diff --git a/nemo/collections/nlp/models/language_modeling/megatron_gpt_model.py b/nemo/collections/nlp/models/language_modeling/megatron_gpt_model.py
index a50c8c7265a3..6c31e80e3463 100644
--- a/nemo/collections/nlp/models/language_modeling/megatron_gpt_model.py
+++ b/nemo/collections/nlp/models/language_modeling/megatron_gpt_model.py
@@ -287,8 +287,8 @@ def __init__(self, cfg: DictConfig, trainer: Trainer):
         # Convert the global-batch-based profile index to micro-batch index
         if hasattr(self, '_nsys_profile_enabled'):
             mp_size = cfg.get('tensor_model_parallel_size', 1) * cfg.get('pipeline_model_parallel_size', 1)
-            self.cp_size = cfg.get('context_parallel_size', 1)
-            data_parallel_world_size = trainer.world_size // (mp_size * self.cp_size)
+            cp_size = cfg.get('context_parallel_size', 1)
+            data_parallel_world_size = trainer.world_size // (mp_size * cp_size)
             grad_accum_steps = cfg.get('global_batch_size') // (cfg.get('micro_batch_size') * data_parallel_world_size)
             self._nsys_profile_start_step *= grad_accum_steps
             self._nsys_profile_end_step *= grad_accum_steps
@@ -306,8 +306,6 @@ def __init__(self, cfg: DictConfig, trainer: Trainer):
         if self.use_loss_mask and self.transformer_config.sequence_parallel:
             raise ValueError('Loss mask is not supported with sequence parallelism.')
 
-        self.cp_size = self.cfg.get('context_parallel_size', 1)
-
     def set_inference_config(self, inference_config):
         self._inference_config = inference_config
 
@@ -863,18 +861,19 @@ def get_batch_on_this_context_parallel_rank(self, batch):
         if 'loss_mask' in batch and batch['loss_mask'] is not None:
             num_valid_tokens_in_ub = batch['loss_mask'].sum()
 
-        if self.cp_size > 1:
+        cp_size = parallel_state.get_context_parallel_world_size()
+        if cp_size > 1:
             cp_rank = parallel_state.get_context_parallel_rank()
             for key, val in batch.items():
                 if val is not None:
                     seq_dim = 1 if key != 'attention_mask' else 2
                     val = val.view(
                         *val.shape[0:seq_dim],
-                        2 * self.cp_size,
-                        val.shape[seq_dim] // (2 * self.cp_size),
+                        2 * cp_size,
+                        val.shape[seq_dim] // (2 * cp_size),
                         *val.shape[(seq_dim + 1) :],
                     )
-                    index = torch.tensor([cp_rank, (2 * self.cp_size - cp_rank - 1)], device=val.device)
+                    index = torch.tensor([cp_rank, (2 * cp_size - cp_rank - 1)], device=val.device)
                     val = val.index_select(seq_dim, index)
                     val = val.view(*val.shape[0:seq_dim], -1, *val.shape[(seq_dim + 2) :])
                     batch[key] = val
@@ -958,6 +957,7 @@ def fwd_output_and_loss_func(dataloader_iter, model, checkpoint_activations_all_
             def loss_func(output_tensor):
                 # Loss for a micro-batch (ub)
                 loss_for_ub = self.loss_func(batch['loss_mask'], batch['num_valid_tokens_in_ub'], output_tensor)
+                cp_size = parallel_state.get_context_parallel_world_size()
                 if validation_step and not self.cfg.data.get('validation_drop_last', True):
                     num_valid_tokens_in_ub = batch['num_valid_tokens_in_ub']
                     if loss_for_ub.isnan():
@@ -976,10 +976,10 @@ def loss_func(output_tensor):
                     torch.distributed.all_reduce(
                         loss_sum_and_ub_size_all_gpu, group=parallel_state.get_data_parallel_group()
                     )
-                    return loss_for_ub * self.cp_size, {'loss_sum_and_ub_size': loss_sum_and_ub_size_all_gpu}
+                    return loss_for_ub * cp_size, {'loss_sum_and_ub_size': loss_sum_and_ub_size_all_gpu}
                 else:
                     reduced_loss = average_losses_across_data_parallel_group([loss_for_ub])
-                    return loss_for_ub * self.cp_size, {'avg': reduced_loss}
+                    return loss_for_ub * cp_size, {'avg': reduced_loss}
 
             return output_tensor, loss_func
 
@@ -1113,7 +1113,7 @@ def loss_func(self, loss_mask, num_valid_tokens_in_ub, output_tensor):
         loss_mask = loss_mask.view(-1).float()
         # TODO: add nemo version here
         loss = torch.sum(losses.view(-1) * loss_mask) / num_valid_tokens_in_ub  # sequence level nll
-        if self.cp_size > 1:
+        if parallel_state.get_context_parallel_world_size() > 1:
             torch.distributed.all_reduce(loss, group=parallel_state.get_context_parallel_group())
         return loss