diff --git a/senteval/tools/validation.py b/senteval/tools/validation.py
index 0fa91346..66bc79ad 100644
--- a/senteval/tools/validation.py
+++ b/senteval/tools/validation.py
@@ -227,7 +227,6 @@ def run(self):
         devaccuracy = np.max(scores)
         logging.info('Validation : best param found is reg = {0} with score \
             {1}'.format(optreg, devaccuracy))
-        clf = LogisticRegression(C=optreg, random_state=self.seed)
         logging.info('Evaluating...')
         if self.usepytorch:
             clf = MLP(self.classifier_config, inputdim=self.featdim,