diff --git a/algorithmic_efficiency/pytorch_utils.py b/algorithmic_efficiency/pytorch_utils.py
index 4f6c254bd..2e5828912 100644
--- a/algorithmic_efficiency/pytorch_utils.py
+++ b/algorithmic_efficiency/pytorch_utils.py
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ def sync_ddp_time(time: float, device: torch.device) -> float:
   dist.all_reduce(time_tensor, op=dist.ReduceOp.MAX)
   return time_tensor.item()
 
-
 def update_batch_norm_fn(module: spec.ParameterContainer,
                          update_batch_norm: bool) -> None:
   bn_layers = (
@@ -67,10 +66,13 @@ def update_batch_norm_fn(module: spec.ParameterContainer,
   )
   if isinstance(module, bn_layers):
     if not update_batch_norm:
-      module.eval()
-      module.momentum_backup = module.momentum
+      if not hasattr(module, 'momentum_backup'):
+        module.momentum_backup = module.momentum
+
       # module.momentum can be float or torch.Tensor.
-      module.momentum = 0. * module.momentum_backup
+      if torch.is_tensor(module.momentum_backup):
+        module.momentum = torch.zeros_like(module.momentum_backup)
+      else:
+        module.momentum = 0.0
     elif hasattr(module, 'momentum_backup'):
-      module.momentum = module.momentum_backup
-    module.track_running_stats = update_batch_norm
+      module.momentum = module.momentum_backup
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diff --git a/algorithmic_efficiency/workloads/librispeech_conformer/librispeech_pytorch/models.py b/algorithmic_efficiency/workloads/librispeech_conformer/librispeech_pytorch/models.py
index 502cb093e..cab73df4a 100644
--- a/algorithmic_efficiency/workloads/librispeech_conformer/librispeech_pytorch/models.py
+++ b/algorithmic_efficiency/workloads/librispeech_conformer/librispeech_pytorch/models.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ class ConformerConfig:
   time_masks_per_frame: float = 0.0
   use_dynamic_time_mask_max_frames: bool = True
   input_dropout_rate: float = 0.1
-  batch_norm_momentum: float = 0.999
+  batch_norm_momentum: float = 1 - 0.999
   batch_norm_epsilon: float = 0.001
   use_specaug: bool = True
   attention_temperature: float = 1.0
@@ -369,10 +369,11 @@ def forward(self, inputs, input_paddings):
       mean = (masked_inp).sum(dim=(0, 1)) / count
       var = (torch.square(masked_inp - mean) * mask).sum(dim=(0, 1)) / count
 
-      self.running_mean = self.momentum * self.running_mean + (
-          1 - self.momentum) * mean.detach()
-      self.running_var = self.momentum * self.running_var + (
-          1 - self.momentum) * var.detach()
+      self.running_mean = (1 - self.momentum) * self.running_mean + (
+          self.momentum) * mean.detach()
+      self.running_var = (1 - self.momentum) * self.running_var + (
+          self.momentum) * var.detach()
+      
     else:
       mean = self.running_mean
       var = self.running_var
diff --git a/algorithmic_efficiency/workloads/librispeech_deepspeech/librispeech_pytorch/models.py b/algorithmic_efficiency/workloads/librispeech_deepspeech/librispeech_pytorch/models.py
index a5ee3fa0a..bdf556f1c 100644
--- a/algorithmic_efficiency/workloads/librispeech_deepspeech/librispeech_pytorch/models.py
+++ b/algorithmic_efficiency/workloads/librispeech_deepspeech/librispeech_pytorch/models.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ class DeepspeechConfig:
   time_mask_max_ratio: float = 0.05
   time_masks_per_frame: float = 0.0
   use_dynamic_time_mask_max_frames: bool = True
-  batch_norm_momentum: float = 0.999
+  batch_norm_momentum: float = 1 - 0.999
   batch_norm_epsilon: float = 0.001
   # If None, defaults to 0.1.
   input_dropout_rate: Optional[float] = 0.1
@@ -264,10 +264,10 @@ def forward(self, inputs, input_paddings):
         sum_ = dist_nn.all_reduce(sum_)
       var = sum_ / count
 
-      self.running_mean = self.momentum * self.running_mean + (
-          1 - self.momentum) * mean.detach()
-      self.running_var = self.momentum * self.running_var + (
-          1 - self.momentum) * var.detach()
+      self.running_mean = (1 - self.momentum) * self.running_mean + (
+          self.momentum) * mean.detach()
+      self.running_var = (1 - self.momentum) * self.running_var + (
+          self.momentum) * var.detach()
     else:
       mean = self.running_mean
       var = self.running_var