diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/.train.py.swp b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/.train.py.swp
index 830c7d960..077990325 100644
Binary files a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/.train.py.swp and b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/.train.py.swp differ
diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/train.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/train.py
index bbe371da3..f79b08d7a 100755
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/train.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/train.py
@@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ def load_checkpoint_if_available(
         model_avg=model_avg,
         optimizer=optimizer,
         scheduler=scheduler,
-        strict=False,
+        strict=True if not params.add_adapter else False,
     )
 
     keys = [