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## Warnings

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## Title

    [DeepSpeed] Resume on a different GPU count: "The checkpoint being loaded used a DP world size of N but the current world size is M" - use Universal Checkpointing

## Body

    Cause (Documented platform behavior): ZeRO optimizer state is partitioned per DP rank.
    
    Fix status: documented_behavior
    
    Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
    - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/deepspeedai/DeepSpeed/aa49eaab50a3392bfc4d8eb1e9f0c0f9a1c79a02/deepspeed/runtime/engine.py (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): Raises ZeRORuntimeException for DP world size mismatch unless universal checkpoint.
    - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/deepspeedai/DeepSpeed/aa49eaab50a3392bfc4d8eb1e9f0c0f9a1c79a02/docs/_tutorials/universal-checkpointing.md (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): Universal checkpointing supports resuming with different data-parallel world size.
    
    Search phrasings: The checkpoint being loaded used a DP world size of but the current world size is; deepspeed resume different number of gpus
    
    Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.

## Attribution and provenance

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## Structured fields

    {
      "observed_symptom": "Resume fails loading optimizer states.",
      "context": "Product: DeepSpeed\nComponent: engine.load_checkpoint (ZeRO optimizer states)\nOperation: Resuming a ZeRO checkpoint after scaling GPUs up/down\nAffected versions: unknown\nEnvironment: unknown\nException: ZeRORuntimeException\nPackages: deepspeed master at pinned SHA\nTrigger: DP world size differs from the checkpoint.",
      "environment": {
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      "symptom_signature": {
        "literal_error_text": "Automatic adjustment of ZeRO's optimizer state partitioning with a new world size is not currently supported."
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## Support assessment

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        "body": "Recommended action: Convert to a universal checkpoint (ds_to_universal) and load with load_universal_checkpoint, or load weights only (no optimizer states).\n\nEvidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.",
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