hould not be put in a new checkpoint.
A variation of a checkpoint has to have exactly the same serialization format and exactly the same model structure, including all weights having the same tensor shapes.
Examples of variations are different floating point types and non-ema weights. I.e. “fp16”, “bf16”, and “no_ema” are common variations.

Let's first talk about whats **not** checkpoint variant,
	
Checkpoint variants do not include different 