diff --git a/invokeai/app/invocations/denoise_latents.py b/invokeai/app/invocations/denoise_latents.py
index 3be1bde3da..26d826ab72 100644
--- a/invokeai/app/invocations/denoise_latents.py
+++ b/invokeai/app/invocations/denoise_latents.py
@@ -592,8 +592,8 @@ class DenoiseLatentsInvocation(BaseInvocation):
 
     # original idea by https://github.com/AmericanPresidentJimmyCarter
     # TODO: research more for second order schedulers timesteps
+    @staticmethod
     def init_scheduler(
-        self,
         scheduler: Union[Scheduler, ConfigMixin],
         device: torch.device,
         steps: int,