diff --git a/pts/model/deepvar/deepvar_network.py b/pts/model/deepvar/deepvar_network.py
index d37b0e5..1f403d5 100644
--- a/pts/model/deepvar/deepvar_network.py
+++ b/pts/model/deepvar/deepvar_network.py
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ class DeepVARTrainingNetwork(nn.Module):
 
 
 class DeepVARPredictionNetwork(DeepVARTrainingNetwork):
-    def __init__(self, num_parallel_samples: int, **kwargs) -> None:
+    def __init__(self, num_parallel_samples: int = 100, **kwargs) -> None:
         super().__init__(**kwargs)
         self.num_parallel_samples = num_parallel_samples