diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/scaling.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/scaling.py
index 1fc46259b..c3a652e8a 100644
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/scaling.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/scaling.py
@@ -1212,7 +1212,15 @@ class TanSwish(torch.nn.Module):
         return TanSwishFunction.apply(x)
 
 
-
+# Dropout2 is just like normal dropout, except it supports schedules on the dropout rates.
+class Dropout2(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, p: FloatLike):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.p = p
+    def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor:
+        return torch.nn.functional.dropout(x,
+                                           p=float(self.p),
+                                           training=self.training)
 
 class SwooshLFunction(torch.autograd.Function):
     """
diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/zipformer.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/zipformer.py
index 038da0136..f01b9e8fc 100644
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/zipformer.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/zipformer.py
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ from encoder_interface import EncoderInterface
 from scaling import (
     ActivationBalancer,
     BasicNorm,
+    Dropout2,
     MaxEig,
     DoubleSwish,
     SwooshL,
@@ -107,11 +108,15 @@ class Zipformer(EncoderInterface):
             feedforward_dim: Union[int, Tuple[int]] = 1536,
             cnn_module_kernel: Union[int, Tuple[int]] = 31,
             pos_dim: int = 192,
-            dropout: float = 0.1,
+            dropout: FloatLike = None,  # see code below for default
             warmup_batches: float = 4000.0,
     ) -> None:
         super(Zipformer, self).__init__()
 
+        if dropout is None:
+            dropout = ScheduledFloat((0.0, 0.3),
+                                     (20000.0, 0.1))
+
         # this is not the probability of skipping a layer.  It is the probability of
         # dropping out the "skip module" which allows the model to skip groups of
         # encoder stacks; when it's dropped out like this, it means we are forced
@@ -383,7 +388,7 @@ class ZipformerEncoderLayer(nn.Module):
             pos_head_dim: int,
             value_head_dim: int,
             feedforward_dim: int,
-            dropout: float = 0.1,
+            dropout: FloatLike = 0.1,
             cnn_module_kernel: int = 31,
             # layer_skip_rate will be overwritten to change warmup begin and end times.
             # treating batch_index == 0.0 specially is just to get scan_pessimistic_batches_for_oom()
@@ -948,7 +953,7 @@ class CompactRelPositionalEncoding(torch.nn.Module):
     """
     def __init__(
         self, embed_dim: int,
-            dropout_rate: float,
+            dropout_rate: FloatLike,
             max_len: int = 1000,
             length_factor: float = 1.0,
     ) -> None:
@@ -956,7 +961,7 @@ class CompactRelPositionalEncoding(torch.nn.Module):
         super(CompactRelPositionalEncoding, self).__init__()
         self.embed_dim = embed_dim
         assert embed_dim % 2 == 0
-        self.dropout = torch.nn.Dropout(dropout_rate)
+        self.dropout = Dropout2(dropout_rate)
         self.pe = None
         assert length_factor >= 1.0
         self.length_factor = length_factor
@@ -1415,7 +1420,7 @@ class FeedforwardModule(nn.Module):
     def __init__(self,
                  embed_dim: int,
                  feedforward_dim: int,
-                 dropout: float):
+                 dropout: FloatLike):
         super(FeedforwardModule, self).__init__()
         self.in_proj = LinearWithAuxLoss(embed_dim, feedforward_dim,
                                          aux_grad_scale=_aux_grad_scale(), prob=_aux_grad_prob_in())
@@ -1428,7 +1433,7 @@ class FeedforwardModule(nn.Module):
                                                   max_abs=5.0,
                                                   min_prob=0.25)
         self.activation = SwooshL()
-        self.dropout = nn.Dropout(dropout)
+        self.dropout = Dropout2(dropout)
         self.out_proj = LinearWithAuxLoss(feedforward_dim, embed_dim,
                                           initial_scale=0.01,
                                           aux_grad_scale=_aux_grad_scale(), prob=_aux_grad_prob_out())
@@ -1684,7 +1689,7 @@ class Conv2dSubsampling(nn.Module):
         layer2_channels: int = 32,
         layer3_channels: int = 128,
         bottleneck_channels: int = 64,
-        dropout: float = 0.1,
+        dropout: FloatLike = 0.1,
     ) -> None:
         """
         Args:
@@ -1742,7 +1747,7 @@ class Conv2dSubsampling(nn.Module):
         self.out = LinearWithAuxLoss(out_height * layer3_channels, out_channels,
                                      aux_grad_scale=_aux_grad_scale(), prob=_aux_grad_prob_out())
 
-        self.dropout = nn.Dropout(dropout)
+        self.dropout = Dropout2(dropout)
 
 
     def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor: