diff --git a/examples/community/checkpoint_merger.py b/examples/community/checkpoint_merger.py
index 218ac87fe5..b9cb1463e3 100644
--- a/examples/community/checkpoint_merger.py
+++ b/examples/community/checkpoint_merger.py
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ class CheckpointMergerPipeline(DiffusionPipeline):
 
                 force - Whether to ignore mismatch in model_config.json for the current models. Defaults to False.
 
+                variant - which variant of a pretrained model to load, e.g. "fp16" (None)
+
         """
         # Default kwargs from DiffusionPipeline
         cache_dir = kwargs.pop("cache_dir", None)
@@ -89,6 +91,7 @@ class CheckpointMergerPipeline(DiffusionPipeline):
         proxies = kwargs.pop("proxies", None)
         local_files_only = kwargs.pop("local_files_only", False)
         token = kwargs.pop("token", None)
+        variant = kwargs.pop("variant", None)
         revision = kwargs.pop("revision", None)
         torch_dtype = kwargs.pop("torch_dtype", None)
         device_map = kwargs.pop("device_map", None)
@@ -173,7 +176,10 @@ class CheckpointMergerPipeline(DiffusionPipeline):
         # Step 3:-
         # Load the first checkpoint as a diffusion pipeline and modify its module state_dict in place
         final_pipe = DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained(
-            cached_folders[0], torch_dtype=torch_dtype, device_map=device_map
+            cached_folders[0],
+            torch_dtype=torch_dtype,
+            device_map=device_map,
+            variant=variant,
         )
         final_pipe.to(self.device)