diff --git a/egs/tedlium2/ASR/conformer_ctc3/.decode_multi.py.swp b/egs/tedlium2/ASR/conformer_ctc3/.decode_multi.py.swp
index cbaf71bb0..5f03243df 100644
Binary files a/egs/tedlium2/ASR/conformer_ctc3/.decode_multi.py.swp and b/egs/tedlium2/ASR/conformer_ctc3/.decode_multi.py.swp differ
diff --git a/egs/tedlium2/ASR/conformer_ctc3/decode_multi.py b/egs/tedlium2/ASR/conformer_ctc3/decode_multi.py
index 2c4d8725c..ff13ff66c 100755
--- a/egs/tedlium2/ASR/conformer_ctc3/decode_multi.py
+++ b/egs/tedlium2/ASR/conformer_ctc3/decode_multi.py
@@ -778,6 +778,17 @@ def main() -> None:
         group_num=params.group_num,
     )
     
+    # we need cut ids to display recognition results.
+    args.return_cuts = True
+    tedlium = TedLiumAsrDataModule(args)
+
+    valid_cuts = tedlium.dev_cuts()
+
+    valid_dl = tedlium.valid_dataloaders(valid_cuts)
+
+    test_sets = ["dev"]
+    test_dls = [valid_dl]
+
     for epoch in range(params.start, params.end+1):
         load_checkpoint(f"{params.exp_dir}/epoch-{epoch}.pt", model)
         
@@ -786,17 +797,7 @@ def main() -> None:
         num_param = sum([p.numel() for p in model.parameters()])
         logging.info(f"Number of model parameters: {num_param}")
 
-        # we need cut ids to display recognition results.
-        args.return_cuts = True
-        tedlium = TedLiumAsrDataModule(args)
-
-        valid_cuts = tedlium.dev_cuts()
-
-        valid_dl = tedlium.valid_dataloaders(valid_cuts)
-
-        test_sets = ["dev"]
-        test_dls = [dev_dl]
-
+        
         for test_set, test_dl in zip(test_sets, test_dls):
             results_dict = decode_dataset(
                 dl=test_dl,