diff --git a/pretrain_gpt.py b/pretrain_gpt.py
index 4e6e745cf6b..7dd8ad0d564 100644
--- a/pretrain_gpt.py
+++ b/pretrain_gpt.py
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 import os
 import subprocess
 
+
 def model_provider(pre_process=True, post_process=True):
     """Build the model."""
 
@@ -41,9 +42,10 @@ def model_provider(pre_process=True, post_process=True):
 
     args = get_args()
     with deepspeed.zero.Init(data_parallel_group=mpu.get_data_parallel_group(),
-                             remote_device=None if args.remote_device=='none' else args.remote_device,
-                             config=args.deepspeed_config,
-                             enabled=args.zero_stage==3):
+                             remote_device=None if args.remote_device == 'none' else args.remote_device,
+                             config_dict_or_path=args.deepspeed_config,
+                             enabled=args.zero_stage == 3,
+                             mpu=mpu):
         if args.deepspeed:
             model = GPTModelPipe(
                 num_tokentypes=0,
@@ -59,14 +61,14 @@ def model_provider(pre_process=True, post_process=True):
             attention_mask = torch.tril(torch.ones(
                 (1, args.seq_length, args.seq_length), device=torch.cuda.current_device())).view(
                     1, 1, args.seq_length, args.seq_length)
-            
+
             # Convert attention mask to binary:
             attention_mask = (attention_mask < 0.5)
             if args.fp16:
                 attention_mask = attention_mask.half()
             elif args.bf16:
                 attention_mask = attention_mask.bfloat16()
-            
+
             args.attn_mask = attention_mask
 
         else:
@@ -111,6 +113,7 @@ def get_batch(data_iterator):
 
     return tokens, labels, loss_mask, attention_mask, position_ids
 
+
 def get_batch_pipe(data):
     """Modification of `get_batch` to work on `next(data_iterator)` instead of `data_iterator`"""
     args = get_args()
@@ -138,6 +141,7 @@ def get_batch_pipe(data):
 
     return (tokens, position_ids, attention_mask), (labels, loss_mask)
 
+
 def loss_func(loss_mask, output_tensor):
     losses = output_tensor.float()
     loss_mask = loss_mask.view(-1).float()
@@ -184,10 +188,12 @@ def train_valid_test_datasets_provider(train_val_test_num_samples):
 
     return train_ds, valid_ds, test_ds
 
+
 def command_exists(cmd):
     result = subprocess.Popen(f'type {cmd}', stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)
     return result.wait() == 0
 
+
 def git_ds_info():
     from deepspeed.env_report import main as ds_report
     ds_report()