diff --git a/src/lerobot/policies/pi05/modeling_pi05.py b/src/lerobot/policies/pi05/modeling_pi05.py
index 4f3dce1c9..2c0301e73 100644
--- a/src/lerobot/policies/pi05/modeling_pi05.py
+++ b/src/lerobot/policies/pi05/modeling_pi05.py
@@ -409,6 +409,7 @@ class PaliGemmaWithExpertModel(
         params_to_keep_float32 = [
             "vision_tower",
             "multi_modal_projector",
+            "lm_head",
             "input_layernorm",
             "post_attention_layernorm",
             "model.norm",
@@ -1029,6 +1030,16 @@ class PI05Policy(PreTrainedPolicy):
             if remap_count > 0:
                 print(f"Remapped {remap_count} state dict keys")
 
+            lm_head_key = "model.paligemma_with_expert.paligemma.lm_head.weight"
+            embed_tokens_key = (
+                "model.paligemma_with_expert.paligemma.model.language_model.embed_tokens.weight"
+            )
+            if lm_head_key not in remapped_state_dict and embed_tokens_key in remapped_state_dict:
+                remapped_state_dict[lm_head_key] = remapped_state_dict[embed_tokens_key].clone().float()
+                print("Initialized PaliGemma lm_head from language token embeddings")
+            elif lm_head_key in remapped_state_dict:
+                remapped_state_dict[lm_head_key] = remapped_state_dict[lm_head_key].float()
+
             # Load the remapped state dict into the model
             missing_keys, unexpected_keys = model.load_state_dict(remapped_state_dict, strict=strict)