diff --git a/backend/models.py b/backend/models.py
index 3d975d2..737b3e7 100644
--- a/backend/models.py
+++ b/backend/models.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 from functools import lru_cache
 from transformers import pipeline, BartTokenizer, BartForConditionalGeneration
 from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer, util
-import torch
 import chardet
 from nltk.corpus import stopwords
 import nltk