diff --git a/lightly/cli/_helpers.py b/lightly/cli/_helpers.py
index c2bc6763d..b4b182946 100644
--- a/lightly/cli/_helpers.py
+++ b/lightly/cli/_helpers.py
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@
 
 # Copyright (c) 2020. Lightly AG and its affiliates.
 # All Rights Reserved
+from __future__ import annotations
+
 import os
+from typing import Any
 
 import hydra
 import torch
@@ -17,7 +20,7 @@
 from lightly.utils.version_compare import version_compare
 
 
-def cpu_count():
+def cpu_count() -> int | None:
     """Returns the number of CPUs which are present in the system.
 
     This number is not equivalent to the number of available CPUs to the process.
@@ -26,21 +29,26 @@ def cpu_count():
     return os.cpu_count()
 
 
-def fix_input_path(path):
+def fix_input_path(path: str) -> str:
     """Fix broken relative paths."""
     if not os.path.isabs(path):
         path = utils.to_absolute_path(path)
     return path
 
 
-def fix_hydra_arguments(config_path: str = "config", config_name: str = "config"):
+def fix_hydra_arguments(
+    config_path: str = "config", config_name: str = "config"
+) -> dict[str, str | None]:
     """Helper to make hydra arugments adaptive to installed hydra version
 
     Hydra introduced the `version_base` argument in version 1.2.0
     We use this helper to provide backwards compatibility to older hydra verisons.
     """
 
-    hydra_args = {"config_path": config_path, "config_name": config_name}
+    hydra_args: dict[str, str | None] = {
+        "config_path": config_path,
+        "config_name": config_name,
+    }
 
     try:
         if version_compare(hydra.__version__, "1.2.0") >= 0:
@@ -53,13 +61,13 @@ def fix_hydra_arguments(config_path: str = "config", config_name: str = "config"
     return hydra_args
 
 
-def is_url(checkpoint):
+def is_url(checkpoint: str) -> bool:
     """Check whether the checkpoint is a url or not."""
     is_url = "https://storage.googleapis.com" in checkpoint
     return is_url
 
 
-def get_ptmodel_from_config(model):
+def get_ptmodel_from_config(model: dict[str, Any]) -> tuple[str, str]:
     """Get a pre-trained model from the lightly model zoo."""
     key = model["name"]
     key += "/simclr"
@@ -72,10 +80,14 @@ def get_ptmodel_from_config(model):
         return "", key
 
 
-def load_state_dict_from_url(url, map_location=None):
+def load_state_dict_from_url(
+    url: str, map_location: torch.device | None = None
+) -> dict[str, torch.Tensor | None]:
     """Try to load the checkopint from the given url."""
     try:
-        state_dict = torch.hub.load_state_dict_from_url(url, map_location=map_location)
+        state_dict: dict[str, torch.Tensor] = torch.hub.load_state_dict_from_url(
+            url, map_location=map_location
+        )
         return state_dict
     except Exception:
         print("Not able to load state dict from %s" % (url))
@@ -89,10 +101,15 @@ def load_state_dict_from_url(url, map_location=None):
 
     # in this case downloading the pre-trained model was not possible
     # notify the user and return
+
     return {"state_dict": None}
 
 
-def _maybe_expand_batchnorm_weights(model_dict, state_dict, num_splits):
+def _maybe_expand_batchnorm_weights(
+    model_dict: dict[str, torch.Tensor],
+    state_dict: dict[str, torch.Tensor],
+    num_splits: int,
+) -> dict[str, torch.Tensor]:
     """Expands the weights of the BatchNorm2d to the size of SplitBatchNorm."""
     running_mean = "running_mean"
     running_var = "running_var"
@@ -116,7 +133,9 @@ def _maybe_expand_batchnorm_weights(model_dict, state_dict, num_splits):
     return state_dict
 
 
-def _filter_state_dict(state_dict, remove_model_prefix_offset: int = 1):
+def _filter_state_dict(
+    state_dict: dict[str, torch.Tensor], remove_model_prefix_offset: int = 1
+) -> dict[str, torch.Tensor]:
     """Makes the state_dict compatible with the model.
 
     Prevents unexpected key error when loading PyTorch-Lightning checkpoints.
@@ -141,7 +160,9 @@ def _filter_state_dict(state_dict, remove_model_prefix_offset: int = 1):
     return new_state_dict
 
 
-def _fix_projection_head_keys(state_dict):
+def _fix_projection_head_keys(
+    state_dict: dict[str, torch.Tensor]
+) -> dict[str, torch.Tensor]:
     """Makes the state_dict compatible with the refactored projection heads.
 
     TODO: Remove once the models are refactored and the old checkpoints were
@@ -173,12 +194,12 @@ def _fix_projection_head_keys(state_dict):
 
 
 def load_from_state_dict(
-    model,
-    state_dict,
+    model: nn.Module,
+    state_dict: dict[str, torch.Tensor],
     strict: bool = True,
     apply_filter: bool = True,
     num_splits: int = 0,
-):
+) -> None:
     """Loads the model weights from the state dictionary."""
 
     # step 1: filter state dict
@@ -196,7 +217,9 @@ def load_from_state_dict(
     model.load_state_dict(state_dict, strict=strict)
 
 
-def get_model_from_config(cfg, is_cli_call: bool = False) -> SelfSupervisedEmbedding:
+def get_model_from_config(
+    cfg: dict[str, Any], is_cli_call: bool = False
+) -> SelfSupervisedEmbedding:
     checkpoint = cfg["checkpoint"]
     if torch.cuda.is_available():
         device = torch.device("cuda")
@@ -233,5 +256,5 @@ def get_model_from_config(cfg, is_cli_call: bool = False) -> SelfSupervisedEmbed
     if state_dict is not None:
         load_from_state_dict(model, state_dict)
 
-    encoder = SelfSupervisedEmbedding(model, None, None, None)
+    encoder = SelfSupervisedEmbedding(model, None, None, None)  # type: ignore
     return encoder
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 405d16f07..1b6d634fb 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -191,7 +191,6 @@ exclude = '''(?x)(
     lightly/cli/config/get_config.py |
     lightly/cli/train_cli.py |
     lightly/cli/_cli_simclr.py |
-    lightly/cli/_helpers.py |
     lightly/loss/ntx_ent_loss.py |
     lightly/loss/vicreg_loss.py |
     lightly/loss/tico_loss.py |