Only call get_output_embeddings when tie_word_embeddings is set (#16667)

This avoids an unnecessary call and avoids problems during
initialization of class hierarchies.
Co-authored-by: Samuel Melm <samuel.melm@stud.uni-heidelberg.de>

src/transformers/modeling_utils.py

@@ -891,8 +891,9 @@ class PreTrainedModel(nn.Module, ModuleUtilsMixin, GenerationMixin, PushToHubMix
         If the `torchscript` flag is set in the configuration, can't handle parameter sharing so we are cloning the
         weights instead.
         """
+        if getattr(self.config, "tie_word_embeddings", True):
             output_embeddings = self.get_output_embeddings()
-        if output_embeddings is not None and getattr(self.config, "tie_word_embeddings", True):
+            if output_embeddings is not None:
                 self._tie_or_clone_weights(output_embeddings, self.get_input_embeddings())
 
         if getattr(self.config, "is_encoder_decoder", False) and getattr(self.config, "tie_encoder_decoder", False):