diff --git a/tests/model/test_model_initialization.py b/tests/model/test_model_initialization.py
index aa39a331a..e2527d6d5 100644
--- a/tests/model/test_model_initialization.py
+++ b/tests/model/test_model_initialization.py
@@ -10,27 +10,22 @@
 
 from megatron.neox_arguments import NeoXArgs
 from megatron.global_vars import set_global_variables, get_args, reset_global_variables
-from megatron.model import GPT2Model, GPT2ModelPipe
+from megatron.model import GPT2ModelPipe
 from megatron import initialize_megatron
 from megatron import mpu
-from megatron.text_generation_utils import get_batch
-
 
 from tests.common import get_root_directory, get_configs_with_path
-import torch
-
-class TestModelInitialization(unittest.TestCase):
 
-    def test_model_initialization(self):
+class TestModelInitializationPipeline(unittest.TestCase):
+ 
+    def test_model_initialization_pipeline(self):
         reset_global_variables()
 
         # intitially load config from files as would be the case in deepy.py
         yaml_list = get_configs_with_path(["small.yml", "local_setup.yml"])
         args_loaded = NeoXArgs.from_ymls(yaml_list)
         args_loaded.update_value("user_script", str(get_root_directory() / "pretrain_gpt2.py"))
-        args_loaded.update_value("pipe_parallel_size", 0) # overwrite pipeline parameter, config in small.yml may have changed!
-        args_loaded.update_value("num_unique_layers", 4)
-  #args_loaded.update_value("fp16", False)
+        args_loaded.update_value("pipe_parallel_size", 1) # overwrite pipeline parameter, config in small.yml may have changed!
         deepspeed_main_args = args_loaded.get_deepspeed_main_args()
 
         # patch sys.argv so that args can be access by set_global_variables within initialize_megatron
@@ -39,39 +34,15 @@ def test_model_initialization(self):
 
         # load args from global variables
         args = get_args()
-
         self.assertTrue(isinstance(args, NeoXArgs))
 
-        model = GPT2Model(num_tokentypes=0, parallel_output=True, inference=False, get_key_value=True)
-        
-        self.assertTrue(isinstance(model, GPT2Model)) 
-
-        #TODO check model setup
-        self.assertEqual(model.language_model.transformer.num_layers, args.num_layers)
-        self.assertIsNotNone(model.language_model.transformer.num_unique_layers)
-        self.assertEqual(len(model.language_model.transformer.layers), args.num_unique_layers)
-        self.assertEqual(model.language_model.transformer.checkpoint_activations, args.checkpoint_activations)
-        self.assertEqual(model.language_model.hidden_size, args.hidden_size)
-        self.assertEqual(model.language_model.hidden_size, args.hidden_size)
-        self.assertEqual(model.language_model.embedding_type, args.pos_emb)
-        self.assertNotEqual(model.weight_tying, args.no_weight_tying)
-        self.assertEqual(model.fp16_lm_cross_entropy, args.fp16_lm_cross_entropy)
-
-        #TODO run one forward pass
-        # Not currently functioning
-        
-        #model = model.cuda()
-        #input_ids = torch.zeros((1,100), dtype=torch.long).cuda()
-        #tokens, attention_mask, position_ids = get_batch(input_ids)
-
-        #position_ids = torch.zeros((1,100), dtype=torch.long).cuda()
-        #attention_mask = torch.ones((1,100), dtype=torch.long).cuda()
-        #print(model.forward(tokens, attention_mask, position_ids))
-
+        print("topology", mpu.get_topology(), flush=True)
+        model = GPT2ModelPipe(num_tokentypes=0, parallel_output=True, topology=mpu.get_topology(), inference=False, get_key_value=True)
         
+        self.assertTrue(isinstance(model, GPT2ModelPipe)) 
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     suite = unittest.TestSuite()
-    suite.addTest(TestModelInitialization("test_model_initialization"))
+    suite.addTest(TestModelInitializationPipeline("test_model_initialization_pipeline"))
     unittest.TextTestRunner(failfast=True).run(suite)
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diff --git a/tests/model/test_model_initialization_pipeline.py b/tests/model/test_model_initialization_pipeline.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e2527d6d5..000000000
--- a/tests/model/test_model_initialization_pipeline.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-import os
-import re
-import sys
-import unittest
-from unittest.mock import patch
-from pathlib import Path
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    sys.path.append(os.path.abspath(''))
-
-from megatron.neox_arguments import NeoXArgs
-from megatron.global_vars import set_global_variables, get_args, reset_global_variables
-from megatron.model import GPT2ModelPipe
-from megatron import initialize_megatron
-from megatron import mpu
-
-from tests.common import get_root_directory, get_configs_with_path
-
-class TestModelInitializationPipeline(unittest.TestCase):
- 
-    def test_model_initialization_pipeline(self):
-        reset_global_variables()
-
-        # intitially load config from files as would be the case in deepy.py
-        yaml_list = get_configs_with_path(["small.yml", "local_setup.yml"])
-        args_loaded = NeoXArgs.from_ymls(yaml_list)
-        args_loaded.update_value("user_script", str(get_root_directory() / "pretrain_gpt2.py"))
-        args_loaded.update_value("pipe_parallel_size", 1) # overwrite pipeline parameter, config in small.yml may have changed!
-        deepspeed_main_args = args_loaded.get_deepspeed_main_args()
-
-        # patch sys.argv so that args can be access by set_global_variables within initialize_megatron
-        with patch('sys.argv', deepspeed_main_args):
-            initialize_megatron()
-
-        # load args from global variables
-        args = get_args()
-        self.assertTrue(isinstance(args, NeoXArgs))
-
-        print("topology", mpu.get_topology(), flush=True)
-        model = GPT2ModelPipe(num_tokentypes=0, parallel_output=True, topology=mpu.get_topology(), inference=False, get_key_value=True)
-        
-        self.assertTrue(isinstance(model, GPT2ModelPipe)) 
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    suite = unittest.TestSuite()
-    suite.addTest(TestModelInitializationPipeline("test_model_initialization_pipeline"))
-    unittest.TextTestRunner(failfast=True).run(suite)
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