When a text encoder checkpoint has multiple shards, like [T5-xxl for SD3](https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-3-medium-diffusers/tree/main/text_encoder_3), it is automatically handled by the [Transformers](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/index) library as it is a required dependency of Diffusers when using the [`StableDiffusion3Pipeline`]. More specifically, Transformers will automatically handle the loading of multiple shards within the requested model class and get it ready so