diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/conformer_ctc2/.decode.py.swp b/egs/librispeech/ASR/conformer_ctc2/.decode.py.swp
index 3fe1bff18..e67279ca2 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 0b271a51c..05919d5e1 100755
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/conformer_ctc2/decode.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/conformer_ctc2/decode.py
@@ -66,6 +66,15 @@ def get_parser():
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
         formatter_class=argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter
     )
+    
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--group-num",
+        type=int,
+        default=77,
+        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(
         "--epoch",