diff --git a/mmengine/_strategy/deepspeed.py b/mmengine/_strategy/deepspeed.py
index d386497590..dcd60ec1db 100644
--- a/mmengine/_strategy/deepspeed.py
+++ b/mmengine/_strategy/deepspeed.py
@@ -553,8 +553,8 @@ def save_checkpoint(
 
         state_dict_kwargs = {}
         if digit_version(deepspeed.__version__) >= digit_version('0.13.2'):
-            state_dict_kwargs.update(
-                {'exclude_frozen_parameters': self.exclude_frozen_parameters})
+            state_dict_kwargs[
+                'exclude_frozen_parameters'] = self.exclude_frozen_parameters
 
         if save_optimizer:
             if hasattr(self, 'optim_wrapper'):