diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/conformer_ctc/conformer.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/conformer_ctc/conformer.py
index 5a4dfa686..90552545b 100644
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/conformer_ctc/conformer.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/conformer_ctc/conformer.py
@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ class ConformerEncoderLayer(nn.Module):
 
         # define layernorm for conv1d_abs
         self.norm_conv_abs = nn.LayerNorm(d_model)
+        self.layernorm = nn.LayerNorm(d_model)
 
         self.ff_scale = 0.5
 
@@ -193,14 +194,17 @@ class ConformerEncoderLayer(nn.Module):
 
         self.normalize_before = normalize_before
 
-        self.in_channel = 1024
-        self.out_channel = 64
         self.kernel_size = 21
-        self.padding = 10
-        self.linear1 = nn.Linear(512, self.in_channel)
-        self.conv1d_abs = Conv1dAbs(self.in_channel, self.out_channel, kernel_size=self.kernel_size, padding=self.padding)
-        self.activation = nn.ReLU()
-        self.linear2 = nn.Linear(self.out_channel, 512)
+        self.padding = int((self.kernel_size - 1) / 2)
+        self.conv1d_channels = 768
+        self.linear1 = nn.Linear(512, self.conv1d_channels)
+        self.conv1d_abs = Conv1dAbs(
+            self.conv1d_channels,
+            self.conv1d_channels,
+            kernel_size=self.kernel_size,
+            padding=self.padding,
+        )
+        self.linear2 = nn.Linear(self.conv1d_channels, 512)
 
     def forward(
         self,
@@ -236,17 +240,33 @@ class ConformerEncoderLayer(nn.Module):
         if not self.normalize_before:
             src = self.norm_ff_macaron(src)
 
-        # modified-attention module
+        inf = torch.tensor(float("inf"), device=src.device)
+
+        def check_inf(x):
+            if x.max() == inf:
+                print("Error: inf found: ", x)
+                assert 0
+
+                # modified-attention module
+
         residual = src
         if self.normalize_before:
             src = self.norm_conv_abs(src)
-        src = self.linear1(src)
-        src = torch.exp(src.clamp(max=75))
+
+        src = self.linear1(src * 0.25)
+        src = torch.exp(src.clamp(min=-75, max=75))
+        check_inf(src)
         src = src.permute(1, 2, 0)
         src = self.conv1d_abs(src) / self.kernel_size
-        src = self.activation(src).permute(2, 0, 1)
-        src = torch.log(src)
+        check_inf(src)
+        src = src.permute(2, 0, 1)
+        src = torch.log(src.clamp(min=1e-20))
+        check_inf(src)
         src = self.linear2(src)
+        src = self.layernorm(src)
+        # multipy the output by 0.5 later.
+        # do a comparison.
+
         src = residual + self.dropout(src)
         if not self.normalize_before:
             src = self.norm_conv_abs(src)
@@ -387,8 +407,8 @@ class RelPositionalEncoding(torch.nn.Module):
         pe_negative[:, 1::2] = torch.cos(-1 * position * div_term)
 
         # Reserve the order of positive indices and concat both positive and
-        # negative indices. This is used to support the shifting trick
-        # as in "Transformer-XL: Attentive Language Models Beyond a Fixed-Length Context"
+        # negative indices. This is used to support the shifting trick as in "T
+        # ransformer-XL:Attentive Language Models Beyond a Fixed-Length Context"
         pe_positive = torch.flip(pe_positive, [0]).unsqueeze(0)
         pe_negative = pe_negative[1:].unsqueeze(0)
         pe = torch.cat([pe_positive, pe_negative], dim=1)