diff --git a/deepspeed/runtime/sequence_parallel/parallel_state_sp.py b/deepspeed/runtime/sequence_parallel/parallel_state_sp.py
index c16880e15d42..806a58a23ff4 100644
--- a/deepspeed/runtime/sequence_parallel/parallel_state_sp.py
+++ b/deepspeed/runtime/sequence_parallel/parallel_state_sp.py
@@ -88,3 +88,9 @@ def get_sequence_parallel_rank():
 def get_sequence_data_parallel_rank():
     """Return my rank for the sequence data parallel group."""
     return dist.get_rank(group=get_sequence_data_parallel_group())
+
+
+# since we only have 1 additional dimension over DP, we can just alias MP with SP
+get_model_parallel_rank = get_sequence_parallel_rank
+get_model_parallel_world_size = get_sequence_parallel_world_size
+get_model_parallel_group = get_sequence_parallel_group