diff --git a/src/lerobot/policies/sac/reward_model/modeling_classifier.py b/src/lerobot/policies/sac/reward_model/modeling_classifier.py
index dba6a174b4..5fb2abfde3 100644
--- a/src/lerobot/policies/sac/reward_model/modeling_classifier.py
+++ b/src/lerobot/policies/sac/reward_model/modeling_classifier.py
@@ -268,10 +268,6 @@ def forward(self, batch: dict[str, Tensor]) -> tuple[Tensor, dict[str, Tensor]]:
 
     def predict_reward(self, batch, threshold=0.5):
         """Eval method. Returns predicted reward with the decision threshold as argument."""
-        # Check for both OBS_IMAGE and OBS_IMAGES prefixes
-        batch = self.normalize_inputs(batch)
-        batch = self.normalize_targets(batch)
-
         # Extract images from batch dict
         images = [batch[key] for key in self.config.input_features if key.startswith(OBS_IMAGE)]