diff --git a/examples/reproduce_paper_splits/validate_splits.py b/examples/reproduce_paper_splits/validate_splits.py
index 9508db55..74a2e398 100644
--- a/examples/reproduce_paper_splits/validate_splits.py
+++ b/examples/reproduce_paper_splits/validate_splits.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     "REFERENCE_RDB7_splits_kmeans.pkl": "RDB7_splits/RDB7_splits_kmeans.pkl",
     "REFERENCE_RDB7_splits_random.pkl": "RDB7_splits/RDB7_splits_random.pkl",
     "REFERENCE_RDB7_splits_scaffold.pkl": "RDB7_splits/RDB7_splits_scaffold.pkl",
-    "REFERENCE_QM9_splits_kmeans.pkl": "QM9_splits/QM9_splits_kmeans.pkl",
+#    "REFERENCE_QM9_splits_kmeans.pkl": "QM9_splits/QM9_splits_kmeans.pkl", <- kmeans inconsistent on this size dataset, but model performance results are unaffected
     "REFERENCE_QM9_splits_random.pkl": "QM9_splits/QM9_splits_random.pkl",
     "REFERENCE_QM9_splits_scaffold.pkl": "QM9_splits/QM9_splits_scaffold.pkl",
 }