diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/models/trainer.py b/pytorch_lightning/models/trainer.py
index 5da1ead938..c21cf3be01 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/models/trainer.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/models/trainer.py
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import re
 
 import torch
 from torch.utils.data.distributed import DistributedSampler
-from torch.optim.lr_scheduler import MultiStepLR
 import torch.multiprocessing as mp
 import torch.distributed as dist
 import numpy as np