diff --git a/egs/wenetspeech/ASR/finetune.sh b/egs/wenetspeech/ASR/finetune.sh
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+#!/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 WenetSpeech on Aishell. The model used for fine-tuning is
+# pruned_transducer_stateless2 (zipformer). If you want to fine-tune model
+# from another recipe, you can adapt ./pruned_transducer_stateless2/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 Aishell manfiest&features under ./data.
+# If you haven't done that, please see https://github.com/k2-fsa/icefall/blob/master/egs/aishell/ASR/prepare.sh.
+
+. 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/luomingshuang/icefall_asr_wenetspeech_pruned_transducer_stateless2
+
+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
+  initial_lr=0.0001
+  lr_epochs=100
+  lr_batches=100000
+
+  # We recommend to start from an averaged model
+  finetune_ckpt=icefall_asr_wenetspeech_pruned_transducer_stateless2/exp/pretrained_epoch_10_avg_2.pt
+  lang_dir=icefall_asr_wenetspeech_pruned_transducer_stateless2/data/lang_char
+  export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="0,1"
+
+  ./pruned_transducer_stateless2/finetune.py \
+    --world-size 2 \
+    --master-port 18180 \
+    --num-epochs 15 \
+    --context-size 2 \
+    --exp-dir pruned_transducer_stateless2/exp_aishell_finetune \
+    --initial-lr $initial_lr \
+    --lr-epochs $lr_epochs \
+    --lr-batches $lr_batches \
+    --lang-dir $lang_dir \
+    --do-finetune True \
+    --finetune-ckpt $finetune_ckpt \
+    --max-duration 200
+fi
+
+if [ $stage -le 1 ] && [ $stop_stage -ge 1 ]; then
+  log "Stage 1: Decoding"
+
+  epoch=4
+  avg=4
+
+  for m in greedy_search modified_beam_search; do
+    python pruned_transducer_stateless2/decode_aishell.py \
+    --epoch $epoch \
+    --avg $avg \
+    --context-size 2 \
+    --beam-size 4 \
+    --exp-dir pruned_transducer_stateless2/exp_aishell_finetune \
+    --max-duration 400 \
+    --decoding-method $m
+  done
+fi
diff --git a/egs/wenetspeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless2/aishell.py b/egs/wenetspeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless2/aishell.py
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+../../../aishell/ASR/tdnn_lstm_ctc/asr_datamodule.py
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/egs/wenetspeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless2/decode_aishell.py b/egs/wenetspeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless2/decode_aishell.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+#
+# Copyright 2021-2022 Xiaomi Corporation (Author: Fangjun Kuang,
+#                                                 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:
+(1) greedy search
+./pruned_transducer_stateless2/decode.py \
+    --epoch 84 \
+    --avg 25 \
+    --exp-dir ./pruned_transducer_stateless2/exp \
+    --max-duration 600 \
+    --decoding-method greedy_search
+
+(2) beam search (not recommended)
+./pruned_transducer_stateless2/decode.py \
+    --epoch 84 \
+    --avg 25 \
+    --exp-dir ./pruned_transducer_stateless2/exp \
+    --max-duration 600 \
+    --decoding-method beam_search \
+    --beam-size 4
+
+(3) modified beam search
+./pruned_transducer_stateless2/decode.py \
+    --epoch 84 \
+    --avg 25 \
+    --exp-dir ./pruned_transducer_stateless2/exp \
+    --max-duration 600 \
+    --decoding-method modified_beam_search \
+    --beam-size 4
+
+(4) fast beam search
+./pruned_transducer_stateless2/decode.py \
+    --epoch 84 \
+    --avg 25 \
+    --exp-dir ./pruned_transducer_stateless2/exp \
+    --max-duration 600 \
+    --decoding-method fast_beam_search \
+    --beam 4 \
+    --max-contexts 4 \
+    --max-states 8
+"""
+
+
+import argparse
+import logging
+from collections import defaultdict
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Dict, List, Optional, Tuple
+
+import k2
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+from aishell import AishellAsrDataModule
+from beam_search import (
+    beam_search,
+    fast_beam_search_one_best,
+    greedy_search,
+    greedy_search_batch,
+    modified_beam_search,
+)
+from finetune import get_params, get_transducer_model
+
+from icefall.checkpoint import average_checkpoints, find_checkpoints, load_checkpoint
+from icefall.lexicon import Lexicon
+from icefall.utils import (
+    AttributeDict,
+    setup_logger,
+    store_transcripts,
+    write_error_stats,
+)
+
+
+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=15,
+        help="Number of checkpoints to average. Automatically select "
+        "consecutive checkpoints before the checkpoint specified by "
+        "'--epoch' and '--iter'",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--exp-dir",
+        type=str,
+        default="pruned_transducer_stateless2/exp",
+        help="The experiment dir",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--lang-dir",
+        type=str,
+        default="data/lang_char",
+        help="The lang dir",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--decoding-method",
+        type=str,
+        default="greedy_search",
+        help="""Possible values are:
+          - greedy_search
+          - beam_search
+          - modified_beam_search
+          - fast_beam_search
+        """,
+    )
+
+    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=4,
+        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""",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--max-contexts",
+        type=int,
+        default=4,
+        help="""Used only when --decoding-method is
+        fast_beam_search""",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--max-states",
+        type=int,
+        default=8,
+        help="""Used only when --decoding-method is
+        fast_beam_search""",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--context-size",
+        type=int,
+        default=1,
+        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""",
+    )
+
+    return parser
+
+
+def decode_one_batch(
+    params: AttributeDict,
+    model: nn.Module,
+    token_table: k2.SymbolTable,
+    batch: dict,
+    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.
+      token_table:
+        It maps token ID to a string.
+      batch:
+        It is the return value from iterating
+        `lhotse.dataset.K2SpeechRecognitionDataset`. See its documentation
+        for the format of the `batch`.
+      decoding_graph:
+        The decoding graph. Can be either a `k2.trivial_graph` or HLG, Used
+        only when --decoding_method is fast_beam_search.
+    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)
+
+    encoder_out, encoder_out_lens = model.encoder(x=feature, x_lens=feature_lens)
+
+    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,
+        )
+    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,
+        )
+    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,
+        )
+    else:
+        hyp_tokens = []
+        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}"
+                )
+            hyp_tokens.append(hyp)
+
+    hyps = [[token_table[t] for t in tokens] for tokens in hyp_tokens]
+
+    if params.decoding_method == "greedy_search":
+        return {"greedy_search": hyps}
+    elif params.decoding_method == "fast_beam_search":
+        return {
+            (
+                f"beam_{params.beam}_"
+                f"max_contexts_{params.max_contexts}_"
+                f"max_states_{params.max_states}"
+            ): hyps
+        }
+    else:
+        return {f"beam_size_{params.beam_size}": hyps}
+
+
+def decode_dataset(
+    dl: torch.utils.data.DataLoader,
+    params: AttributeDict,
+    model: nn.Module,
+    token_table: k2.SymbolTable,
+    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.
+      token_table:
+        It maps a token ID to a string.
+      decoding_graph:
+        The decoding graph. Can be either a `k2.trivial_graph` or HLG, Used
+        only when --decoding_method is fast_beam_search.
+    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,
+            token_table=token_table,
+            decoding_graph=decoding_graph,
+            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}-{params.suffix}.txt"
+        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}-{params.suffix}.txt"
+        # we compute CER for aishell dataset.
+        results_char = []
+        for res in results:
+            results_char.append((res[0], list("".join(res[1])), list("".join(res[2]))))
+        with open(errs_filename, "w") as f:
+            wer = write_error_stats(
+                f, f"{test_set_name}-{key}", results_char, 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}-{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():
+    parser = get_parser()
+    AishellAsrDataModule.add_arguments(parser)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    args.exp_dir = Path(args.exp_dir)
+    args.lang_dir = Path(args.lang_dir)
+
+    params = get_params()
+    params.update(vars(args))
+
+    assert params.decoding_method in (
+        "greedy_search",
+        "beam_search",
+        "fast_beam_search",
+        "modified_beam_search",
+    )
+    params.res_dir = params.exp_dir / params.decoding_method
+
+    if params.iter > 0:
+        params.suffix = f"iter-{params.iter}-avg-{params.avg}"
+    else:
+        params.suffix = f"epoch-{params.epoch}-avg-{params.avg}"
+
+    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}"
+    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}"
+
+    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}")
+
+    lexicon = Lexicon(params.lang_dir)
+    params.blank_id = 0
+    params.vocab_size = max(lexicon.tokens) + 1
+
+    logging.info(params)
+
+    logging.info("About to create model")
+    model = get_transducer_model(params)
+
+    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 --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), strict=False
+        )
+    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), strict=False
+        )
+
+    model.to(device)
+    model.eval()
+
+    if params.decoding_method == "fast_beam_search":
+        decoding_graph = k2.trivial_graph(params.vocab_size - 1, device=device)
+    else:
+        decoding_graph = None
+
+    num_param = sum([p.numel() for p in model.parameters()])
+    logging.info(f"Number of model parameters: {num_param}")
+
+    aishell = AishellAsrDataModule(args)
+    test_cuts = aishell.test_cuts()
+    dev_cuts = aishell.valid_cuts()
+    test_dl = aishell.test_dataloaders(test_cuts)
+    dev_dl = aishell.test_dataloaders(dev_cuts)
+
+    test_sets = ["test", "dev"]
+    test_dls = [test_dl, dev_dl]
+
+    for test_set, test_dl in zip(test_sets, test_dls):
+        results_dict = decode_dataset(
+            dl=test_dl,
+            params=params,
+            model=model,
+            token_table=lexicon.token_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/wenetspeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless2/finetune.py b/egs/wenetspeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless2/finetune.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..e703100a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/wenetspeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless2/finetune.py
@@ -0,0 +1,1050 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright    2021-2022  Xiaomi Corp.        (authors: 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:
+
+export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="0,1,2,3"
+
+./pruned_transducer_stateless2/finetune.py \
+  --world-size 4 \
+  --num-epochs 30 \
+  --start-epoch 1 \
+  --exp-dir pruned_transducer_stateless2/exp \
+  --full-libri 1 \
+  --do-finetune 1 \
+  --max-duration 100
+
+"""
+
+
+import argparse
+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 torch
+import torch.multiprocessing as mp
+import torch.nn as nn
+from aishell import AishellAsrDataModule
+from conformer import Conformer
+from decoder import Decoder
+from joiner import Joiner
+from lhotse.dataset.sampling.base import CutSampler
+from lhotse.utils import fix_random_seed
+from model import Transducer
+from optim import Eden, Eve
+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 icefall import diagnostics
+from icefall.char_graph_compiler import CharCtcTrainingGraphCompiler
+from icefall.checkpoint import load_checkpoint, remove_checkpoints
+from icefall.checkpoint import save_checkpoint as save_checkpoint_impl
+from icefall.checkpoint import save_checkpoint_with_global_batch_idx
+from icefall.dist import cleanup_dist, setup_dist
+from icefall.env import get_env_info
+from icefall.lexicon import Lexicon
+from icefall.utils import AttributeDict, MetricsTracker, setup_logger, str2bool
+
+LRSchedulerType = Union[torch.optim.lr_scheduler._LRScheduler, optim.LRScheduler]
+
+
+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 get_parser():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        formatter_class=argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--world-size",
+        type=int,
+        default=1,
+        help="Number of GPUs for DDP training.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--master-port",
+        type=int,
+        default=12354,
+        help="Master port to use for DDP training.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--tensorboard",
+        type=str2bool,
+        default=True,
+        help="Should various information be logged in tensorboard.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--num-epochs",
+        type=int,
+        default=30,
+        help="Number of epochs to train.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--start-epoch",
+        type=int,
+        default=0,
+        help="""Resume training from from this epoch.
+        If it is positive, it will load checkpoint from
+        pruned_transducer_stateless2/exp/epoch-{start_epoch-1}.pt
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--start-batch",
+        type=int,
+        default=0,
+        help="""If positive, --start-epoch is ignored and
+        it loads the checkpoint from exp-dir/checkpoint-{start_batch}.pt
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--exp-dir",
+        type=str,
+        default="pruned_transducer_stateless2/exp",
+        help="""The experiment dir.
+        It specifies the directory where all training related
+        files, e.g., checkpoints, log, etc, are saved
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--lang-dir",
+        type=str,
+        default="data/lang_char",
+        help="""The lang dir
+        It contains language related input files such as
+        "lexicon.txt"
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--initial-lr",
+        type=float,
+        default=0.0001,
+        help="The initial learning rate.  This value should not need to be changed.",
+    )
+
+    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=1,
+        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(
+        "--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=20,
+        help="""Only keep this number of checkpoints on disk.
+        For instance, if it is 3, there are only 3 checkpoints
+        in the exp-dir with filenames `checkpoint-xxx.pt`.
+        It does not affect checkpoints with name `epoch-xxx.pt`.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--use-fp16",
+        type=str2bool,
+        default=False,
+        help="Whether to use half precision training.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--valid-interval",
+        type=int,
+        default=3000,
+        help="""When training_subset is L, set the valid_interval to 3000.
+        When training_subset is M, set the valid_interval to 1000.
+        When training_subset is S, set the valid_interval to 400.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--model-warm-step",
+        type=int,
+        default=3000,
+        help="""When training_subset is L, set the model_warm_step to 3000.
+        When training_subset is M, set the model_warm_step to 500.
+        When training_subset is S, set the model_warm_step to 100.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    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
+        - 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 warm_step for Noam optimizer.
+    """
+    params = AttributeDict(
+        {
+            "best_train_loss": float("inf"),
+            "best_valid_loss": float("inf"),
+            "best_train_epoch": -1,
+            "best_valid_epoch": -1,
+            "batch_idx_train": 0,
+            "log_interval": 50,
+            "reset_interval": 200,
+            # parameters for conformer
+            "feature_dim": 80,
+            "subsampling_factor": 4,
+            "encoder_dim": 512,
+            "nhead": 8,
+            "dim_feedforward": 2048,
+            "num_encoder_layers": 12,
+            # parameters for decoder
+            "decoder_dim": 512,
+            # parameters for joiner
+            "joiner_dim": 512,
+            "env_info": get_env_info(),
+        }
+    )
+
+    return params
+
+
+def get_encoder_model(params: AttributeDict) -> nn.Module:
+    # TODO: We can add an option to switch between Conformer and Transformer
+    encoder = Conformer(
+        num_features=params.feature_dim,
+        subsampling_factor=params.subsampling_factor,
+        d_model=params.encoder_dim,
+        nhead=params.nhead,
+        dim_feedforward=params.dim_feedforward,
+        num_encoder_layers=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=params.encoder_dim,
+        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=params.encoder_dim,
+        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,
+    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 positive, it will load the checkpoint from
+    `params.start_epoch - 1`.
+    Apart from loading state dict for `model` and `optimizer` it also updates
+    `best_train_epoch`, `best_train_loss`, `best_valid_epoch`,
+    and `best_valid_loss` in `params`.
+    Args:
+      params:
+        The return value of :func:`get_params`.
+      model:
+        The training model.
+      optimizer:
+        The optimizer that we are using.
+      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 > 0:
+        filename = params.exp_dir / f"epoch-{params.start_epoch-1}.pt"
+    else:
+        return None
+
+    assert filename.is_file(), f"{filename} does not exist!"
+
+    saved_params = load_checkpoint(
+        filename,
+        model=model,
+        optimizer=optimizer,
+        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"]
+
+    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: nn.Module,
+    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.
+      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,
+        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: nn.Module,
+    graph_compiler: CharCtcTrainingGraphCompiler,
+    batch: dict,
+    is_training: bool,
+    warmup: float = 1.0,
+) -> 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.
+    """
+    device = model.device
+    feature = batch["inputs"]
+    # at entry, feature is (N, T, C)
+    assert feature.ndim == 3
+    feature = feature.to(device)
+
+    supervisions = batch["supervisions"]
+    feature_lens = supervisions["num_frames"].to(device)
+
+    texts = batch["supervisions"]["text"]
+
+    y = graph_compiler.texts_to_ids(texts)
+    if isinstance(y, list):
+        y = k2.RaggedTensor(y).to(device)
+    else:
+        y = 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,
+            warmup=warmup,
+        )
+        # after the main warmup step, we keep pruned_loss_scale small
+        # for the same amount of time (model_warm_step), to avoid
+        # overwhelming the simple_loss and causing it to diverge,
+        # in case it had not fully learned the alignment yet.
+        pruned_loss_scale = (
+            0.0 if warmup < 1.0 else (0.1 if warmup > 1.0 and warmup < 2.0 else 1.0)
+        )
+        loss = params.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: nn.Module,
+    graph_compiler: CharCtcTrainingGraphCompiler,
+    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,
+            graph_compiler=graph_compiler,
+            batch=batch,
+            is_training=False,
+        )
+        assert loss.requires_grad is False
+        tot_loss = tot_loss + loss_info
+
+    if world_size > 1:
+        tot_loss.reduce(loss.device)
+
+    loss_value = tot_loss["loss"] / tot_loss["frames"]
+    if loss_value < params.best_valid_loss:
+        params.best_valid_epoch = params.cur_epoch
+        params.best_valid_loss = loss_value
+
+    return tot_loss
+
+
+def train_one_epoch(
+    params: AttributeDict,
+    model: nn.Module,
+    optimizer: torch.optim.Optimizer,
+    scheduler: LRSchedulerType,
+    graph_compiler: CharCtcTrainingGraphCompiler,
+    train_dl: torch.utils.data.DataLoader,
+    valid_dl: torch.utils.data.DataLoader,
+    scaler: GradScaler,
+    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.
+      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()
+
+    for batch_idx, batch in enumerate(train_dl):
+        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,
+                    graph_compiler=graph_compiler,
+                    batch=batch,
+                    is_training=True,
+                    warmup=(params.batch_idx_train / params.model_warm_step),
+                )
+            # 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()
+            scheduler.step_batch(params.batch_idx_train)
+            scaler.step(optimizer)
+            scaler.update()
+            optimizer.zero_grad()
+        except:  # noqa
+            display_and_save_batch(batch, params=params)
+            raise
+
+        if params.print_diagnostics and batch_idx == 5:
+            return
+
+        if (
+            params.batch_idx_train > 0
+            and params.batch_idx_train % params.save_every_n == 0
+        ):
+            save_checkpoint_with_global_batch_idx(
+                out_dir=params.exp_dir,
+                global_batch_idx=params.batch_idx_train,
+                model=model,
+                params=params,
+                optimizer=optimizer,
+                scheduler=scheduler,
+                sampler=train_dl.sampler,
+                scaler=scaler,
+                rank=rank,
+            )
+            remove_checkpoints(
+                out_dir=params.exp_dir,
+                topk=params.keep_last_k,
+                rank=rank,
+            )
+
+        if batch_idx % params.log_interval == 0:
+            cur_lr = scheduler.get_last_lr()[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}"
+            )
+
+            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 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,
+                graph_compiler=graph_compiler,
+                valid_dl=valid_dl,
+                world_size=world_size,
+            )
+            model.train()
+            logging.info(f"Epoch {params.cur_epoch}, validation: {valid_info}")
+            if tb_writer is not None:
+                valid_info.write_summary(
+                    tb_writer, "train/valid_", params.batch_idx_train
+                )
+
+    loss_value = tot_loss["loss"] / tot_loss["frames"]
+    params.train_loss = loss_value
+    if params.train_loss < params.best_train_loss:
+        params.best_train_epoch = params.cur_epoch
+        params.best_train_loss = params.train_loss
+
+
+def run(rank, world_size, args):
+    """
+    Args:
+      rank:
+        It is a value between 0 and `world_size-1`, which is
+        passed automatically by `mp.spawn()` in :func:`main`.
+        The node with rank 0 is responsible for saving checkpoint.
+      world_size:
+        Number of GPUs for DDP training.
+      args:
+        The return value of get_parser().parse_args()
+    """
+    params = get_params()
+    params.update(vars(args))
+
+    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}")
+
+    lexicon = Lexicon(params.lang_dir)
+    graph_compiler = CharCtcTrainingGraphCompiler(
+        lexicon=lexicon,
+        device=device,
+    )
+
+    params.blank_id = lexicon.token_table["<blk>"]
+    params.vocab_size = max(lexicon.tokens) + 1
+
+    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}")
+
+    # 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.to(device)
+    if world_size > 1:
+        logging.info("Using DDP")
+        model = DDP(model, device_ids=[rank])
+    model.device = device
+
+    optimizer = Eve(model.parameters(), lr=params.initial_lr)
+
+    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)
+
+    aishell = AishellAsrDataModule(args)
+    train_dl = aishell.train_dataloaders(aishell.train_cuts())
+    valid_dl = aishell.valid_dataloaders(aishell.valid_cuts())
+
+    if not params.print_diagnostics:
+        scan_pessimistic_batches_for_oom(
+            model=model,
+            train_dl=train_dl,
+            optimizer=optimizer,
+            graph_compiler=graph_compiler,
+            params=params,
+        )
+
+    scaler = GradScaler(enabled=params.use_fp16)
+    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,
+            optimizer=optimizer,
+            scheduler=scheduler,
+            graph_compiler=graph_compiler,
+            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,
+            optimizer=optimizer,
+            scheduler=scheduler,
+            sampler=train_dl.sampler,
+            rank=rank,
+        )
+
+    logging.info("Done!")
+
+    if world_size > 1:
+        torch.distributed.barrier()
+        cleanup_dist()
+
+
+def display_and_save_batch(
+    batch: dict,
+    params: AttributeDict,
+    graph_compiler: CharCtcTrainingGraphCompiler,
+) -> 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`.
+    """
+    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 = graph_compiler.texts_to_ids(supervisions["text"])
+    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,
+    graph_compiler: CharCtcTrainingGraphCompiler,
+    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:
+            # warmup = 0.0 is so that the derivs for the pruned loss stay zero
+            # (i.e. are not remembered by the decaying-average in adam), because
+            # we want to avoid these params being subject to shrinkage in adam.
+            with torch.cuda.amp.autocast(enabled=params.use_fp16):
+                loss, _ = compute_loss(
+                    params=params,
+                    model=model,
+                    graph_compiler=graph_compiler,
+                    batch=batch,
+                    is_training=True,
+                    warmup=0.0 if params.start_epoch == 1 else 1.0,
+                )
+            loss.backward()
+            optimizer.step()
+            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, graph_compiler=graph_compiler)
+            raise
+
+
+def main():
+    parser = get_parser()
+    AishellAsrDataModule.add_arguments(
+        parser
+    )  # you may replace this with your own dataset
+    add_finetune_arguments(parser)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    args.exp_dir = Path(args.exp_dir)
+
+    world_size = args.world_size
+    assert world_size >= 1
+    if world_size > 1:
+        mp.spawn(run, args=(world_size, args), nprocs=world_size, join=True)
+    else:
+        run(rank=0, world_size=1, args=args)
+
+
+torch.set_num_threads(1)
+torch.set_num_interop_threads(1)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()