diff --git a/lm_eval/tasks/mmlu/_generate_configs.py b/lm_eval/tasks/mmlu/_generate_configs.py
index 05c67e00e4..4ce8d9f229 100644
--- a/lm_eval/tasks/mmlu/_generate_configs.py
+++ b/lm_eval/tasks/mmlu/_generate_configs.py
@@ -2,12 +2,14 @@
 Take in a YAML, and output all "other" splits with this YAML
 """
 import argparse
+import logging
 import os
 
 import yaml
 from tqdm import tqdm
 
-from lm_eval.logger import eval_logger
+
+eval_logger = logging.getLogger("lm-eval")
 
 
 SUBJECTS = {