diff --git a/faiss/IndexIVF.cpp b/faiss/IndexIVF.cpp
index 548aaa4cc..14830475d 100644
--- a/faiss/IndexIVF.cpp
+++ b/faiss/IndexIVF.cpp
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ void Level1Quantizer::train_q1(
     } else if (quantizer_trains_alone == 1) {
         if (verbose)
             printf("IVF quantizer trains alone...\n");
-        quantizer->train(n, x);
         quantizer->verbose = verbose;
+        quantizer->train(n, x);
         FAISS_THROW_IF_NOT_MSG(
                 quantizer->ntotal == nlist,
                 "nlist not consistent with quantizer size");