diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/asr_datamodule.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/asr_datamodule.py
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..b4e5427e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/asr_datamodule.py
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+../pruned_transducer_stateless/asr_datamodule.py
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diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/blank_predictor.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/blank_predictor.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..03f82700b
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+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/blank_predictor.py
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+# Copyright    2022  Xiaomi Corp.        (authors: Fangjun Kuang, Wei Kang)
+#
+# See ../../../../LICENSE for clarification regarding multiple authors
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+
+from icefall.utils import make_pad_mask
+
+
+class BlankPredictor(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, encoder_out_dim: int):
+        """
+        Args:
+          Output dimension of the encoder network.
+        """
+        super().__init__()
+        self.linear = nn.Linear(in_features=encoder_out_dim, out_features=1)
+
+        self.loss_func = nn.BCEWithLogitsLoss(reduction="none")
+
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        x: torch.Tensor,
+        x_lens: torch.Tensor,
+        soft_target: torch.Tensor,
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """
+        Args:
+          x:
+            A 3-D tensor of shape (N, T, encoder_out_dim) from the output of
+            the encoder network.
+          x_lens:
+            A 1-D tensor of shape (N,) containing the number of valid frames
+            for each element in `x`.
+          soft_target:
+            A 2-D tensor of shape (N, T) containing the soft label of each frame
+            in `x`.
+        """
+        assert x.ndim == 3, x.shape
+        assert soft_target.ndim == 2, soft_target.shape
+
+        assert x.shape[:2] == soft_target.shape[:2], (
+            x.shape,
+            soft_target.shape,
+        )
+        logits = self.linear(x).squeeze(-1)
+        mask = make_pad_mask(x_lens)
+
+        loss = self.loss_func(logits, soft_target)
+        loss.masked_fill_(mask, 0)
+
+        return loss.sum()
diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/conformer.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/conformer.py
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..9bbfa5da0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/conformer.py
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+../pruned_transducer_stateless/conformer.py
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diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/decoder.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/decoder.py
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..0d5f10dc0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/decoder.py
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+../pruned_transducer_stateless/decoder.py
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diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/encoder_interface.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/encoder_interface.py
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..a478f2351
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/encoder_interface.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../pruned_transducer_stateless/encoder_interface.py
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diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/joiner.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/joiner.py
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..81ad47c55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/joiner.py
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+../pruned_transducer_stateless/joiner.py
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diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/model.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/model.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f0c08feb6
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+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/model.py
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+# Copyright    2021  Xiaomi Corp.        (authors: Fangjun Kuang, Wei Kang)
+#
+# See ../../../../LICENSE for clarification regarding multiple authors
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+
+from typing import Tuple
+
+import k2
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+from encoder_interface import EncoderInterface
+
+from icefall.utils import add_sos
+
+
+class Transducer(nn.Module):
+    """It implements https://arxiv.org/pdf/1211.3711.pdf
+    "Sequence Transduction with Recurrent Neural Networks"
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        encoder: EncoderInterface,
+        decoder: nn.Module,
+        joiner: nn.Module,
+        blank_predictor: nn.Module,
+    ):
+        """
+        Args:
+          encoder:
+            It is the transcription network in the paper. Its accepts
+            two inputs: `x` of (N, T, C) and `x_lens` of shape (N,).
+            It returns two tensors: `logits` of shape (N, T, C) and
+            `logit_lens` of shape (N,).
+          decoder:
+            It is the prediction network in the paper. Its input shape
+            is (N, U) and its output shape is (N, U, C). It should contain
+            one attribute: `blank_id`.
+          joiner:
+            It has two inputs with shapes: (N, T, C) and (N, U, C). Its
+            output shape is (N, T, U, C). Note that its output contains
+            unnormalized probs, i.e., not processed by log-softmax.
+          blank_predictor:
+            The model to predict blanks from the encoder output. See also
+            `./blank_predictor.py`.
+        """
+        super().__init__()
+        assert isinstance(encoder, EncoderInterface), type(encoder)
+        assert hasattr(decoder, "blank_id")
+
+        self.encoder = encoder
+        self.decoder = decoder
+        self.joiner = joiner
+        self.blank_predictor = blank_predictor
+
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        x: torch.Tensor,
+        x_lens: torch.Tensor,
+        y: k2.RaggedTensor,
+        prune_range: int = 5,
+        am_scale: float = 0.0,
+        lm_scale: float = 0.0,
+    ) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+        """
+        Args:
+          x:
+            A 3-D tensor of shape (N, T, C).
+          x_lens:
+            A 1-D tensor of shape (N,). It contains the number of frames in `x`
+            before padding.
+          y:
+            A ragged tensor with 2 axes [utt][label]. It contains labels of each
+            utterance.
+          prune_range:
+            The prune range for rnnt loss, it means how many symbols(context)
+            we are considering for each frame to compute the loss.
+          am_scale:
+            The scale to smooth the loss with am (output of encoder network)
+            part
+          lm_scale:
+            The scale to smooth the loss with lm (output of predictor network)
+            part
+        Returns:
+          Return a tuple containing:
+
+            - The loss for the "trivial" joiner
+            - The loss for the non-linear joiner
+            - The loss for predicting the blank token
+
+        Note:
+           Regarding am_scale & lm_scale, it will make the loss-function one of
+           the form:
+              lm_scale * lm_probs + am_scale * am_probs +
+              (1-lm_scale-am_scale) * combined_probs
+        """
+        assert x.ndim == 3, x.shape
+        assert x_lens.ndim == 1, x_lens.shape
+        assert y.num_axes == 2, y.num_axes
+
+        assert x.size(0) == x_lens.size(0) == y.dim0
+
+        encoder_out, encoder_out_lens = self.encoder(x, x_lens)
+        assert torch.all(encoder_out_lens > 0)
+
+        # Now for the decoder, i.e., the prediction network
+        row_splits = y.shape.row_splits(1)
+        y_lens = row_splits[1:] - row_splits[:-1]
+
+        blank_id = self.decoder.blank_id
+        sos_y = add_sos(y, sos_id=blank_id)
+
+        # sos_y_padded: [B, S + 1], start with SOS.
+        sos_y_padded = sos_y.pad(mode="constant", padding_value=blank_id)
+
+        # decoder_out: [B, S + 1, C]
+        decoder_out = self.decoder(sos_y_padded)
+
+        # Note: y does not start with SOS
+        # y_padded : [B, S]
+        y_padded = y.pad(mode="constant", padding_value=0)
+
+        y_padded = y_padded.to(torch.int64)
+        boundary = torch.zeros(
+            (x.size(0), 4), dtype=torch.int64, device=x.device
+        )
+        boundary[:, 2] = y_lens
+        boundary[:, 3] = encoder_out_lens
+
+        simple_loss, (px_grad, py_grad) = k2.rnnt_loss_smoothed(
+            lm=decoder_out,
+            am=encoder_out,
+            symbols=y_padded,
+            termination_symbol=blank_id,
+            lm_only_scale=lm_scale,
+            am_only_scale=am_scale,
+            boundary=boundary,
+            reduction="sum",
+            return_grad=True,
+        )
+        #
+        # px_grad shape: (B, y_lens.max(), T+1)
+        # Note: In the paper, we use y'(t, u)
+        #
+        non_blank_occuptation = px_grad[:, :, :-1].sum(dim=1)
+        non_blank_occuptation = torch.clamp(non_blank_occuptation, min=0, max=1)
+        blank_occupation = 1 - non_blank_occuptation
+
+        blank_prediction_loss = self.blank_predictor(
+            encoder_out,
+            encoder_out_lens,
+            blank_occupation,
+        )
+
+        # ranges : [B, T, prune_range]
+        ranges = k2.get_rnnt_prune_ranges(
+            px_grad=px_grad,
+            py_grad=py_grad,
+            boundary=boundary,
+            s_range=prune_range,
+        )
+
+        # am_pruned : [B, T, prune_range, C]
+        # lm_pruned : [B, T, prune_range, C]
+        am_pruned, lm_pruned = k2.do_rnnt_pruning(
+            am=encoder_out, lm=decoder_out, ranges=ranges
+        )
+
+        # logits : [B, T, prune_range, C]
+        logits = self.joiner(am_pruned, lm_pruned)
+
+        pruned_loss = k2.rnnt_loss_pruned(
+            logits=logits,
+            symbols=y_padded,
+            ranges=ranges,
+            termination_symbol=blank_id,
+            boundary=boundary,
+            reduction="sum",
+        )
+
+        return (simple_loss, pruned_loss, blank_prediction_loss)
diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/subsampling.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/subsampling.py
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..cf233e2a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/subsampling.py
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+../pruned_transducer_stateless/subsampling.py
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diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/test_blank_predictor.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/test_blank_predictor.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..93393e3a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/test_blank_predictor.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright    2022  Xiaomi Corp.        (authors: Fangjun Kuang)
+#
+# See ../../../../LICENSE for clarification regarding multiple authors
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""
+To run this file, do:
+
+    cd icefall/egs/librispeech/ASR
+    python ./pruned_transducer_stateless_2/test_blank_predictor.py
+"""
+import torch
+from blank_predictor import BlankPredictor
+
+
+def test_blank_predictor():
+    dim = 10
+    predictor = BlankPredictor(encoder_out_dim=dim)
+    x = torch.rand(4, 3, dim)
+    x_lens = torch.tensor([1, 3, 2, 3], dtype=torch.int32)
+    y = torch.rand(4, 3)
+    loss = predictor(x, x_lens, y)
+    print(loss)
+
+
+def main():
+    test_blank_predictor()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/train.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/train.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..d46330bb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless-2/train.py
@@ -0,0 +1,959 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright    2021  Xiaomi Corp.        (authors: Fangjun Kuang,
+#                                                  Wei Kang
+#                                                  Mingshuang Luo)
+#
+# See ../../../../LICENSE for clarification regarding multiple authors
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+"""
+Usage:
+
+export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="0,1,2,3"
+
+./pruned_transducer_stateless-2/train.py \
+  --world-size 4 \
+  --num-epochs 30 \
+  --start-epoch 0 \
+  --exp-dir pruned_transducer_stateless-2/exp \
+  --full-libri 1 \
+  --max-duration 300
+"""
+
+
+import argparse
+import logging
+import warnings
+from pathlib import Path
+from shutil import copyfile
+from typing import Any, Dict, Optional, Tuple
+
+import k2
+import sentencepiece as spm
+import torch
+import torch.multiprocessing as mp
+import torch.nn as nn
+from asr_datamodule import LibriSpeechAsrDataModule
+from blank_predictor import BlankPredictor
+from conformer import Conformer
+from decoder import Decoder
+from joiner import Joiner
+from lhotse.cut import Cut
+from lhotse.dataset.sampling.base import CutSampler
+from lhotse.utils import fix_random_seed
+from model import Transducer
+from torch import Tensor
+from torch.nn.parallel import DistributedDataParallel as DDP
+from torch.nn.utils import clip_grad_norm_
+from torch.utils.tensorboard import SummaryWriter
+from transformer import Noam
+
+from icefall.checkpoint import load_checkpoint, remove_checkpoints
+from icefall.checkpoint import save_checkpoint as save_checkpoint_impl
+from icefall.checkpoint import save_checkpoint_with_global_batch_idx
+from icefall.dist import cleanup_dist, setup_dist
+from icefall.env import get_env_info
+from icefall.utils import (
+    AttributeDict,
+    MetricsTracker,
+    measure_gradient_norms,
+    measure_weight_norms,
+    optim_step_and_measure_param_change,
+    setup_logger,
+    str2bool,
+)
+
+
+def get_parser():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        formatter_class=argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--world-size",
+        type=int,
+        default=1,
+        help="Number of GPUs for DDP training.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--master-port",
+        type=int,
+        default=12354,
+        help="Master port to use for DDP training.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--tensorboard",
+        type=str2bool,
+        default=True,
+        help="Should various information be logged in tensorboard.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--num-epochs",
+        type=int,
+        default=30,
+        help="Number of epochs to train.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--start-epoch",
+        type=int,
+        default=0,
+        help="""Resume training from from this epoch.
+        If it is positive, it will load checkpoint from
+        transducer_stateless/exp/epoch-{start_epoch-1}.pt
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--start-batch",
+        type=int,
+        default=0,
+        help="""If positive, --start-epoch is ignored and
+        it loads the checkpoint from exp-dir/checkpoint-{start_batch}.pt
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--exp-dir",
+        type=str,
+        default="pruned_transducer_stateless-2/exp",
+        help="""The experiment dir.
+        It specifies the directory where all training related
+        files, e.g., checkpoints, log, etc, are saved
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--bpe-model",
+        type=str,
+        default="data/lang_bpe_500/bpe.model",
+        help="Path to the BPE model",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--lr-factor",
+        type=float,
+        default=5.0,
+        help="The lr_factor for Noam optimizer",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--context-size",
+        type=int,
+        default=2,
+        help="The context size in the decoder. 1 means bigram; "
+        "2 means tri-gram",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--prune-range",
+        type=int,
+        default=5,
+        help="The prune range for rnnt loss, it means how many symbols(context)"
+        "we are using to compute the loss",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--lm-scale",
+        type=float,
+        default=0.25,
+        help="The scale to smooth the loss with lm "
+        "(output of prediction network) part.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--am-scale",
+        type=float,
+        default=0.0,
+        help="The scale to smooth the loss with am (output of encoder network)"
+        "part.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--simple-loss-scale",
+        type=float,
+        default=0.5,
+        help="To get pruning ranges, we will calculate a simple version"
+        "loss(joiner is just addition), this simple loss also uses for"
+        "training (as a regularization item). We will scale the simple loss"
+        "with this parameter before adding to the final loss.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--blank-prediction-scale",
+        type=float,
+        default=0.1,
+        help="Scale to use for the blank prediction loss",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--seed",
+        type=int,
+        default=42,
+        help="The seed for random generators intended for reproducibility",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--save-every-n",
+        type=int,
+        default=8000,
+        help="""Save checkpoint after processing this number of batches"
+        periodically. We save checkpoint to exp-dir/ whenever
+        params.batch_idx_train % save_every_n == 0. The checkpoint filename
+        has the form: f'exp-dir/checkpoint-{params.batch_idx_train}.pt'
+        Note: It also saves checkpoint to `exp-dir/epoch-xxx.pt` at the
+        end of each epoch where `xxx` is the epoch number counting from 0.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--keep-last-k",
+        type=int,
+        default=20,
+        help="""Only keep this number of checkpoints on disk.
+        For instance, if it is 3, there are only 3 checkpoints
+        in the exp-dir with filenames `checkpoint-xxx.pt`.
+        It does not affect checkpoints with name `epoch-xxx.pt`.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    return parser
+
+
+def get_params() -> AttributeDict:
+    """Return a dict containing training parameters.
+
+    All training related parameters that are not passed from the commandline
+    are saved in the variable `params`.
+
+    Commandline options are merged into `params` after they are parsed, so
+    you can also access them via `params`.
+
+    Explanation of options saved in `params`:
+
+        - best_train_loss: Best training loss so far. It is used to select
+                           the model that has the lowest training loss. It is
+                           updated during the training.
+
+        - best_valid_loss: Best validation loss so far. It is used to select
+                           the model that has the lowest validation loss. It is
+                           updated during the training.
+
+        - best_train_epoch: It is the epoch that has the best training loss.
+
+        - best_valid_epoch: It is the epoch that has the best validation loss.
+
+        - batch_idx_train: Used to writing statistics to tensorboard. It
+                           contains number of batches trained so far across
+                           epochs.
+
+        - log_interval:  Print training loss if batch_idx % log_interval` is 0
+
+        - reset_interval: Reset statistics if batch_idx % reset_interval is 0
+
+        - valid_interval:  Run validation if batch_idx % valid_interval is 0
+
+        - feature_dim: The model input dim. It has to match the one used
+                       in computing features.
+
+        - subsampling_factor:  The subsampling factor for the model.
+
+        - attention_dim: Hidden dim for multi-head attention model.
+
+        - num_decoder_layers: Number of decoder layer of transformer decoder.
+
+        - warm_step: The warm_step for Noam optimizer.
+    """
+    params = AttributeDict(
+        {
+            "best_train_loss": float("inf"),
+            "best_valid_loss": float("inf"),
+            "best_train_epoch": -1,
+            "best_valid_epoch": -1,
+            "batch_idx_train": 0,
+            "log_interval": 50,
+            "reset_interval": 200,
+            "valid_interval": 3000,  # For the 100h subset, use 800
+            "log_diagnostics": False,
+            # parameters for conformer
+            "feature_dim": 80,
+            "subsampling_factor": 4,
+            "attention_dim": 512,
+            "nhead": 8,
+            "dim_feedforward": 2048,
+            "num_encoder_layers": 12,
+            "vgg_frontend": False,
+            # parameters for decoder
+            "embedding_dim": 512,
+            # parameters for Noam
+            "warm_step": 80000,  # For the 100h subset, use 30000
+            "env_info": get_env_info(),
+        }
+    )
+
+    return params
+
+
+def get_encoder_model(params: AttributeDict) -> nn.Module:
+    # TODO: We can add an option to switch between Conformer and Transformer
+    encoder = Conformer(
+        num_features=params.feature_dim,
+        output_dim=params.vocab_size,
+        subsampling_factor=params.subsampling_factor,
+        d_model=params.attention_dim,
+        nhead=params.nhead,
+        dim_feedforward=params.dim_feedforward,
+        num_encoder_layers=params.num_encoder_layers,
+        vgg_frontend=params.vgg_frontend,
+    )
+    return encoder
+
+
+def get_decoder_model(params: AttributeDict) -> nn.Module:
+    decoder = Decoder(
+        vocab_size=params.vocab_size,
+        embedding_dim=params.embedding_dim,
+        blank_id=params.blank_id,
+        context_size=params.context_size,
+    )
+    return decoder
+
+
+def get_joiner_model(params: AttributeDict) -> nn.Module:
+    joiner = Joiner(
+        input_dim=params.vocab_size,
+        inner_dim=params.embedding_dim,
+        output_dim=params.vocab_size,
+    )
+    return joiner
+
+
+def get_blank_prediction_model(params: AttributeDict) -> nn.Module:
+    blank_predictor = BlankPredictor(encoder_out_dim=params.vocab_size)
+    return blank_predictor
+
+
+def get_transducer_model(params: AttributeDict) -> nn.Module:
+    encoder = get_encoder_model(params)
+    decoder = get_decoder_model(params)
+    joiner = get_joiner_model(params)
+    blank_predictor = get_blank_prediction_model(params)
+
+    model = Transducer(
+        encoder=encoder,
+        decoder=decoder,
+        joiner=joiner,
+        blank_predictor=blank_predictor,
+    )
+    return model
+
+
+def load_checkpoint_if_available(
+    params: AttributeDict,
+    model: nn.Module,
+    optimizer: Optional[torch.optim.Optimizer] = None,
+) -> Optional[Dict[str, Any]]:
+    """Load checkpoint from file.
+
+    If params.start_batch is positive, it will load the checkpoint from
+    `params.exp_dir/checkpoint-{params.start_batch}.pt`. Otherwise, if
+    params.start_epoch is positive, it will load the checkpoint from
+    `params.start_epoch - 1`.
+
+    Apart from loading state dict for `model` and `optimizer` it also updates
+    `best_train_epoch`, `best_train_loss`, `best_valid_epoch`,
+    and `best_valid_loss` in `params`.
+
+    Args:
+      params:
+        The return value of :func:`get_params`.
+      model:
+        The training model.
+      optimizer:
+        The optimizer that we are using.
+    Returns:
+      Return a dict containing previously saved training info.
+    """
+    if params.start_batch > 0:
+        filename = params.exp_dir / f"checkpoint-{params.start_batch}.pt"
+    elif params.start_epoch > 0:
+        filename = params.exp_dir / f"epoch-{params.start_epoch-1}.pt"
+    else:
+        return None
+
+    assert filename.is_file(), f"{filename} does not exist!"
+
+    saved_params = load_checkpoint(
+        filename,
+        model=model,
+        optimizer=optimizer,
+    )
+
+    keys = [
+        "best_train_epoch",
+        "best_valid_epoch",
+        "batch_idx_train",
+        "best_train_loss",
+        "best_valid_loss",
+    ]
+    for k in keys:
+        params[k] = saved_params[k]
+
+    if params.start_batch > 0:
+        if "cur_epoch" in saved_params:
+            params["start_epoch"] = saved_params["cur_epoch"]
+
+        if "cur_batch_idx" in saved_params:
+            params["cur_batch_idx"] = saved_params["cur_batch_idx"]
+
+    return saved_params
+
+
+def save_checkpoint(
+    params: AttributeDict,
+    model: nn.Module,
+    optimizer: Optional[torch.optim.Optimizer] = None,
+    sampler: Optional[CutSampler] = None,
+    rank: int = 0,
+) -> None:
+    """Save model, optimizer, scheduler and training stats to file.
+
+    Args:
+      params:
+        It is returned by :func:`get_params`.
+      model:
+        The training model.
+      optimizer:
+        The optimizer used in the training.
+      sampler:
+       The sampler for the training dataset.
+    """
+    if rank != 0:
+        return
+    filename = params.exp_dir / f"epoch-{params.cur_epoch}.pt"
+    save_checkpoint_impl(
+        filename=filename,
+        model=model,
+        params=params,
+        optimizer=optimizer,
+        sampler=sampler,
+        rank=rank,
+    )
+
+    if params.best_train_epoch == params.cur_epoch:
+        best_train_filename = params.exp_dir / "best-train-loss.pt"
+        copyfile(src=filename, dst=best_train_filename)
+
+    if params.best_valid_epoch == params.cur_epoch:
+        best_valid_filename = params.exp_dir / "best-valid-loss.pt"
+        copyfile(src=filename, dst=best_valid_filename)
+
+
+def compute_loss(
+    params: AttributeDict,
+    model: nn.Module,
+    sp: spm.SentencePieceProcessor,
+    batch: dict,
+    is_training: bool,
+) -> Tuple[Tensor, MetricsTracker]:
+    """
+    Compute CTC loss given the model and its inputs.
+
+    Args:
+      params:
+        Parameters for training. See :func:`get_params`.
+      model:
+        The model for training. It is an instance of Conformer in our case.
+      batch:
+        A batch of data. See `lhotse.dataset.K2SpeechRecognitionDataset()`
+        for the content in it.
+      is_training:
+        True for training. False for validation. When it is True, this
+        function enables autograd during computation; when it is False, it
+        disables autograd.
+    """
+    device = model.device
+    feature = batch["inputs"]
+    # at entry, feature is (N, T, C)
+    assert feature.ndim == 3
+    feature = feature.to(device)
+
+    supervisions = batch["supervisions"]
+    feature_lens = supervisions["num_frames"].to(device)
+
+    texts = batch["supervisions"]["text"]
+    y = sp.encode(texts, out_type=int)
+    y = k2.RaggedTensor(y).to(device)
+
+    with torch.set_grad_enabled(is_training):
+        simple_loss, pruned_loss, blank_prediction_loss = model(
+            x=feature,
+            x_lens=feature_lens,
+            y=y,
+            prune_range=params.prune_range,
+            am_scale=params.am_scale,
+            lm_scale=params.lm_scale,
+        )
+        loss = (
+            params.simple_loss_scale * simple_loss
+            + pruned_loss
+            + params.blank_prediction_scale * blank_prediction_loss
+        )
+
+    assert loss.requires_grad == is_training
+
+    info = MetricsTracker()
+    with warnings.catch_warnings():
+        warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
+        info["frames"] = (
+            (feature_lens // params.subsampling_factor).sum().item()
+        )
+
+    # Note: We use reduction=sum while computing the loss.
+    info["loss"] = loss.detach().cpu().item()
+    info["simple_loss"] = simple_loss.detach().cpu().item()
+    info["pruned_loss"] = pruned_loss.detach().cpu().item()
+    info["blank_prediction_loss"] = blank_prediction_loss.detach().cpu().item()
+
+    return loss, info
+
+
+def compute_validation_loss(
+    params: AttributeDict,
+    model: nn.Module,
+    sp: spm.SentencePieceProcessor,
+    valid_dl: torch.utils.data.DataLoader,
+    world_size: int = 1,
+) -> MetricsTracker:
+    """Run the validation process."""
+    model.eval()
+
+    tot_loss = MetricsTracker()
+
+    for batch_idx, batch in enumerate(valid_dl):
+        loss, loss_info = compute_loss(
+            params=params,
+            model=model,
+            sp=sp,
+            batch=batch,
+            is_training=False,
+        )
+        assert loss.requires_grad is False
+        tot_loss = tot_loss + loss_info
+
+    if world_size > 1:
+        tot_loss.reduce(loss.device)
+
+    loss_value = tot_loss["loss"] / tot_loss["frames"]
+    if loss_value < params.best_valid_loss:
+        params.best_valid_epoch = params.cur_epoch
+        params.best_valid_loss = loss_value
+
+    return tot_loss
+
+
+def train_one_epoch(
+    params: AttributeDict,
+    model: nn.Module,
+    optimizer: torch.optim.Optimizer,
+    sp: spm.SentencePieceProcessor,
+    train_dl: torch.utils.data.DataLoader,
+    valid_dl: torch.utils.data.DataLoader,
+    tb_writer: Optional[SummaryWriter] = None,
+    world_size: int = 1,
+    rank: int = 0,
+) -> None:
+    """Train the model for one epoch.
+
+    The training loss from the mean of all frames is saved in
+    `params.train_loss`. It runs the validation process every
+    `params.valid_interval` batches.
+
+    Args:
+      params:
+        It is returned by :func:`get_params`.
+      model:
+        The model for training.
+      optimizer:
+        The optimizer we are using.
+      train_dl:
+        Dataloader for the training dataset.
+      valid_dl:
+        Dataloader for the validation dataset.
+      tb_writer:
+        Writer to write log messages to tensorboard.
+      world_size:
+        Number of nodes in DDP training. If it is 1, DDP is disabled.
+      rank:
+        The rank of the node in DDP training. If no DDP is used, it should
+        be set to 0.
+    """
+    model.train()
+
+    tot_loss = MetricsTracker()
+
+    def maybe_log_gradients(tag: str):
+        if (
+            params.log_diagnostics
+            and tb_writer is not None
+            and params.batch_idx_train % (params.log_interval * 5) == 0
+        ):
+            tb_writer.add_scalars(
+                tag,
+                measure_gradient_norms(model, norm="l2"),
+                global_step=params.batch_idx_train,
+            )
+
+    def maybe_log_weights(tag: str):
+        if (
+            params.log_diagnostics
+            and tb_writer is not None
+            and params.batch_idx_train % (params.log_interval * 5) == 0
+        ):
+            tb_writer.add_scalars(
+                tag,
+                measure_weight_norms(model, norm="l2"),
+                global_step=params.batch_idx_train,
+            )
+
+    def maybe_log_param_relative_changes():
+        if (
+            params.log_diagnostics
+            and tb_writer is not None
+            and params.batch_idx_train % (params.log_interval * 5) == 0
+        ):
+            deltas = optim_step_and_measure_param_change(model, optimizer)
+            tb_writer.add_scalars(
+                "train/relative_param_change_per_minibatch",
+                deltas,
+                global_step=params.batch_idx_train,
+            )
+        else:
+            optimizer.step()
+
+    cur_batch_idx = params.get("cur_batch_idx", 0)
+
+    for batch_idx, batch in enumerate(train_dl):
+        if batch_idx < cur_batch_idx:
+            continue
+        cur_batch_idx = batch_idx
+
+        params.batch_idx_train += 1
+        batch_size = len(batch["supervisions"]["text"])
+
+        loss, loss_info = compute_loss(
+            params=params,
+            model=model,
+            sp=sp,
+            batch=batch,
+            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.
+
+        loss.backward()
+
+        maybe_log_weights("train/param_norms")
+        maybe_log_gradients("train/grad_norms")
+        maybe_log_param_relative_changes()
+
+        optimizer.zero_grad()
+
+        if (
+            params.batch_idx_train > 0
+            and params.batch_idx_train % params.save_every_n == 0
+        ):
+            params.cur_batch_idx = batch_idx
+            save_checkpoint_with_global_batch_idx(
+                out_dir=params.exp_dir,
+                global_batch_idx=params.batch_idx_train,
+                model=model,
+                params=params,
+                optimizer=optimizer,
+                sampler=train_dl.sampler,
+                rank=rank,
+            )
+            del params.cur_batch_idx
+            remove_checkpoints(
+                out_dir=params.exp_dir,
+                topk=params.keep_last_k,
+                rank=rank,
+            )
+
+        if batch_idx % params.log_interval == 0:
+            logging.info(
+                f"Epoch {params.cur_epoch}, "
+                f"batch {batch_idx}, loss[{loss_info}], "
+                f"tot_loss[{tot_loss}], batch size: {batch_size}"
+            )
+
+            if tb_writer is not None:
+                loss_info.write_summary(
+                    tb_writer, "train/current_", params.batch_idx_train
+                )
+                tot_loss.write_summary(
+                    tb_writer, "train/tot_", params.batch_idx_train
+                )
+
+        if batch_idx > 0 and batch_idx % params.valid_interval == 0:
+            logging.info("Computing validation loss")
+            valid_info = compute_validation_loss(
+                params=params,
+                model=model,
+                sp=sp,
+                valid_dl=valid_dl,
+                world_size=world_size,
+            )
+            model.train()
+            logging.info(f"Epoch {params.cur_epoch}, validation: {valid_info}")
+            if tb_writer is not None:
+                valid_info.write_summary(
+                    tb_writer, "train/valid_", params.batch_idx_train
+                )
+
+    loss_value = tot_loss["loss"] / tot_loss["frames"]
+    params.train_loss = loss_value
+    if params.train_loss < params.best_train_loss:
+        params.best_train_epoch = params.cur_epoch
+        params.best_train_loss = params.train_loss
+
+
+def run(rank, world_size, args):
+    """
+    Args:
+      rank:
+        It is a value between 0 and `world_size-1`, which is
+        passed automatically by `mp.spawn()` in :func:`main`.
+        The node with rank 0 is responsible for saving checkpoint.
+      world_size:
+        Number of GPUs for DDP training.
+      args:
+        The return value of get_parser().parse_args()
+    """
+    params = get_params()
+    params.update(vars(args))
+    if params.full_libri is False:
+        params.valid_interval = 800
+        params.warm_step = 30000
+
+    fix_random_seed(params.seed)
+    if world_size > 1:
+        setup_dist(rank, world_size, params.master_port)
+
+    setup_logger(f"{params.exp_dir}/log/log-train")
+    logging.info("Training started")
+
+    if args.tensorboard and rank == 0:
+        tb_writer = SummaryWriter(log_dir=f"{params.exp_dir}/tensorboard")
+    else:
+        tb_writer = None
+
+    device = torch.device("cpu")
+    if torch.cuda.is_available():
+        device = torch.device("cuda", rank)
+    logging.info(f"Device: {device}")
+
+    sp = spm.SentencePieceProcessor()
+    sp.load(params.bpe_model)
+
+    # <blk> is defined in local/train_bpe_model.py
+    params.blank_id = sp.piece_to_id("<blk>")
+    params.vocab_size = sp.get_piece_size()
+
+    logging.info(params)
+
+    logging.info("About to create model")
+    model = get_transducer_model(params)
+
+    num_param = sum([p.numel() for p in model.parameters()])
+    logging.info(f"Number of model parameters: {num_param}")
+
+    checkpoints = load_checkpoint_if_available(params=params, model=model)
+
+    model.to(device)
+    if world_size > 1:
+        logging.info("Using DDP")
+        model = DDP(model, device_ids=[rank])
+    model.device = device
+
+    optimizer = Noam(
+        model.parameters(),
+        model_size=params.attention_dim,
+        factor=params.lr_factor,
+        warm_step=params.warm_step,
+    )
+
+    if checkpoints and "optimizer" in checkpoints:
+        logging.info("Loading optimizer state dict")
+        optimizer.load_state_dict(checkpoints["optimizer"])
+
+    librispeech = LibriSpeechAsrDataModule(args)
+
+    train_cuts = librispeech.train_clean_100_cuts()
+    if params.full_libri:
+        train_cuts += librispeech.train_clean_360_cuts()
+        train_cuts += librispeech.train_other_500_cuts()
+
+    def remove_short_and_long_utt(c: Cut):
+        # Keep only utterances with duration between 1 second and 20 seconds
+        #
+        # Caution: There is a reason to select 20.0 here. Please see
+        # ../local/display_manifest_statistics.py
+        #
+        # You should use ../local/display_manifest_statistics.py to get
+        # an utterance duration distribution for your dataset to select
+        # the threshold
+        return 1.0 <= c.duration <= 20.0
+
+    num_in_total = len(train_cuts)
+
+    train_cuts = train_cuts.filter(remove_short_and_long_utt)
+
+    num_left = len(train_cuts)
+    num_removed = num_in_total - num_left
+    removed_percent = num_removed / num_in_total * 100
+
+    logging.info(f"Before removing short and long utterances: {num_in_total}")
+    logging.info(f"After removing short and long utterances: {num_left}")
+    logging.info(f"Removed {num_removed} utterances ({removed_percent:.5f}%)")
+
+    if params.start_batch > 0 and checkpoints and "sampler" in checkpoints:
+        # We only load the sampler's state dict when it loads a checkpoint
+        # saved in the middle of an epoch
+        sampler_state_dict = checkpoints["sampler"]
+    else:
+        sampler_state_dict = None
+
+    train_dl = librispeech.train_dataloaders(
+        train_cuts, sampler_state_dict=sampler_state_dict
+    )
+
+    valid_cuts = librispeech.dev_clean_cuts()
+    valid_cuts += librispeech.dev_other_cuts()
+    valid_dl = librispeech.valid_dataloaders(valid_cuts)
+
+    scan_pessimistic_batches_for_oom(
+        model=model,
+        train_dl=train_dl,
+        optimizer=optimizer,
+        sp=sp,
+        params=params,
+    )
+
+    for epoch in range(params.start_epoch, params.num_epochs):
+        fix_random_seed(params.seed + epoch)
+        train_dl.sampler.set_epoch(epoch)
+
+        cur_lr = optimizer._rate
+        if tb_writer is not None:
+            tb_writer.add_scalar(
+                "train/learning_rate", cur_lr, params.batch_idx_train
+            )
+            tb_writer.add_scalar("train/epoch", epoch, params.batch_idx_train)
+
+        if rank == 0:
+            logging.info("epoch {}, learning rate {}".format(epoch, cur_lr))
+
+        params.cur_epoch = epoch
+
+        train_one_epoch(
+            params=params,
+            model=model,
+            optimizer=optimizer,
+            sp=sp,
+            train_dl=train_dl,
+            valid_dl=valid_dl,
+            tb_writer=tb_writer,
+            world_size=world_size,
+            rank=rank,
+        )
+
+        save_checkpoint(
+            params=params,
+            model=model,
+            optimizer=optimizer,
+            sampler=train_dl.sampler,
+            rank=rank,
+        )
+
+    logging.info("Done!")
+
+    if world_size > 1:
+        torch.distributed.barrier()
+        cleanup_dist()
+
+
+def scan_pessimistic_batches_for_oom(
+    model: nn.Module,
+    train_dl: torch.utils.data.DataLoader,
+    optimizer: torch.optim.Optimizer,
+    sp: spm.SentencePieceProcessor,
+    params: AttributeDict,
+):
+    from lhotse.dataset import find_pessimistic_batches
+
+    logging.info(
+        "Sanity check -- see if any of the batches in epoch 0 would cause OOM."
+    )
+    batches, crit_values = find_pessimistic_batches(train_dl.sampler)
+    for criterion, cuts in batches.items():
+        batch = train_dl.dataset[cuts]
+        try:
+            optimizer.zero_grad()
+            loss, _ = compute_loss(
+                params=params,
+                model=model,
+                sp=sp,
+                batch=batch,
+                is_training=True,
+            )
+            loss.backward()
+            clip_grad_norm_(model.parameters(), 5.0, 2.0)
+            optimizer.step()
+        except RuntimeError as e:
+            if "CUDA out of memory" in str(e):
+                logging.error(
+                    "Your GPU ran out of memory with the current "
+                    "max_duration setting. We recommend decreasing "
+                    "max_duration and trying again.\n"
+                    f"Failing criterion: {criterion} "
+                    f"(={crit_values[criterion]}) ..."
+                )
+            raise
+
+
+def main():
+    parser = get_parser()
+    LibriSpeechAsrDataModule.add_arguments(parser)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    args.exp_dir = Path(args.exp_dir)
+
+    world_size = args.world_size
+    assert world_size >= 1
+    if world_size > 1:
+        mp.spawn(run, args=(world_size, args), nprocs=world_size, join=True)
+    else:
+        run(rank=0, world_size=1, args=args)
+
+
+torch.set_num_threads(1)
+torch.set_num_interop_threads(1)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
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