diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/optim.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/optim.py
index 7df4260ec..bad0693b3 100644
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/optim.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/optim.py
@@ -483,7 +483,10 @@ class LearnedGradient(Optimizer):
             # get the total magnitude of the change right.  The 2 changes below
             # are the final changes, the only 2 we make in this loop that have
             # side effects.
-            delta.add_(this_delta, alpha=-meta_lr*(1-beta1))
+
+            # delta_scale will make it update the learning rates faster than it otherwise would.
+            delta_scale=0.2
+            delta.add_(this_delta, alpha=-delta_scale*meta_lr*(1-beta1))
             # there is no momentum on Q.
             Q.add_(Q_delta, alpha=-meta_lr)
 
@@ -640,67 +643,12 @@ class LearnedGradient(Optimizer):
 
         var0 = (x**2).mean(dim=1, keepdim=True) + eps*eps
         var1 = ((x / var0.sqrt()) ** 2).mean(dim=0, keepdim=True) + eps*eps
-        # esetimate var0 one more time.
+        # estimate var0 one more time.
         var0 = ((x / var1.sqrt()) ** 2).mean(dim=1, keepdim=True) + eps*eps
         return var1 * var0
 
 
 
-    def _update_lr(self,
-                   lr_mat: Tensor,
-                   meta_lr: float) -> None:
-        """
-        Do one step of update for learning rate matrix 'lr_mat', which we assume has already
-        has its `grad` property populated with the grad of the negative loss (our special
-        loss that we use to train the learning rate matrix).  Also delete lr_mat.grad
-
-        Args:
-                lr_mat: The symmetric positive-semidefinite (PSD) learning-rate matrix.
-                        Will have its .grad populated with the derivative of a negated
-                        loss function (i.e. to be maximized), that we use to optimize
-                        this learning-rate matrix.  lr_mat.grad will be deleted and
-                        lr_mat will be updated by one step.
-                meta_lr: The speed with which we learn lr_mat.
-        """
-        grad = lr_mat.grad
-
-        if random.random() < 0.1:
-            # A check.
-            inner = (grad * lr_mat).sum() / ((grad ** 2).sum() * (lr_mat ** 2).sum()).sqrt()
-            if inner.abs() > 0.01:
-                logging.info(f"Warning: inner product of lr with grad is {inner}, should be zero; dim is {lr_mat.shape[0]}")
-
-        # OK. suppose lr_mat = M, which is symmetric positive definite.
-        # Decompose: M = A N A^T
-        # where N is numerically equal to M (but a separate variable), and A is a variable numerically
-        # equal to I.  To make it easier to keep the result positive definite, we learn A rather than N.
-        # We'll use a convention where A_grad has the same orientation as A, i.e. A_grad_ij equals the grad
-        # of loss w.r.t A_ij.
-        # The grad w.r.t A equals (N M_grad)^T + (M_grad N) = 2 (M_grad N).  We don't care about scalar
-        # factors at this point (we'll normalize them out), so ignore the factor of 2, and say;
-        # A_grad = M_grad N.
-        A_grad = torch.matmul(grad, lr_mat)
-
-
-        # Normalize the size of `A_grad` (there are arbitrary scalar factors in this loss function),
-        # and include meta_lr
-        A_grad = A_grad * (meta_lr / ((A_grad ** 2).mean().sqrt() + 1.0e-20))
-
-        # So the updated A is just I plus lr_mat * normalize[A_grad]
-
-        size = A.shape[0]
-        A = torch.eye(size, device=A.device, dtype=A.dtype) + meta_lr * A_grad
-
-        # the result is positive semidefinite if the initial LR_mat was positive semidefinite,
-        # because it is of the form X X^T where X =  A lr_mat^{0.5}
-        torch.matmul(A, torch.matmul(lr_mat, A.t()), out=lr_mat)
-
-        # Normalize the scale of lr_mat: we always ensure lr_mat.diag().mean() is 1.0.
-        # Also ensure it is perfectly symmetric, or it may drift away from symmetry due to
-        # roundoff.
-        lr_mat[:] = (lr_mat + lr_mat.t()) / (2.0 * lr_mat.diag().mean())
-
-
     def _step(self,
               group: dict,
               p: Tensor,