diff --git a/src/diffusers/pipelines/pixart_alpha/pipeline_pixart_alpha.py b/src/diffusers/pipelines/pixart_alpha/pipeline_pixart_alpha.py
index 32e36aaddc53..090b66915dd0 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/pipelines/pixart_alpha/pipeline_pixart_alpha.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/pipelines/pixart_alpha/pipeline_pixart_alpha.py
@@ -134,6 +134,51 @@
 }
 
 
+# Copied from diffusers.pipelines.stable_diffusion.pipeline_stable_diffusion.retrieve_timesteps
+def retrieve_timesteps(
+    scheduler,
+    num_inference_steps: Optional[int] = None,
+    device: Optional[Union[str, torch.device]] = None,
+    timesteps: Optional[List[int]] = None,
+    **kwargs,
+):
+    """
+    Calls the scheduler's `set_timesteps` method and retrieves timesteps from the scheduler after the call. Handles
+    custom timesteps. Any kwargs will be supplied to `scheduler.set_timesteps`.
+
+    Args:
+        scheduler (`SchedulerMixin`):
+            The scheduler to get timesteps from.
+        num_inference_steps (`int`):
+            The number of diffusion steps used when generating samples with a pre-trained model. If used,
+            `timesteps` must be `None`.
+        device (`str` or `torch.device`, *optional*):
+            The device to which the timesteps should be moved to. If `None`, the timesteps are not moved.
+        timesteps (`List[int]`, *optional*):
+                Custom timesteps used to support arbitrary spacing between timesteps. If `None`, then the default
+                timestep spacing strategy of the scheduler is used. If `timesteps` is passed, `num_inference_steps`
+                must be `None`.
+
+    Returns:
+        `Tuple[torch.Tensor, int]`: A tuple where the first element is the timestep schedule from the scheduler and the
+        second element is the number of inference steps.
+    """
+    if timesteps is not None:
+        accepts_timesteps = "timesteps" in set(inspect.signature(scheduler.set_timesteps).parameters.keys())
+        if not accepts_timesteps:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"The current scheduler class {scheduler.__class__}'s `set_timesteps` does not support custom"
+                f" timestep schedules. Please check whether you are using the correct scheduler."
+            )
+        scheduler.set_timesteps(timesteps=timesteps, device=device, **kwargs)
+        timesteps = scheduler.timesteps
+        num_inference_steps = len(timesteps)
+    else:
+        scheduler.set_timesteps(num_inference_steps, device=device, **kwargs)
+        timesteps = scheduler.timesteps
+    return timesteps, num_inference_steps
+
+
 class PixArtAlphaPipeline(DiffusionPipeline):
     r"""
     Pipeline for text-to-image generation using PixArt-Alpha.
@@ -783,8 +828,7 @@ def __call__(
             prompt_attention_mask = torch.cat([negative_prompt_attention_mask, prompt_attention_mask], dim=0)
 
         # 4. Prepare timesteps
-        self.scheduler.set_timesteps(num_inference_steps, device=device)
-        timesteps = self.scheduler.timesteps
+        timesteps, num_inference_steps = retrieve_timesteps(self.scheduler, num_inference_steps, device, timesteps)
 
         # 5. Prepare latents.
         latent_channels = self.transformer.config.in_channels