diff --git a/examples/dreambooth/train_dreambooth_lora_flux_kontext.py b/examples/dreambooth/train_dreambooth_lora_flux_kontext.py
index 87e0d2c29e48..03c05a05e094 100644
--- a/examples/dreambooth/train_dreambooth_lora_flux_kontext.py
+++ b/examples/dreambooth/train_dreambooth_lora_flux_kontext.py
@@ -29,8 +29,9 @@
 import numpy as np
 import torch
 import transformers
-from accelerate import Accelerator
+from accelerate import Accelerator, DistributedType
 from accelerate.logging import get_logger
+from accelerate.state import AcceleratorState
 from accelerate.utils import DistributedDataParallelKwargs, ProjectConfiguration, set_seed
 from huggingface_hub import create_repo, upload_folder
 from huggingface_hub.utils import insecure_hashlib
@@ -1222,6 +1223,9 @@ def main(args):
         kwargs_handlers=[kwargs],
     )
 
+    if accelerator.distributed_type == DistributedType.DEEPSPEED:
+        AcceleratorState().deepspeed_plugin.deepspeed_config["train_micro_batch_size_per_gpu"] = args.train_batch_size
+
     # Disable AMP for MPS.
     if torch.backends.mps.is_available():
         accelerator.native_amp = False
@@ -1438,17 +1442,20 @@ def save_model_hook(models, weights, output_dir):
             text_encoder_one_lora_layers_to_save = None
             modules_to_save = {}
             for model in models:
-                if isinstance(model, type(unwrap_model(transformer))):
+                if isinstance(unwrap_model(model), type(unwrap_model(transformer))):
+                    model = unwrap_model(model)
                     transformer_lora_layers_to_save = get_peft_model_state_dict(model)
                     modules_to_save["transformer"] = model
-                elif isinstance(model, type(unwrap_model(text_encoder_one))):
+                elif isinstance(unwrap_model(model), type(unwrap_model(text_encoder_one))):
+                    model = unwrap_model(model)
                     text_encoder_one_lora_layers_to_save = get_peft_model_state_dict(model)
                     modules_to_save["text_encoder"] = model
                 else:
                     raise ValueError(f"unexpected save model: {model.__class__}")
 
                 # make sure to pop weight so that corresponding model is not saved again
-                weights.pop()
+                if weights:
+                    weights.pop()
 
             FluxKontextPipeline.save_lora_weights(
                 output_dir,
@@ -1461,15 +1468,25 @@ def load_model_hook(models, input_dir):
         transformer_ = None
         text_encoder_one_ = None
 
-        while len(models) > 0:
-            model = models.pop()
+        if not accelerator.distributed_type == DistributedType.DEEPSPEED:
+            while len(models) > 0:
+                model = models.pop()
 
-            if isinstance(model, type(unwrap_model(transformer))):
-                transformer_ = model
-            elif isinstance(model, type(unwrap_model(text_encoder_one))):
-                text_encoder_one_ = model
-            else:
-                raise ValueError(f"unexpected save model: {model.__class__}")
+                if isinstance(unwrap_model(model), type(unwrap_model(transformer))):
+                    transformer_ = unwrap_model(model)
+                elif isinstance(unwrap_model(model), type(unwrap_model(text_encoder_one))):
+                    text_encoder_one_ = unwrap_model(model)
+                else:
+                    raise ValueError(f"unexpected save model: {model.__class__}")
+
+        else:
+            transformer_ = FluxTransformer2DModel.from_pretrained(
+                args.pretrained_model_name_or_path, subfolder="transformer"
+            )
+            transformer_.add_adapter(transformer_lora_config)
+            text_encoder_one_ = text_encoder_cls_one.from_pretrained(
+                args.pretrained_model_name_or_path, subfolder="text_encoder"
+            )
 
         lora_state_dict = FluxKontextPipeline.lora_state_dict(input_dir)
 
@@ -2069,7 +2086,7 @@ def get_sigmas(timesteps, n_dim=4, dtype=torch.float32):
                 progress_bar.update(1)
                 global_step += 1
 
-                if accelerator.is_main_process:
+                if accelerator.is_main_process or accelerator.distributed_type == DistributedType.DEEPSPEED:
                     if global_step % args.checkpointing_steps == 0:
                         # _before_ saving state, check if this save would set us over the `checkpoints_total_limit`
                         if args.checkpoints_total_limit is not None: