diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/train.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/train.py
index 78708fd3f..4b153bd8e 100755
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/train.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/train.py
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ def get_parser():
     parser.add_argument(
         "--lr-batches",
         type=float,
-        default=5000,
+        default=7500,
         help="""Number of steps that affects how rapidly the learning rate
         decreases. We suggest not to change this.""",
     )