diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index 7b4f94c5..4a191dc6 100644
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -11,13 +11,7 @@
 from pytorch_lightning.callbacks import ModelCheckpoint, Callback, LearningRateMonitor
 from pytorch_lightning.utilities.distributed import rank_zero_only
 
-def get_obj_from_str(string, reload=False):
-    module, cls = string.rsplit(".", 1)
-    if reload:
-        module_imp = importlib.import_module(module)
-        importlib.reload(module_imp)
-    return getattr(importlib.import_module(module, package=None), cls)
-
+from taming import get_obj_from_str, instantiate_from_config
 
 def get_parser(**parser_kwargs):
     def str2bool(v):
diff --git a/taming/__init__.py b/taming/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ac572368
--- /dev/null
+++ b/taming/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+import importlib
+
+def get_obj_from_str(string, reload=False):
+    module, cls = string.rsplit(".", 1)
+    if reload:
+        module_imp = importlib.import_module(module)
+        importlib.reload(module_imp)
+    return getattr(importlib.import_module(module, package=None), cls)
+
+def instantiate_from_config(config):
+    if not "target" in config:
+        raise KeyError("Expected key `target` to instantiate.")
+    return get_obj_from_str(config["target"])(**config.get("params", dict()))
diff --git a/taming/data/__init__.py b/taming/data/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/taming/models/__init__.py b/taming/models/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/taming/models/cond_transformer.py b/taming/models/cond_transformer.py
index 6e6869b0..f4bc583f 100644
--- a/taming/models/cond_transformer.py
+++ b/taming/models/cond_transformer.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 import torch.nn.functional as F
 import pytorch_lightning as pl
 
-from main import instantiate_from_config
+from taming import instantiate_from_config
 from taming.modules.util import SOSProvider
 
 
diff --git a/taming/models/vqgan.py b/taming/models/vqgan.py
index 121d01fd..9d751d2d 100644
--- a/taming/models/vqgan.py
+++ b/taming/models/vqgan.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import torch.nn.functional as F
 import pytorch_lightning as pl
 
-from main import instantiate_from_config
+from taming import instantiate_from_config
 
 from taming.modules.diffusionmodules.model import Encoder, Decoder
 from taming.modules.vqvae.quantize import VectorQuantizer2 as VectorQuantizer
diff --git a/taming/modules/__init__.py b/taming/modules/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/taming/modules/diffusionmodules/__init__.py b/taming/modules/diffusionmodules/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/taming/modules/discriminator/__init__.py b/taming/modules/discriminator/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/taming/modules/misc/__init__.py b/taming/modules/misc/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/taming/modules/transformer/__init__.py b/taming/modules/transformer/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/taming/modules/vqvae/__init__.py b/taming/modules/vqvae/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b