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "map_location",
+        (
+            "cpu",
+            pytest.param(
+                "cuda:0",
+                marks=pytest.mark.skipif(torch.cuda.is_available() is False, reason="GPU is not available"),
+            ),
+            None,
+        ),
+    )
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "model_params_update",
+        (
+            {
+                "get_val_mask_func": "tests.models.nn.transformers.utils.leave_one_out_mask",
+                "get_trainer_func": "tests.models.nn.transformers.utils.custom_trainer",
+            },
+            {
+                "get_val_mask_func": None,
+                "get_trainer_func": None,
+            },
+            None,
+        ),
+    )
     def test_load_from_checkpoint(
         self,
         model_cls: tp.Type[TransformerModelBase],
         test_dataset: str,
+        map_location: tp.Optional[tp.Union[str, torch.device]],
+        model_params_update: tp.Optional[tp.Dict[str, tp.Any]],
         request: FixtureRequest,
     ) -> None:
 
@@ -175,7 +202,9 @@ def test_load_from_checkpoint(
             raise ValueError("No log dir")
         ckpt_path = os.path.join(model.fit_trainer.log_dir, "checkpoints", "last_epoch.ckpt")
         assert os.path.isfile(ckpt_path)
-        recovered_model = model_cls.load_from_checkpoint(ckpt_path)
+        recovered_model = model_cls.load_from_checkpoint(
+            ckpt_path, map_location=map_location, model_params_update=model_params_update
+        )
         assert isinstance(recovered_model, model_cls)
 
         self._assert_same_reco(model, recovered_model, dataset)
diff --git a/tests/models/nn/transformers/test_bert4rec.py b/tests/models/nn/transformers/test_bert4rec.py
index 68068475..6f0a0c34 100644
--- a/tests/models/nn/transformers/test_bert4rec.py
+++ b/tests/models/nn/transformers/test_bert4rec.py
@@ -451,6 +451,7 @@ def test_i2i(
         whitelist: tp.Optional[np.ndarray],
         expected: pd.DataFrame,
     ) -> None:
+
         model = BERT4RecModel(
             n_factors=32,
             n_blocks=2,