diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless5/conformer.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless5/conformer.py
index f79e63962..49bc6a489 100644
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless5/conformer.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless5/conformer.py
@@ -87,10 +87,17 @@ class Conformer(EncoderInterface):
             layer_dropout,
             cnn_module_kernel,
         )
+        # aux_layers from 1/3
         self.encoder = ConformerEncoder(
             encoder_layer,
             num_encoder_layers,
-            aux_layers=list(range(0, num_encoder_layers - 1, aux_layer_period)),
+            aux_layers=list(
+                range(
+                    num_encoder_layers // 3,
+                    num_encoder_layers - 1,
+                    aux_layer_period,
+                )
+            ),
         )
 
     def forward(
@@ -295,10 +302,8 @@ class ConformerEncoder(nn.Module):
         assert num_layers - 1 not in aux_layers
         self.aux_layers = aux_layers + [num_layers - 1]
 
-        num_channels = encoder_layer.norm_final.num_channels
         self.combiner = RandomCombine(
             num_inputs=len(self.aux_layers),
-            num_channels=num_channels,
             final_weight=0.5,
             pure_prob=0.333,
             stddev=2.0,
@@ -1072,7 +1077,6 @@ class RandomCombine(nn.Module):
     def __init__(
         self,
         num_inputs: int,
-        num_channels: int,
         final_weight: float = 0.5,
         pure_prob: float = 0.5,
         stddev: float = 2.0,
@@ -1083,8 +1087,6 @@ class RandomCombine(nn.Module):
             The number of tensor inputs, which equals the number of layers'
             outputs that are fed into this module.  E.g. in an 18-layer neural
             net if we output layers 16, 12, 18, num_inputs would be 3.
-          num_channels:
-            The number of channels on the input, e.g. 512.
           final_weight:
             The amount of weight or probability we assign to the
             final layer when randomly choosing layers or when choosing
@@ -1115,13 +1117,6 @@ class RandomCombine(nn.Module):
         assert 0 < final_weight < 1, final_weight
         assert num_inputs >= 1
 
-        self.linear = nn.ModuleList(
-            [
-                nn.Linear(num_channels, num_channels, bias=True)
-                for _ in range(num_inputs - 1)
-            ]
-        )
-
         self.num_inputs = num_inputs
         self.final_weight = final_weight
         self.pure_prob = pure_prob
@@ -1134,12 +1129,6 @@ class RandomCombine(nn.Module):
             .log()
             .item()
         )
-        self._reset_parameters()
-
-    def _reset_parameters(self):
-        for i in range(len(self.linear)):
-            nn.init.eye_(self.linear[i].weight)
-            nn.init.constant_(self.linear[i].bias, 0.0)
 
     def forward(self, inputs: List[Tensor]) -> Tensor:
         """Forward function.
@@ -1160,28 +1149,9 @@ class RandomCombine(nn.Module):
         num_channels = inputs[0].shape[-1]
         num_frames = inputs[0].numel() // num_channels
 
-        mod_inputs = []
-
-        if False:
-            # It throws the following error for torch 1.6.0 when using
-            # torch script.
-            #
-            # Expected integer literal for index. ModuleList/Sequential
-            # indexing is only supported with integer literals. Enumeration is
-            # supported, e.g. 'for index, v in enumerate(self): ...':
-            #  for i in range(num_inputs - 1):
-            #      mod_inputs.append(self.linear[i](inputs[i]))
-            assert False
-        else:
-            for i, linear in enumerate(self.linear):
-                if i < num_inputs - 1:
-                    mod_inputs.append(linear(inputs[i]))
-
-        mod_inputs.append(inputs[num_inputs - 1])
-
         ndim = inputs[0].ndim
         # stacked_inputs: (num_frames, num_channels, num_inputs)
-        stacked_inputs = torch.stack(mod_inputs, dim=ndim).reshape(
+        stacked_inputs = torch.stack(inputs, dim=ndim).reshape(
             (num_frames, num_channels, num_inputs)
         )