diff --git a/egs/gigaspeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless5/train.py b/egs/gigaspeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless5/train.py
index a96a9f454..2040e15bd 100755
--- a/egs/gigaspeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless5/train.py
+++ b/egs/gigaspeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless5/train.py
@@ -909,8 +909,6 @@ def run(rank, world_size, args):
     """
     params = get_params()
     params.update(vars(args))
-    if params.full_libri is False:
-        params.valid_interval = 1600
 
     fix_random_seed(params.seed)
     if world_size > 1: