diff --git a/egs/librilight/SSL/zipformer/pretrain.py b/egs/librilight/SSL/zipformer/pretrain.py
index f5c98f7eb..10dd68ea9 100755
--- a/egs/librilight/SSL/zipformer/pretrain.py
+++ b/egs/librilight/SSL/zipformer/pretrain.py
@@ -482,7 +482,7 @@ def get_parser():
     parser.add_argument(
         "--warmup-batches",
         type=float,
-        default=5000,
+        default=1000,
         help="Eden warmup steps",
     )