def METHOD_NAME(self, folder, tp_rank, tp_world_size):
    hp_mapping = self._hp_mapping
    optim_state_keys = hp_mapping.get_optim_state_keys()
    hp_keys = [FP32_WEIGHT_KEY] + optim_state_keys
    checkpoint_files = {key: os.path.join(folder, f"{key}.pt") for key in hp_keys}
    for file in checkpoint_files.values():
        assert os.path.isfile(file), f'{file} is not a valid file'
    for key in hp_keys:
        ckpt_file = checkpoint_files[key]
        ckpt_dict = torch.load(ckpt_file)
        full_hp_param = ckpt_dict[PARAM]
        # need to deal with slices that were averaged.
        # the opposite of averaging here becomes an exact copy of the first slice
        # I thought of 2 ways:
        # implementation a. find a way for a client to pass a dict with patterns
        # if any(re.search(pattern, folder) for pattern in WEIGHTS_TO_AVERAGE_PATTERNS):
        #     tp_rank = 0
        #     tp_world_size = 1
        # the other approach is to assume that the saved data is correct and if full_hp_param.shape ==
        # self.shape that means we automatically copy?
        # implementation b.
        # this version requires no additional data passed from the client
        # if the shapes already match it must be slices that were averaged - so we just hack around those
        if full_hp_param.shape == self.shape:
            tp_rank = 0
            tp_world_size = 1
        # special case for word_embeddings weights which get padded differently depending on TP degree.
        # the converter to universal currently strips the original padding completely so the saved
        # weight is padding-free and we just need to add new padding depending on the target TP
        # degree
        vocab_divisibility_padding_tensor = ckpt_dict.get(VOCAB_DIVISIBILITY_PADDING_TENSOR, None)
        if vocab_divisibility_padding_tensor is not None:
            # In the absence of data passed from the user wrt new padded vocab specific to tp degree
            # we can again derive that data by reverse engineering the target shapes like so:
            padded_target_vocab_size = self.shape[0] * tp_world_size
            if padded_target_vocab_size > full_hp_param.shape[0]:
                # Need to expand
                padding_size = padded_target_vocab_size - full_hp_param.shape[0]
                # Implement the following concat in efficient way using pad
                #full_hp_param = torch.cat((full_hp_param, padding_tensor), 0)
                full_hp_param = torch.nn.functional.pad(full_hp_param, (0, 0, 0, padding_size), "constant", 0)
                full_hp_param[:-padding_size, :] = vocab_divisibility_padding_tensor
            else:
                # Need to shrink or keep the same
                full_hp_param = full_hp_param[:padded_target_vocab_size, :]
        full_param_numel = full_hp_param.numel()
        tp_slice_numel = self.numel()
        #        if key == FP32_WEIGHT_KEY and 'word_embeddings.weight' in folder:
        #            print_rank_0(f'{full_hp_param[:10]=}', force=True)
        assert full_param_numel == tp_world_size * tp_slice_numel, \
            f'Loading {ckpt_file} full param numel {full_param_numel} != tensor slice numel {tp_slice_numel} * tp_world_size {tp_world_size}'
        dst_tensor = hp_mapping.hp_fragment if key == FP32_WEIGHT_KEY else hp_mapping.get_optim_state_fragment(key)
        #        print(f"{full_hp_param.shape=} {full_param_numel=} {folder=}")
        #        print(f"{dst_tensor.shape=} {dst_tensor.numel()=}{folder=}")
        # since when we do many to 1 on tp we cat sometimes on dim=0 and other times on dim=1 we have to do exactly the same in reverse
        chunk_dim = ckpt_dict.get(CAT_DIM, 0)
        # this performs the opposite of cat when merging TP slices
        tp_hp_slice = full_hp_param.chunk(tp_world_size, chunk_dim)[tp_rank]
        tp_hp_slice = tp_hp_slice.flatten()
        lp_frag_address = hp_mapping.lp_fragment_address
        tp_hp_fragment = tp_hp_slice.narrow(0, lp_frag_address.start, lp_frag_address.numel)
        assert dst_tensor.numel() == lp_frag_address.numel, \
            f'Load checkpoint {key} dst_tensor numel {dst_tensor.numel()} != src numel {lp_frag_address.numel}'
        #        print(f"{key} SHAPE: {tp_hp_slice.shape=}")
        #        print(f"{key} SHAPE: {dst_tensor.shape=}")
        #        print(f"{key} SHAPE: {tp_hp_fragment.shape=}")
        dst_tensor.data.copy_(tp_hp_fragment.data)