diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/core/lightning.py b/pytorch_lightning/core/lightning.py
index 6e0db93e2e..46f6a11b95 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/core/lightning.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/core/lightning.py
@@ -1439,11 +1439,12 @@ class LightningModule(ABC, DeviceDtypeModuleMixin, GradInformation, ModelIO, Mod
     def load_from_checkpoint(
             cls,
             checkpoint_path: str,
+            *args,
             map_location: Optional[Union[Dict[str, str], str, torch.device, int, Callable]] = None,
             hparams_file: Optional[str] = None,
             tags_csv: Optional[str] = None,  # backward compatible, todo: remove in v0.9.0
             hparam_overrides: Optional[Dict] = None,
-            *args, **kwargs
+            **kwargs
     ) -> 'LightningModule':
         r"""
         Primary way of loading a model from a checkpoint. When Lightning saves a checkpoint