diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 60c4b158..ce4e1f0e 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-include deepforest/data/deepforest_config.yml
+include deepforest_config.yml
 include deepforest/data/testfile_deepforest.csv
 include deepforest/data/testfile_multi.csv
 include deepforest/data/classes.csv
diff --git a/deepforest/data/deepforest_config.yml b/deepforest/data/deepforest_config.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0a541578..00000000
--- a/deepforest/data/deepforest_config.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-# Config file for DeepForest pytorch module
-
-# Cpu workers for data loaders
-# Dataloaders
-workers: 1
-devices: auto
-accelerator: auto
-batch_size: 1
-
-# Model Architecture
-architecture: 'retinanet'
-num_classes: 1
-nms_thresh: 0.05
-
-# Architecture specific params
-retinanet:
-    # Non-max supression of overlapping predictions
-    score_thresh: 0.1
-
-train:
-    csv_file:
-    root_dir:
-    
-    # Optimizer initial learning rate
-    lr: 0.001
-    scheduler:
-        type: 
-        params:
-            # Common parameters
-            T_max: 10
-            eta_min: 0.00001
-            lr_lambda: "lambda epoch: 0.95 ** epoch"  # For lambdaLR and multiplicativeLR
-            step_size: 30  # For stepLR
-            gamma: 0.1  # For stepLR, multistepLR, and exponentialLR
-            milestones: [50, 100]  # For multistepLR
-
-            # ReduceLROnPlateau parameters (used if type is not explicitly mentioned)
-            mode: "min"
-            factor: 0.1
-            patience: 10
-            threshold: 0.0001
-            threshold_mode: "rel"
-            cooldown: 0
-            min_lr: 0
-            eps: 1e-08
-
-    # Print loss every n epochs
-    epochs: 1
-    # Useful debugging flag in pytorch lightning, set to True to get a single batch of training to test settings.
-    fast_dev_run: False
-    # pin images to GPU memory for fast training. This depends on GPU size and number of images.
-    preload_images: False
-    
-validation:
-    # callback args
-    csv_file: 
-    root_dir:
-    # Intersection over union evaluation
-    iou_threshold: 0.4
-    val_accuracy_interval: 20
diff --git a/tests/test_data.py b/tests/test_data.py
index b978a96c..dec50e40 100644
--- a/tests/test_data.py
+++ b/tests/test_data.py
@@ -13,9 +13,3 @@ def test_get_data():
     assert os.path.exists(deepforest.get_data("OSBS_029.tif"))
     assert os.path.exists(deepforest.get_data("SOAP_061.png"))    
     assert os.path.exists(deepforest.get_data("classes.csv"))
-
-# Assert that the included config file matches the front of the repo.
-def test_matching_config(ROOT):
-    config = read_config("{}/deepforest_config.yml".format(os.path.dirname(ROOT)))
-    config_from_data_dir = read_config("{}/data/deepforest_config.yml".format(ROOT))
-    assert config == config_from_data_dir
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