diff --git a/src/diffusers/schedulers/scheduling_ddpm.py b/src/diffusers/schedulers/scheduling_ddpm.py
index 03659040d7..d403c4f595 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/schedulers/scheduling_ddpm.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/schedulers/scheduling_ddpm.py
@@ -274,8 +274,6 @@ class DDPMScheduler(SchedulerMixin, ConfigMixin):
             new_config["predict_epsilon"] = predict_epsilon
             self._internal_dict = FrozenDict(new_config)
 
-        t = timestep
-
         if model_output.shape[1] == sample.shape[1] * 2 and self.variance_type in ["learned", "learned_range"]:
             model_output, predicted_variance = torch.split(model_output, sample.shape[1], dim=1)
         else: