diff --git a/pcdet/utils/spconv_utils.py b/pcdet/utils/spconv_utils.py
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+from typing import Set
+
+import spconv
+if float(spconv.__version__[2:]) >= 2.2:
+    spconv.constants.SPCONV_USE_DIRECT_TABLE = False
+    
+try:
+    import spconv.pytorch as spconv
+except:
+    import spconv as spconv
+
+import torch.nn as nn
+
+
+def find_all_spconv_keys(model: nn.Module, prefix="") -> Set[str]:
+    """
+    Finds all spconv keys that need to have weight's transposed
+    """
+    found_keys: Set[str] = set()
+    for name, child in model.named_children():
+        new_prefix = f"{prefix}.{name}" if prefix != "" else name
+
+        if isinstance(child, spconv.conv.SparseConvolution):
+            new_prefix = f"{new_prefix}.weight"
+            found_keys.add(new_prefix)
+
+        found_keys.update(find_all_spconv_keys(child, prefix=new_prefix))
+
+    return found_keys
+
+
+def replace_feature(out, new_features):
+    if "replace_feature" in out.__dir__():
+        # spconv 2.x behaviour
+        return out.replace_feature(new_features)
+    else:
+        out.features = new_features
+        return out