_pickle.UnpicklingError: invalid load key, '\xff'.

[mahmoodn]

May I know how to fix the following error

mahmood@orca:fast_neural_style$ python3.7 neural_style/neural_style.py eval --content-image images/content-images/amber.jpg --model images/style-images/mosaic.jpg --output-image a1.jpg --cuda 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "neural_style/neural_style.py", line 240, in <module>
    main()
  File "neural_style/neural_style.py", line 236, in main
    stylize(args)
  File "neural_style/neural_style.py", line 138, in stylize
    state_dict = torch.load(args.model)
  File "/home/mahmood/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/torch/serialization.py", line 367, in load
    return _load(f, map_location, pickle_module)
  File "/home/mahmood/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/torch/serialization.py", line 528, in _load
    magic_number = pickle_module.load(f)
_pickle.UnpicklingError: invalid load key, '\xff'.