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+# pylint: skip-file
+# QuartzNet paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10261
+import tensorflow as tf
+from open_seq2seq.models import Speech2Text
+from open_seq2seq.encoders import TDNNEncoder
+from open_seq2seq.decoders import FullyConnectedCTCDecoder
+from open_seq2seq.data.speech2text.speech2text import Speech2TextDataLayer
+from open_seq2seq.losses import CTCLoss
+from open_seq2seq.optimizers.lr_policies import cosine_decay
+from open_seq2seq.optimizers.novograd import NovoGrad
+
+residual_dense = False  # Enable or disable Dense Residual
+
+base_model = Speech2Text
+
+base_params = {
+    "random_seed": 0,
+    "use_horovod": True,
+    "num_epochs": 400,
+
+    "num_gpus": 8,
+    "batch_size_per_gpu": 32,
+    "iter_size": 1,
+
+    "save_summaries_steps": 100,
+    "print_loss_steps": 10,
+    "print_samples_steps": 2200,
+    "eval_steps": 2200,
+    "save_checkpoint_steps": 1100,
+    "logdir": "jasper_log_folder",
+    "num_checkpoints": 2,
+
+    "optimizer": NovoGrad,
+    "optimizer_params": {
+        "beta1": 0.95,
+        "beta2": 0.5,
+        "epsilon": 1e-08,
+        "weight_decay": 0.001,
+        "grad_averaging": False,
+    },
+    "lr_policy": cosine_decay,
+    "lr_policy_params": {
+        "learning_rate": 0.01,
+        "min_lr": 0.0,
+        "warmup_steps": 1000
+    },
+
+    "dtype": tf.float32,
+    # "loss_scaling": "Backoff",
+
+    "summaries": ['learning_rate', 'variables', 'gradients', 'larc_summaries',
+                  'variable_norm', 'gradient_norm', 'global_gradient_norm'],
+
+    "encoder": TDNNEncoder,
+    "encoder_params": {
+        "convnet_layers": [
+            {
+                "type": "sep_conv1d", "repeat": 1,
+                "kernel_size": [33], "stride": [2],
+                "num_channels": 256, "padding": "SAME",
+                "dilation":[1]
+            },
+            {
+                "type": "sep_conv1d", "repeat": 5,
+                "kernel_size": [33], "stride": [1],
+                "num_channels": 256, "padding": "SAME",
+                "dilation":[1],
+                "residual": True, "residual_dense": residual_dense
+            },
+            {
+                "type": "sep_conv1d", "repeat": 5,
+                "kernel_size": [33], "stride": [1],
+                "num_channels": 256, "padding": "SAME",
+                "dilation":[1],
+                "residual": True, "residual_dense": residual_dense
+            },
+            {
+                "type": "sep_conv1d", "repeat": 5,
+                "kernel_size": [33], "stride": [1],
+                "num_channels": 256, "padding": "SAME",
+                "dilation":[1],
+                "residual": True, "residual_dense": residual_dense
+            },
+            {
+                "type": "sep_conv1d", "repeat": 5,
+                "kernel_size": [39], "stride": [1],
+                "num_channels": 256, "padding": "SAME",
+                "dilation":[1],
+                "residual": True, "residual_dense": residual_dense
+            },
+            {
+                "type": "sep_conv1d", "repeat": 5,
+                "kernel_size": [39], "stride": [1],
+                "num_channels": 256, "padding": "SAME",
+                "dilation":[1],
+                "residual": True, "residual_dense": residual_dense
+            },
+            {
+                "type": "sep_conv1d", "repeat": 5,
+                "kernel_size": [39], "stride": [1],
+                "num_channels": 256, "padding": "SAME",
+                "dilation":[1],
+                "residual": True, "residual_dense": residual_dense
+            },
+            {
+                "type": "sep_conv1d", "repeat": 5,
+                "kernel_size": [51], "stride": [1],
+                "num_channels": 512, "padding": "SAME",
+                "dilation":[1],
+                "residual": True, "residual_dense": residual_dense
+            },
+            {
+                "type": "sep_conv1d", "repeat": 5,
+                "kernel_size": [51], "stride": [1],
+                "num_channels": 512, "padding": "SAME",
+                "dilation":[1],
+                "residual": True, "residual_dense": residual_dense
+            },
+            {
+                "type": "sep_conv1d", "repeat": 5,
+                "kernel_size": [51], "stride": [1],
+                "num_channels": 512, "padding": "SAME",
+                "dilation":[1],
+                "residual": True, "residual_dense": residual_dense
+            },
+            {
+                "type": "sep_conv1d", "repeat": 5,
+                "kernel_size": [63], "stride": [1],
+                "num_channels": 512, "padding": "SAME",
+                "dilation":[1],
+                "residual": True, "residual_dense": residual_dense
+            },
+            {
+                "type": "sep_conv1d", "repeat": 5,
+                "kernel_size": [63], "stride": [1],
+                "num_channels": 512, "padding": "SAME",
+                "dilation":[1],
+                "residual": True, "residual_dense": residual_dense
+            },
+            {
+                "type": "sep_conv1d", "repeat": 5,
+                "kernel_size": [63], "stride": [1],
+                "num_channels": 512, "padding": "SAME",
+                "dilation":[1],
+                "residual": True, "residual_dense": residual_dense
+            },
+            {
+                "type": "sep_conv1d", "repeat": 5,
+                "kernel_size": [75], "stride": [1],
+                "num_channels": 512, "padding": "SAME",
+                "dilation":[1],
+                "residual": True, "residual_dense": residual_dense
+            },
+            {
+                "type": "sep_conv1d", "repeat": 5,
+                "kernel_size": [75], "stride": [1],
+                "num_channels": 512, "padding": "SAME",
+                "dilation":[1],
+                "residual": True, "residual_dense": residual_dense
+            },
+            {
+                "type": "sep_conv1d", "repeat": 5,
+                "kernel_size": [75], "stride": [1],
+                "num_channels": 512, "padding": "SAME",
+                "dilation":[1],
+                "residual": True, "residual_dense": residual_dense
+            },
+            {
+                "type": "sep_conv1d", "repeat": 1,
+                "kernel_size": [87], "stride": [1],
+                "num_channels": 512, "padding": "SAME",
+                "dilation":[2],
+                "residual": True, "residual_dense": residual_dense
+            },
+            {
+                "type": "conv1d", "repeat": 1,
+                "kernel_size": [1], "stride": [1],
+                "num_channels": 1024, "padding": "SAME",
+                "dilation":[1]
+            }
+        ],
+
+        "dropout_keep_prob": 1.0,
+
+        "initializer": tf.contrib.layers.xavier_initializer,
+        "initializer_params": {
+            'uniform': False,
+        },
+        "normalization": "batch_norm",
+        "activation_fn": tf.nn.relu,
+        "data_format": "channels_last",
+        "use_conv_mask": True,
+    },
+
+    "decoder": FullyConnectedCTCDecoder,
+    "decoder_params": {
+        "initializer": tf.contrib.layers.xavier_initializer,
+        "use_language_model": False,
+        "infer_logits_to_pickle": False,
+    },
+    "loss": CTCLoss,
+    "loss_params": {},
+
+    "data_layer": Speech2TextDataLayer,
+    "data_layer_params": {
+        "num_audio_features": 64,
+        "input_type": "logfbank",
+        "vocab_file": "open_seq2seq/test_utils/toy_speech_data/vocab.txt",
+        "norm_per_feature": True,
+        "window": "hanning",
+        "precompute_mel_basis": True,
+        "sample_freq": 16000,
+        "pad_to": 16,
+        "dither": 1e-5,
+        "backend": "librosa",
+    },
+}
+
+train_params = {
+    "data_layer": Speech2TextDataLayer,
+    "data_layer_params": {
+        "augmentation": {
+            'n_freq_mask': 2,
+            'n_time_mask': 2,
+            'width_freq_mask': 6,
+            'width_time_mask': 6,
+        },
+        "dataset_files": [
+            "/data/librispeech/librivox-train-clean-100.csv",
+            "/data/librispeech/librivox-train-clean-360.csv",
+            "/data/librispeech/librivox-train-other-500.csv"
+        ],
+        "max_duration": 16.7,
+        "shuffle": True,
+    },
+}
+
+eval_params = {
+    "data_layer": Speech2TextDataLayer,
+    "data_layer_params": {
+        "dataset_files": [
+            "/data/librispeech/librivox-dev-clean.csv",
+        ],
+        "shuffle": False,
+    },
+}
+
+infer_params = {
+    "data_layer": Speech2TextDataLayer,
+    "data_layer_params": {
+        "dataset_files": [
+            "/data/librispeech/librivox-test-clean.csv",
+        ],
+        "shuffle": False,
+    },
+}