diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/Layers/ILayer.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/Layers/ILayer.cs
index e94c8bf10..2f92c4e57 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/Layers/ILayer.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/Layers/ILayer.cs
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ public interface ILayer: IWithTrackable, IKerasConfigable
         List<ILayer> Layers { get; }
         List<INode> InboundNodes { get; }
         List<INode> OutboundNodes { get; }
-        Tensors Apply(Tensors inputs, Tensors states = null, bool training = false, IOptionalArgs? optional_args = null);
+        Tensors Apply(Tensors inputs, Tensors states = null, bool? training = false, IOptionalArgs? optional_args = null);
         List<IVariableV1> TrainableVariables { get; }
         List<IVariableV1> TrainableWeights { get; }
         List<IVariableV1> NonTrainableWeights { get; }
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/NnOps/RNNCell.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/NnOps/RNNCell.cs
index e488c47e7..4e99731f9 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/NnOps/RNNCell.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/NnOps/RNNCell.cs
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ private Tensor _zero_state_tensors(object state_size, Tensor batch_size, TF_Data
             throw new NotImplementedException("_zero_state_tensors");
         }
 
-        public Tensors Apply(Tensors inputs, Tensors state = null, bool is_training = false, IOptionalArgs? optional_args = null)
+        public Tensors Apply(Tensors inputs, Tensors state = null, bool? is_training = false, IOptionalArgs? optional_args = null)
         {
             throw new NotImplementedException();
         }
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Engine/Layer.Apply.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Engine/Layer.Apply.cs
index d52190fd3..8a66948b9 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Engine/Layer.Apply.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Engine/Layer.Apply.cs
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ public partial class Layer
         /// <param name="state"></param>
         /// <param name="training"></param>
         /// <returns></returns>
-        public virtual Tensors Apply(Tensors inputs, Tensors states = null, bool training = false, IOptionalArgs? optional_args = null)
+        public virtual Tensors Apply(Tensors inputs, Tensors states = null, bool? training = false, IOptionalArgs? optional_args = null)
         {
             if (callContext.Value == null)
                 callContext.Value = new CallContext();
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Engine/Model.Fit.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Engine/Model.Fit.cs
index 76c592ad6..de57f19ae 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Engine/Model.Fit.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Engine/Model.Fit.cs
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ public History fit(IDatasetV2 dataset,
             int verbose = 1,
             List<ICallback> callbacks = null,
             IDatasetV2 validation_data = null,
+            int validation_step = 10,   // 间隔多少次会进行一次验证
             bool shuffle = true,
             int initial_epoch = 0,
             int max_queue_size = 10,
@@ -164,11 +165,11 @@ public History fit(IDatasetV2 dataset,
             });
 
 
-            return FitInternal(data_handler, epochs, verbose, callbacks, validation_data: validation_data,
+            return FitInternal(data_handler, epochs, validation_step, verbose, callbacks, validation_data: validation_data,
                     train_step_func: train_step_function);
         }
 
-        History FitInternal(DataHandler data_handler, int epochs, int verbose, List<ICallback> callbackList, IDatasetV2 validation_data, 
+        History FitInternal(DataHandler data_handler, int epochs, int validation_step, int verbose, List<ICallback> callbackList, IDatasetV2 validation_data, 
             Func<DataHandler, OwnedIterator, Dictionary<string, float>> train_step_func)
         {
             stop_training = false;
@@ -207,6 +208,9 @@ History FitInternal(DataHandler data_handler, int epochs, int verbose, List<ICal
 
                 if (validation_data != null)
                 {
+                    if (validation_step > 0 && epoch ==0 || (epoch) % validation_step != 0)
+                        continue;
+
                     var val_logs = evaluate(validation_data);
                     foreach(var log in val_logs)
                     {
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Rnn/RNN.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Rnn/RNN.cs
index f86de8a85..0ca62c391 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Rnn/RNN.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Rnn/RNN.cs
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ protected override Tensors Call(Tensors inputs, Tensors initial_state = null, bo
             }
         }
 
-        public override Tensors Apply(Tensors inputs, Tensors initial_states = null, bool training = false, IOptionalArgs? optional_args = null)
+        public override Tensors Apply(Tensors inputs, Tensors initial_states = null, bool? training = false, IOptionalArgs? optional_args = null)
         {
             RnnOptionalArgs? rnn_optional_args = optional_args as RnnOptionalArgs;
             if (optional_args is not null && rnn_optional_args is null)