diff --git a/musco/pytorch/compressor/decompositions/svd_layer.py b/musco/pytorch/compressor/decompositions/svd_layer.py
index 5f7ce15..0b1648a 100644
--- a/musco/pytorch/compressor/decompositions/svd_layer.py
+++ b/musco/pytorch/compressor/decompositions/svd_layer.py
@@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ def __init__(self, layer, layer_name,
         self.layer = layer
         self.pretrained = pretrained
         
+        self.min_rank = 2
+        
         #print(layer)
        
         if  isinstance(self.layer, nn.Sequential):