diff --git a/recommenders/models/rlrmc/RLRMCdataset.py b/recommenders/models/rlrmc/RLRMCdataset.py
index 7670105b3..4627eebe1 100644
--- a/recommenders/models/rlrmc/RLRMCdataset.py
+++ b/recommenders/models/rlrmc/RLRMCdataset.py
@@ -68,8 +68,7 @@ def _data_processing(self, train, validation=None, test=None, mean_center=True):
         """
         # Data processing and reindexing code is adopted from https://github.com/Microsoft/Recommenders/blob/main/recommenders/models/ncf/dataset.py
         # If validation dataset is None
-        df = train if validation is None else pd.concat([train, validation])
-        df = df if test is None else pd.concat([df, test])
+        df = pd.concat([train, validation, test])
 
         # Reindex user and item index
         if self.user_idx is None: