diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/zipformer.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/zipformer.py
index 1bbfe3105..f7efcf458 100644
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/zipformer.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/zipformer.py
@@ -343,10 +343,12 @@ class ZipformerEncoderLayer(nn.Module):
                                                feedforward_dim,
                                                dropout)
 
-        self.conv_module1 = ConvolutionModule(d_model,
-                                              cnn_module_kernel)
+        #self.conv_module1 = ConvolutionModule(d_model,
+        #cnn_module_kernel)
+        self.nonlin_attention_module = NonlinAttentionModule(d_model)
 
-        self.conv_module2 = ConvolutionModule(d_model,
+
+        self.conv_module = ConvolutionModule(d_model,
                                               cnn_module_kernel)
 
 
@@ -444,27 +446,29 @@ class ZipformerEncoderLayer(nn.Module):
             src = src + src_att
 
         # convolution module
-        if torch.jit.is_scripting() or random.random() > dynamic_dropout:
-            src = src + self.conv_module1(src, src_key_padding_mask=src_key_padding_mask)
+        if torch.jit.is_scripting() or use_self_attn:
+            src = src + self.nonlin_attention_module(src,
+                                                     attn_weights,
+                                                     head_idx=0)
 
         src = src + self.feed_forward2(src)
 
         # pooling module
         if torch.jit.is_scripting() or use_self_attn:
-            src = src + self.squeeze_excite1(src, attn_weights, attn_weights_idx=0)
+            src = src + self.squeeze_excite1(src, attn_weights, head_idx=1)
 
         if torch.jit.is_scripting() or use_self_attn:
             self_attn_output2 = self.self_attn.forward2(src, attn_weights)
             src = src + self_attn_output2
 
         if torch.jit.is_scripting() or random.random() > dynamic_dropout:
-            src = src + self.conv_module2(src, src_key_padding_mask=src_key_padding_mask)
+            src = src + self.conv_module(src, src_key_padding_mask=src_key_padding_mask)
 
         src = src + self.feed_forward3(src)
 
         # pooling module
         if torch.jit.is_scripting() or use_self_attn:
-            src = src + self.squeeze_excite2(src, attn_weights, attn_weights_idx=1)
+            src = src + self.squeeze_excite2(src, attn_weights, head_idx=2)
 
 
         src = self.norm_final(self.balancer(src))
@@ -1495,19 +1499,20 @@ class ModifiedSEModule(nn.Module):
     def forward(self,
                 x: Tensor,
                 attn_weights: Tensor,
-                attn_weights_idx: int):
+                head_idx: int):
         """
         Args:
            x: a Tensor of shape (T, N, C)
-attn_weights: a Tensor of shape (N * num_heads, seq_len, seq_len), we will only use the 1st head.
-attn_weights_idx: indicates which head to choose from attn_weights
+attn_weights: a Tensor of shape (N * num_heads, seq_len, seq_len), we will only use the head indexed
+               `attn_weights_index`
+    head_idx: indicates which head to choose from attn_weights
         Returns:
            a Tensor of shape (T, N, C)
         """
         (T, N, d_model) = x.shape
         num_heads = attn_weights.shape[0] // N
         attn_weights = attn_weights.reshape(N, num_heads, T, T)
-        attn_weights = attn_weights[:,attn_weights_idx]  # (N, T, T)
+        attn_weights = attn_weights[:,head_idx]  # (N, T, T)
 
         bottleneck = self.to_bottleneck_proj(x)  # (T, N, C)
         bottleneck = bottleneck.transpose(0, 1) # (N, T, bottleneck_dim)
@@ -1552,6 +1557,80 @@ class FeedforwardModule(nn.Module):
         return x
 
 
+class NonlinAttentionModule(nn.Module):
+    """This is like the ConvolutionModule, but refactored so that we use multiplication by attention weights (borrowed
+       from the attention module) in palce of actual convolution.
+
+    Args:
+        channels (int): The number of channels of conv layers.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self, channels: int,
+    ) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+
+        # to_scale and to_value are analogous to pointwise_conv1 in ConvolutionModule
+        # we make them separate because we need an extra degree of freedom for the
+        # scale, as the attention weights are constrained to sum to one so cannot
+        # provide the degree of freedom for the scale of the features before
+        # self.activation().
+        self.to_scale = nn.Linear(channels, channels, bias=True)
+        self.to_value = nn.Linear(channels, channels, bias=True)
+
+
+        # deriv_balancer corresponds to deriv_balancer2 in ConvolutionMOdule
+        self.deriv_balancer = ActivationBalancer(
+            channels, channel_dim=1,
+            min_positive=0.05, max_positive=1.0,
+            max_abs=20.0,
+        )
+
+        self.activation = DoubleSwish()
+
+        self.out_proj = ScaledLinear(channels, channels,
+                                     bias=True,
+                                     initial_scale=0.05)
+
+    def forward(self,
+                x: Tensor,
+                attn_weights: Tensor,
+                head_idx: int,
+    ) -> Tensor:
+        """.
+        Args:
+            x: a Tensor of shape (T, N, C), i.e. (time, batch, channels)
+ attn_weights: a Tensor of shape (N * num_heads, seq_len, seq_len), we will only use the 1st head.
+     head_idx: indicates which head to choose from attn_weights
+        Returns:
+           a Tensor of shape (T, N, C)
+        """
+
+        s = self.to_scale(x)
+        v = self.to_value(x)
+        if self.training and random.random() < 0.02:
+            # prevent the inputs to the sigmoid from getting very large (this is
+            # unlikely to happen in this particular module, so giving this path
+            # a very small probability).
+            s =  penalize_abs_values_gt(s, limit=20.0, penalty=1.0e-04)
+
+        # GLU mechanism
+        x = s.sigmoid() * v
+
+        (T, N, d_model) = x.shape
+        num_heads = attn_weights.shape[0] // N
+        attn_weights = attn_weights.reshape(N, num_heads, T, T)
+        attn_weights = attn_weights[:,head_idx]  # (N, T, T)
+        x = x.transpose(0, 1) # (N, T, C)
+        x = torch.bmm(attn_weights, x)
+        x = self.deriv_balancer(x)
+        x = x.transpose(0, 1) # (T, N, C)
+        x = self.activation(x)
+        x = self.out_proj(x)
+
+        return x
+
+
 class ConvolutionModule(nn.Module):
     """ConvolutionModule in Zipformer model.
     Modified from https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/espnet/nets/pytorch_backend/zipformer/convolution.py