diff --git a/timm/models/davit.py b/timm/models/davit.py
index a51c8243..3ee6c4e6 100644
--- a/timm/models/davit.py
+++ b/timm/models/davit.py
@@ -569,6 +569,7 @@ def checkpoint_filter_fn(state_dict, model):
     import re
     out_dict = {}
     for k, v in state_dict.items():
+        k = k.replace('stages.0.patch_embed', 'patch_embed')
         k = re.sub(r'patch_embeds.([0-9]+)', r'stages.\1.patch_embed', k)
         k = re.sub(r'main_blocks.([0-9]+)', r'stages.\1.blocks', k)
         k = k.replace('head.', 'head.fc.')