UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte

[Deepakchawla]

/home/deepakchawala/PycharmProjects/skin_diseases_prediction/envskinpred/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torchvision/transforms/transforms.py:211: UserWarning: The use of the transforms.Scale transform is deprecated, please use transforms.Resize instead.
"please use transforms.Resize instead.")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "run.py", line 2, in
from app import app
File "/home/deepakchawala/PycharmProjects/skin_diseases_prediction/app/init.py", line 13, in
checkpoint = torch.load(MODEL_FILE, map_location=lambda storage, location: storage)
File "/home/deepakchawala/PycharmProjects/skin_diseases_prediction/envskinpred/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/serialization.py", line 593, in load
return _legacy_load(opened_file, map_location, pickle_module, **pickle_load_args)
File "/home/deepakchawala/PycharmProjects/skin_diseases_prediction/envskinpred/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/serialization.py", line 773, in _legacy_load
result = unpickler.load()
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte