diff --git a/gtsam/nonlinear/SuccessiveLinearizationOptimizer.cpp b/gtsam/nonlinear/SuccessiveLinearizationOptimizer.cpp
index 4b06bc3f7..1533a96e9 100644
--- a/gtsam/nonlinear/SuccessiveLinearizationOptimizer.cpp
+++ b/gtsam/nonlinear/SuccessiveLinearizationOptimizer.cpp
@@ -6,9 +6,7 @@
  */
 
 #include <gtsam/nonlinear/SuccessiveLinearizationOptimizer.h>
-#include <gtsam/linear/GaussianFactorGraph.h>
 #include <gtsam/linear/GaussianEliminationTree.h>
-#include <gtsam/linear/SubgraphSolver.h>
 #include <gtsam/linear/VectorValues.h>
 #include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>
 #include <stdexcept>
diff --git a/gtsam/nonlinear/SuccessiveLinearizationOptimizer.h b/gtsam/nonlinear/SuccessiveLinearizationOptimizer.h
index 3ee305fe2..323fa88aa 100644
--- a/gtsam/nonlinear/SuccessiveLinearizationOptimizer.h
+++ b/gtsam/nonlinear/SuccessiveLinearizationOptimizer.h
@@ -21,9 +21,6 @@
 #include <gtsam/nonlinear/NonlinearOptimizer.h>
 #include <gtsam/linear/SubgraphSolver.h>
 #include <gtsam/linear/GaussianFactorGraph.h>
-#include <gtsam/linear/JacobianFactor.h>
-#include <gtsam/linear/HessianFactor.h>
-#include <gtsam/linear/GaussianConditional.h>
 #include <gtsam/inference/Ordering.h>
 
 namespace gtsam {