diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d606fe2..ceca7fb 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "vit-pytorch"
-version = "1.15.2"
+version = "1.15.3"
 description = "Vision Transformer (ViT) - Pytorch"
 readme = { file = "README.md", content-type = "text/markdown" }
 license = { file = "LICENSE" }
diff --git a/vit_pytorch/vit_with_decorr.py b/vit_pytorch/vit_with_decorr.py
index 6982835..587b282 100644
--- a/vit_pytorch/vit_with_decorr.py
+++ b/vit_pytorch/vit_with_decorr.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # but instead of their decorr module updated with SGD, remove all projections and just return a decorrelation auxiliary loss
 
 import torch
-from torch import nn, stack
+from torch import nn, stack, tensor
 import torch.nn.functional as F
 from torch.nn import Module, ModuleList
 
@@ -25,13 +25,17 @@ def pair(t):
 class DecorrelationLoss(Module):
     def __init__(
         self,
-        sample_frac = 1.
+        sample_frac = 1.,
+        soft_validate_num_sampled = False
     ):
         super().__init__()
         assert 0. <= sample_frac <= 1.
         self.need_sample = sample_frac < 1.
         self.sample_frac = sample_frac
 
+        self.soft_validate_num_sampled = soft_validate_num_sampled
+        self.register_buffer('zero', tensor(0.), persistent = False)
+
     def forward(
         self,
         tokens
@@ -40,7 +44,11 @@ class DecorrelationLoss(Module):
 
         if self.need_sample:
             num_sampled = int(seq_len * self.sample_frac)
-            assert num_sampled >= 2.
+
+            assert self.soft_validate_num_sampled or num_sampled >= 2.
+
+            if num_sampled <= 1:
+                return self.zero
 
             tokens, packed_shape = pack([tokens], '* n d e')
 
@@ -220,3 +228,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
 
     decorr_loss(hiddens)
     decorr_loss(hiddens[0])
+
+    decorr_loss = DecorrelationLoss(0.0001, soft_validate_num_sampled = True)
+    out = decorr_loss(hiddens)
+    assert out.item() == 0
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