diff --git a/applications/neural_search/ranking/cross_encoder/predict.py b/applications/neural_search/ranking/cross_encoder/predict.py
index e1458f0ecce9..97b1bf73427b 100644
--- a/applications/neural_search/ranking/cross_encoder/predict.py
+++ b/applications/neural_search/ranking/cross_encoder/predict.py
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
 from paddlenlp.transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel, AutoModelForSequenceClassification
 
 from data import convert_example, read_text_pair, create_dataloader
-from model import CrossEncoder
 
 # yapf: disable
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()