diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/tdnn_lstm_ctc/train.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/tdnn_lstm_ctc/train.py
index babfd07a9..9d1712e61 100755
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/tdnn_lstm_ctc/train.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/tdnn_lstm_ctc/train.py
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ from icefall.graph_compiler import CtcTrainingGraphCompiler
 from icefall.lexicon import Lexicon
 from icefall.utils import (
     AttributeDict,
+    LossRecord,
     encode_supervisions,
     setup_logger,
     str2bool,
@@ -264,71 +265,6 @@ def save_checkpoint(
         best_valid_filename = params.exp_dir / "best-valid-loss.pt"
         copyfile(src=filename, dst=best_valid_filename)
 
-class LossRecord(collections.defaultdict):
-    def __init__(self):
-        # Passing the type 'int' to the base-class constructor
-        # makes undefined items default to int() which is zero.
-        super(LossRecord, self).__init__(int)
-
-    def __add__(self, other: 'LossRecord') -> 'LossRecord':
-        ans = LossRecord()
-        for k, v in self.items():
-            ans[k] = v
-        for k, v in other.items():
-            ans[k] = ans[k] + v
-        return ans
-
-    def __mul__(self, alpha: float) -> 'LossRecord':
-        ans = LossRecord()
-        for k, v in self.items():
-            ans[k] = v * alpha
-        return ans
-
-    def __str__(self) -> str:
-        ans = ''
-        for k, v in self.norm_items():
-            norm_value = '%.4g' % v
-            ans += (str(k) + '=' + str(norm_value) + ', ')
-        frames = str(self['frames'])
-        ans += 'over ' + frames + ' frames.'
-        return ans
-
-    def norm_items(self) -> List[Tuple[str, float]]:
-        """
-        Returns a list of pairs, like:
-          [('ctc_loss', 0.1), ('att_loss', 0.07)]
-        """
-        num_frames = self['frames'] if 'frames' in self else 1
-        ans = []
-        for k, v in self.items():
-            if k != 'frames':
-                norm_value = float(v) / num_frames
-                ans.append((k, norm_value))
-        return ans
-
-    def reduce(self, device):
-        """
-        Reduce using torch.distributed, which I believe ensures that
-        all processes get the total.
-        """
-        keys = sorted(self.keys())
-        s = torch.tensor([ float(self[k]) for k in keys ],
-                         device=device)
-        dist.all_reduce(s, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM)
-        for k, v in zip(keys, s.cpu().tolist()):
-            self[k] = v
-
-    def write_summary(self, tb_writer: SummaryWriter, prefix: str, batch_idx: int) -> None:
-        """
-        Add logging information to a TensorBoard writer.
-                tb_writer: a TensorBoard writer
-                  prefix: a prefix for the name of the loss, e.g. "train/valid_",
-                              or "train/current_"
-               batch_idx: The current batch index, used as the x-axis of the plot.
-        """
-        for k, v in self.norm_items():
-            tb_writer.add_scalar(prefix + k, v, batch_idx)
-
 
 def compute_loss(
     params: AttributeDict,
@@ -394,7 +330,6 @@ def compute_loss(
     assert loss.requires_grad == is_training
 
     info = LossRecord()
-    # TODO: there are many GPU->CPU transfers here, maybe combine them into one.
     info['frames'] = supervision_segments[:, 2].sum().item()
     info['loss'] = loss.detach().cpu().item()
 
@@ -426,7 +361,7 @@ def compute_validation_loss(
         assert loss.requires_grad is False
 
         tot_loss = tot_loss + loss_info
-        
+
     if world_size > 1:
         tot_loss.reduce(loss.device)
 
@@ -489,10 +424,7 @@ def train_one_epoch(
             is_training=True,
         )
         # summary stats.
-        tot_loss = (tot_loss * (1 - 1 / params.reset_interval)) + loss_info 
-
-        # NOTE: We use reduction==sum and loss is computed over utterances
-        # in the batch and there is no normalization to it so far.
+        tot_loss = (tot_loss * (1 - 1 / params.reset_interval)) + loss_info
 
         optimizer.zero_grad()
         loss.backward()
@@ -658,4 +590,4 @@ def main():
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main()
\ No newline at end of file
+    main()