diff --git a/egs/librilight/SSL/zipformer/pretrain.py b/egs/librilight/SSL/zipformer/pretrain.py
index 6fe5a5990..f5c98f7eb 100755
--- a/egs/librilight/SSL/zipformer/pretrain.py
+++ b/egs/librilight/SSL/zipformer/pretrain.py
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ def get_parser():
     parser.add_argument(
         "--lr-hours",
         type=float,
-        default=30000,
+        default=10000,
         help="""Number of hours that affects how rapidly the learning rate decreases.
         """,
     )