Make lrate rule more symmetric

egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless2/train.py

@@ -148,22 +148,22 @@ def get_parser():
         "--initial-lr",
         type=float,
         default=0.003,
-        help="The initial learning rate",
+        help="The initial learning rate.  This value should not need to be changed.",
     )
 
     parser.add_argument(
-        "--lr-begin-steps",
+        "--lr-steps",
         type=float,
         default=5000,
-        help="Number of steps that affects how rapidly the learning rate initially decreases"
+        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,
+        default=6,
-        help="""Number of epochs for purposes of the learning-rate schedule;
+        help="""Number of epochs that affects how rapidly the learning rate decreases.
-        if -1, will be set the same as --num-epochs
         """
     )
 
@@ -788,11 +788,10 @@ def run(rank, world_size, args):
     # in `for epoch in range(params.start_epoch, params.num_epochs):`.  Set it to 0
     # here to avoid crash in constructor.
     epoch = 0
-    lr_epochs = params.lr_epochs if params.lr_epochs > 0 else params.num_epochs
     scheduler = torch.optim.lr_scheduler.LambdaLR(
         optimizer,
-        lambda step: (((step**2 + params.lr_begin_steps**2) / params.lr_begin_steps**2) ** -0.25 *
+        lambda step: (((step**2 + params.lr_steps**2) / params.lr_steps**2) ** -0.25 *
-                      ((epoch + lr_epochs) / lr_epochs) ** -0.5))
+                      (((epoch**2 + params.lr_epochs**2) / params.lr_epochs**2) ** -0.25))
 
 
     if checkpoints and "optimizer" in checkpoints: