diff --git a/examples/classifier_compression/compress_classifier.py b/examples/classifier_compression/compress_classifier.py
index bf228801163df2d09cae1989a93b7c0d8b2d78ee..2887f7e22a8ec7c7792f4d113c3492755af97cc9 100755
--- a/examples/classifier_compression/compress_classifier.py
+++ b/examples/classifier_compression/compress_classifier.py
@@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ def evaluate_model(model, criterion, test_loader, loggers, activations_collector
     if args.quantize_eval:
         checkpoint_name = 'quantized'
         apputils.save_checkpoint(0, args.arch, model, optimizer=None, best_top1=top1,
-                                 name='_'.split(args.name, checkpoint_name) if args.name else checkpoint_name,
+                                 name='_'.join([args.name, checkpoint_name]) if args.name else checkpoint_name,
                                  dir=msglogger.logdir)