diff --git a/egs/multi_zh-hans/ASR/zipformer/decode.py b/egs/multi_zh-hans/ASR/zipformer/decode.py
index df7124c0b..2ab7244ed 100755
--- a/egs/multi_zh-hans/ASR/zipformer/decode.py
+++ b/egs/multi_zh-hans/ASR/zipformer/decode.py
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ from icefall.checkpoint import (
     find_checkpoints,
     load_checkpoint,
 )
+from lhotse.cut import Cut
 from icefall.lexicon import Lexicon
 from icefall.utils import (
     AttributeDict,
@@ -792,11 +793,19 @@ def main():
     # test_clean_dl = librispeech.test_dataloaders(test_clean_cuts)
     # test_other_dl = librispeech.test_dataloaders(test_other_cuts)
 
+    def remove_short_utt(c: Cut):
+        T = ((c.num_frames - 7) // 2 + 1) // 2
+        if T <= 0:
+            logging.warning(
+                f"Excluding cut with ID: {c.id} from decoding, num_frames: {c.num_frames}"
+            )
+        return T > 0
+
     test_sets_cuts = multi_dataset.test_cuts()
 
     test_sets = test_sets_cuts.keys()
     test_dl = [
-        librispeech.test_dataloaders(test_sets_cuts[cuts_name])
+        librispeech.test_dataloaders(test_sets_cuts[cuts_name].filter(remove_short_utt))
         for cuts_name in test_sets
     ]
 
diff --git a/egs/multi_zh-hans/ASR/zipformer/multi_dataset.py b/egs/multi_zh-hans/ASR/zipformer/multi_dataset.py
index 09e98ba0c..542e16955 100644
--- a/egs/multi_zh-hans/ASR/zipformer/multi_dataset.py
+++ b/egs/multi_zh-hans/ASR/zipformer/multi_dataset.py
@@ -221,22 +221,31 @@ class MultiDataset:
         logging.info("About to get multidataset test cuts")
 
         # Aidatatang_200zh
-        logging.info("Loading Aidatatang_200zh TEST set in lazy mode")
+        logging.info("Loading Aidatatang_200zh set in lazy mode")
         aidatatang_test_cuts = load_manifest_lazy(
             self.fbank_dir / "aidatatang_cuts_test.jsonl.gz"
         )
+        aidatatang_dev_cuts = load_manifest_lazy(
+            self.fbank_dir / "aidatatang_cuts_dev.jsonl.gz"
+        )
 
         # AISHELL
-        logging.info("Loading Aishell TEST set in lazy mode")
+        logging.info("Loading Aishell set in lazy mode")
         aishell_test_cuts = load_manifest_lazy(
             self.fbank_dir / "aishell_cuts_test.jsonl.gz"
         )
+        aishell_dev_cuts = load_manifest_lazy(
+            self.fbank_dir / "aishell_cuts_dev.jsonl.gz"
+        )
 
         # AISHELL-2
-        logging.info("Loading Aishell-2 TEST set in lazy mode")
+        logging.info("Loading Aishell-2 set in lazy mode")
         aishell2_test_cuts = load_manifest_lazy(
             self.fbank_dir / "aishell2_cuts_test.jsonl.gz"
         )
+        aishell2_dev_cuts = load_manifest_lazy(
+            self.fbank_dir / "aishell2_cuts_dev.jsonl.gz"
+        )
 
         # AISHELL-4
         logging.info("Loading Aishell-4 TEST set in lazy mode")
@@ -245,40 +254,63 @@ class MultiDataset:
         )
 
         # Ali-Meeting
-        logging.info("Loading Ali-Meeting TEST set in lazy mode")
+        logging.info("Loading Ali-Meeting set in lazy mode")
         alimeeting_test_cuts = load_manifest_lazy(
             self.fbank_dir / "alimeeting-far_cuts_test.jsonl.gz"
         )
+        alimeeting_eval_cuts = load_manifest_lazy(
+            self.fbank_dir / "alimeeting-far_cuts_eval.jsonl.gz"
+        )
 
         # MagicData
-        logging.info("Loading MagicData TEST set in lazy mode")
+        logging.info("Loading MagicData set in lazy mode")
         magicdata_test_cuts = load_manifest_lazy(
             self.fbank_dir / "magicdata_cuts_test.jsonl.gz"
         )
+        magicdata_dev_cuts = load_manifest_lazy(
+            self.fbank_dir / "magicdata_cuts_dev.jsonl.gz"
+        )
 
         # KeSpeech
-        logging.info("Loading KeSpeech TEST set in lazy mode")
+        logging.info("Loading KeSpeech set in lazy mode")
         kespeech_test_cuts = load_manifest_lazy(
             self.fbank_dir / "kespeech" / "kespeech-asr_cuts_test.jsonl.gz"
         )
+        kespeech_dev_phase1_cuts = load_manifest_lazy(
+            self.fbank_dir / "kespeech" / "kespeech-asr_cuts_dev_phase1.jsonl.gz"
+        )
+        kespeech_dev_phase2_cuts = load_manifest_lazy(
+            self.fbank_dir / "kespeech" / "kespeech-asr_cuts_dev_phase2.jsonl.gz"
+        )
 
         # WeNetSpeech
-        logging.info("Loading WeNetSpeech TEST set in lazy mode")
+        logging.info("Loading WeNetSpeech set in lazy mode")
         wenetspeech_test_meeting_cuts = load_manifest_lazy(
             self.fbank_dir / "wenetspeech" / "cuts_TEST_MEETING.jsonl.gz"
         )
         wenetspeech_test_net_cuts = load_manifest_lazy(
             self.fbank_dir / "wenetspeech" / "cuts_TEST_NET.jsonl.gz"
         )
+        wenetspeech_dev_cuts = load_manifest_lazy(
+            self.fbank_dir / "wenetspeech" / "cuts_DEV.jsonl.gz"
+        )
 
         return {
-            "aidatatang": aidatatang_test_cuts,
-            # "alimeeting": alimeeting_test_cuts,
-            "aishell": aishell_test_cuts,
-            "aishell-2": aishell2_test_cuts,
+            "aidatatang_test": aidatatang_test_cuts,
+            "aidatatang_dev": aidatatang_dev_cuts,
+            "alimeeting_test": alimeeting_test_cuts,
+            "alimeeting_eval": alimeeting_eval_cuts,
+            "aishell_test": aishell_test_cuts,
+            "aishell_dev": aishell_dev_cuts,
+            "aishell-2_test": aishell2_test_cuts,
+            "aishell-2_dev": aishell2_dev_cuts,
             "aishell-4": aishell4_test_cuts,
-            "magicdata": magicdata_test_cuts,
-            "kespeech": kespeech_test_cuts,
-            "wenetspeech-meeting": wenetspeech_test_meeting_cuts,
-            "wenetspeech-net": wenetspeech_test_net_cuts,
+            "magicdata_test": magicdata_test_cuts,
+            "magicdata_dev": magicdata_dev_cuts,
+            "kespeech-asr_test": kespeech_test_cuts,
+            "kespeech-asr_dev_phase1": kespeech_dev_phase1_cuts,
+            "kespeech-asr_dev_phase2": kespeech_dev_phase2_cuts,
+            "wenetspeech-meeting_test": wenetspeech_test_meeting_cuts,
+            "wenetspeech-net_test": wenetspeech_test_net_cuts,
+            "wenetspeech_dev": wenetspeech_dev_cuts,
         }