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diff --git a/egs/tal_csasr/ASR/lstm_transducer_stateless3/train.py b/egs/tal_csasr/ASR/lstm_transducer_stateless3/train.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright    2021  Xiaomi Corp.        (authors: Fangjun Kuang,
+#                                                  Wei Kang,
+#                                                  Mingshuang Luo,)
+#                                                  Zengwei Yao)
+#
+# See ../../../../LICENSE for clarification regarding multiple authors
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+"""
+Usage:
+
+export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="0,1,2,3"
+
+./lstm_transducer_stateless3/train.py \
+  --world-size 4 \
+  --num-epochs 40 \
+  --start-epoch 1 \
+  --exp-dir lstm_transducer_stateless3/exp \
+  --full-libri 1 \
+  --max-duration 500
+
+# For mix precision training:
+
+./lstm_transducer_stateless3/train.py \
+  --world-size 4 \
+  --num-epochs 40 \
+  --start-epoch 1 \
+  --use-fp16 1 \
+  --exp-dir lstm_transducer_stateless3/exp \
+  --full-libri 1 \
+  --max-duration 550
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import copy
+import logging
+import warnings
+from pathlib import Path
+from shutil import copyfile
+from typing import Any, Dict, 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 LibriSpeechAsrDataModule
+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 lstm import RNN
+from model import Transducer
+from optim import Eden, Eve
+from torch import Tensor
+from torch.cuda.amp import GradScaler
+from torch.nn.parallel import DistributedDataParallel as DDP
+from torch.utils.tensorboard import SummaryWriter
+
+from icefall import diagnostics
+from icefall.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.utils import (
+    AttributeDict,
+    MetricsTracker,
+    display_and_save_batch,
+    setup_logger,
+    str2bool,
+)
+
+LRSchedulerType = Union[torch.optim.lr_scheduler._LRScheduler, optim.LRScheduler]
+
+
+def add_model_arguments(parser: argparse.ArgumentParser):
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--num-encoder-layers",
+        type=int,
+        default=12,
+        help="Number of RNN encoder layers..",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--encoder-dim",
+        type=int,
+        default=512,
+        help="Encoder output dimesion.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--rnn-hidden-size",
+        type=int,
+        default=1024,
+        help="Hidden dim for LSTM layers.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--aux-layer-period",
+        type=int,
+        default=0,
+        help="""Peroid of auxiliary layers used for randomly combined during training.
+        If set to 0, will not use the random combiner (Default).
+        You can set a positive integer to use the random combiner, e.g., 3.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--grad-norm-threshold",
+        type=float,
+        default=25.0,
+        help="""For each sequence element in batch, its gradient will be
+        filtered out if the gradient norm is larger than
+        `grad_norm_threshold * median`, where `median` is the median
+        value of gradient norms of all elememts in batch.""",
+    )
+
+
+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=40,
+        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="lstm_transducer_stateless/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(
+        "--initial-lr",
+        type=float,
+        default=0.003,
+        help="""The initial learning rate. This value should not need to be
+        changed.""",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--lr-batches",
+        type=float,
+        default=5000,
+        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=10,
+        help="""Number of epochs that affects how rapidly the learning rate decreases.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--context-size",
+        type=int,
+        default=2,
+        help="The context size in the decoder. 1 means bigram; 2 means tri-gram",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--prune-range",
+        type=int,
+        default=5,
+        help="The prune range for rnnt loss, it means how many symbols(context)"
+        "we are using to compute the loss",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--lm-scale",
+        type=float,
+        default=0.25,
+        help="The scale to smooth the loss with lm "
+        "(output of prediction network) part.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--am-scale",
+        type=float,
+        default=0.0,
+        help="The scale to smooth the loss with am (output of encoder network) part.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--simple-loss-scale",
+        type=float,
+        default=0.5,
+        help="To get pruning ranges, we will calculate a simple version"
+        "loss(joiner is just addition), this simple loss also uses for"
+        "training (as a regularization item). We will scale the simple loss"
+        "with this parameter before adding to the final loss.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--seed",
+        type=int,
+        default=42,
+        help="The seed for random generators intended for reproducibility",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--print-diagnostics",
+        type=str2bool,
+        default=False,
+        help="Accumulate stats on activations, print them and exit.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--save-every-n",
+        type=int,
+        default=4000,
+        help="""Save checkpoint after processing this number of batches"
+        periodically. We save checkpoint to exp-dir/ whenever
+        params.batch_idx_train % save_every_n == 0. The checkpoint filename
+        has the form: f'exp-dir/checkpoint-{params.batch_idx_train}.pt'
+        Note: It also saves checkpoint to `exp-dir/epoch-xxx.pt` at the
+        end of each epoch where `xxx` is the epoch number counting from 0.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--keep-last-k",
+        type=int,
+        default=20,
+        help="""Only keep this number of checkpoints on disk.
+        For instance, if it is 3, there are only 3 checkpoints
+        in the exp-dir with filenames `checkpoint-xxx.pt`.
+        It does not affect checkpoints with name `epoch-xxx.pt`.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--average-period",
+        type=int,
+        default=100,
+        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.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--delay-penalty",
+        type=float,
+        default=0.0,
+        help="""A constant value used to penalize symbol delay,
+        to encourage streaming models to emit symbols earlier.
+        See https://github.com/k2-fsa/k2/issues/955 and
+        https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.00490.pdf for more details.""",
+    )
+
+    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.
+
+        - num_decoder_layers: Number of decoder layer of transformer decoder.
+
+        - warm_step: The warm_step for Noam optimizer.
+    """
+    params = AttributeDict(
+        {
+            "frame_shift_ms": 10.0,
+            "best_train_loss": float("inf"),
+            "best_valid_loss": float("inf"),
+            "best_train_epoch": -1,
+            "best_valid_epoch": -1,
+            "batch_idx_train": 0,
+            "log_interval": 50,
+            "reset_interval": 200,
+            "valid_interval": 3000,  # For the 100h subset, use 800
+            # parameters for conformer
+            "feature_dim": 80,
+            "subsampling_factor": 4,
+            "dim_feedforward": 2048,
+            # parameters for decoder
+            "decoder_dim": 512,
+            # parameters for joiner
+            "joiner_dim": 512,
+            # parameters for Noam
+            "model_warm_step": 3000,  # arg given to model, not for lrate
+            "env_info": get_env_info(),
+        }
+    )
+
+    return params
+
+
+def get_encoder_model(params: AttributeDict) -> nn.Module:
+    encoder = RNN(
+        num_features=params.feature_dim,
+        subsampling_factor=params.subsampling_factor,
+        d_model=params.encoder_dim,
+        rnn_hidden_size=params.rnn_hidden_size,
+        grad_norm_threshold=params.grad_norm_threshold,
+        dim_feedforward=params.dim_feedforward,
+        num_encoder_layers=params.num_encoder_layers,
+        aux_layer_period=params.aux_layer_period,
+    )
+    return encoder
+
+
+def get_decoder_model(params: AttributeDict) -> nn.Module:
+    decoder = Decoder(
+        vocab_size=params.vocab_size,
+        decoder_dim=params.decoder_dim,
+        blank_id=params.blank_id,
+        context_size=params.context_size,
+    )
+    return decoder
+
+
+def get_joiner_model(params: AttributeDict) -> nn.Module:
+    joiner = Joiner(
+        encoder_dim=params.encoder_dim,
+        decoder_dim=params.decoder_dim,
+        joiner_dim=params.joiner_dim,
+        vocab_size=params.vocab_size,
+    )
+    return joiner
+
+
+def get_transducer_model(params: AttributeDict) -> nn.Module:
+    encoder = get_encoder_model(params)
+    decoder = get_decoder_model(params)
+    joiner = get_joiner_model(params)
+
+    model = Transducer(
+        encoder=encoder,
+        decoder=decoder,
+        joiner=joiner,
+        encoder_dim=params.encoder_dim,
+        decoder_dim=params.decoder_dim,
+        joiner_dim=params.joiner_dim,
+        vocab_size=params.vocab_size,
+    )
+    return model
+
+
+def load_checkpoint_if_available(
+    params: AttributeDict,
+    model: nn.Module,
+    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,
+    warmup: float = 1.0,
+) -> Tuple[Tensor, MetricsTracker]:
+    """
+    Compute RNN-T 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 Conformer in our case.
+      batch:
+        A batch of data. See `lhotse.dataset.K2SpeechRecognitionDataset()`
+        for the content in it.
+      is_training:
+        True for training. False for validation. When it is True, this
+        function enables autograd during computation; when it is False, it
+        disables autograd.
+     warmup: a floating point value which increases throughout training;
+        values >= 1.0 are fully warmed up and have all modules present.
+    """
+    device = model.device 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)
+
+    texts = batch["supervisions"]["text"]
+    y = sp.encode(texts, out_type=int)
+    y = k2.RaggedTensor(y).to(device)
+
+    with torch.set_grad_enabled(is_training):
+        simple_loss, pruned_loss = model(
+            x=feature,
+            x_lens=feature_lens,
+            y=y,
+            prune_range=params.prune_range,
+            am_scale=params.am_scale,
+            lm_scale=params.lm_scale,
+            warmup=warmup,
+            reduction="none",
+            delay_penalty=params.delay_penalty if warmup >= 2.0 else 0,
+        )
+        simple_loss_is_finite = torch.isfinite(simple_loss)
+        pruned_loss_is_finite = torch.isfinite(pruned_loss)
+        is_finite = simple_loss_is_finite & pruned_loss_is_finite
+        if not torch.all(is_finite):
+            logging.info(
+                "Not all losses are finite!\n"
+                f"simple_loss: {simple_loss}\n"
+                f"pruned_loss: {pruned_loss}"
+            )
+            display_and_save_batch(batch, params=params, sp=sp)
+            simple_loss = simple_loss[simple_loss_is_finite]
+            pruned_loss = pruned_loss[pruned_loss_is_finite]
+
+            # If either all simple_loss or pruned_loss is inf or nan,
+            # we stop the training process by raising an exception
+            if torch.all(~simple_loss_is_finite) or torch.all(~pruned_loss_is_finite):
+                raise ValueError(
+                    "There are too many utterances in this batch "
+                    "leading to inf or nan losses."
+                )
+
+        simple_loss = simple_loss.sum()
+        pruned_loss = pruned_loss.sum()
+        # after the main warmup step, we keep pruned_loss_scale small
+        # for the same amount of time (model_warm_step), to avoid
+        # overwhelming the simple_loss and causing it to diverge,
+        # in case it had not fully learned the alignment yet.
+        pruned_loss_scale = (
+            0.0 if warmup < 1.0 else (0.1 if warmup > 1.0 and warmup < 2.0 else 1.0)
+        )
+        loss = params.simple_loss_scale * simple_loss + pruned_loss_scale * pruned_loss
+
+    assert loss.requires_grad == is_training
+
+    info = MetricsTracker()
+    with warnings.catch_warnings():
+        warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
+        # info["frames"] is an approximate number for two reasons:
+        # (1) The acutal subsampling factor is ((lens - 1) // 2 - 1) // 2
+        # (2) If some utterances in the batch lead to inf/nan loss, they
+        #     are filtered out.
+        info["frames"] = (feature_lens // params.subsampling_factor).sum().item()
+
+    # `utt_duration` and `utt_pad_proportion` would be normalized by `utterances`  # noqa
+    info["utterances"] = feature.size(0)
+    # averaged input duration in frames over utterances
+    info["utt_duration"] = feature_lens.sum().item()
+    # averaged padding proportion over utterances
+    info["utt_pad_proportion"] = (
+        ((feature.size(1) - feature_lens) / feature.size(1)).sum().item()
+    )
+
+    # Note: We use reduction=sum while computing the loss.
+    info["loss"] = loss.detach().cpu().item()
+    info["simple_loss"] = simple_loss.detach().cpu().item()
+    info["pruned_loss"] = pruned_loss.detach().cpu().item()
+
+    return loss, info
+
+
+def compute_validation_loss(
+    params: AttributeDict,
+    model: Union[nn.Module, DDP],
+    sp: spm.SentencePieceProcessor,
+    valid_dl: torch.utils.data.DataLoader,
+    world_size: int = 1,
+) -> MetricsTracker:
+    """Run the validation process."""
+    model.eval()
+
+    tot_loss = MetricsTracker()
+
+    for batch_idx, batch in enumerate(valid_dl):
+        loss, loss_info = compute_loss(
+            params=params,
+            model=model,
+            sp=sp,
+            batch=batch,
+            is_training=False,
+        )
+        assert loss.requires_grad is False
+        tot_loss = tot_loss + loss_info
+
+    if world_size > 1:
+        tot_loss.reduce(loss.device)
+
+    loss_value = tot_loss["loss"] / tot_loss["frames"]
+    if loss_value < params.best_valid_loss:
+        params.best_valid_epoch = params.cur_epoch
+        params.best_valid_loss = loss_value
+
+    return tot_loss
+
+
+def train_one_epoch(
+    params: AttributeDict,
+    model: Union[nn.Module, DDP],
+    optimizer: torch.optim.Optimizer,
+    scheduler: LRSchedulerType,
+    sp: spm.SentencePieceProcessor,
+    train_dl: torch.utils.data.DataLoader,
+    valid_dl: torch.utils.data.DataLoader,
+    scaler: GradScaler,
+    model_avg: Optional[nn.Module] = None,
+    tb_writer: Optional[SummaryWriter] = None,
+    world_size: int = 1,
+    rank: int = 0,
+) -> None:
+    """Train the model for one epoch.
+
+    The training loss from the mean of all frames is saved in
+    `params.train_loss`. It runs the validation process every
+    `params.valid_interval` batches.
+
+    Args:
+      params:
+        It is returned by :func:`get_params`.
+      model:
+        The model for training.
+      optimizer:
+        The optimizer we are using.
+      scheduler:
+        The learning rate scheduler, we call step() every step.
+      train_dl:
+        Dataloader for the training dataset.
+      valid_dl:
+        Dataloader for the validation dataset.
+      scaler:
+        The scaler used for mix precision training.
+      model_avg:
+        The stored model averaged from the start of training.
+      tb_writer:
+        Writer to write log messages to tensorboard.
+      world_size:
+        Number of nodes in DDP training. If it is 1, DDP is disabled.
+      rank:
+        The rank of the node in DDP training. If no DDP is used, it should
+        be set to 0.
+    """
+    model.train()
+
+    tot_loss = MetricsTracker()
+
+    for batch_idx, batch in enumerate(train_dl):
+        params.batch_idx_train += 1
+        batch_size = len(batch["supervisions"]["text"])
+
+        try:
+            with torch.cuda.amp.autocast(enabled=params.use_fp16):
+                loss, loss_info = compute_loss(
+                    params=params,
+                    model=model,
+                    sp=sp,
+                    batch=batch,
+                    is_training=True,
+                    warmup=(params.batch_idx_train / params.model_warm_step),
+                )
+            # summary stats
+            tot_loss = (tot_loss * (1 - 1 / params.reset_interval)) + loss_info
+
+            # NOTE: We use reduction==sum and loss is computed over utterances
+            # in the batch and there is no normalization to it so far.
+            scaler.scale(loss).backward()
+
+            scheduler.step_batch(params.batch_idx_train)
+            scaler.step(optimizer)
+            scaler.update()
+            optimizer.zero_grad()
+        except:  # noqa
+            display_and_save_batch(batch, params=params, sp=sp)
+            raise
+
+        if params.print_diagnostics and batch_idx == 30:
+            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 % params.log_interval == 0 and not params.print_diagnostics:
+            cur_lr = scheduler.get_last_lr()[0]
+            logging.info(
+                f"Epoch {params.cur_epoch}, "
+                f"batch {batch_idx}, loss[{loss_info}], "
+                f"tot_loss[{tot_loss}], batch size: {batch_size}, "
+                f"lr: {cur_lr:.2e}"
+            )
+
+            if tb_writer is not None:
+                tb_writer.add_scalar(
+                    "train/learning_rate", cur_lr, params.batch_idx_train
+                )
+
+                loss_info.write_summary(
+                    tb_writer, "train/current_", params.batch_idx_train
+                )
+                tot_loss.write_summary(tb_writer, "train/tot_", params.batch_idx_train)
+
+        if (
+            batch_idx > 0
+            and 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}")
+            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))
+    if params.full_libri is False:
+        params.valid_interval = 800
+
+    fix_random_seed(params.seed)
+    if world_size > 1:
+        setup_dist(rank, world_size, params.master_port)
+
+    setup_logger(f"{params.exp_dir}/log/log-train")
+    logging.info("Training started")
+
+    if args.tensorboard and rank == 0:
+        tb_writer = SummaryWriter(log_dir=f"{params.exp_dir}/tensorboard")
+    else:
+        tb_writer = None
+
+    device = torch.device("cpu")
+    if torch.cuda.is_available():
+        device = torch.device("cuda", rank)
+    logging.info(f"Device: {device}")
+
+    sp = spm.SentencePieceProcessor()
+    sp.load(params.bpe_model)
+
+    # <blk> is defined in local/train_bpe_model.py
+    params.blank_id = sp.piece_to_id("<blk>")
+    params.vocab_size = sp.get_piece_size()
+
+    logging.info(params)
+
+    logging.info("About to create model")
+    model = get_transducer_model(params)
+
+    num_param = sum([p.numel() for p in model.parameters()])
+    logging.info(f"Number of model parameters: {num_param}")
+
+    assert params.save_every_n >= params.average_period
+    model_avg: Optional[nn.Module] = None
+    if rank == 0:
+        # model_avg is only used with rank 0
+        model_avg = copy.deepcopy(model)
+
+    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])
+
+    optimizer = Eve(model.parameters(), lr=params.initial_lr)
+
+    scheduler = Eden(optimizer, params.lr_batches, params.lr_epochs)
+
+    if checkpoints and "optimizer" in checkpoints:
+        logging.info("Loading optimizer state dict")
+        optimizer.load_state_dict(checkpoints["optimizer"])
+
+    if (
+        checkpoints
+        and "scheduler" in checkpoints
+        and checkpoints["scheduler"] is not None
+    ):
+        logging.info("Loading scheduler state dict")
+        scheduler.load_state_dict(checkpoints["scheduler"])
+
+    # # overwrite it
+    # scheduler.base_lrs = [params.initial_lr for _ in scheduler.base_lrs]
+    # print(scheduler.base_lrs)
+
+    if params.print_diagnostics:
+        diagnostic = diagnostics.attach_diagnostics(model)
+
+    librispeech = LibriSpeechAsrDataModule(args)
+
+    train_cuts = librispeech.train_clean_100_cuts()
+    if params.full_libri:
+        train_cuts += librispeech.train_clean_360_cuts()
+        train_cuts += librispeech.train_other_500_cuts()
+
+    def remove_short_and_long_utt(c: Cut):
+        # Keep only utterances with duration between 1 second and 20 seconds
+        #
+        # Caution: There is a reason to select 20.0 here. Please see
+        # ../local/display_manifest_statistics.py
+        #
+        # You should use ../local/display_manifest_statistics.py to get
+        # an utterance duration distribution for your dataset to select
+        # the threshold
+        if c.duration < 1.0 or c.duration > 20.0:
+            logging.warning(
+                f"Exclude cut with ID {c.id} from training. Duration: {c.duration}"
+            )
+            return False
+
+        # In pruned RNN-T, we require that T >= S
+        # where T is the number of feature frames after subsampling
+        # and S is the number of tokens in the utterance
+
+        # In ./lstm.py, the conv module uses the following expression
+        # for subsampling
+        T = ((c.num_frames - 3) // 2 - 1) // 2
+        tokens = sp.encode(c.supervisions[0].text, out_type=str)
+
+        if T < len(tokens):
+            logging.warning(
+                f"Exclude cut with ID {c.id} from training. "
+                f"Number of frames (before subsampling): {c.num_frames}. "
+                f"Number of frames (after subsampling): {T}. "
+                f"Text: {c.supervisions[0].text}. "
+                f"Tokens: {tokens}. "
+                f"Number of tokens: {len(tokens)}"
+            )
+            return False
+
+        return True
+
+    train_cuts = train_cuts.filter(remove_short_and_long_utt)
+
+    if params.start_batch > 0 and checkpoints and "sampler" in checkpoints:
+        # We only load the sampler's state dict when it loads a checkpoint
+        # saved in the middle of an epoch
+        sampler_state_dict = checkpoints["sampler"]
+    else:
+        sampler_state_dict = None
+
+    train_dl = librispeech.train_dataloaders(
+        train_cuts, sampler_state_dict=sampler_state_dict
+    )
+
+    valid_cuts = librispeech.dev_clean_cuts()
+    valid_cuts += librispeech.dev_other_cuts()
+    valid_dl = librispeech.valid_dataloaders(valid_cuts)
+
+    if not params.print_diagnostics:
+        scan_pessimistic_batches_for_oom(
+            model=model,
+            train_dl=train_dl,
+            optimizer=optimizer,
+            sp=sp,
+            params=params,
+            warmup=0.0 if params.start_epoch == 1 else 1.0,
+        )
+
+    scaler = GradScaler(enabled=params.use_fp16)
+    if checkpoints and "grad_scaler" in checkpoints:
+        logging.info("Loading grad scaler state dict")
+        scaler.load_state_dict(checkpoints["grad_scaler"])
+
+    for epoch in range(params.start_epoch, params.num_epochs + 1):
+        scheduler.step_epoch(epoch - 1)
+        fix_random_seed(params.seed + epoch - 1)
+        train_dl.sampler.set_epoch(epoch - 1)
+
+        if tb_writer is not None:
+            tb_writer.add_scalar("train/epoch", epoch, params.batch_idx_train)
+
+        params.cur_epoch = epoch
+
+        train_one_epoch(
+            params=params,
+            model=model,
+            model_avg=model_avg,
+            optimizer=optimizer,
+            scheduler=scheduler,
+            sp=sp,
+            train_dl=train_dl,
+            valid_dl=valid_dl,
+            scaler=scaler,
+            tb_writer=tb_writer,
+            world_size=world_size,
+            rank=rank,
+        )
+
+        if params.print_diagnostics:
+            diagnostic.print_diagnostics()
+            break
+
+        save_checkpoint(
+            params=params,
+            model=model,
+            model_avg=model_avg,
+            optimizer=optimizer,
+            scheduler=scheduler,
+            sampler=train_dl.sampler,
+            scaler=scaler,
+            rank=rank,
+        )
+
+    logging.info("Done!")
+
+    if world_size > 1:
+        torch.distributed.barrier()
+        cleanup_dist()
+
+
+def 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,
+    warmup: float,
+):
+    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,
+                    warmup=warmup,
+                )
+            loss.backward()
+            optimizer.step()
+            optimizer.zero_grad()
+        except RuntimeError 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]}) ..."
+                )
+            raise
+
+
+def main():
+    parser = get_parser()
+    LibriSpeechAsrDataModule.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()