From 7948624a220b9fc40dbfa87cb1eb83041af45ef3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: marcoyang1998 <45973641+marcoyang1998@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 13:44:29 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Support fine-tuning (#944)

* support finetune

* add files for decoding giga

* support initializing modules

* add a fine-tune bash script
---
 egs/librispeech/ASR/finetune.sh               |   85 ++
 .../decode_gigaspeech.py                      |  861 +++++++++++
 .../pruned_transducer_stateless7/finetune.py  | 1342 +++++++++++++++++
 .../gigaspeech.py                             |  406 +++++
 .../gigaspeech_scoring.py                     |    1 +
 .../ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/optim.py |   46 +-
 6 files changed, 2739 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 egs/librispeech/ASR/finetune.sh
 create mode 100644 egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/decode_gigaspeech.py
 create mode 100755 egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/finetune.py
 create mode 100644 egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/gigaspeech.py
 create mode 120000 egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/gigaspeech_scoring.py

diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/finetune.sh b/egs/librispeech/ASR/finetune.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..63d0966ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/finetune.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# fix segmentation fault reported in https://github.com/k2-fsa/icefall/issues/674
+export PROTOCOL_BUFFERS_PYTHON_IMPLEMENTATION=python
+
+set -eou pipefail
+
+stage=-1
+stop_stage=100
+
+# This is an example script for fine-tuning. Here, we fine-tune a model trained
+# on Librispeech on GigaSpeech. The model used for fine-tuning is 
+# pruned_transducer_stateless7 (zipformer). If you want to fine-tune model 
+# from another recipe, you can adapt ./pruned_transducer_stateless7/finetune.py 
+# for that recipe. If you have any problem, please open up an issue in https://github.com/k2-fsa/icefall/issues.
+
+# We assume that you have already prepared the GigaSpeech manfiest&features under ./data.
+# If you haven't done that, please see https://github.com/k2-fsa/icefall/blob/master/egs/gigaspeech/ASR/prepare.sh.
+
+dl_dir=$PWD/download
+
+. shared/parse_options.sh || exit 1
+
+log() {
+  # This function is from espnet
+  local fname=${BASH_SOURCE[1]##*/}
+  echo -e "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') (${fname}:${BASH_LINENO[0]}:${FUNCNAME[1]}) $*"
+}
+
+if [ $stage -le -1 ] && [ $stop_stage -ge -1 ]; then
+  log "Stage -1: Download Pre-trained model"
+  
+  # clone from huggingface
+  git lfs install
+  git clone https://huggingface.co/csukuangfj/icefall-asr-librispeech-pruned-transducer-stateless7-2022-11-11
+
+fi
+
+if [ $stage -le 0 ] && [ $stop_stage -ge 0 ]; then
+  log "Stage 0: Start fine-tuning"
+  
+  # The following configuration of lr schedule should work well
+  # You may also tune the following parameters to adjust learning rate schedule
+  base_lr=0.005
+  lr_epochs=100
+  lr_batches=100000
+
+  # We recommend to start from an averaged model
+  finetune_ckpt=icefall-asr-librispeech-pruned-transducer-stateless7-2022-11-11/exp/pretrained.pt
+  export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="0,1"
+
+  ./pruned_transducer_stateless7/finetune.py \
+    --world-size 2 \
+    --master-port 18180 \
+    --num-epochs 20 \
+    --start-epoch 1 \
+    --exp-dir pruned_transducer_stateless7/exp_giga_finetune \
+    --subset S \
+    --use-fp16 1 \
+    --base-lr $base_lr \
+    --lr-epochs $lr_epochs \
+    --lr-batches $lr_batches \
+    --bpe-model icefall-asr-librispeech-pruned-transducer-stateless7-2022-11-11/data/lang_bpe_500/bpe.model \
+    --do-finetune True \
+    --finetune-ckpt $finetune_ckpt \
+    --max-duration 500
+fi
+
+if [ $stage -le 1 ] && [ $stop_stage -ge 1 ]; then
+  log "Stage 1: Decoding"
+
+  epoch=15
+  avg=10
+
+  for m in greedy_search modified_beam_search; do
+    python pruned_transducer_stateless7/decode_gigaspeech.py \
+    --epoch $epoch \
+    --avg $avg \
+    --use-averaged-model True \
+    --beam-size 4 \
+    --exp-dir pruned_transducer_stateless7/exp_giga_finetune \
+    --max-duration 400 \
+    --decoding-method $m
+  done
+fi
diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/decode_gigaspeech.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/decode_gigaspeech.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4f64850b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/decode_gigaspeech.py
@@ -0,0 +1,861 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+#
+# Copyright 2021-2022 Xiaomi Corporation (Author: Fangjun Kuang,
+#                                                 Zengwei Yao,
+#                                                 Xiaoyu Yang)
+#
+# 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:
+(1) greedy search
+./pruned_transducer_stateless7/decode.py \
+    --epoch 28 \
+    --avg 15 \
+    --exp-dir ./pruned_transducer_stateless7/exp \
+    --max-duration 600 \
+    --decoding-method greedy_search
+
+(2) beam search (not recommended)
+./pruned_transducer_stateless7/decode.py \
+    --epoch 28 \
+    --avg 15 \
+    --exp-dir ./pruned_transducer_stateless7/exp \
+    --max-duration 600 \
+    --decoding-method beam_search \
+    --beam-size 4
+
+(3) modified beam search
+./pruned_transducer_stateless7/decode.py \
+    --epoch 28 \
+    --avg 15 \
+    --exp-dir ./pruned_transducer_stateless7/exp \
+    --max-duration 600 \
+    --decoding-method modified_beam_search \
+    --beam-size 4
+
+(4) fast beam search (one best)
+./pruned_transducer_stateless7/decode.py \
+    --epoch 28 \
+    --avg 15 \
+    --exp-dir ./pruned_transducer_stateless7/exp \
+    --max-duration 600 \
+    --decoding-method fast_beam_search \
+    --beam 20.0 \
+    --max-contexts 8 \
+    --max-states 64
+
+(5) fast beam search (nbest)
+./pruned_transducer_stateless7/decode.py \
+    --epoch 28 \
+    --avg 15 \
+    --exp-dir ./pruned_transducer_stateless7/exp \
+    --max-duration 600 \
+    --decoding-method fast_beam_search_nbest \
+    --beam 20.0 \
+    --max-contexts 8 \
+    --max-states 64 \
+    --num-paths 200 \
+    --nbest-scale 0.5
+
+(6) fast beam search (nbest oracle WER)
+./pruned_transducer_stateless7/decode.py \
+    --epoch 28 \
+    --avg 15 \
+    --exp-dir ./pruned_transducer_stateless7/exp \
+    --max-duration 600 \
+    --decoding-method fast_beam_search_nbest_oracle \
+    --beam 20.0 \
+    --max-contexts 8 \
+    --max-states 64 \
+    --num-paths 200 \
+    --nbest-scale 0.5
+
+(7) fast beam search (with LG)
+./pruned_transducer_stateless7/decode.py \
+    --epoch 28 \
+    --avg 15 \
+    --exp-dir ./pruned_transducer_stateless7/exp \
+    --max-duration 600 \
+    --decoding-method fast_beam_search_nbest_LG \
+    --beam 20.0 \
+    --max-contexts 8 \
+    --max-states 64
+"""
+
+
+import argparse
+import logging
+import math
+from collections import defaultdict
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Dict, List, Optional, Tuple
+
+import k2
+import sentencepiece as spm
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+
+# from asr_datamodule import LibriSpeechAsrDataModule
+from gigaspeech import GigaSpeechAsrDataModule
+from beam_search import (
+    beam_search,
+    fast_beam_search_nbest,
+    fast_beam_search_nbest_LG,
+    fast_beam_search_nbest_oracle,
+    fast_beam_search_one_best,
+    greedy_search,
+    greedy_search_batch,
+    modified_beam_search,
+)
+from gigaspeech_scoring import asr_text_post_processing
+from train import add_model_arguments, get_params, get_transducer_model
+
+from icefall.checkpoint import (
+    average_checkpoints,
+    average_checkpoints_with_averaged_model,
+    find_checkpoints,
+    load_checkpoint,
+)
+from icefall.lexicon import Lexicon
+from icefall.utils import (
+    AttributeDict,
+    setup_logger,
+    store_transcripts,
+    str2bool,
+    write_error_stats,
+)
+
+LOG_EPS = math.log(1e-10)
+
+
+def get_parser():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        formatter_class=argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--epoch",
+        type=int,
+        default=30,
+        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(
+        "--iter",
+        type=int,
+        default=0,
+        help="""If positive, --epoch is ignored and it
+        will use the checkpoint exp_dir/checkpoint-iter.pt.
+        You can specify --avg to use more checkpoints for model averaging.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--avg",
+        type=int,
+        default=9,
+        help="Number of checkpoints to average. Automatically select "
+        "consecutive checkpoints before the checkpoint specified by "
+        "'--epoch' and '--iter'",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--use-averaged-model",
+        type=str2bool,
+        default=True,
+        help="Whether to load averaged model. Currently it only supports "
+        "using --epoch. If True, it would decode with the averaged model "
+        "over the epoch range from `epoch-avg` (excluded) to `epoch`."
+        "Actually only the models with epoch number of `epoch-avg` and "
+        "`epoch` are loaded for averaging. ",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--exp-dir",
+        type=str,
+        default="pruned_transducer_stateless7/exp",
+        help="The experiment dir",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--bpe-model",
+        type=str,
+        default="data/lang_bpe_500/bpe.model",
+        help="Path to the BPE model",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--lang-dir",
+        type=Path,
+        default="data/lang_bpe_500",
+        help="The lang dir containing word table and LG graph",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--decoding-method",
+        type=str,
+        default="greedy_search",
+        help="""Possible values are:
+          - greedy_search
+          - beam_search
+          - modified_beam_search
+          - fast_beam_search
+          - fast_beam_search_nbest
+          - fast_beam_search_nbest_oracle
+          - fast_beam_search_nbest_LG
+        If you use fast_beam_search_nbest_LG, you have to specify
+        `--lang-dir`, which should contain `LG.pt`.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--beam-size",
+        type=int,
+        default=4,
+        help="""An integer indicating how many candidates we will keep for each
+        frame. Used only when --decoding-method is beam_search or
+        modified_beam_search.""",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--beam",
+        type=float,
+        default=20.0,
+        help="""A floating point value to calculate the cutoff score during beam
+        search (i.e., `cutoff = max-score - beam`), which is the same as the
+        `beam` in Kaldi.
+        Used only when --decoding-method is fast_beam_search,
+        fast_beam_search_nbest, fast_beam_search_nbest_LG,
+        and fast_beam_search_nbest_oracle
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--ngram-lm-scale",
+        type=float,
+        default=0.01,
+        help="""
+        Used only when --decoding_method is fast_beam_search_nbest_LG.
+        It specifies the scale for n-gram LM scores.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--max-contexts",
+        type=int,
+        default=8,
+        help="""Used only when --decoding-method is
+        fast_beam_search, fast_beam_search_nbest, fast_beam_search_nbest_LG,
+        and fast_beam_search_nbest_oracle""",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--max-states",
+        type=int,
+        default=64,
+        help="""Used only when --decoding-method is
+        fast_beam_search, fast_beam_search_nbest, fast_beam_search_nbest_LG,
+        and fast_beam_search_nbest_oracle""",
+    )
+
+    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(
+        "--max-sym-per-frame",
+        type=int,
+        default=1,
+        help="""Maximum number of symbols per frame.
+        Used only when --decoding_method is greedy_search""",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--num-paths",
+        type=int,
+        default=200,
+        help="""Number of paths for nbest decoding.
+        Used only when the decoding method is fast_beam_search_nbest,
+        fast_beam_search_nbest_LG, and fast_beam_search_nbest_oracle""",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--nbest-scale",
+        type=float,
+        default=0.5,
+        help="""Scale applied to lattice scores when computing nbest paths.
+        Used only when the decoding method is fast_beam_search_nbest,
+        fast_beam_search_nbest_LG, and fast_beam_search_nbest_oracle""",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--simulate-streaming",
+        type=str2bool,
+        default=False,
+        help="""Whether to simulate streaming in decoding, this is a good way to
+        test a streaming model.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--decode-chunk-size",
+        type=int,
+        default=16,
+        help="The chunk size for decoding (in frames after subsampling)",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--left-context",
+        type=int,
+        default=64,
+        help="left context can be seen during decoding (in frames after subsampling)",
+    )
+
+    add_model_arguments(parser)
+
+    return parser
+
+
+def post_processing(
+    results: List[Tuple[str, List[str], List[str]]],
+) -> List[Tuple[str, List[str], List[str]]]:
+    new_results = []
+    for key, ref, hyp in results:
+        new_ref = asr_text_post_processing(" ".join(ref)).split()
+        new_hyp = asr_text_post_processing(" ".join(hyp)).split()
+        new_results.append((key, new_ref, new_hyp))
+    return new_results
+
+
+def decode_one_batch(
+    params: AttributeDict,
+    model: nn.Module,
+    sp: spm.SentencePieceProcessor,
+    batch: dict,
+    word_table: Optional[k2.SymbolTable] = None,
+    decoding_graph: Optional[k2.Fsa] = None,
+) -> Dict[str, List[List[str]]]:
+    """Decode one batch and return the result in a dict. The dict has the
+    following format:
+
+        - key: It indicates the setting used for decoding. For example,
+               if greedy_search is used, it would be "greedy_search"
+               If beam search with a beam size of 7 is used, it would be
+               "beam_7"
+        - value: It contains the decoding result. `len(value)` equals to
+                 batch size. `value[i]` is the decoding result for the i-th
+                 utterance in the given batch.
+    Args:
+      params:
+        It's the return value of :func:`get_params`.
+      model:
+        The neural model.
+      sp:
+        The BPE model.
+      batch:
+        It is the return value from iterating
+        `lhotse.dataset.K2SpeechRecognitionDataset`. See its documentation
+        for the format of the `batch`.
+      word_table:
+        The word symbol table.
+      decoding_graph:
+        The decoding graph. Can be either a `k2.trivial_graph` or HLG, Used
+        only when --decoding_method is fast_beam_search, fast_beam_search_nbest,
+        fast_beam_search_nbest_oracle, and fast_beam_search_nbest_LG.
+    Returns:
+      Return the decoding result. See above description for the format of
+      the returned dict.
+    """
+    device = next(model.parameters()).device
+    feature = batch["inputs"]
+    assert feature.ndim == 3
+
+    feature = feature.to(device)
+    # at entry, feature is (N, T, C)
+
+    supervisions = batch["supervisions"]
+    feature_lens = supervisions["num_frames"].to(device)
+
+    if params.simulate_streaming:
+        feature_lens += params.left_context
+        feature = torch.nn.functional.pad(
+            feature,
+            pad=(0, 0, 0, params.left_context),
+            value=LOG_EPS,
+        )
+        encoder_out, encoder_out_lens, _ = model.encoder.streaming_forward(
+            x=feature,
+            x_lens=feature_lens,
+            chunk_size=params.decode_chunk_size,
+            left_context=params.left_context,
+            simulate_streaming=True,
+        )
+    else:
+        encoder_out, encoder_out_lens = model.encoder(x=feature, x_lens=feature_lens)
+
+    hyps = []
+
+    if params.decoding_method == "fast_beam_search":
+        hyp_tokens = fast_beam_search_one_best(
+            model=model,
+            decoding_graph=decoding_graph,
+            encoder_out=encoder_out,
+            encoder_out_lens=encoder_out_lens,
+            beam=params.beam,
+            max_contexts=params.max_contexts,
+            max_states=params.max_states,
+        )
+        for hyp in sp.decode(hyp_tokens):
+            hyps.append(hyp.split())
+    elif params.decoding_method == "fast_beam_search_nbest_LG":
+        hyp_tokens = fast_beam_search_nbest_LG(
+            model=model,
+            decoding_graph=decoding_graph,
+            encoder_out=encoder_out,
+            encoder_out_lens=encoder_out_lens,
+            beam=params.beam,
+            max_contexts=params.max_contexts,
+            max_states=params.max_states,
+            num_paths=params.num_paths,
+            nbest_scale=params.nbest_scale,
+        )
+        for hyp in hyp_tokens:
+            hyps.append([word_table[i] for i in hyp])
+    elif params.decoding_method == "fast_beam_search_nbest":
+        hyp_tokens = fast_beam_search_nbest(
+            model=model,
+            decoding_graph=decoding_graph,
+            encoder_out=encoder_out,
+            encoder_out_lens=encoder_out_lens,
+            beam=params.beam,
+            max_contexts=params.max_contexts,
+            max_states=params.max_states,
+            num_paths=params.num_paths,
+            nbest_scale=params.nbest_scale,
+        )
+        for hyp in sp.decode(hyp_tokens):
+            hyps.append(hyp.split())
+    elif params.decoding_method == "fast_beam_search_nbest_oracle":
+        hyp_tokens = fast_beam_search_nbest_oracle(
+            model=model,
+            decoding_graph=decoding_graph,
+            encoder_out=encoder_out,
+            encoder_out_lens=encoder_out_lens,
+            beam=params.beam,
+            max_contexts=params.max_contexts,
+            max_states=params.max_states,
+            num_paths=params.num_paths,
+            ref_texts=sp.encode(supervisions["text"]),
+            nbest_scale=params.nbest_scale,
+        )
+        for hyp in sp.decode(hyp_tokens):
+            hyps.append(hyp.split())
+    elif params.decoding_method == "greedy_search" and params.max_sym_per_frame == 1:
+        hyp_tokens = greedy_search_batch(
+            model=model,
+            encoder_out=encoder_out,
+            encoder_out_lens=encoder_out_lens,
+        )
+        for hyp in sp.decode(hyp_tokens):
+            hyps.append(hyp.split())
+    elif params.decoding_method == "modified_beam_search":
+        hyp_tokens = modified_beam_search(
+            model=model,
+            encoder_out=encoder_out,
+            encoder_out_lens=encoder_out_lens,
+            beam=params.beam_size,
+        )
+        for hyp in sp.decode(hyp_tokens):
+            hyps.append(hyp.split())
+    else:
+        batch_size = encoder_out.size(0)
+
+        for i in range(batch_size):
+            # fmt: off
+            encoder_out_i = encoder_out[i:i+1, :encoder_out_lens[i]]
+            # fmt: on
+            if params.decoding_method == "greedy_search":
+                hyp = greedy_search(
+                    model=model,
+                    encoder_out=encoder_out_i,
+                    max_sym_per_frame=params.max_sym_per_frame,
+                )
+            elif params.decoding_method == "beam_search":
+                hyp = beam_search(
+                    model=model,
+                    encoder_out=encoder_out_i,
+                    beam=params.beam_size,
+                )
+            else:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"Unsupported decoding method: {params.decoding_method}"
+                )
+            hyps.append(sp.decode(hyp).split())
+
+    if params.decoding_method == "greedy_search":
+        return {"greedy_search": hyps}
+    elif "fast_beam_search" in params.decoding_method:
+        key = f"beam_{params.beam}_"
+        key += f"max_contexts_{params.max_contexts}_"
+        key += f"max_states_{params.max_states}"
+        if "nbest" in params.decoding_method:
+            key += f"_num_paths_{params.num_paths}_"
+            key += f"nbest_scale_{params.nbest_scale}"
+            if "LG" in params.decoding_method:
+                key += f"_ngram_lm_scale_{params.ngram_lm_scale}"
+
+        return {key: hyps}
+    else:
+        return {f"beam_size_{params.beam_size}": hyps}
+
+
+def decode_dataset(
+    dl: torch.utils.data.DataLoader,
+    params: AttributeDict,
+    model: nn.Module,
+    sp: spm.SentencePieceProcessor,
+    word_table: Optional[k2.SymbolTable] = None,
+    decoding_graph: Optional[k2.Fsa] = None,
+) -> Dict[str, List[Tuple[str, List[str], List[str]]]]:
+    """Decode dataset.
+
+    Args:
+      dl:
+        PyTorch's dataloader containing the dataset to decode.
+      params:
+        It is returned by :func:`get_params`.
+      model:
+        The neural model.
+      sp:
+        The BPE model.
+      word_table:
+        The word symbol table.
+      decoding_graph:
+        The decoding graph. Can be either a `k2.trivial_graph` or HLG, Used
+        only when --decoding_method is fast_beam_search, fast_beam_search_nbest,
+        fast_beam_search_nbest_oracle, and fast_beam_search_nbest_LG.
+    Returns:
+      Return a dict, whose key may be "greedy_search" if greedy search
+      is used, or it may be "beam_7" if beam size of 7 is used.
+      Its value is a list of tuples. Each tuple contains two elements:
+      The first is the reference transcript, and the second is the
+      predicted result.
+    """
+    num_cuts = 0
+
+    try:
+        num_batches = len(dl)
+    except TypeError:
+        num_batches = "?"
+
+    if params.decoding_method == "greedy_search":
+        log_interval = 50
+    else:
+        log_interval = 20
+
+    results = defaultdict(list)
+    for batch_idx, batch in enumerate(dl):
+        texts = batch["supervisions"]["text"]
+        cut_ids = [cut.id for cut in batch["supervisions"]["cut"]]
+
+        hyps_dict = decode_one_batch(
+            params=params,
+            model=model,
+            sp=sp,
+            decoding_graph=decoding_graph,
+            word_table=word_table,
+            batch=batch,
+        )
+
+        for name, hyps in hyps_dict.items():
+            this_batch = []
+            assert len(hyps) == len(texts)
+            for cut_id, hyp_words, ref_text in zip(cut_ids, hyps, texts):
+                ref_words = ref_text.split()
+                this_batch.append((cut_id, ref_words, hyp_words))
+
+            results[name].extend(this_batch)
+
+        num_cuts += len(texts)
+
+        if batch_idx % log_interval == 0:
+            batch_str = f"{batch_idx}/{num_batches}"
+
+            logging.info(f"batch {batch_str}, cuts processed until now is {num_cuts}")
+    return results
+
+
+def save_results(
+    params: AttributeDict,
+    test_set_name: str,
+    results_dict: Dict[str, List[Tuple[str, List[str], List[str]]]],
+):
+    test_set_wers = dict()
+    for key, results in results_dict.items():
+        recog_path = (
+            params.res_dir / f"recogs-{test_set_name}-{key}-{params.suffix}.txt"
+        )
+        results = post_processing(results)
+        results = sorted(results)
+        store_transcripts(filename=recog_path, texts=results)
+        logging.info(f"The transcripts are stored in {recog_path}")
+
+        # The following prints out WERs, per-word error statistics and aligned
+        # ref/hyp pairs.
+        errs_filename = (
+            params.res_dir / f"errs-{test_set_name}-{key}-{params.suffix}.txt"
+        )
+        with open(errs_filename, "w") as f:
+            wer = write_error_stats(
+                f, f"{test_set_name}-{key}", results, enable_log=True
+            )
+            test_set_wers[key] = wer
+
+        logging.info("Wrote detailed error stats to {}".format(errs_filename))
+
+    test_set_wers = sorted(test_set_wers.items(), key=lambda x: x[1])
+    errs_info = (
+        params.res_dir / f"wer-summary-{test_set_name}-{key}-{params.suffix}.txt"
+    )
+    with open(errs_info, "w") as f:
+        print("settings\tWER", file=f)
+        for key, val in test_set_wers:
+            print("{}\t{}".format(key, val), file=f)
+
+    s = "\nFor {}, WER of different settings are:\n".format(test_set_name)
+    note = "\tbest for {}".format(test_set_name)
+    for key, val in test_set_wers:
+        s += "{}\t{}{}\n".format(key, val, note)
+        note = ""
+    logging.info(s)
+
+
+@torch.no_grad()
+def main():
+    """
+    This scripts test a libri model with libri BPE
+    on Gigaspeech.
+    """
+    parser = get_parser()
+    GigaSpeechAsrDataModule.add_arguments(parser)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    args.exp_dir = Path(args.exp_dir)
+
+    params = get_params()
+    params.update(vars(args))
+
+    assert params.decoding_method in (
+        "greedy_search",
+        "beam_search",
+        "fast_beam_search",
+        "fast_beam_search_nbest",
+        "fast_beam_search_nbest_LG",
+        "fast_beam_search_nbest_oracle",
+        "modified_beam_search",
+    )
+    params.res_dir = params.exp_dir / (params.decoding_method + "_gigaspeech")
+
+    if params.iter > 0:
+        params.suffix = f"iter-{params.iter}-avg-{params.avg}"
+    else:
+        params.suffix = f"epoch-{params.epoch}-avg-{params.avg}"
+
+    if params.simulate_streaming:
+        params.suffix += f"-streaming-chunk-size-{params.decode_chunk_size}"
+        params.suffix += f"-left-context-{params.left_context}"
+
+    if "fast_beam_search" in params.decoding_method:
+        params.suffix += f"-beam-{params.beam}"
+        params.suffix += f"-max-contexts-{params.max_contexts}"
+        params.suffix += f"-max-states-{params.max_states}"
+        if "nbest" in params.decoding_method:
+            params.suffix += f"-nbest-scale-{params.nbest_scale}"
+            params.suffix += f"-num-paths-{params.num_paths}"
+            if "LG" in params.decoding_method:
+                params.suffix += f"-ngram-lm-scale-{params.ngram_lm_scale}"
+    elif "beam_search" in params.decoding_method:
+        params.suffix += f"-{params.decoding_method}-beam-size-{params.beam_size}"
+    else:
+        params.suffix += f"-context-{params.context_size}"
+        params.suffix += f"-max-sym-per-frame-{params.max_sym_per_frame}"
+
+    if params.use_averaged_model:
+        params.suffix += "-use-averaged-model"
+
+    setup_logger(f"{params.res_dir}/log-decode-{params.suffix}")
+    logging.info("Decoding started")
+
+    device = torch.device("cpu")
+    if torch.cuda.is_available():
+        device = torch.device("cuda", 0)
+
+    logging.info(f"Device: {device}")
+
+    sp = spm.SentencePieceProcessor()
+    sp.load(params.bpe_model)
+
+    # <blk> and <unk> are defined in local/train_bpe_model.py
+    params.blank_id = sp.piece_to_id("<blk>")
+    params.unk_id = sp.piece_to_id("<unk>")
+    params.vocab_size = sp.get_piece_size()
+
+    if params.simulate_streaming:
+        assert (
+            params.causal_convolution
+        ), "Decoding in streaming requires causal convolution"
+
+    logging.info(params)
+
+    logging.info("About to create model")
+    model = get_transducer_model(params)
+
+    if not params.use_averaged_model:
+        if params.iter > 0:
+            filenames = find_checkpoints(params.exp_dir, iteration=-params.iter)[
+                : params.avg
+            ]
+            if len(filenames) == 0:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"No checkpoints found for"
+                    f" --iter {params.iter}, --avg {params.avg}"
+                )
+            elif len(filenames) < params.avg:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"Not enough checkpoints ({len(filenames)}) found for"
+                    f" --iter {params.iter}, --avg {params.avg}"
+                )
+            logging.info(f"averaging {filenames}")
+            model.to(device)
+            model.load_state_dict(average_checkpoints(filenames, device=device))
+        elif params.avg == 1:
+            load_checkpoint(f"{params.exp_dir}/epoch-{params.epoch}.pt", model)
+        else:
+            start = params.epoch - params.avg + 1
+            filenames = []
+            for i in range(start, params.epoch + 1):
+                if i >= 1:
+                    filenames.append(f"{params.exp_dir}/epoch-{i}.pt")
+            logging.info(f"averaging {filenames}")
+            model.to(device)
+            model.load_state_dict(average_checkpoints(filenames, device=device))
+    else:
+        if params.iter > 0:
+            filenames = find_checkpoints(params.exp_dir, iteration=-params.iter)[
+                : params.avg + 1
+            ]
+            if len(filenames) == 0:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"No checkpoints found for"
+                    f" --iter {params.iter}, --avg {params.avg}"
+                )
+            elif len(filenames) < params.avg + 1:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"Not enough checkpoints ({len(filenames)}) found for"
+                    f" --iter {params.iter}, --avg {params.avg}"
+                )
+            filename_start = filenames[-1]
+            filename_end = filenames[0]
+            logging.info(
+                "Calculating the averaged model over iteration checkpoints"
+                f" from {filename_start} (excluded) to {filename_end}"
+            )
+            model.to(device)
+            model.load_state_dict(
+                average_checkpoints_with_averaged_model(
+                    filename_start=filename_start,
+                    filename_end=filename_end,
+                    device=device,
+                )
+            )
+        else:
+            assert params.avg > 0, params.avg
+            start = params.epoch - params.avg
+            assert start >= 1, start
+            filename_start = f"{params.exp_dir}/epoch-{start}.pt"
+            filename_end = f"{params.exp_dir}/epoch-{params.epoch}.pt"
+            logging.info(
+                f"Calculating the averaged model over epoch range from "
+                f"{start} (excluded) to {params.epoch}"
+            )
+            model.to(device)
+            model.load_state_dict(
+                average_checkpoints_with_averaged_model(
+                    filename_start=filename_start,
+                    filename_end=filename_end,
+                    device=device,
+                )
+            )
+
+    model.to(device)
+    model.eval()
+
+    if "fast_beam_search" in params.decoding_method:
+        if params.decoding_method == "fast_beam_search_nbest_LG":
+            lexicon = Lexicon(params.lang_dir)
+            word_table = lexicon.word_table
+            lg_filename = params.lang_dir / "LG.pt"
+            logging.info(f"Loading {lg_filename}")
+            decoding_graph = k2.Fsa.from_dict(
+                torch.load(lg_filename, map_location=device)
+            )
+            decoding_graph.scores *= params.ngram_lm_scale
+        else:
+            word_table = None
+            decoding_graph = k2.trivial_graph(params.vocab_size - 1, device=device)
+    else:
+        decoding_graph = None
+        word_table = 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
+    gigaspeech = GigaSpeechAsrDataModule(args)
+
+    dev_cuts = gigaspeech.dev_cuts()
+    test_cuts = gigaspeech.test_cuts()
+
+    dev_dl = gigaspeech.test_dataloaders(dev_cuts)
+    test_dl = gigaspeech.test_dataloaders(test_cuts)
+
+    test_sets = ["dev", "test"]
+    test_dls = [dev_dl, test_dl]
+
+    for test_set, test_dl in zip(test_sets, test_dls):
+        results_dict = decode_dataset(
+            dl=test_dl,
+            params=params,
+            model=model,
+            sp=sp,
+            word_table=word_table,
+            decoding_graph=decoding_graph,
+        )
+
+        save_results(
+            params=params,
+            test_set_name=test_set,
+            results_dict=results_dict,
+        )
+
+    logging.info("Done!")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/finetune.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/finetune.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..726a24809
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/finetune.py
@@ -0,0 +1,1342 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright    2021-2022  Xiaomi Corp.        (authors: Fangjun Kuang,
+#                                                       Wei Kang,
+#                                                       Mingshuang Luo,)
+#                                                       Zengwei Yao)
+#
+# 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_stateless7/train.py \
+  --world-size 4 \
+  --num-epochs 30 \
+  --start-epoch 1 \
+  --exp-dir pruned_transducer_stateless7/exp \
+  --full-libri 1 \
+  --max-duration 300
+
+# For mix precision training:
+
+./pruned_transducer_stateless7/train.py \
+  --world-size 4 \
+  --num-epochs 30 \
+  --start-epoch 1 \
+  --use-fp16 1 \
+  --exp-dir pruned_transducer_stateless7/exp \
+  --full-libri 1 \
+  --max-duration 550
+
+"""
+
+
+import argparse
+import copy
+import logging
+import warnings
+from pathlib import Path
+from shutil import copyfile
+from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
+
+import k2
+import optim
+import sentencepiece as spm
+import torch
+import torch.multiprocessing as mp
+import torch.nn as nn
+from decoder import Decoder
+from gigaspeech import GigaSpeechAsrDataModule
+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 optim import Eden, ScaledAdam
+from torch import Tensor
+from torch.cuda.amp import GradScaler
+from torch.nn.parallel import DistributedDataParallel as DDP
+from torch.utils.tensorboard import SummaryWriter
+from zipformer import Zipformer
+
+from icefall import diagnostics
+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,
+    update_averaged_model,
+)
+from icefall.dist import cleanup_dist, setup_dist
+from icefall.env import get_env_info
+from icefall.hooks import register_inf_check_hooks
+from icefall.utils import (
+    AttributeDict,
+    MetricsTracker,
+    filter_uneven_sized_batch,
+    setup_logger,
+    str2bool,
+)
+
+LRSchedulerType = Union[torch.optim.lr_scheduler._LRScheduler, optim.LRScheduler]
+
+
+def set_batch_count(model: Union[nn.Module, DDP], batch_count: float) -> None:
+    if isinstance(model, DDP):
+        # get underlying nn.Module
+        model = model.module
+    for module in model.modules():
+        if hasattr(module, "batch_count"):
+            module.batch_count = batch_count
+
+
+def add_finetune_arguments(parser: argparse.ArgumentParser):
+    parser.add_argument("--do-finetune", type=str2bool, default=False)
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--init-modules",
+        type=str,
+        default=None,
+        help="""
+        Modules to be initialized. It matches all parameters starting with
+        a specific key. The keys are given with Comma seperated. If None, 
+        all modules will be initialised. For example, if you only want to 
+        initialise all parameters staring with "encoder", use "encoder"; 
+        if you want to initialise parameters starting with encoder or decoder,
+        use "encoder,joiner".
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--finetune-ckpt",
+        type=str,
+        default=None,
+        help="Fine-tuning from which checkpoint (a path to a .pt file)",
+    )
+
+
+def add_model_arguments(parser: argparse.ArgumentParser):
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--num-encoder-layers",
+        type=str,
+        default="2,4,3,2,4",
+        help="Number of zipformer encoder layers, comma separated.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--feedforward-dims",
+        type=str,
+        default="1024,1024,2048,2048,1024",
+        help="Feedforward dimension of the zipformer encoder layers, comma separated.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--nhead",
+        type=str,
+        default="8,8,8,8,8",
+        help="Number of attention heads in the zipformer encoder layers.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--encoder-dims",
+        type=str,
+        default="384,384,384,384,384",
+        help="""Embedding dimension in the 2 blocks of zipformer encoder
+        layers, comma separated
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--attention-dims",
+        type=str,
+        default="192,192,192,192,192",
+        help="""Attention dimension in the 2 blocks of zipformer encoder layers,\
+        comma separated; not the same as embedding dimension.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--encoder-unmasked-dims",
+        type=str,
+        default="256,256,256,256,256",
+        help="""Unmasked dimensions in the encoders, relates to augmentation
+        during training. Must be <= each of encoder_dims. Empirically, less 
+        than 256 seems to make performance worse.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--zipformer-downsampling-factors",
+        type=str,
+        default="1,2,4,8,2",
+        help="Downsampling factor for each stack of encoder layers.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--cnn-module-kernels",
+        type=str,
+        default="31,31,31,31,31",
+        help="Sizes of kernels in convolution modules",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--decoder-dim",
+        type=int,
+        default=512,
+        help="Embedding dimension in the decoder model.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--joiner-dim",
+        type=int,
+        default=512,
+        help="""Dimension used in the joiner model.
+        Outputs from the encoder and decoder model are projected
+        to this dimension before adding.
+        """,
+    )
+
+
+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=1,
+        help="""Resume training from this epoch. It should be positive.
+        If larger than 1, it will load checkpoint from
+        exp-dir/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_stateless7/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. 
+        This should be the bpe model of the original model
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--base-lr", type=float, default=0.005, help="The base learning rate."
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--lr-batches",
+        type=float,
+        default=100000,
+        help="""Number of steps that affects how rapidly the learning rate
+        decreases. During fine-tuning, we set this very large so that the 
+        learning rate slowly decays with number of batches. You may tune 
+        its value by yourself.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--lr-epochs",
+        type=float,
+        default=100,
+        help="""Number of epochs that affects how rapidly the learning rate 
+        decreases. During fine-tuning, we set this very large so that the 
+        learning rate slowly decays with number of batches. You may tune 
+        its value by yourself.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    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(
+        "--seed",
+        type=int,
+        default=42,
+        help="The seed for random generators intended for reproducibility",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--print-diagnostics",
+        type=str2bool,
+        default=False,
+        help="Accumulate stats on activations, print them and exit.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--inf-check",
+        type=str2bool,
+        default=False,
+        help="Add hooks to check for infinite module outputs and gradients.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--save-every-n",
+        type=int,
+        default=2000,
+        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=30,
+        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`.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--average-period",
+        type=int,
+        default=200,
+        help="""Update the averaged model, namely `model_avg`, after processing
+        this number of batches. `model_avg` is a separate version of model,
+        in which each floating-point parameter is the average of all the
+        parameters from the start of training. Each time we take the average,
+        we do: `model_avg = model * (average_period / batch_idx_train) +
+            model_avg * ((batch_idx_train - average_period) / batch_idx_train)`.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--use-fp16",
+        type=str2bool,
+        default=False,
+        help="Whether to use half precision training.",
+    )
+
+    add_model_arguments(parser)
+    add_finetune_arguments(parser)
+
+    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.
+
+        - encoder_dim: Hidden dim for multi-head attention model.
+
+        - num_decoder_layers: Number of decoder layer of transformer decoder.
+
+        - warm_step: The warmup period that dictates the decay of the
+              scale on "simple" (un-pruned) loss.
+    """
+    params = AttributeDict(
+        {
+            "frame_shift_ms": 10.0,
+            "allowed_excess_duration_ratio": 0.1,
+            "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
+            # parameters for zipformer
+            "feature_dim": 80,
+            "subsampling_factor": 4,  # not passed in, this is fixed.
+            "warm_step": 2000,
+            "env_info": get_env_info(),
+        }
+    )
+
+    return params
+
+
+def get_encoder_model(params: AttributeDict) -> nn.Module:
+    # TODO: We can add an option to switch between Zipformer and Transformer
+    def to_int_tuple(s: str):
+        return tuple(map(int, s.split(",")))
+
+    encoder = Zipformer(
+        num_features=params.feature_dim,
+        output_downsampling_factor=2,
+        zipformer_downsampling_factors=to_int_tuple(
+            params.zipformer_downsampling_factors
+        ),
+        encoder_dims=to_int_tuple(params.encoder_dims),
+        attention_dim=to_int_tuple(params.attention_dims),
+        encoder_unmasked_dims=to_int_tuple(params.encoder_unmasked_dims),
+        nhead=to_int_tuple(params.nhead),
+        feedforward_dim=to_int_tuple(params.feedforward_dims),
+        cnn_module_kernels=to_int_tuple(params.cnn_module_kernels),
+        num_encoder_layers=to_int_tuple(params.num_encoder_layers),
+    )
+    return encoder
+
+
+def get_decoder_model(params: AttributeDict) -> nn.Module:
+    decoder = Decoder(
+        vocab_size=params.vocab_size,
+        decoder_dim=params.decoder_dim,
+        blank_id=params.blank_id,
+        context_size=params.context_size,
+    )
+    return decoder
+
+
+def get_joiner_model(params: AttributeDict) -> nn.Module:
+    joiner = Joiner(
+        encoder_dim=int(params.encoder_dims.split(",")[-1]),
+        decoder_dim=params.decoder_dim,
+        joiner_dim=params.joiner_dim,
+        vocab_size=params.vocab_size,
+    )
+    return joiner
+
+
+def get_transducer_model(params: AttributeDict) -> nn.Module:
+    encoder = get_encoder_model(params)
+    decoder = get_decoder_model(params)
+    joiner = get_joiner_model(params)
+
+    model = Transducer(
+        encoder=encoder,
+        decoder=decoder,
+        joiner=joiner,
+        encoder_dim=int(params.encoder_dims.split(",")[-1]),
+        decoder_dim=params.decoder_dim,
+        joiner_dim=params.joiner_dim,
+        vocab_size=params.vocab_size,
+    )
+    return model
+
+
+def load_checkpoint_if_available(
+    params: AttributeDict,
+    model: nn.Module,
+    model_avg: nn.Module = None,
+    optimizer: Optional[torch.optim.Optimizer] = None,
+    scheduler: Optional[LRSchedulerType] = 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 larger than 1, 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.
+      model_avg:
+        The stored model averaged from the start of training.
+      optimizer:
+        The optimizer that we are using.
+      scheduler:
+        The scheduler 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 > 1:
+        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,
+        model_avg=model_avg,
+        optimizer=optimizer,
+        scheduler=scheduler,
+    )
+
+    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 load_model_params(
+    ckpt: str, model: nn.Module, init_modules: List[str] = None, strict: bool = True
+):
+    """Load model params from checkpoint
+
+    Args:
+        ckpt (str): Path to the checkpoint
+        model (nn.Module): model to be loaded
+
+    """
+    logging.info(f"Loading checkpoint from {ckpt}")
+    checkpoint = torch.load(ckpt, map_location="cpu")
+
+    # if module list is empty, load the whole model from ckpt
+    if not init_modules:
+        if next(iter(checkpoint["model"])).startswith("module."):
+            logging.info("Loading checkpoint saved by DDP")
+
+            dst_state_dict = model.state_dict()
+            src_state_dict = checkpoint["model"]
+            for key in dst_state_dict.keys():
+                src_key = "{}.{}".format("module", key)
+                dst_state_dict[key] = src_state_dict.pop(src_key)
+            assert len(src_state_dict) == 0
+            model.load_state_dict(dst_state_dict, strict=strict)
+        else:
+            model.load_state_dict(checkpoint["model"], strict=strict)
+    else:
+        src_state_dict = checkpoint["model"]
+        dst_state_dict = model.state_dict()
+        for module in init_modules:
+            logging.info(f"Loading parameters starting with prefix {module}")
+            src_keys = [k for k in src_state_dict.keys() if k.startswith(module)]
+            dst_keys = [k for k in dst_state_dict.keys() if k.startswith(module)]
+            assert set(src_keys) == set(dst_keys)  # two sets should match exactly
+            for key in src_keys:
+                dst_state_dict[key] = src_state_dict.pop(key)
+
+        model.load_state_dict(dst_state_dict, strict=strict)
+
+    return None
+
+
+def save_checkpoint(
+    params: AttributeDict,
+    model: Union[nn.Module, DDP],
+    model_avg: Optional[nn.Module] = None,
+    optimizer: Optional[torch.optim.Optimizer] = None,
+    scheduler: Optional[LRSchedulerType] = None,
+    sampler: Optional[CutSampler] = None,
+    scaler: Optional[GradScaler] = 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.
+      model_avg:
+        The stored model averaged from the start of training.
+      optimizer:
+        The optimizer used in the training.
+      sampler:
+       The sampler for the training dataset.
+      scaler:
+        The scaler used for mix precision training.
+    """
+    if rank != 0:
+        return
+    filename = params.exp_dir / f"epoch-{params.cur_epoch}.pt"
+    save_checkpoint_impl(
+        filename=filename,
+        model=model,
+        model_avg=model_avg,
+        params=params,
+        optimizer=optimizer,
+        scheduler=scheduler,
+        sampler=sampler,
+        scaler=scaler,
+        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: Union[nn.Module, DDP],
+    sp: spm.SentencePieceProcessor,
+    batch: dict,
+    is_training: bool,
+) -> Tuple[Tensor, MetricsTracker]:
+    """
+    Compute transducer 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 Zipformer 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.
+     warmup: a floating point value which increases throughout training;
+        values >= 1.0 are fully warmed up and have all modules present.
+    """
+    # For the uneven-sized batch, the total duration after padding would possibly
+    # cause OOM. Hence, for each batch, which is sorted descendingly by length,
+    # we simply drop the last few shortest samples, so that the retained total frames
+    # (after padding) would not exceed `allowed_max_frames`:
+    # `allowed_max_frames = int(max_frames * (1.0 + allowed_excess_duration_ratio))`,
+    # where `max_frames = max_duration * 1000 // frame_shift_ms`.
+    # We set allowed_excess_duration_ratio=0.1.
+    max_frames = params.max_duration * 1000 // params.frame_shift_ms
+    allowed_max_frames = int(max_frames * (1.0 + params.allowed_excess_duration_ratio))
+    batch = filter_uneven_sized_batch(batch, allowed_max_frames)
+
+    device = model.device if isinstance(model, DDP) else next(model.parameters()).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)
+
+    batch_idx_train = params.batch_idx_train
+    warm_step = params.warm_step
+
+    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 = model(
+            x=feature,
+            x_lens=feature_lens,
+            y=y,
+            prune_range=params.prune_range,
+            am_scale=params.am_scale,
+            lm_scale=params.lm_scale,
+        )
+
+        s = params.simple_loss_scale
+        # take down the scale on the simple loss from 1.0 at the start
+        # to params.simple_loss scale by warm_step.
+        simple_loss_scale = (
+            s
+            if batch_idx_train >= warm_step
+            else 1.0 - (batch_idx_train / warm_step) * (1.0 - s)
+        )
+        pruned_loss_scale = (
+            1.0
+            if batch_idx_train >= warm_step
+            else 0.1 + 0.9 * (batch_idx_train / warm_step)
+        )
+
+        loss = simple_loss_scale * simple_loss + pruned_loss_scale * pruned_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()
+
+    return loss, info
+
+
+def compute_validation_loss(
+    params: AttributeDict,
+    model: Union[nn.Module, DDP],
+    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: Union[nn.Module, DDP],
+    optimizer: torch.optim.Optimizer,
+    scheduler: LRSchedulerType,
+    sp: spm.SentencePieceProcessor,
+    train_dl: torch.utils.data.DataLoader,
+    valid_dl: torch.utils.data.DataLoader,
+    scaler: GradScaler,
+    model_avg: Optional[nn.Module] = None,
+    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.
+      scheduler:
+        The learning rate scheduler, we call step() every step.
+      train_dl:
+        Dataloader for the training dataset.
+      valid_dl:
+        Dataloader for the validation dataset.
+      scaler:
+        The scaler used for mix precision training.
+      model_avg:
+        The stored model averaged from the start of training.
+      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()
+
+    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"])
+
+        try:
+            with torch.cuda.amp.autocast(enabled=params.use_fp16):
+                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.
+            scaler.scale(loss).backward()
+            set_batch_count(model, params.batch_idx_train)
+            scheduler.step_batch(params.batch_idx_train)
+
+            scaler.step(optimizer)
+            scaler.update()
+            optimizer.zero_grad()
+        except:  # noqa
+            display_and_save_batch(batch, params=params, sp=sp)
+            raise
+
+        if params.print_diagnostics and batch_idx == 5:
+            return
+
+        if (
+            rank == 0
+            and params.batch_idx_train > 0
+            and params.batch_idx_train % params.average_period == 0
+        ):
+            update_averaged_model(
+                params=params,
+                model_cur=model,
+                model_avg=model_avg,
+            )
+
+        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,
+                model_avg=model_avg,
+                params=params,
+                optimizer=optimizer,
+                scheduler=scheduler,
+                sampler=train_dl.sampler,
+                scaler=scaler,
+                rank=rank,
+            )
+            del params.cur_batch_idx
+            remove_checkpoints(
+                out_dir=params.exp_dir,
+                topk=params.keep_last_k,
+                rank=rank,
+            )
+
+        if batch_idx % 100 == 0 and params.use_fp16:
+            # If the grad scale was less than 1, try increasing it. The _growth_interval
+            # of the grad scaler is configurable, but we can't configure it to have
+            # different behavior depending on the current grad scale.
+            cur_grad_scale = scaler._scale.item()
+            if cur_grad_scale < 1.0 or (cur_grad_scale < 8.0 and batch_idx % 400 == 0):
+                scaler.update(cur_grad_scale * 2.0)
+            if cur_grad_scale < 0.01:
+                logging.warning(f"Grad scale is small: {cur_grad_scale}")
+            if cur_grad_scale < 1.0e-05:
+                raise RuntimeError(
+                    f"grad_scale is too small, exiting: {cur_grad_scale}"
+                )
+
+        if batch_idx % params.log_interval == 0:
+            cur_lr = scheduler.get_last_lr()[0]
+            cur_grad_scale = scaler._scale.item() if params.use_fp16 else 1.0
+
+            logging.info(
+                f"Epoch {params.cur_epoch}, "
+                f"batch {batch_idx}, loss[{loss_info}], "
+                f"tot_loss[{tot_loss}], batch size: {batch_size}, "
+                f"lr: {cur_lr:.2e}, "
+                + (f"grad_scale: {scaler._scale.item()}" if params.use_fp16 else "")
+            )
+
+            if tb_writer is not None:
+                tb_writer.add_scalar(
+                    "train/learning_rate", cur_lr, params.batch_idx_train
+                )
+
+                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 params.use_fp16:
+                    tb_writer.add_scalar(
+                        "train/grad_scale",
+                        cur_grad_scale,
+                        params.batch_idx_train,
+                    )
+
+        if batch_idx % params.valid_interval == 0 and not params.print_diagnostics:
+            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}")
+            logging.info(
+                f"Maximum memory allocated so far is {torch.cuda.max_memory_allocated()//1000000}MB"
+            )
+            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))
+
+    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}")
+
+    assert params.save_every_n >= params.average_period
+    model_avg: Optional[nn.Module] = None
+    if rank == 0:
+        # model_avg is only used with rank 0
+        model_avg = copy.deepcopy(model).to(torch.float64)
+
+    # load model parameters for model fine-tuning
+    if params.do_finetune:
+        modules = params.init_modules.split(",") if params.init_modules else None
+        checkpoints = load_model_params(
+            ckpt=params.finetune_ckpt, model=model, init_modules=modules
+        )
+    else:
+        assert params.start_epoch > 0, params.start_epoch
+        checkpoints = load_checkpoint_if_available(
+            params=params, model=model, model_avg=model_avg
+        )
+
+    model.to(device)
+    if world_size > 1:
+        logging.info("Using DDP")
+        model = DDP(model, device_ids=[rank], find_unused_parameters=True)
+
+    parameters_names = []
+    parameters_names.append(
+        [name_param_pair[0] for name_param_pair in model.named_parameters()]
+    )
+    optimizer = ScaledAdam(
+        model.parameters(),
+        lr=params.base_lr,
+        clipping_scale=2.0,
+        parameters_names=parameters_names,
+    )
+
+    scheduler = Eden(optimizer, params.lr_batches, params.lr_epochs)
+
+    if checkpoints and "optimizer" in checkpoints:
+        logging.info("Loading optimizer state dict")
+        optimizer.load_state_dict(checkpoints["optimizer"])
+
+    if (
+        checkpoints
+        and "scheduler" in checkpoints
+        and checkpoints["scheduler"] is not None
+    ):
+        logging.info("Loading scheduler state dict")
+        scheduler.load_state_dict(checkpoints["scheduler"])
+
+    if params.print_diagnostics:
+        opts = diagnostics.TensorDiagnosticOptions(
+            2**22
+        )  # allow 4 megabytes per sub-module
+        diagnostic = diagnostics.attach_diagnostics(model, opts)
+
+    if params.inf_check:
+        register_inf_check_hooks(model)
+
+    gigaspeech = GigaSpeechAsrDataModule(args)
+
+    train_cuts = gigaspeech.train_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
+        if c.duration < 1.0 or c.duration > 20.0:
+            logging.warning(
+                f"Exclude cut with ID {c.id} from training. Duration: {c.duration}"
+            )
+            return False
+
+        # In pruned RNN-T, we require that T >= S
+        # where T is the number of feature frames after subsampling
+        # and S is the number of tokens in the utterance
+
+        # In ./zipformer.py, the conv module uses the following expression
+        # for subsampling
+        T = ((c.num_frames - 7) // 2 + 1) // 2
+        tokens = sp.encode(c.supervisions[0].text, out_type=str)
+
+        if T < len(tokens):
+            logging.warning(
+                f"Exclude cut with ID {c.id} from training. "
+                f"Number of frames (before subsampling): {c.num_frames}. "
+                f"Number of frames (after subsampling): {T}. "
+                f"Text: {c.supervisions[0].text}. "
+                f"Tokens: {tokens}. "
+                f"Number of tokens: {len(tokens)}"
+            )
+            return False
+
+        return True
+
+    train_cuts = train_cuts.filter(remove_short_and_long_utt)
+
+    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 = gigaspeech.train_dataloaders(
+        train_cuts, sampler_state_dict=sampler_state_dict
+    )
+
+    valid_cuts = gigaspeech.dev_cuts()
+    valid_dl = gigaspeech.valid_dataloaders(valid_cuts)
+
+    if not params.print_diagnostics:
+        scan_pessimistic_batches_for_oom(
+            model=model,
+            train_dl=train_dl,
+            optimizer=optimizer,
+            sp=sp,
+            params=params,
+        )
+
+    scaler = GradScaler(enabled=params.use_fp16, init_scale=1.0)
+    if checkpoints and "grad_scaler" in checkpoints:
+        logging.info("Loading grad scaler state dict")
+        scaler.load_state_dict(checkpoints["grad_scaler"])
+
+    for epoch in range(params.start_epoch, params.num_epochs + 1):
+        scheduler.step_epoch(epoch - 1)
+        fix_random_seed(params.seed + epoch - 1)
+        train_dl.sampler.set_epoch(epoch - 1)
+
+        if tb_writer is not None:
+            tb_writer.add_scalar("train/epoch", epoch, params.batch_idx_train)
+
+        params.cur_epoch = epoch
+
+        train_one_epoch(
+            params=params,
+            model=model,
+            model_avg=model_avg,
+            optimizer=optimizer,
+            scheduler=scheduler,
+            sp=sp,
+            train_dl=train_dl,
+            valid_dl=valid_dl,
+            scaler=scaler,
+            tb_writer=tb_writer,
+            world_size=world_size,
+            rank=rank,
+        )
+
+        if params.print_diagnostics:
+            diagnostic.print_diagnostics()
+            break
+
+        save_checkpoint(
+            params=params,
+            model=model,
+            model_avg=model_avg,
+            optimizer=optimizer,
+            scheduler=scheduler,
+            sampler=train_dl.sampler,
+            scaler=scaler,
+            rank=rank,
+        )
+
+    logging.info("Done!")
+
+    if world_size > 1:
+        torch.distributed.barrier()
+        cleanup_dist()
+
+
+def display_and_save_batch(
+    batch: dict,
+    params: AttributeDict,
+    sp: spm.SentencePieceProcessor,
+) -> None:
+    """Display the batch statistics and save the batch into disk.
+
+    Args:
+      batch:
+        A batch of data. See `lhotse.dataset.K2SpeechRecognitionDataset()`
+        for the content in it.
+      params:
+        Parameters for training. See :func:`get_params`.
+      sp:
+        The BPE model.
+    """
+    from lhotse.utils import uuid4
+
+    filename = f"{params.exp_dir}/batch-{uuid4()}.pt"
+    logging.info(f"Saving batch to {filename}")
+    torch.save(batch, filename)
+
+    supervisions = batch["supervisions"]
+    features = batch["inputs"]
+
+    logging.info(f"features shape: {features.shape}")
+
+    y = sp.encode(supervisions["text"], out_type=int)
+    num_tokens = sum(len(i) for i in y)
+    logging.info(f"num tokens: {num_tokens}")
+
+
+def scan_pessimistic_batches_for_oom(
+    model: Union[nn.Module, DDP],
+    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 1 would cause OOM."
+    )
+    batches, crit_values = find_pessimistic_batches(train_dl.sampler)
+    for criterion, cuts in batches.items():
+        batch = train_dl.dataset[cuts]
+        try:
+            with torch.cuda.amp.autocast(enabled=params.use_fp16):
+                loss, _ = compute_loss(
+                    params=params,
+                    model=model,
+                    sp=sp,
+                    batch=batch,
+                    is_training=True,
+                )
+            loss.backward()
+            optimizer.zero_grad()
+        except Exception 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]}) ..."
+                )
+            display_and_save_batch(batch, params=params, sp=sp)
+            raise
+        logging.info(
+            f"Maximum memory allocated so far is {torch.cuda.max_memory_allocated()//1000000}MB"
+        )
+
+
+def main():
+    parser = get_parser()
+    GigaSpeechAsrDataModule.add_arguments(
+        parser
+    )  # you may replace this with your own dataset
+    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()
diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/gigaspeech.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/gigaspeech.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5c01d7190
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/gigaspeech.py
@@ -0,0 +1,406 @@
+# Copyright      2021  Piotr Żelasko
+#
+# 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 argparse
+import inspect
+import logging
+from functools import lru_cache
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Dict, Optional
+
+import torch
+from lhotse import CutSet, Fbank, FbankConfig, load_manifest, load_manifest_lazy
+from lhotse.dataset import (
+    CutConcatenate,
+    CutMix,
+    DynamicBucketingSampler,
+    K2SpeechRecognitionDataset,
+    PrecomputedFeatures,
+    SingleCutSampler,
+    SpecAugment,
+)
+from lhotse.dataset.input_strategies import OnTheFlyFeatures
+from lhotse.utils import fix_random_seed
+from torch.utils.data import DataLoader
+
+from icefall.utils import str2bool
+
+
+class _SeedWorkers:
+    def __init__(self, seed: int):
+        self.seed = seed
+
+    def __call__(self, worker_id: int):
+        fix_random_seed(self.seed + worker_id)
+
+
+class GigaSpeechAsrDataModule:
+    """
+    DataModule for k2 ASR experiments.
+    It assumes there is always one train and valid dataloader,
+    but there can be multiple test dataloaders (e.g. LibriSpeech test-clean
+    and test-other).
+
+    It contains all the common data pipeline modules used in ASR
+    experiments, e.g.:
+    - dynamic batch size,
+    - bucketing samplers,
+    - cut concatenation,
+    - augmentation,
+    - on-the-fly feature extraction
+
+    This class should be derived for specific corpora used in ASR tasks.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, args: argparse.Namespace):
+        self.args = args
+
+    @classmethod
+    def add_arguments(cls, parser: argparse.ArgumentParser):
+        group = parser.add_argument_group(
+            title="ASR data related options",
+            description="These options are used for the preparation of "
+            "PyTorch DataLoaders from Lhotse CutSet's -- they control the "
+            "effective batch sizes, sampling strategies, applied data "
+            "augmentations, etc.",
+        )
+        group.add_argument(
+            "--manifest-dir",
+            type=Path,
+            default=Path("data/fbank"),
+            help="Path to directory with train/valid/test cuts.",
+        )
+        group.add_argument(
+            "--max-duration",
+            type=int,
+            default=200.0,
+            help="Maximum pooled recordings duration (seconds) in a "
+            "single batch. You can reduce it if it causes CUDA OOM.",
+        )
+        group.add_argument(
+            "--bucketing-sampler",
+            type=str2bool,
+            default=True,
+            help="When enabled, the batches will come from buckets of "
+            "similar duration (saves padding frames).",
+        )
+        group.add_argument(
+            "--num-buckets",
+            type=int,
+            default=30,
+            help="The number of buckets for the DynamicBucketingSampler"
+            "(you might want to increase it for larger datasets).",
+        )
+        group.add_argument(
+            "--concatenate-cuts",
+            type=str2bool,
+            default=False,
+            help="When enabled, utterances (cuts) will be concatenated "
+            "to minimize the amount of padding.",
+        )
+        group.add_argument(
+            "--duration-factor",
+            type=float,
+            default=1.0,
+            help="Determines the maximum duration of a concatenated cut "
+            "relative to the duration of the longest cut in a batch.",
+        )
+        group.add_argument(
+            "--gap",
+            type=float,
+            default=1.0,
+            help="The amount of padding (in seconds) inserted between "
+            "concatenated cuts. This padding is filled with noise when "
+            "noise augmentation is used.",
+        )
+        group.add_argument(
+            "--on-the-fly-feats",
+            type=str2bool,
+            default=False,
+            help="When enabled, use on-the-fly cut mixing and feature "
+            "extraction. Will drop existing precomputed feature manifests "
+            "if available.",
+        )
+        group.add_argument(
+            "--shuffle",
+            type=str2bool,
+            default=True,
+            help="When enabled (=default), the examples will be "
+            "shuffled for each epoch.",
+        )
+        group.add_argument(
+            "--return-cuts",
+            type=str2bool,
+            default=True,
+            help="When enabled, each batch will have the "
+            "field: batch['supervisions']['cut'] with the cuts that "
+            "were used to construct it.",
+        )
+
+        group.add_argument(
+            "--num-workers",
+            type=int,
+            default=2,
+            help="The number of training dataloader workers that "
+            "collect the batches.",
+        )
+
+        group.add_argument(
+            "--enable-spec-aug",
+            type=str2bool,
+            default=True,
+            help="When enabled, use SpecAugment for training dataset.",
+        )
+
+        group.add_argument(
+            "--spec-aug-time-warp-factor",
+            type=int,
+            default=80,
+            help="Used only when --enable-spec-aug is True. "
+            "It specifies the factor for time warping in SpecAugment. "
+            "Larger values mean more warping. "
+            "A value less than 1 means to disable time warp.",
+        )
+
+        group.add_argument(
+            "--enable-musan",
+            type=str2bool,
+            default=True,
+            help="When enabled, select noise from MUSAN and mix it "
+            "with training dataset. ",
+        )
+
+        # GigaSpeech specific arguments
+        group.add_argument(
+            "--subset",
+            type=str,
+            default="XL",
+            help="Select the GigaSpeech subset (XS|S|M|L|XL)",
+        )
+        group.add_argument(
+            "--small-dev",
+            type=str2bool,
+            default=False,
+            help="Should we use only 1000 utterances for dev (speeds up training)",
+        )
+
+    def train_dataloaders(
+        self,
+        cuts_train: CutSet,
+        sampler_state_dict: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None,
+    ) -> DataLoader:
+        """
+        Args:
+          cuts_train:
+            CutSet for training.
+          sampler_state_dict:
+            The state dict for the training sampler.
+        """
+
+        transforms = []
+        if self.args.enable_musan:
+            logging.info("Enable MUSAN")
+            logging.info("About to get Musan cuts")
+            cuts_musan = load_manifest(self.args.manifest_dir / "musan_cuts.jsonl.gz")
+            transforms.append(
+                CutMix(cuts=cuts_musan, prob=0.5, snr=(10, 20), preserve_id=True)
+            )
+        else:
+            logging.info("Disable MUSAN")
+
+        if self.args.concatenate_cuts:
+            logging.info(
+                f"Using cut concatenation with duration factor "
+                f"{self.args.duration_factor} and gap {self.args.gap}."
+            )
+            # Cut concatenation should be the first transform in the list,
+            # so that if we e.g. mix noise in, it will fill the gaps between
+            # different utterances.
+            transforms = [
+                CutConcatenate(
+                    duration_factor=self.args.duration_factor, gap=self.args.gap
+                )
+            ] + transforms
+
+        input_transforms = []
+        if self.args.enable_spec_aug:
+            logging.info("Enable SpecAugment")
+            logging.info(f"Time warp factor: {self.args.spec_aug_time_warp_factor}")
+            # Set the value of num_frame_masks according to Lhotse's version.
+            # In different Lhotse's versions, the default of num_frame_masks is
+            # different.
+            num_frame_masks = 10
+            num_frame_masks_parameter = inspect.signature(
+                SpecAugment.__init__
+            ).parameters["num_frame_masks"]
+            if num_frame_masks_parameter.default == 1:
+                num_frame_masks = 2
+            logging.info(f"Num frame mask: {num_frame_masks}")
+            input_transforms.append(
+                SpecAugment(
+                    time_warp_factor=self.args.spec_aug_time_warp_factor,
+                    num_frame_masks=num_frame_masks,
+                    features_mask_size=27,
+                    num_feature_masks=2,
+                    frames_mask_size=100,
+                )
+            )
+        else:
+            logging.info("Disable SpecAugment")
+
+        logging.info("About to create train dataset")
+        train = K2SpeechRecognitionDataset(
+            cut_transforms=transforms,
+            input_transforms=input_transforms,
+            return_cuts=self.args.return_cuts,
+        )
+
+        if self.args.on_the_fly_feats:
+            # NOTE: the PerturbSpeed transform should be added only if we
+            # remove it from data prep stage.
+            # Add on-the-fly speed perturbation; since originally it would
+            # have increased epoch size by 3, we will apply prob 2/3 and use
+            # 3x more epochs.
+            # Speed perturbation probably should come first before
+            # concatenation, but in principle the transforms order doesn't have
+            # to be strict (e.g. could be randomized)
+            # transforms = [PerturbSpeed(factors=[0.9, 1.1], p=2/3)] + transforms   # noqa
+            # Drop feats to be on the safe side.
+            train = K2SpeechRecognitionDataset(
+                cut_transforms=transforms,
+                input_strategy=OnTheFlyFeatures(Fbank(FbankConfig(num_mel_bins=80))),
+                input_transforms=input_transforms,
+                return_cuts=self.args.return_cuts,
+            )
+
+        if self.args.bucketing_sampler:
+            logging.info("Using DynamicBucketingSampler.")
+            train_sampler = DynamicBucketingSampler(
+                cuts_train,
+                max_duration=self.args.max_duration,
+                shuffle=self.args.shuffle,
+                num_buckets=self.args.num_buckets,
+                drop_last=True,
+            )
+        else:
+            logging.info("Using SingleCutSampler.")
+            train_sampler = SingleCutSampler(
+                cuts_train,
+                max_duration=self.args.max_duration,
+                shuffle=self.args.shuffle,
+            )
+        logging.info("About to create train dataloader")
+
+        if sampler_state_dict is not None:
+            logging.info("Loading sampler state dict")
+            train_sampler.load_state_dict(sampler_state_dict)
+
+        # 'seed' is derived from the current random state, which will have
+        # previously been set in the main process.
+        seed = torch.randint(0, 100000, ()).item()
+        worker_init_fn = _SeedWorkers(seed)
+
+        train_dl = DataLoader(
+            train,
+            sampler=train_sampler,
+            batch_size=None,
+            num_workers=self.args.num_workers,
+            persistent_workers=False,
+            worker_init_fn=worker_init_fn,
+        )
+
+        return train_dl
+
+    def valid_dataloaders(self, cuts_valid: CutSet) -> DataLoader:
+        transforms = []
+        if self.args.concatenate_cuts:
+            transforms = [
+                CutConcatenate(
+                    duration_factor=self.args.duration_factor, gap=self.args.gap
+                )
+            ] + transforms
+
+        logging.info("About to create dev dataset")
+        if self.args.on_the_fly_feats:
+            validate = K2SpeechRecognitionDataset(
+                cut_transforms=transforms,
+                input_strategy=OnTheFlyFeatures(Fbank(FbankConfig(num_mel_bins=80))),
+                return_cuts=self.args.return_cuts,
+            )
+        else:
+            validate = K2SpeechRecognitionDataset(
+                cut_transforms=transforms,
+                return_cuts=self.args.return_cuts,
+            )
+        valid_sampler = DynamicBucketingSampler(
+            cuts_valid,
+            max_duration=self.args.max_duration,
+            shuffle=False,
+        )
+        logging.info("About to create dev dataloader")
+        valid_dl = DataLoader(
+            validate,
+            sampler=valid_sampler,
+            batch_size=None,
+            num_workers=2,
+            persistent_workers=False,
+        )
+
+        return valid_dl
+
+    def test_dataloaders(self, cuts: CutSet) -> DataLoader:
+        logging.debug("About to create test dataset")
+        test = K2SpeechRecognitionDataset(
+            input_strategy=OnTheFlyFeatures(Fbank(FbankConfig(num_mel_bins=80)))
+            if self.args.on_the_fly_feats
+            else PrecomputedFeatures(),
+            return_cuts=self.args.return_cuts,
+        )
+        sampler = DynamicBucketingSampler(
+            cuts,
+            max_duration=self.args.max_duration,
+            shuffle=False,
+        )
+        logging.debug("About to create test dataloader")
+        test_dl = DataLoader(
+            test,
+            batch_size=None,
+            sampler=sampler,
+            num_workers=self.args.num_workers,
+        )
+        return test_dl
+
+    @lru_cache()
+    def train_cuts(self) -> CutSet:
+        logging.info(f"About to get train_{self.args.subset} cuts")
+        path = self.args.manifest_dir / f"cuts_{self.args.subset}.jsonl.gz"
+        cuts_train = CutSet.from_jsonl_lazy(path)
+        return cuts_train
+
+    @lru_cache()
+    def dev_cuts(self) -> CutSet:
+        logging.info("About to get dev cuts")
+        cuts_valid = load_manifest_lazy(self.args.manifest_dir / "cuts_DEV.jsonl.gz")
+        if self.args.small_dev:
+            return cuts_valid.subset(first=1000)
+        else:
+            return cuts_valid
+
+    @lru_cache()
+    def test_cuts(self) -> CutSet:
+        logging.info("About to get test cuts")
+        return load_manifest_lazy(self.args.manifest_dir / "cuts_TEST.jsonl.gz")
diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/gigaspeech_scoring.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/gigaspeech_scoring.py
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..fdfa6ce4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/gigaspeech_scoring.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../../gigaspeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless2/gigaspeech_scoring.py
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/optim.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/optim.py
index 374b78cb3..b84e518d0 100644
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/optim.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/optim.py
@@ -799,6 +799,47 @@ def _test_eden():
     logging.info(f"state dict = {scheduler.state_dict()}")
 
 
+def _plot_eden_lr():
+    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+
+    m = torch.nn.Linear(100, 100)
+    parameters_names = []
+    parameters_names.append(
+        [name_param_pair[0] for name_param_pair in m.named_parameters()]
+    )
+
+    for lr_epoch in [4, 10, 100]:
+        for lr_batch in [100, 400]:
+            optim = ScaledAdam(
+                m.parameters(), lr=0.03, parameters_names=parameters_names
+            )
+            scheduler = Eden(
+                optim, lr_batches=lr_batch, lr_epochs=lr_epoch, verbose=True
+            )
+            lr = []
+
+            for epoch in range(10):
+                scheduler.step_epoch(epoch)  # sets epoch to `epoch`
+
+                for step in range(500):
+                    lr.append(scheduler.get_lr())
+
+                    x = torch.randn(200, 100).detach()
+                    x.requires_grad = True
+                    y = m(x)
+                    dy = torch.randn(200, 100).detach()
+                    f = (y * dy).sum()
+                    f.backward()
+
+                    optim.step()
+                    scheduler.step_batch()
+                    optim.zero_grad()
+            plt.plot(lr, label=f"lr_epoch:{lr_epoch}, lr_batch:{lr_batch}")
+
+    plt.legend()
+    plt.savefig("lr.png")
+
+
 # This is included mostly as a baseline for ScaledAdam.
 class Eve(Optimizer):
     """
@@ -1057,5 +1098,6 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     else:
         hidden_dim = 200
 
-    _test_scaled_adam(hidden_dim)
-    _test_eden()
+    # _test_scaled_adam(hidden_dim)
+    # _test_eden()
+    _plot_eden_lr()