diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8150df5..7880b1f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "vector-quantize-pytorch"
-version = "1.14.43"
+version = "1.14.44"
 description = "Vector Quantization - Pytorch"
 authors = [
     { name = "Phil Wang", email = "lucidrains@gmail.com" }
diff --git a/vector_quantize_pytorch/vector_quantize_pytorch.py b/vector_quantize_pytorch/vector_quantize_pytorch.py
index 2c41ec9..89e5793 100644
--- a/vector_quantize_pytorch/vector_quantize_pytorch.py
+++ b/vector_quantize_pytorch/vector_quantize_pytorch.py
@@ -280,7 +280,6 @@ def __init__(
         threshold_ema_dead_code = 2,
         reset_cluster_size = None,
         use_ddp = False,
-        distributed_replace_codes = True,
         learnable_codebook = False,
         gumbel_sample = gumbel_sample,
         sample_codebook_temp = 1.,
@@ -315,8 +314,7 @@ def __init__(
 
         self.sample_fn = sample_vectors_distributed if use_ddp and sync_kmeans else batched_sample_vectors
 
-        self.distributed_replace_codes = distributed_replace_codes
-        self.replace_sample_fn = sample_vectors_distributed if use_ddp and sync_kmeans and distributed_replace_codes else batched_sample_vectors
+        self.replace_sample_fn = sample_vectors_distributed if use_ddp and sync_kmeans else batched_sample_vectors
 
         self.kmeans_all_reduce_fn = distributed.all_reduce if use_ddp and sync_kmeans else noop
         self.all_reduce_fn = distributed.all_reduce if use_ddp else noop
@@ -448,9 +446,6 @@ def replace(self, batch_samples, batch_mask):
             sampled = self.replace_sample_fn(rearrange(samples, '... -> 1 ...'), mask.sum().item())
             sampled = rearrange(sampled, '1 ... -> ...')
 
-            if not self.distributed_replace_codes:
-                sampled = maybe_distributed_mean(sampled)
-
             self.embed.data[ind][mask] = sampled
             self.cluster_size.data[ind][mask] = self.reset_cluster_size
             self.embed_avg.data[ind][mask] = sampled * self.reset_cluster_size
@@ -559,7 +554,6 @@ def __init__(
         threshold_ema_dead_code = 2,
         reset_cluster_size = None,
         use_ddp = False,
-        distributed_replace_codes = True,
         learnable_codebook = False,
         gumbel_sample = gumbel_sample,
         sample_codebook_temp = 1.,
@@ -590,8 +584,7 @@ def __init__(
 
         self.sample_fn = sample_vectors_distributed if use_ddp and sync_kmeans else batched_sample_vectors
 
-        self.distributed_replace_codes = distributed_replace_codes
-        self.replace_sample_fn = sample_vectors_distributed if use_ddp and sync_kmeans and distributed_replace_codes else batched_sample_vectors
+        self.replace_sample_fn = sample_vectors_distributed if use_ddp and sync_kmeans else batched_sample_vectors
 
         self.kmeans_all_reduce_fn = distributed.all_reduce if use_ddp and sync_kmeans else noop
         self.all_reduce_fn = distributed.all_reduce if use_ddp else noop
@@ -638,9 +631,6 @@ def replace(self, batch_samples, batch_mask):
             sampled = self.replace_sample_fn(rearrange(samples, '... -> 1 ...'), mask.sum().item())
             sampled = rearrange(sampled, '1 ... -> ...')
 
-            if not self.distributed_replace_codes:
-                sampled = maybe_distributed_mean(sampled)
-
             self.embed.data[ind][mask] = sampled
             self.embed_avg.data[ind][mask] = sampled * self.reset_cluster_size
             self.cluster_size.data[ind][mask] = self.reset_cluster_size
@@ -762,7 +752,6 @@ def __init__(
         stochastic_sample_codes = False,
         sample_codebook_temp = 1.,
         straight_through = False,
-        distributed_replace_codes = True,
         reinmax = False,  # using reinmax for improved straight-through, assuming straight through helps at all
         sync_codebook = None,
         sync_affine_param = False,
@@ -845,8 +834,7 @@ def __init__(
             learnable_codebook = has_codebook_orthogonal_loss or learnable_codebook,
             sample_codebook_temp = sample_codebook_temp,
             gumbel_sample = gumbel_sample_fn,
-            ema_update = ema_update,
-            distributed_replace_codes = distributed_replace_codes
+            ema_update = ema_update
         )
 
         if affine_param: