diff --git a/taming/modules/losses/lpips.py b/taming/modules/losses/lpips.py
index 86a00ba4..9ef3ad44 100644
--- a/taming/modules/losses/lpips.py
+++ b/taming/modules/losses/lpips.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 """Stripped version of https://github.com/richzhang/PerceptualSimilarity/tree/master/models"""
 
+import os
 import torch
 import torch.nn as nn
 from torchvision import models
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ def __init__(self, use_dropout=True):
             param.requires_grad = False
 
     def load_from_pretrained(self, name="vgg_lpips"):
-        ckpt = get_ckpt_path(name, "taming/modules/autoencoder/lpips")
+        ckpt = get_ckpt_path(name, os.path.expanduser("~/.cache/taming/modules/autoencoder/lpips"))
         self.load_state_dict(torch.load(ckpt, map_location=torch.device("cpu")), strict=False)
         print("loaded pretrained LPIPS loss from {}".format(ckpt))