diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/scaling.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/scaling.py
index 3fe71698b..96906b726 100644
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/scaling.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/scaling.py
@@ -397,14 +397,15 @@ class ActivationBalancer(torch.nn.Module):
             return x
 
         if self.max_var_per_eig > 0:
+            max_eig_prob = 0.25
             with torch.cuda.amp.autocast(enabled=False):
                 x, new_direction = MaxEigLimiterFunction.apply(
                     x, self.max_eig_direction,
                     self.channel_dim,
-                    0.25, # prob
+                    max_eig_prob,
                     True, # subtract_mean
                     self.max_var_per_eig,
-                    self.max_factor,
+                    self.max_factor / max_eig_prob,
                 )
                 self.max_eig_direction[:] = new_direction.detach()