diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/conformer_ctc2/.decode.py.swp b/egs/librispeech/ASR/conformer_ctc2/.decode.py.swp
index 2ed4fc4da..f9bd64704 100644
Binary files a/egs/librispeech/ASR/conformer_ctc2/.decode.py.swp and b/egs/librispeech/ASR/conformer_ctc2/.decode.py.swp differ
diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/conformer_ctc2/decode.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/conformer_ctc2/decode.py
index 1c0df13e8..a924be6b4 100755
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/conformer_ctc2/decode.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/conformer_ctc2/decode.py
@@ -71,9 +71,6 @@ def get_parser():
         "--group-num",
         type=int,
         default=0,
-        help="""It specifies the checkpoint to use for decoding.
-        Note: Epoch counts from 1.
-        You can specify --avg to use more checkpoints for model averaging.""",
     )
 
     parser.add_argument(
@@ -851,6 +848,7 @@ def main():
         subsampling_factor=params.subsampling_factor,
         num_encoder_layers=params.num_encoder_layers,
         num_decoder_layers=params.num_decoder_layers,
+        group_num=params.group_num,
     )
 
     if not params.use_averaged_model: