diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless/train.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless/train.py
index fb71232cf..e71f0d1c6 100755
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless/train.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless/train.py
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ def get_parser():
     parser.add_argument(
         "--keep-last-k",
         type=int,
-        default=10,
+        default=20,
         help="""Only keep this number of checkpoints on disk.
         For instance, if it is 3, there are only 3 checkpoints
         in the exp-dir with filenames `checkpoint-xxx.pt`.