diff --git a/src/mlpack/methods/sparse_svm/sparse_svm.cpp b/src/mlpack/methods/sparse_svm/sparse_svm.cpp
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index e8bf175a02..0000000000
--- a/src/mlpack/methods/sparse_svm/sparse_svm.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-#include "sparse_svm.hpp"