diff --git a/nemo_automodel/__init__.py b/nemo_automodel/__init__.py
index 8bdc4be35d..febbe6e066 100644
--- a/nemo_automodel/__init__.py
+++ b/nemo_automodel/__init__.py
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@
         "nemo_automodel._transformers.auto_model",
         "NeMoAutoModelForSequenceClassification",
     ),
+    "NeMoAutoModelForTokenClassification": (
+        "nemo_automodel._transformers.auto_model",
+        "NeMoAutoModelForTokenClassification",
+    ),
     "NeMoAutoModelForTextToWaveform": ("nemo_automodel._transformers.auto_model", "NeMoAutoModelForTextToWaveform"),
     "NeMoAutoModelBiEncoder": ("nemo_automodel._transformers.auto_model", "NeMoAutoModelBiEncoder"),
     "NeMoAutoModelCrossEncoder": ("nemo_automodel._transformers.auto_model", "NeMoAutoModelCrossEncoder"),
diff --git a/nemo_automodel/_transformers/__init__.py b/nemo_automodel/_transformers/__init__.py
index 03f70f3da4..aa00fdf539 100644
--- a/nemo_automodel/_transformers/__init__.py
+++ b/nemo_automodel/_transformers/__init__.py
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@
         "nemo_automodel._transformers.auto_model",
         "NeMoAutoModelForSequenceClassification",
     ),
+    "NeMoAutoModelForTokenClassification": (
+        "nemo_automodel._transformers.auto_model",
+        "NeMoAutoModelForTokenClassification",
+    ),
     "NeMoAutoModelForTextToWaveform": ("nemo_automodel._transformers.auto_model", "NeMoAutoModelForTextToWaveform"),
     "NeMoAutoModelBiEncoder": ("nemo_automodel._transformers.auto_model", "NeMoAutoModelBiEncoder"),
     "NeMoAutoModelCrossEncoder": ("nemo_automodel._transformers.auto_model", "NeMoAutoModelCrossEncoder"),
@@ -37,6 +41,7 @@
     "NeMoAutoModelForImageTextToText",
     "NeMoAutoModelForMultimodalLM",
     "NeMoAutoModelForSequenceClassification",
+    "NeMoAutoModelForTokenClassification",
     "NeMoAutoModelForTextToWaveform",
     "NeMoAutoModelBiEncoder",
     "NeMoAutoModelCrossEncoder",
diff --git a/nemo_automodel/_transformers/auto_model.py b/nemo_automodel/_transformers/auto_model.py
index 3df1e2d5ba..965ba3964f 100644
--- a/nemo_automodel/_transformers/auto_model.py
+++ b/nemo_automodel/_transformers/auto_model.py
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
     AutoModelForMultimodalLM,
     AutoModelForSequenceClassification,
     AutoModelForTextToWaveform,
+    AutoModelForTokenClassification,
     PreTrainedModel,
 )
 from transformers.initialization import no_init_weights  # noqa: E402
@@ -736,6 +737,33 @@ class NeMoAutoModelForSequenceClassification(_BaseNeMoAutoModelClass, AutoModelF
     pass
 
 
+class NeMoAutoModelForTokenClassification(_BaseNeMoAutoModelClass, AutoModelForTokenClassification):
+    """Drop-in replacement for ``transformers.AutoModelForTokenClassification`` with custom-kernels.
+
+    The class only overrides ``from_pretrained`` and ``from_config`` to add the
+    optional ``use_liger_kernel`` flag.  If the flag is ``True`` (default) and
+    the Liger kernel is available, the model's attention layers are
+    monkey-patched in place.  If patching fails for any reason, the call is
+    retried once with ``use_liger_kernel=False`` so that users still obtain a
+    functional model.
+
+    Notes:
+    -----
+    - No changes are made to the model's public API; forward signatures,
+      generation utilities, and weight shapes remain identical.
+    - Only decoder-style (causal) architectures are currently supported by the
+      Liger patch.  Unsupported models will silently fall back.
+
+    Examples:
+    --------
+    >>> model = NeMoAutoModelForTokenClassification.from_pretrained("dbmdz/bert-large-cased-finetuned-conll03-english") # try Liger
+    >>> model = NeMoAutoModelForTokenClassification.from_pretrained(
+    ...     "dbmdz/bert-large-cased-finetuned-conll03-english", use_liger_kernel=False)   # skip Liger
+    """
+
+    pass
+
+
 class NeMoAutoModelForTextToWaveform(_BaseNeMoAutoModelClass, AutoModelForTextToWaveform):
     """Drop-in replacement for ``transformers.AutoModelForTextToWaveform`` with custom-kernels.