diff --git a/egs/gigaspeech/ASR/zipformer/attention_decoder.py b/egs/gigaspeech/ASR/zipformer/attention_decoder.py
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..384e1b95e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/gigaspeech/ASR/zipformer/attention_decoder.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../../librispeech/ASR/zipformer/attention_decoder.py
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/egs/gigaspeech/ASR/zipformer/ctc_decode.py b/egs/gigaspeech/ASR/zipformer/ctc_decode.py
index 651f20cb6..5147261fa 100755
--- a/egs/gigaspeech/ASR/zipformer/ctc_decode.py
+++ b/egs/gigaspeech/ASR/zipformer/ctc_decode.py
@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ import sentencepiece as spm
 import torch
 import torch.nn as nn
 from asr_datamodule import GigaSpeechAsrDataModule
+
+from gigaspeech_scoring import asr_text_post_processing
 from train import add_model_arguments, get_model, get_params
 
 from icefall.checkpoint import (
@@ -274,6 +276,17 @@ def get_decoding_params() -> AttributeDict:
     return params
 
 
+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,
@@ -567,6 +580,7 @@ def save_results(
     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 = post_processing(results)
         results = sorted(results)
         store_transcripts(filename=recog_path, texts=results)
         logging.info(f"The transcripts are stored in {recog_path}")
@@ -813,14 +827,12 @@ def main():
     args.return_cuts = True
     gigaspeech = GigaSpeechAsrDataModule(args)
 
-    test_clean_cuts = gigaspeech.test_clean_cuts()
-    test_other_cuts = gigaspeech.test_other_cuts()
+    test_cuts = gigaspeech.test_cuts()
 
-    test_clean_dl = gigaspeech.test_dataloaders(test_clean_cuts)
-    test_other_dl = gigaspeech.test_dataloaders(test_other_cuts)
+    test_dl = gigaspeech.test_dataloaders(test_cuts)
 
-    test_sets = ["test-clean", "test-other"]
-    test_dl = [test_clean_dl, test_other_dl]
+    test_sets = ["test"]
+    test_dl = [test_dl]
 
     for test_set, test_dl in zip(test_sets, test_dl):
         results_dict = decode_dataset(
diff --git a/egs/gigaspeech/ASR/zipformer/label_smoothing.py b/egs/gigaspeech/ASR/zipformer/label_smoothing.py
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..175c633cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/gigaspeech/ASR/zipformer/label_smoothing.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../../librispeech/ASR/zipformer/label_smoothing.py
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/egs/gigaspeech/ASR/zipformer/spec_augment.py b/egs/gigaspeech/ASR/zipformer/spec_augment.py
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..d00c7c9dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/gigaspeech/ASR/zipformer/spec_augment.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../../librispeech/ASR/zipformer/spec_augment.py
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/egs/gigaspeech/ASR/zipformer/train_cr.py b/egs/gigaspeech/ASR/zipformer/train_cr.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..fd8c67361
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/gigaspeech/ASR/zipformer/train_cr.py
@@ -0,0 +1,1453 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright    2021-2023  Xiaomi Corp.        (authors: Fangjun Kuang,
+#                                                       Wei Kang,
+#                                                       Mingshuang Luo,
+#                                                       Zengwei Yao,
+#                                                       Yifan Yang,
+#                                                       Daniel Povey)
+#
+# 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="0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7"
+
+# For non-streaming model training:
+./zipformer/train.py \
+  --world-size 8 \
+  --num-epochs 30 \
+  --start-epoch 1 \
+  --use-fp16 1 \
+  --exp-dir zipformer/exp \
+  --max-duration 1000
+
+# For streaming model training:
+./zipformer/train.py \
+  --world-size 8 \
+  --num-epochs 30 \
+  --start-epoch 1 \
+  --use-fp16 1 \
+  --exp-dir zipformer/exp \
+  --causal 1 \
+  --max-duration 1000
+
+It supports training with:
+  - transducer loss (default), with `--use-transducer True --use-ctc False`
+  - ctc loss (not recommended), with `--use-transducer False --use-ctc True`
+  - transducer loss & ctc loss, with `--use-transducer True --use-ctc True`
+"""
+
+
+import argparse
+import copy
+import logging
+import warnings
+from pathlib import Path
+from shutil import copyfile
+from typing import Any, Dict, Optional, Tuple, Union
+
+import k2
+import optim
+import sentencepiece as spm
+import torch
+import torch.multiprocessing as mp
+import torch.nn as nn
+from asr_datamodule import GigaSpeechAsrDataModule
+from decoder import Decoder
+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 AsrModel
+from optim import Eden, ScaledAdam
+from scaling import ScheduledFloat
+from subsampling import Conv2dSubsampling
+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 Zipformer2
+
+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.err import raise_grad_scale_is_too_small_error
+from icefall.hooks import register_inf_check_hooks
+from icefall.utils import (
+    AttributeDict,
+    MetricsTracker,
+    get_parameter_groups_with_lrs,
+    setup_logger,
+    str2bool,
+)
+
+from spec_augment import SpecAugment
+
+LRSchedulerType = Union[torch.optim.lr_scheduler._LRScheduler, optim.LRScheduler]
+
+
+def get_adjusted_batch_count(params: AttributeDict) -> float:
+    # returns the number of batches we would have used so far if we had used the reference
+    # duration.  This is for purposes of set_batch_count().
+    return (
+        params.batch_idx_train
+        * (params.max_duration * params.world_size)
+        / params.ref_duration
+    )
+
+
+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 name, module in model.named_modules():
+        if hasattr(module, "batch_count"):
+            module.batch_count = batch_count
+        if hasattr(module, "name"):
+            module.name = name
+
+
+def add_model_arguments(parser: argparse.ArgumentParser):
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--num-encoder-layers",
+        type=str,
+        default="2,2,3,4,3,2",
+        help="Number of zipformer encoder layers per stack, comma separated.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--downsampling-factor",
+        type=str,
+        default="1,2,4,8,4,2",
+        help="Downsampling factor for each stack of encoder layers.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--feedforward-dim",
+        type=str,
+        default="512,768,1024,1536,1024,768",
+        help="Feedforward dimension of the zipformer encoder layers, per stack, comma separated.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--num-heads",
+        type=str,
+        default="4,4,4,8,4,4",
+        help="Number of attention heads in the zipformer encoder layers: a single int or comma-separated list.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--encoder-dim",
+        type=str,
+        default="192,256,384,512,384,256",
+        help="Embedding dimension in encoder stacks: a single int or comma-separated list.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--query-head-dim",
+        type=str,
+        default="32",
+        help="Query/key dimension per head in encoder stacks: a single int or comma-separated list.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--value-head-dim",
+        type=str,
+        default="12",
+        help="Value dimension per head in encoder stacks: a single int or comma-separated list.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--pos-head-dim",
+        type=str,
+        default="4",
+        help="Positional-encoding dimension per head in encoder stacks: a single int or comma-separated list.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--pos-dim",
+        type=int,
+        default="48",
+        help="Positional-encoding embedding dimension",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--encoder-unmasked-dim",
+        type=str,
+        default="192,192,256,256,256,192",
+        help="Unmasked dimensions in the encoders, relates to augmentation during training.  "
+        "A single int or comma-separated list.  Must be <= each corresponding encoder_dim.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--cnn-module-kernel",
+        type=str,
+        default="31,31,15,15,15,31",
+        help="Sizes of convolutional kernels in convolution modules in each encoder stack: "
+        "a single int or comma-separated list.",
+    )
+
+    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.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--causal",
+        type=str2bool,
+        default=False,
+        help="If True, use causal version of model.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--chunk-size",
+        type=str,
+        default="16,32,64,-1",
+        help="Chunk sizes (at 50Hz frame rate) will be chosen randomly from this list during training. "
+        " Must be just -1 if --causal=False",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--left-context-frames",
+        type=str,
+        default="64,128,256,-1",
+        help="Maximum left-contexts for causal training, measured in frames which will "
+        "be converted to a number of chunks.  If splitting into chunks, "
+        "chunk left-context frames will be chosen randomly from this list; else not relevant.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--use-transducer",
+        type=str2bool,
+        default=True,
+        help="If True, use Transducer head.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--use-ctc",
+        type=str2bool,
+        default=False,
+        help="If True, use CTC head.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--use-cr-ctc",
+        type=str2bool,
+        default=False,
+        help="If True, use consistency-regularized CTC.",
+    )
+
+
+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="zipformer/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",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--base-lr", type=float, default=0.045, help="The base learning rate."
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--lr-batches",
+        type=float,
+        default=7500,
+        help="""Number of steps that affects how rapidly the learning rate
+        decreases. We suggest not to change this.""",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--lr-epochs",
+        type=float,
+        default=1,
+        help="""Number of epochs that affects how rapidly the learning rate decreases.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--ref-duration",
+        type=float,
+        default=600,
+        help="Reference batch duration for purposes of adjusting batch counts for setting various "
+        "schedules inside the model",
+    )
+
+    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(
+        "--ctc-loss-scale",
+        type=float,
+        default=0.2,
+        help="Scale for CTC loss.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--cr-loss-scale",
+        type=float,
+        default=0.15,
+        help="Scale for consistency-regularization loss.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--time-mask-ratio",
+        type=float,
+        default=2.0,
+        help="When using cr-ctc, we increase the time-masking ratio.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--cr-loss-masked-scale",
+        type=float,
+        default=1.0,
+        help="The value used to scale up the cr_loss at masked positions",
+    )
+
+    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(
+        "--scan-for-oom-batches",
+        type=str2bool,
+        default=False,
+        help="""
+        Whether to scan for oom batches before training, this is helpful for
+        finding the suitable max_duration, you only need to run it once.
+        Caution: a little time consuming.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    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=8000,
+        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 1.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    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)
+
+    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(
+        {
+            "best_train_loss": float("inf"),
+            "best_valid_loss": float("inf"),
+            "best_train_epoch": -1,
+            "best_valid_epoch": -1,
+            "batch_idx_train": 0,
+            "log_interval": 500,
+            "reset_interval": 2000,
+            "valid_interval": 20000,
+            # 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 _to_int_tuple(s: str):
+    return tuple(map(int, s.split(",")))
+
+
+def get_encoder_embed(params: AttributeDict) -> nn.Module:
+    # encoder_embed converts the input of shape (N, T, num_features)
+    # to the shape (N, (T - 7) // 2, encoder_dims).
+    # That is, it does two things simultaneously:
+    #   (1) subsampling: T -> (T - 7) // 2
+    #   (2) embedding: num_features -> encoder_dims
+    # In the normal configuration, we will downsample once more at the end
+    # by a factor of 2, and most of the encoder stacks will run at a lower
+    # sampling rate.
+    encoder_embed = Conv2dSubsampling(
+        in_channels=params.feature_dim,
+        out_channels=_to_int_tuple(params.encoder_dim)[0],
+        dropout=ScheduledFloat((0.0, 0.3), (20000.0, 0.1)),
+    )
+    return encoder_embed
+
+
+def get_encoder_model(params: AttributeDict) -> nn.Module:
+    encoder = Zipformer2(
+        output_downsampling_factor=2,
+        downsampling_factor=_to_int_tuple(params.downsampling_factor),
+        num_encoder_layers=_to_int_tuple(params.num_encoder_layers),
+        encoder_dim=_to_int_tuple(params.encoder_dim),
+        encoder_unmasked_dim=_to_int_tuple(params.encoder_unmasked_dim),
+        query_head_dim=_to_int_tuple(params.query_head_dim),
+        pos_head_dim=_to_int_tuple(params.pos_head_dim),
+        value_head_dim=_to_int_tuple(params.value_head_dim),
+        pos_dim=params.pos_dim,
+        num_heads=_to_int_tuple(params.num_heads),
+        feedforward_dim=_to_int_tuple(params.feedforward_dim),
+        cnn_module_kernel=_to_int_tuple(params.cnn_module_kernel),
+        dropout=ScheduledFloat((0.0, 0.3), (20000.0, 0.1)),
+        warmup_batches=4000.0,
+        causal=params.causal,
+        chunk_size=_to_int_tuple(params.chunk_size),
+        left_context_frames=_to_int_tuple(params.left_context_frames),
+    )
+    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=max(_to_int_tuple(params.encoder_dim)),
+        decoder_dim=params.decoder_dim,
+        joiner_dim=params.joiner_dim,
+        vocab_size=params.vocab_size,
+    )
+    return joiner
+
+
+def get_model(params: AttributeDict) -> nn.Module:
+    assert params.use_transducer or params.use_ctc, (
+        f"At least one of them should be True, "
+        f"but got params.use_transducer={params.use_transducer}, "
+        f"params.use_ctc={params.use_ctc}"
+    )
+
+    encoder_embed = get_encoder_embed(params)
+    encoder = get_encoder_model(params)
+
+    if params.use_transducer:
+        decoder = get_decoder_model(params)
+        joiner = get_joiner_model(params)
+    else:
+        decoder = None
+        joiner = None
+
+    model = AsrModel(
+        encoder_embed=encoder_embed,
+        encoder=encoder,
+        decoder=decoder,
+        joiner=joiner,
+        encoder_dim=max(_to_int_tuple(params.encoder_dim)),
+        decoder_dim=params.decoder_dim,
+        vocab_size=params.vocab_size,
+        use_transducer=params.use_transducer,
+        use_ctc=params.use_ctc,
+    )
+    return model
+
+
+def get_spec_augment(params: AttributeDict) -> SpecAugment:
+    num_frame_masks = 10 * params.time_mask_ratio
+    max_frames_mask_fraction = 0.15 * params.time_mask_ratio
+    logging.info(
+        f"num_frame_masks: {num_frame_masks}, "
+        f"max_frames_mask_fraction: {max_frames_mask_fraction}"
+    )
+    spec_augment = SpecAugment(
+        time_warp_factor=0,  # Do time warping in model.py
+        num_frame_masks=num_frame_masks,  # default: 10
+        features_mask_size=27,
+        num_feature_masks=2,
+        frames_mask_size=100,
+        max_frames_mask_fraction=max_frames_mask_fraction,  # default: 0.15
+    )
+    return spec_augment
+
+
+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"]
+
+    return saved_params
+
+
+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,
+    spec_augment: Optional[SpecAugment] = None,
+) -> Tuple[Tensor, MetricsTracker]:
+    """
+    Compute 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.
+      spec_augment:
+        The SpecAugment instance used only when use_cr_ctc is True.
+    """
+    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)
+
+    use_cr_ctc = params.use_cr_ctc
+    use_spec_aug = use_cr_ctc and is_training
+    if use_spec_aug:
+        supervision_intervals = batch["supervisions"]
+        supervision_segments = torch.stack(
+            [
+                supervision_intervals["sequence_idx"],
+                supervision_intervals["start_frame"],
+                supervision_intervals["num_frames"],
+            ],
+            dim=1,
+        )  # shape: (S, 3)
+    else:
+        supervision_segments = None
+
+    with torch.set_grad_enabled(is_training):
+        losses = model(
+            x=feature,
+            x_lens=feature_lens,
+            y=y,
+            prune_range=params.prune_range,
+            am_scale=params.am_scale,
+            lm_scale=params.lm_scale,
+            use_cr_ctc=use_cr_ctc,
+            use_spec_aug=use_spec_aug,
+            spec_augment=spec_augment,
+            supervision_segments=supervision_segments,
+            time_warp_factor=params.spec_aug_time_warp_factor,
+            cr_loss_masked_scale=params.cr_loss_masked_scale,
+        )
+        simple_loss, pruned_loss, ctc_loss, attention_decoder_loss, cr_loss = losses[:5]
+
+        loss = 0.0
+
+        if params.use_transducer:
+            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
+
+        if params.use_ctc:
+            loss += params.ctc_loss_scale * ctc_loss
+            if use_cr_ctc:
+                loss += params.cr_loss_scale * cr_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()
+    if params.use_transducer:
+        info["simple_loss"] = simple_loss.detach().cpu().item()
+        info["pruned_loss"] = pruned_loss.detach().cpu().item()
+    if params.use_ctc:
+        info["ctc_loss"] = ctc_loss.detach().cpu().item()
+        if params.use_cr_ctc:
+            info["cr_loss"] = cr_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,
+    spec_augment: Optional[SpecAugment] = None,
+    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.
+      spec_augment:
+        The SpecAugment instance used only when use_cr_ctc is True.
+      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()
+
+    saved_bad_model = False
+
+    def save_bad_model(suffix: str = ""):
+        save_checkpoint_impl(
+            filename=params.exp_dir / f"bad-model{suffix}-{rank}.pt",
+            model=model,
+            model_avg=model_avg,
+            params=params,
+            optimizer=optimizer,
+            scheduler=scheduler,
+            sampler=train_dl.sampler,
+            scaler=scaler,
+            rank=0,
+        )
+
+    for batch_idx, batch in enumerate(train_dl):
+        if batch_idx % 10 == 0:
+            set_batch_count(model, get_adjusted_batch_count(params))
+
+        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,
+                    spec_augment=spec_augment,
+                )
+            # 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
+            save_bad_model()
+            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
+        ):
+            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,
+            )
+            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 < 8.0 or (cur_grad_scale < 32.0 and batch_idx % 400 == 0):
+                scaler.update(cur_grad_scale * 2.0)
+            if cur_grad_scale < 0.01:
+                if not saved_bad_model:
+                    save_bad_model(suffix="-first-warning")
+                    saved_bad_model = True
+                logging.warning(f"Grad scale is small: {cur_grad_scale}")
+            if cur_grad_scale < 1.0e-05:
+                save_bad_model()
+                raise_grad_scale_is_too_small_error(cur_grad_scale)
+
+        if batch_idx % params.log_interval == 0:
+            cur_lr = max(scheduler.get_last_lr())
+            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()
+
+    if not params.use_transducer:
+        params.ctc_loss_scale = 1.0
+
+    logging.info(params)
+
+    logging.info("About to create model")
+    model = get_model(params)
+
+    num_param = sum([p.numel() for p in model.parameters()])
+    logging.info(f"Number of model parameters: {num_param}")
+
+    if params.use_cr_ctc:
+        assert params.use_ctc
+        assert not params.enable_spec_aug  # we will do spec_augment in model.py
+        spec_augment = get_spec_augment(params)
+    else:
+        spec_augment = None
+
+    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)
+
+    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)
+
+    optimizer = ScaledAdam(
+        get_parameter_groups_with_lrs(model, lr=params.base_lr, include_names=True),
+        lr=params.base_lr,  # should have no effect
+        clipping_scale=2.0,
+    )
+
+    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(
+            512
+        )  # allow 4 megabytes per sub-module
+        diagnostic = diagnostics.attach_diagnostics(model, opts)
+
+    if params.inf_check:
+        register_inf_check_hooks(model)
+
+    def remove_short_utt(c: Cut):
+        # In ./zipformer.py, the conv module uses the following expression
+        # for subsampling
+        T = ((c.num_frames - 7) // 2 + 1) // 2
+        return T > 0
+
+    gigaspeech = GigaSpeechAsrDataModule(args)
+
+    train_cuts = gigaspeech.train_cuts()
+    train_cuts = train_cuts.filter(remove_short_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_cuts = valid_cuts.filter(remove_short_utt)
+    valid_dl = gigaspeech.valid_dataloaders(valid_cuts)
+
+    if not params.print_diagnostics and params.scan_for_oom_batches:
+        scan_pessimistic_batches_for_oom(
+            model=model,
+            train_dl=train_dl,
+            optimizer=optimizer,
+            sp=sp,
+            params=params,
+            spec_augment=spec_augment,
+        )
+
+    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,
+            spec_augment=spec_augment,
+            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,
+    spec_augment: Optional[SpecAugment] = None,
+):
+    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,
+                    spec_augment=spec_augment,
+                )
+            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)
+    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/gigaspeech/ASR/zipformer/train_cr_aed.py b/egs/gigaspeech/ASR/zipformer/train_cr_aed.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..0174b427b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/gigaspeech/ASR/zipformer/train_cr_aed.py
@@ -0,0 +1,1542 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright    2021-2023  Xiaomi Corp.        (authors: Fangjun Kuang,
+#                                                       Wei Kang,
+#                                                       Mingshuang Luo,
+#                                                       Zengwei Yao,
+#                                                       Yifan Yang,
+#                                                       Daniel Povey)
+#
+# 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="0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7"
+
+# For non-streaming model training:
+./zipformer/train.py \
+  --world-size 8 \
+  --num-epochs 30 \
+  --start-epoch 1 \
+  --use-fp16 1 \
+  --exp-dir zipformer/exp \
+  --max-duration 1000
+
+# For streaming model training:
+./zipformer/train.py \
+  --world-size 8 \
+  --num-epochs 30 \
+  --start-epoch 1 \
+  --use-fp16 1 \
+  --exp-dir zipformer/exp \
+  --causal 1 \
+  --max-duration 1000
+
+It supports training with:
+  - transducer loss (default), with `--use-transducer True --use-ctc False`
+  - ctc loss (not recommended), with `--use-transducer False --use-ctc True`
+  - transducer loss & ctc loss, with `--use-transducer True --use-ctc True`
+"""
+
+
+import argparse
+import copy
+import logging
+import warnings
+from pathlib import Path
+from shutil import copyfile
+from typing import Any, Dict, Optional, Tuple, Union
+
+import k2
+import optim
+import sentencepiece as spm
+import torch
+import torch.multiprocessing as mp
+import torch.nn as nn
+from asr_datamodule import GigaSpeechAsrDataModule
+from attention_decoder import AttentionDecoderModel
+from decoder import Decoder
+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 AsrModel
+from optim import Eden, ScaledAdam
+from scaling import ScheduledFloat
+from subsampling import Conv2dSubsampling
+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 Zipformer2
+
+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.err import raise_grad_scale_is_too_small_error
+from icefall.hooks import register_inf_check_hooks
+from icefall.utils import (
+    AttributeDict,
+    MetricsTracker,
+    get_parameter_groups_with_lrs,
+    setup_logger,
+    str2bool,
+)
+
+from spec_augment import SpecAugment
+
+LRSchedulerType = Union[torch.optim.lr_scheduler._LRScheduler, optim.LRScheduler]
+
+
+def get_adjusted_batch_count(params: AttributeDict) -> float:
+    # returns the number of batches we would have used so far if we had used the reference
+    # duration.  This is for purposes of set_batch_count().
+    return (
+        params.batch_idx_train
+        * (params.max_duration * params.world_size)
+        / params.ref_duration
+    )
+
+
+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 name, module in model.named_modules():
+        if hasattr(module, "batch_count"):
+            module.batch_count = batch_count
+        if hasattr(module, "name"):
+            module.name = name
+
+
+def add_model_arguments(parser: argparse.ArgumentParser):
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--num-encoder-layers",
+        type=str,
+        default="2,2,3,4,3,2",
+        help="Number of zipformer encoder layers per stack, comma separated.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--downsampling-factor",
+        type=str,
+        default="1,2,4,8,4,2",
+        help="Downsampling factor for each stack of encoder layers.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--feedforward-dim",
+        type=str,
+        default="512,768,1024,1536,1024,768",
+        help="Feedforward dimension of the zipformer encoder layers, per stack, comma separated.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--num-heads",
+        type=str,
+        default="4,4,4,8,4,4",
+        help="Number of attention heads in the zipformer encoder layers: a single int or comma-separated list.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--encoder-dim",
+        type=str,
+        default="192,256,384,512,384,256",
+        help="Embedding dimension in encoder stacks: a single int or comma-separated list.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--query-head-dim",
+        type=str,
+        default="32",
+        help="Query/key dimension per head in encoder stacks: a single int or comma-separated list.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--value-head-dim",
+        type=str,
+        default="12",
+        help="Value dimension per head in encoder stacks: a single int or comma-separated list.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--pos-head-dim",
+        type=str,
+        default="4",
+        help="Positional-encoding dimension per head in encoder stacks: a single int or comma-separated list.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--pos-dim",
+        type=int,
+        default="48",
+        help="Positional-encoding embedding dimension",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--encoder-unmasked-dim",
+        type=str,
+        default="192,192,256,256,256,192",
+        help="Unmasked dimensions in the encoders, relates to augmentation during training.  "
+        "A single int or comma-separated list.  Must be <= each corresponding encoder_dim.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--cnn-module-kernel",
+        type=str,
+        default="31,31,15,15,15,31",
+        help="Sizes of convolutional kernels in convolution modules in each encoder stack: "
+        "a single int or comma-separated list.",
+    )
+
+    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.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--attention-decoder-dim",
+        type=int,
+        default=512,
+        help="""Dimension used in the attention decoder""",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--attention-decoder-num-layers",
+        type=int,
+        default=6,
+        help="""Number of transformer layers used in attention decoder""",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--attention-decoder-attention-dim",
+        type=int,
+        default=512,
+        help="""Attention dimension used in attention decoder""",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--attention-decoder-num-heads",
+        type=int,
+        default=8,
+        help="""Number of attention heads used in attention decoder""",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--attention-decoder-feedforward-dim",
+        type=int,
+        default=2048,
+        help="""Feedforward dimension used in attention decoder""",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--causal",
+        type=str2bool,
+        default=False,
+        help="If True, use causal version of model.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--chunk-size",
+        type=str,
+        default="16,32,64,-1",
+        help="Chunk sizes (at 50Hz frame rate) will be chosen randomly from this list during training. "
+        " Must be just -1 if --causal=False",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--left-context-frames",
+        type=str,
+        default="64,128,256,-1",
+        help="Maximum left-contexts for causal training, measured in frames which will "
+        "be converted to a number of chunks.  If splitting into chunks, "
+        "chunk left-context frames will be chosen randomly from this list; else not relevant.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--use-transducer",
+        type=str2bool,
+        default=True,
+        help="If True, use Transducer head.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--use-ctc",
+        type=str2bool,
+        default=False,
+        help="If True, use CTC head.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--use-attention-decoder",
+        type=str2bool,
+        default=False,
+        help="If True, use attention-decoder head.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--use-cr-ctc",
+        type=str2bool,
+        default=False,
+        help="If True, use consistency-regularized CTC.",
+    )
+
+
+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="zipformer/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",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--base-lr", type=float, default=0.045, help="The base learning rate."
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--lr-batches",
+        type=float,
+        default=7500,
+        help="""Number of steps that affects how rapidly the learning rate
+        decreases. We suggest not to change this.""",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--lr-epochs",
+        type=float,
+        default=1,
+        help="""Number of epochs that affects how rapidly the learning rate decreases.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--ref-duration",
+        type=float,
+        default=600,
+        help="Reference batch duration for purposes of adjusting batch counts for setting various "
+        "schedules inside the model",
+    )
+
+    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(
+        "--ctc-loss-scale",
+        type=float,
+        default=0.2,
+        help="Scale for CTC loss.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--cr-loss-scale",
+        type=float,
+        default=0.15,
+        help="Scale for consistency-regularization loss.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--time-mask-ratio",
+        type=float,
+        default=2.0,
+        help="When using cr-ctc, we increase the time-masking ratio.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--cr-loss-masked-scale",
+        type=float,
+        default=1.0,
+        help="The value used to scale up the cr_loss at masked positions",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--attention-decoder-loss-scale",
+        type=float,
+        default=0.8,
+        help="Scale for attention-decoder 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(
+        "--scan-for-oom-batches",
+        type=str2bool,
+        default=False,
+        help="""
+        Whether to scan for oom batches before training, this is helpful for
+        finding the suitable max_duration, you only need to run it once.
+        Caution: a little time consuming.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    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=8000,
+        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 1.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    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)
+
+    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(
+        {
+            "best_train_loss": float("inf"),
+            "best_valid_loss": float("inf"),
+            "best_train_epoch": -1,
+            "best_valid_epoch": -1,
+            "batch_idx_train": 0,
+            "log_interval": 500,
+            "reset_interval": 2000,
+            "valid_interval": 20000,
+            # parameters for zipformer
+            "feature_dim": 80,
+            "subsampling_factor": 4,  # not passed in, this is fixed.
+            # parameters for attention-decoder
+            "ignore_id": -1,
+            "label_smoothing": 0.1,
+            "warm_step": 2000,
+            "env_info": get_env_info(),
+        }
+    )
+
+    return params
+
+
+def _to_int_tuple(s: str):
+    return tuple(map(int, s.split(",")))
+
+
+def get_encoder_embed(params: AttributeDict) -> nn.Module:
+    # encoder_embed converts the input of shape (N, T, num_features)
+    # to the shape (N, (T - 7) // 2, encoder_dims).
+    # That is, it does two things simultaneously:
+    #   (1) subsampling: T -> (T - 7) // 2
+    #   (2) embedding: num_features -> encoder_dims
+    # In the normal configuration, we will downsample once more at the end
+    # by a factor of 2, and most of the encoder stacks will run at a lower
+    # sampling rate.
+    encoder_embed = Conv2dSubsampling(
+        in_channels=params.feature_dim,
+        out_channels=_to_int_tuple(params.encoder_dim)[0],
+        dropout=ScheduledFloat((0.0, 0.3), (20000.0, 0.1)),
+    )
+    return encoder_embed
+
+
+def get_encoder_model(params: AttributeDict) -> nn.Module:
+    encoder = Zipformer2(
+        output_downsampling_factor=2,
+        downsampling_factor=_to_int_tuple(params.downsampling_factor),
+        num_encoder_layers=_to_int_tuple(params.num_encoder_layers),
+        encoder_dim=_to_int_tuple(params.encoder_dim),
+        encoder_unmasked_dim=_to_int_tuple(params.encoder_unmasked_dim),
+        query_head_dim=_to_int_tuple(params.query_head_dim),
+        pos_head_dim=_to_int_tuple(params.pos_head_dim),
+        value_head_dim=_to_int_tuple(params.value_head_dim),
+        pos_dim=params.pos_dim,
+        num_heads=_to_int_tuple(params.num_heads),
+        feedforward_dim=_to_int_tuple(params.feedforward_dim),
+        cnn_module_kernel=_to_int_tuple(params.cnn_module_kernel),
+        dropout=ScheduledFloat((0.0, 0.3), (20000.0, 0.1)),
+        warmup_batches=4000.0,
+        causal=params.causal,
+        chunk_size=_to_int_tuple(params.chunk_size),
+        left_context_frames=_to_int_tuple(params.left_context_frames),
+    )
+    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=max(_to_int_tuple(params.encoder_dim)),
+        decoder_dim=params.decoder_dim,
+        joiner_dim=params.joiner_dim,
+        vocab_size=params.vocab_size,
+    )
+    return joiner
+
+
+def get_attention_decoder_model(params: AttributeDict) -> nn.Module:
+    decoder = AttentionDecoderModel(
+        vocab_size=params.vocab_size,
+        decoder_dim=params.attention_decoder_dim,
+        num_decoder_layers=params.attention_decoder_num_layers,
+        attention_dim=params.attention_decoder_attention_dim,
+        num_heads=params.attention_decoder_num_heads,
+        feedforward_dim=params.attention_decoder_feedforward_dim,
+        memory_dim=max(_to_int_tuple(params.encoder_dim)),
+        sos_id=params.sos_id,
+        eos_id=params.eos_id,
+        ignore_id=params.ignore_id,
+        label_smoothing=params.label_smoothing,
+    )
+    return decoder
+
+
+def get_model(params: AttributeDict) -> nn.Module:
+    assert params.use_transducer or params.use_ctc, (
+        f"At least one of them should be True, "
+        f"but got params.use_transducer={params.use_transducer}, "
+        f"params.use_ctc={params.use_ctc}"
+    )
+
+    encoder_embed = get_encoder_embed(params)
+    encoder = get_encoder_model(params)
+
+    if params.use_transducer:
+        decoder = get_decoder_model(params)
+        joiner = get_joiner_model(params)
+    else:
+        decoder = None
+        joiner = None
+
+    if params.use_attention_decoder:
+        attention_decoder = get_attention_decoder_model(params)
+    else:
+        attention_decoder = None
+
+    model = AsrModel(
+        encoder_embed=encoder_embed,
+        encoder=encoder,
+        decoder=decoder,
+        joiner=joiner,
+        attention_decoder=attention_decoder,
+        encoder_dim=max(_to_int_tuple(params.encoder_dim)),
+        decoder_dim=params.decoder_dim,
+        vocab_size=params.vocab_size,
+        use_transducer=params.use_transducer,
+        use_ctc=params.use_ctc,
+        use_attention_decoder=params.use_attention_decoder,
+    )
+    return model
+
+
+def get_spec_augment(params: AttributeDict) -> SpecAugment:
+    num_frame_masks = int(10 * params.time_mask_ratio)
+    max_frames_mask_fraction = 0.15 * params.time_mask_ratio
+    logging.info(
+        f"num_frame_masks: {num_frame_masks}, "
+        f"max_frames_mask_fraction: {max_frames_mask_fraction}"
+    )
+    spec_augment = SpecAugment(
+        time_warp_factor=0,  # Do time warping in model.py
+        num_frame_masks=num_frame_masks,  # default: 10
+        features_mask_size=27,
+        num_feature_masks=2,
+        frames_mask_size=100,
+        max_frames_mask_fraction=max_frames_mask_fraction,  # default: 0.15
+    )
+    return spec_augment
+
+
+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"]
+
+    return saved_params
+
+
+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,
+    spec_augment: Optional[SpecAugment] = None,
+) -> Tuple[Tensor, MetricsTracker]:
+    """
+    Compute 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.
+      spec_augment:
+        The SpecAugment instance used only when use_cr_ctc is True.
+    """
+    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)
+
+    use_cr_ctc = params.use_cr_ctc
+    use_spec_aug = use_cr_ctc and is_training
+    if use_spec_aug:
+        supervision_intervals = batch["supervisions"]
+        supervision_segments = torch.stack(
+            [
+                supervision_intervals["sequence_idx"],
+                supervision_intervals["start_frame"],
+                supervision_intervals["num_frames"],
+            ],
+            dim=1,
+        )  # shape: (S, 3)
+    else:
+        supervision_segments = None
+
+    with torch.set_grad_enabled(is_training):
+        losses = model(
+            x=feature,
+            x_lens=feature_lens,
+            y=y,
+            prune_range=params.prune_range,
+            am_scale=params.am_scale,
+            lm_scale=params.lm_scale,
+            use_cr_ctc=use_cr_ctc,
+            use_spec_aug=use_spec_aug,
+            spec_augment=spec_augment,
+            supervision_segments=supervision_segments,
+            time_warp_factor=params.spec_aug_time_warp_factor,
+            cr_loss_masked_scale=params.cr_loss_masked_scale,
+        )
+        simple_loss, pruned_loss, ctc_loss, attention_decoder_loss, cr_loss = losses[:5]
+
+        loss = 0.0
+
+        if params.use_transducer:
+            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
+
+        if params.use_ctc:
+            loss += params.ctc_loss_scale * ctc_loss
+            if use_cr_ctc:
+                loss += params.cr_loss_scale * cr_loss
+
+        if params.use_attention_decoder:
+            loss += params.attention_decoder_loss_scale * attention_decoder_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()
+    if params.use_transducer:
+        info["simple_loss"] = simple_loss.detach().cpu().item()
+        info["pruned_loss"] = pruned_loss.detach().cpu().item()
+    if params.use_ctc:
+        info["ctc_loss"] = ctc_loss.detach().cpu().item()
+        if params.use_cr_ctc:
+            info["cr_loss"] = cr_loss.detach().cpu().item()
+    if params.use_attention_decoder:
+        info["attn_decoder_loss"] = attention_decoder_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,
+    spec_augment: Optional[SpecAugment] = None,
+    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.
+      spec_augment:
+        The SpecAugment instance used only when use_cr_ctc is True.
+      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()
+
+    saved_bad_model = False
+
+    def save_bad_model(suffix: str = ""):
+        save_checkpoint_impl(
+            filename=params.exp_dir / f"bad-model{suffix}-{rank}.pt",
+            model=model,
+            model_avg=model_avg,
+            params=params,
+            optimizer=optimizer,
+            scheduler=scheduler,
+            sampler=train_dl.sampler,
+            scaler=scaler,
+            rank=0,
+        )
+
+    for batch_idx, batch in enumerate(train_dl):
+        if batch_idx % 10 == 0:
+            set_batch_count(model, get_adjusted_batch_count(params))
+
+        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,
+                    spec_augment=spec_augment,
+                )
+            # 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
+            save_bad_model()
+            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
+        ):
+            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,
+            )
+            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 < 8.0 or (cur_grad_scale < 32.0 and batch_idx % 400 == 0):
+                scaler.update(cur_grad_scale * 2.0)
+            if cur_grad_scale < 0.01:
+                if not saved_bad_model:
+                    save_bad_model(suffix="-first-warning")
+                    saved_bad_model = True
+                logging.warning(f"Grad scale is small: {cur_grad_scale}")
+            if cur_grad_scale < 1.0e-05:
+                save_bad_model()
+                raise_grad_scale_is_too_small_error(cur_grad_scale)
+
+        if batch_idx % params.log_interval == 0:
+            cur_lr = max(scheduler.get_last_lr())
+            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.sos_id = params.eos_id = sp.piece_to_id("<sos/eos>")
+    params.vocab_size = sp.get_piece_size()
+
+    if not params.use_transducer:
+        if not params.use_attention_decoder:
+            params.ctc_loss_scale = 1.0
+        else:
+            assert params.ctc_loss_scale + params.attention_decoder_loss_scale == 1.0, (
+                params.ctc_loss_scale,
+                params.attention_decoder_loss_scale,
+            )
+
+    logging.info(params)
+
+    logging.info("About to create model")
+    model = get_model(params)
+
+    num_param = sum([p.numel() for p in model.parameters()])
+    logging.info(f"Number of model parameters: {num_param}")
+
+    if params.use_cr_ctc:
+        assert params.use_ctc
+        assert not params.enable_spec_aug  # we will do spec_augment in model.py
+        spec_augment = get_spec_augment(params)
+    else:
+        spec_augment = None
+
+    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)
+
+    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)
+
+    optimizer = ScaledAdam(
+        get_parameter_groups_with_lrs(model, lr=params.base_lr, include_names=True),
+        lr=params.base_lr,  # should have no effect
+        clipping_scale=2.0,
+    )
+
+    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(
+            512
+        )  # allow 4 megabytes per sub-module
+        diagnostic = diagnostics.attach_diagnostics(model, opts)
+
+    if params.inf_check:
+        register_inf_check_hooks(model)
+
+    def remove_short_utt(c: Cut):
+        # In ./zipformer.py, the conv module uses the following expression
+        # for subsampling
+        T = ((c.num_frames - 7) // 2 + 1) // 2
+        return T > 0
+
+    gigaspeech = GigaSpeechAsrDataModule(args)
+
+    train_cuts = gigaspeech.train_cuts()
+    train_cuts = train_cuts.filter(remove_short_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_cuts = valid_cuts.filter(remove_short_utt)
+    valid_dl = gigaspeech.valid_dataloaders(valid_cuts)
+
+    if not params.print_diagnostics and params.scan_for_oom_batches:
+        scan_pessimistic_batches_for_oom(
+            model=model,
+            train_dl=train_dl,
+            optimizer=optimizer,
+            sp=sp,
+            params=params,
+            spec_augment=spec_augment,
+        )
+
+    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,
+            spec_augment=spec_augment,
+            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,
+    spec_augment: Optional[SpecAugment] = None,
+):
+    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,
+                    spec_augment=spec_augment,
+                )
+            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)
+    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/zipformer/attention_decoder.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/zipformer/attention_decoder.py
index 81682e87b..d1cedb6fd 100644
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/zipformer/attention_decoder.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/zipformer/attention_decoder.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 
 import math
+import warnings
 from typing import List, Optional
 
 import k2
@@ -234,10 +235,13 @@ class TransformerDecoder(nn.Module):
         # construct attn_mask for self-attn modules
         padding_mask = make_pad_mask(x_lens)  # (batch, tgt_len)
         causal_mask = subsequent_mask(x.shape[0], device=x.device)  # (seq_len, seq_len)
-        attn_mask = torch.logical_or(
-            padding_mask.unsqueeze(1),  # (batch, 1, seq_len)
-            torch.logical_not(causal_mask).unsqueeze(0)  # (1, seq_len, seq_len)
-        )  # (batch, seq_len, seq_len)
+
+        with warnings.catch_warnings():
+            warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
+            attn_mask = torch.logical_or(
+                padding_mask.unsqueeze(1),  # (batch, 1, seq_len)
+                torch.logical_not(causal_mask).unsqueeze(0),  # (1, seq_len, seq_len)
+            )  # (batch, seq_len, seq_len)
 
         if memory is not None:
             memory = memory.permute(1, 0, 2)  # (src_len, batch, memory_dim)
@@ -367,7 +371,9 @@ class MultiHeadAttention(nn.Module):
         self.num_heads = num_heads
         self.head_dim = attention_dim // num_heads
         assert self.head_dim * num_heads == attention_dim, (
-            self.head_dim, num_heads, attention_dim
+            self.head_dim,
+            num_heads,
+            attention_dim,
         )
         self.dropout = dropout
         self.name = None  # will be overwritten in training code; for diagnostics.
@@ -437,15 +443,19 @@ class MultiHeadAttention(nn.Module):
         if key_padding_mask is not None:
             assert key_padding_mask.shape == (batch, src_len), key_padding_mask.shape
             attn_weights = attn_weights.masked_fill(
-                key_padding_mask.unsqueeze(1).unsqueeze(2), float("-inf"),
+                key_padding_mask.unsqueeze(1).unsqueeze(2),
+                float("-inf"),
             )
 
         if attn_mask is not None:
-            assert (
-                attn_mask.shape == (batch, 1, src_len)
-                or attn_mask.shape == (batch, tgt_len, src_len)
+            assert attn_mask.shape == (batch, 1, src_len) or attn_mask.shape == (
+                batch,
+                tgt_len,
+                src_len,
             ), attn_mask.shape
-            attn_weights = attn_weights.masked_fill(attn_mask.unsqueeze(1), float("-inf"))
+            attn_weights = attn_weights.masked_fill(
+                attn_mask.unsqueeze(1), float("-inf")
+            )
 
         attn_weights = attn_weights.view(batch * num_heads, tgt_len, src_len)
         attn_weights = nn.functional.softmax(attn_weights, dim=-1)
@@ -456,7 +466,11 @@ class MultiHeadAttention(nn.Module):
 
         # (batch * head, tgt_len, head_dim)
         attn_output = torch.bmm(attn_weights, v)
-        assert attn_output.shape == (batch * num_heads, tgt_len, head_dim), attn_output.shape
+        assert attn_output.shape == (
+            batch * num_heads,
+            tgt_len,
+            head_dim,
+        ), attn_output.shape
 
         attn_output = attn_output.transpose(0, 1).contiguous()
         attn_output = attn_output.view(tgt_len, batch, num_heads * head_dim)
diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/zipformer/train.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/zipformer/train.py
index c2aaf8b56..3fde55de2 100755
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/zipformer/train.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/zipformer/train.py
@@ -747,7 +747,7 @@ def get_model(params: AttributeDict) -> nn.Module:
 
 
 def get_spec_augment(params: AttributeDict) -> SpecAugment:
-    num_frame_masks = 10 * params.time_mask_ratio
+    num_frame_masks = int(10 * params.time_mask_ratio)
     max_frames_mask_fraction = 0.15 * params.time_mask_ratio
     logging.info(
         f"num_frame_masks: {num_frame_masks}, "