diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/.data2vec_encoder.py.swp b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/.data2vec_encoder.py.swp
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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
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diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/train.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/train.py
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--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/train.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/train.py
@@ -688,6 +688,7 @@ def load_checkpoint_if_available(
         model_avg=model_avg,
         optimizer=optimizer,
         scheduler=scheduler,
+        strict=False,
     )
 
     keys = [