diff --git a/vision_toolbox/backbones/base.py b/vision_toolbox/backbones/base.py
index f60db21..14e5f3a 100644
--- a/vision_toolbox/backbones/base.py
+++ b/vision_toolbox/backbones/base.py
@@ -16,11 +16,6 @@ def get_feature_maps(self, x: Tensor) -> list[Tensor]:
     def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor:
         return self.get_feature_maps(x)[-1]
 
-    @staticmethod
-    @abstractmethod
-    def from_config(variant: str, pretrained: bool = False, **kwargs: Any) -> BaseBackbone:
-        pass
-
     def _load_state_dict_from_url(self, url: str) -> None:
         state_dict = torch.hub.load_state_dict_from_url(url)
         self.load_state_dict(state_dict)