diff --git a/src/ptbench/configs/models/alexnet.py b/src/ptbench/configs/models/alexnet.py
index ecaee487d1878b1e73bdee8261f06ee475834106..cf8bfd35aa10ad3493be9483ba0347fc8ebb7da1 100644
--- a/src/ptbench/configs/models/alexnet.py
+++ b/src/ptbench/configs/models/alexnet.py
@@ -19,4 +19,6 @@ criterion = BCEWithLogitsLoss(pos_weight=empty(1))
 criterion_valid = BCEWithLogitsLoss(pos_weight=empty(1))
 
 # model
-model = Alexnet(criterion, criterion_valid, optimizer, optimizer_configs)
+model = Alexnet(
+    criterion, criterion_valid, optimizer, optimizer_configs, pretrained=False
+)