Using @SuperBuilder for LayerConfigurations

Signed-off-by: brian <brian@brutex.de>

brutex-extended-tests/src/test/java/net/brutex/gan/App.java

@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ public class App {
     LayerConfiguration[] disLayers = Arrays.stream(disLayers())
         .map((layer) -> {
          if (layer instanceof DenseLayer || layer instanceof OutputLayer) {
-          return new FrozenLayerWithBackprop(layer);
+          return FrozenLayerWithBackprop.builder(layer);
           } else {
             return layer;
           }

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-core/src/test/java/org/deeplearning4j/gradientcheck/UtilLayerGradientChecks.java

@@ -162,20 +162,20 @@ public class UtilLayerGradientChecks extends BaseDL4JTest {
 
                     }
 
-                    NeuralNetConfiguration conf = NeuralNetConfiguration.builder()
+          NeuralNetConfiguration conf =
+              NeuralNetConfiguration.builder()
                   .updater(new NoOp())
                   .activation(Activation.TANH)
                   .dataType(DataType.DOUBLE)
                   .dist(new NormalDistribution(0, 2))
                   .list()
                   .layer(l1)
-                            .layer(new MaskLayer())
+                  .layer(MaskLayer.builder().build())
                   .layer(l2)
                   .layer(l3)
                   .inputType(it)
                   .build();
 
-
                     MultiLayerNetwork net = new MultiLayerNetwork(conf);
                     net.init();
 
@@ -203,11 +203,11 @@ public class UtilLayerGradientChecks extends BaseDL4JTest {
                     .list()
                     .layer(DenseLayer.builder().nIn(10).nOut(10)
                             .activation(Activation.TANH).weightInit(WeightInit.XAVIER).build())
-                    .layer(new FrozenLayerWithBackprop(DenseLayer.builder().nIn(10).nOut(10)
+                    .layer(FrozenLayerWithBackprop.builder().underlying(DenseLayer.builder().nIn(10).nOut(10)
-                            .activation(Activation.TANH).weightInit(WeightInit.XAVIER).build()))
+                            .activation(Activation.TANH).weightInit(WeightInit.XAVIER).build()).build())
-                    .layer(new FrozenLayerWithBackprop(
+                    .layer(FrozenLayerWithBackprop.builder().underlying(
                             DenseLayer.builder().nIn(10).nOut(10).activation(Activation.TANH)
-                                    .weightInit(WeightInit.XAVIER).build()))
+                                    .weightInit(WeightInit.XAVIER).build()).build())
                     .layer(OutputLayer.builder().lossFunction(LossFunctions.LossFunction.MCXENT)
                             .activation(Activation.SOFTMAX).nIn(10).nOut(10).build())
                     .build();

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/ActivationLayer.java

@@ -40,15 +40,12 @@ import org.nd4j.linalg.api.buffer.DataType;
 import org.nd4j.linalg.api.ndarray.INDArray;
 import org.nd4j.linalg.learning.config.IUpdater;
 
-@NoArgsConstructor
+
 @ToString(callSuper = true)
 @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
 @SuperBuilder(buildMethodName = "initBuild", builderMethodName = "innerBuilder")
 public class ActivationLayer extends NoParamLayer {
 
-  {
-    setType(LayerType.ACT);
-  }
 
   public static ActivationLayerBuilder<?, ?> builder(Activation activation) {
     return innerBuilder().activation(activation);

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/BaseLayerConfiguration.java

@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ import org.nd4j.linalg.learning.regularization.WeightDecay;
 @SuperBuilder
 public abstract class BaseLayerConfiguration extends LayerConfiguration
     implements ITraininableLayerConfiguration, Serializable, Cloneable {
+
+
   /**
    * Set constraints to be applied to all layers. Default: no constraints.<br>
    * Constraints can be used to enforce certain conditions (non-negativity of parameters, max-norm
@@ -84,9 +86,9 @@ public abstract class BaseLayerConfiguration extends LayerConfiguration
   @Getter @Setter @Builder.Default
   protected double gainInit = 0.0;
   /** Regularization for the parameters (excluding biases). */
-  @Builder.Default @Getter protected List<Regularization> regularization = new ArrayList<>();
+  @Builder.Default @Getter @Setter protected List<Regularization> regularization = new ArrayList<>();
   /** Regularization for the bias parameters only */
-  @Builder.Default @Getter
+  @Builder.Default @Getter @Setter
   protected List<Regularization> regularizationBias = new ArrayList<>();
   /**
    * Gradient updater. For example, {@link org.nd4j.linalg.learning.config.Adam} or {@link
@@ -210,6 +212,7 @@ public abstract class BaseLayerConfiguration extends LayerConfiguration
           C extends BaseLayerConfiguration, B extends BaseLayerConfigurationBuilder<C, B>>
       extends LayerConfigurationBuilder<C, B> {
 
+
     /**
      * Set weight initialization scheme to random sampling via the specified distribution.
      * Equivalent to: {@code .weightInit(new WeightInitDistribution(distribution))}

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/BaseOutputLayer.java

@@ -29,8 +29,7 @@ import org.nd4j.linalg.lossfunctions.ILossFunction;
 import org.nd4j.linalg.lossfunctions.LossFunctions;
 import org.nd4j.linalg.lossfunctions.impl.LossMCXENT;
 
-@Data
+
-@NoArgsConstructor
 @ToString(callSuper = true)
 @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
 @SuperBuilder(builderMethodName = "innerBuilder")
@@ -39,19 +38,16 @@ public abstract class BaseOutputLayer extends FeedForwardLayer {
     /**
      * Loss function for the output layer
      */
-    @lombok.Builder.Default
+    @lombok.Builder.Default @Getter @Setter
     protected ILossFunction lossFunction = new LossMCXENT();
     /**
      * If true (default): include bias parameters in the model. False: no bias.
      *
      */
-    @lombok.Builder.Default
+    @lombok.Builder.Default @Getter @Setter
     protected boolean hasBias = true;
 
 
-    public boolean hasBias() {
-        return hasBias;
-    }
 
     @Override
     public LayerMemoryReport getMemoryReport(InputType inputType) {

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/BasePretrainNetwork.java

@@ -31,11 +31,11 @@ import org.nd4j.linalg.lossfunctions.LossFunctions;
 @JsonIgnoreProperties("pretrain")
 @SuperBuilder
 public abstract class BasePretrainNetwork extends FeedForwardLayer {
-  @Builder.Default
+  @Builder.Default @Getter
   protected LossFunctions.LossFunction lossFunction =
       LossFunctions.LossFunction.RECONSTRUCTION_CROSSENTROPY;
 
-  @Builder.Default protected double visibleBiasInit = 0.0;
+  @Builder.Default @Getter protected double visibleBiasInit = 0.0;
 
   @Override
   public boolean isPretrainParam(String paramName) {

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/BaseUpsamplingLayer.java

@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@ import org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.inputs.InputType;
  * @author Max Pumperla
  */
 
-@Data
-@NoArgsConstructor
 @ToString(callSuper = true)
 @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
 @SuperBuilder()
@@ -43,7 +41,7 @@ public abstract class BaseUpsamplingLayer extends NoParamLayer {
      * dimensions (e.g. 2 for Upsampling2D etc.)
      *
      */
-    @Builder.Default
+    @Builder.Default @Getter
     protected int[] size = new int[] {1};
 
     @Override
@@ -60,8 +58,4 @@ public abstract class BaseUpsamplingLayer extends NoParamLayer {
         }
         return InputTypeUtil.getPreProcessorForInputTypeCnnLayers(inputType, getName());
     }
-
-
-
-
 }

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/CenterLossOutputLayer.java

@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.Map;
 
 @Data
-@NoArgsConstructor
 @ToString(callSuper = true)
 @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
 @SuperBuilder(buildMethodName = "initBuild")

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/Cnn3DLossLayer.java

@@ -37,15 +37,15 @@ import org.nd4j.linalg.api.buffer.DataType;
 import org.nd4j.linalg.api.ndarray.INDArray;
 import org.nd4j.linalg.lossfunctions.ILossFunction;
 
-@Data
+
-@NoArgsConstructor
 @ToString(callSuper = true)
 @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
 @SuperBuilder
 public class Cnn3DLossLayer extends FeedForwardLayer {
-
+@Getter @Setter
   protected ILossFunction lossFunction;
   /** Format of the input/output data. See {@link Convolution3D.DataFormat} for details */
+  @Getter @Setter
   protected Convolution3D.DataFormat dataFormat;
 
   @Override

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/Convolution1D.java

@@ -24,10 +24,11 @@ import lombok.Data;
 import lombok.EqualsAndHashCode;
 import lombok.NoArgsConstructor;
 import lombok.ToString;
+import lombok.experimental.SuperBuilder;
 
 @Data
-@NoArgsConstructor
 @ToString(callSuper = true)
 @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
+@SuperBuilder
 public class Convolution1D extends Convolution1DLayer {
 }

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/Convolution1DLayer.java

@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ import org.nd4j.linalg.api.ndarray.INDArray;
  * wide.
  */
 @Data
-@NoArgsConstructor
 @ToString(callSuper = true)
 @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
 @SuperBuilder(buildMethodName = "initBuild", builderMethodName = "innerBuilder")
@@ -142,7 +141,7 @@ public class Convolution1DLayer extends ConvolutionLayer {
     } else {
       outLength =
           Convolution1DUtils.getOutputSize(
-              inputTsLength, kernelSize[0], stride[0], padding[0], convolutionMode, dilation[0]);
+              inputTsLength, kernelSize[0], stride[0], padding[0], getConvolutionMode(), dilation[0]);
     }
 
     return InputType.recurrent(nOut, outLength, rnnDataFormat);

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/Convolution2D.java

@@ -24,10 +24,12 @@ import lombok.Data;
 import lombok.EqualsAndHashCode;
 import lombok.NoArgsConstructor;
 import lombok.ToString;
+import lombok.experimental.SuperBuilder;
 
 @Data
-@NoArgsConstructor
+
 @ToString(callSuper = true)
 @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
+@SuperBuilder
 public class Convolution2D extends ConvolutionLayer {
 }

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/Convolution3D.java

@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ import org.nd4j.linalg.api.buffer.DataType;
 import org.nd4j.linalg.api.ndarray.INDArray;
 
 @Data
-@NoArgsConstructor
 @ToString(callSuper = true)
 @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
 @SuperBuilder(builderMethodName = "innerBuilder", buildMethodName = "initBuild")
@@ -118,7 +117,7 @@ public class Convolution3D extends ConvolutionLayer {
    * kernel size
    */
   public boolean hasBias() {
-    return hasBias;
+    return isHasBias();
   }
 
   @Override

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/ConvolutionLayer.java

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ import org.nd4j.linalg.api.ndarray.INDArray;
  * to be used in the net or in other words the channels The builder specifies the filter/kernel
  * size, the stride and padding The pooling layer takes the kernel size
  */
+@Data
 @ToString(callSuper = true)
 @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
 @SuperBuilder(buildMethodName = "initBuild", builderMethodName = "innerBuilder")
@@ -55,14 +56,14 @@ public class ConvolutionLayer extends FeedForwardLayer {
    *
    * @param kernelSize the height and width of the kernel
    */
-  public @Builder.Default int[] kernelSize = new int[] {5, 5}; // Square filter
+  private @Builder.Default @Getter @Setter int[] kernelSize = new int[] {5, 5}; // Square filter
   /** If true (default): include bias parameters in the model. False: no bias. */
-  @Builder.Default protected boolean hasBias = true;
+  @Builder.Default @Getter @Setter private boolean hasBias = true;
   /**
    * Set the convolution mode for the Convolution layer. See {@link ConvolutionMode} for more
    * details Default is {@link ConvolutionMode}.Truncate.
    */
-  @Builder.Default protected ConvolutionMode convolutionMode = ConvolutionMode.Truncate;
+  @Builder.Default @Getter @Setter private ConvolutionMode convolutionMode = ConvolutionMode.Truncate;
 
   /**
    * Set the data format for the CNN activations - NCHW (channels first) or NHWC (channels last).
@@ -72,7 +73,7 @@ public class ConvolutionLayer extends FeedForwardLayer {
    * @param format Format for activations (in and out)
    */
   @Builder.Default
-  protected CNN2DFormat convFormat =
+  private CNN2DFormat convFormat =
       CNN2DFormat.NCHW; // default value for legacy serialization reasons
 
   /**
@@ -85,25 +86,25 @@ public class ConvolutionLayer extends FeedForwardLayer {
    * http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/tutorial/conv_arithmetic.html#dilated-convolutions</a>
    * <br>
    */
-  protected @Builder.Default int[] dilation = new int[] {1, 1};
+  private @Builder.Default int[] dilation = new int[] {1, 1};
   /** Default is 2. Down-sample by a factor of 2 */
-  protected @Builder.Default int[] stride = new int[] {1, 1};
+  private @Builder.Default int[] stride = new int[] {1, 1};
 
-  protected @Builder.Default int[] padding = new int[] {0, 0};
+  private @Builder.Default int[] padding = new int[] {0, 0};
   /**
    * When using CuDNN and an error is encountered, should fallback to the non-CuDNN implementatation
    * be allowed? If set to false, an exception in CuDNN will be propagated back to the user. If
    * false, the built-in (non-CuDNN) implementation for ConvolutionLayer will be used
    */
-  @Builder.Default protected boolean cudnnAllowFallback = true;
+  @Builder.Default private boolean cudnnAllowFallback = true;
 
   /** Defaults to "PREFER_FASTEST", but "NO_WORKSPACE" uses less memory. */
-  @Builder.Default protected AlgoMode cudnnAlgoMode = AlgoMode.PREFER_FASTEST;
+  @Builder.Default private AlgoMode cudnnAlgoMode = AlgoMode.PREFER_FASTEST;
 
-  protected FwdAlgo cudnnFwdAlgo;
+  private FwdAlgo cudnnFwdAlgo;
-  protected BwdFilterAlgo cudnnBwdFilterAlgo;
+  private BwdFilterAlgo cudnnBwdFilterAlgo;
-  protected BwdDataAlgo cudnnBwdDataAlgo;
+  private BwdDataAlgo cudnnBwdDataAlgo;
-  @Builder.Default protected int convolutionDim = 2; // 2D convolution by default
+  @Builder.Default private int convolutionDim = 2; // 2D convolution by default
   /** Causal convolution - allowed for 1D only */
   @Builder.Default private boolean allowCausal = false;
 

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/Deconvolution2D.java

@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ import java.util.Map;
  * The pooling layer takes the kernel size
  */
 @Data
-@NoArgsConstructor
 @ToString(callSuper = true)
 @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
 @SuperBuilder(buildMethodName = "initBuild", builderMethodName = "innerBuild")
@@ -88,20 +87,20 @@ private CNN2DFormat format = CNN2DFormat.NCHW;
         }
     }
     public boolean hasBias() {
-        return hasBias;
+        return isHasBias();
     }
 
     @Override
     public Deconvolution2D clone() {
         Deconvolution2D clone = (Deconvolution2D) super.clone();
-        if (clone.kernelSize != null) {
+        if (clone.getKernelSize() != null) {
-            clone.kernelSize = clone.kernelSize.clone();
+            clone.setKernelSize( clone.getKernelSize().clone());
         }
-        if (clone.stride != null) {
+        if (clone.getStride() != null) {
-            clone.stride = clone.stride.clone();
+            clone.setStride( clone.getStride().clone());
         }
-        if (clone.padding != null) {
+        if (clone.getPadding() != null) {
-            clone.padding = clone.padding.clone();
+            clone.setPadding( clone.getPadding().clone());
         }
         return clone;
     }
@@ -138,7 +137,7 @@ private CNN2DFormat format = CNN2DFormat.NCHW;
                             + "\"): Expected CNN input, got " + inputType);
         }
 
-        return InputTypeUtil.getOutputTypeDeconvLayer(inputType, kernelSize, stride, padding, dilation, convolutionMode,
+        return InputTypeUtil.getOutputTypeDeconvLayer(inputType, getKernelSize(), getStride(), getPadding(), getDilation(), getConvolutionMode(),
                         nOut, layerIndex, getName(), Deconvolution2DLayer.class);
     }
 

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/Deconvolution3D.java

@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ import org.nd4j.linalg.api.ndarray.INDArray;
  * filter/kernel size, the stride and padding The pooling layer takes the kernel size
  */
 @Data
-@NoArgsConstructor
 @ToString(callSuper = true)
 @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
 @SuperBuilder(buildMethodName = "initBuild", builderMethodName = "innerBuilder")
@@ -63,20 +62,20 @@ public class Deconvolution3D extends ConvolutionLayer {
   }
 
   public boolean hasBias() {
-    return hasBias;
+    return isHasBias();
   }
 
   @Override
   public Deconvolution3D clone() {
     Deconvolution3D clone = (Deconvolution3D) super.clone();
-    if (clone.kernelSize != null) {
+    if (clone.getKernelSize() != null) {
-      clone.kernelSize = clone.kernelSize.clone();
+      clone.setKernelSize( clone.getKernelSize().clone());
     }
-    if (clone.stride != null) {
+    if (clone.getStride() != null) {
-      clone.stride = clone.stride.clone();
+      clone.setStride( clone.getStride().clone());
     }
-    if (clone.padding != null) {
+    if (clone.getPadding() != null) {
-      clone.padding = clone.padding.clone();
+      clone.setPadding( clone.getPadding().clone());
     }
     return clone;
   }
@@ -147,11 +146,11 @@ public class Deconvolution3D extends ConvolutionLayer {
 
     return InputTypeUtil.getOutputTypeDeconv3dLayer(
         inputType,
-        kernelSize,
+        getKernelSize(),
-        stride,
+        getStride(),
-        padding,
+        getPadding(),
-        dilation,
+        getDilation(),
-        convolutionMode,
+        getConvolutionMode(),
         dataFormat,
         nOut,
         layerIndex,

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/DenseLayer.java

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ import org.nd4j.linalg.api.buffer.DataType;
 import org.nd4j.linalg.api.ndarray.INDArray;
 
 /** Dense Layer Uses WeightInitXavier as default */
-
+@Data
 @ToString(callSuper = true)
 @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
 @SuperBuilder(
@@ -47,9 +47,9 @@ import org.nd4j.linalg.api.ndarray.INDArray;
 public class DenseLayer extends FeedForwardLayer {
 
   /** If true (default = false): enable layer normalization on this layer */
-  @lombok.Builder.Default @Accessors private boolean hasLayerNorm = false;
+  @lombok.Builder.Default  private boolean hasLayerNorm = false;
 
-  @lombok.Builder.Default @Accessors private boolean hasBias = true;
+  @lombok.Builder.Default  private boolean hasBias = true;
 
   @Override
   public Layer instantiate(

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/DepthwiseConvolution2D.java

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 
 package org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.layers;
 
+import java.util.*;
 import lombok.*;
 import lombok.experimental.SuperBuilder;
 import org.deeplearning4j.nn.api.Layer;
@@ -36,10 +37,7 @@ import org.nd4j.common.base.Preconditions;
 import org.nd4j.linalg.api.buffer.DataType;
 import org.nd4j.linalg.api.ndarray.INDArray;
 
-import java.util.*;
-
 @Data
-@NoArgsConstructor
 @ToString(callSuper = true)
 @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
 @SuperBuilder(buildMethodName = "initBuild")
@@ -47,12 +45,11 @@ public class DepthwiseConvolution2D extends ConvolutionLayer {
   /**
    * Set channels multiplier for depth-wise convolution
    *
-     * @param depthMultiplier integer value, for each input map we get depthMultiplier outputs in channels-wise
+   * @param depthMultiplier integer value, for each input map we get depthMultiplier outputs in
-     * step.
+   *     channels-wise step.
    * @return Builder
    */
-    @Builder.Default
+  @Builder.Default protected int depthMultiplier = 1;
-    protected int depthMultiplier = 1;
   /**
    * Set the data format for the CNN activations - NCHW (channels first) or NHWC (channels last).
    * See {@link CNN2DFormat} for more details.<br>
@@ -67,50 +64,16 @@ public class DepthwiseConvolution2D extends ConvolutionLayer {
    * Set the data format for the CNN activations - NCHW (channels first) or NHWC (channels last).
    * See {@link CNN2DFormat} for more details.<br>
    * Default: NCHW
+   *
    * @param format Format for activations (in and out)
    */
-    @Builder.Default
+  @Builder.Default protected CNN2DFormat cnn2DFormat = CNN2DFormat.NCHW;
-    protected CNN2DFormat cnn2DFormat = CNN2DFormat.NCHW;
-
-    public static abstract class DepthwiseConvolution2DBuilder<C extends DepthwiseConvolution2D, B extends DepthwiseConvolution2DBuilder<C, B>>
-    extends ConvolutionLayerBuilder<C, B> {
-        public C build() {
-            Preconditions.checkState(depthMultiplier$value > 0, "Depth multiplier must be > 0,  got %s", depthMultiplier$value);
-            C l = this.initBuild();
-            ConvolutionUtils.validateConvolutionModePadding(l.getConvolutionMode(), l.getPadding());
-            ConvolutionUtils.validateCnnKernelStridePadding(l.getKernelSize(), l.getStride(), l.getPadding());
-            l.initializeConstraints();
-            return l;
-        }
-
-        @Override
-        public B kernelSize(int... kernelSize) {
-            super.kernelSize(ValidationUtils.validate2NonNegative(kernelSize, false, "kernelSize"));
-            return self();
-        }
-        @Override
-        public B stride(int... stride) {
-            super.stride(ValidationUtils.validate2NonNegative(stride, false, "stride"));
-            return self();
-        }
-        @Override
-        public B padding(int... padding) {
-            super.padding(ValidationUtils.validate2NonNegative(padding, false, "padding"));
-            return self();
-        }
-        @Override
-        public B dilation(int... dilation) {
-            super.dilation(ValidationUtils.validate2NonNegative(dilation, false, "dilation"));
-            return self();
-        }
-    }
-
-
 
   protected boolean allowCausal() {
     // Causal convolution - allowed for 1D only
     return false;
   }
+
   @Override
   public DepthwiseConvolution2D clone() {
     DepthwiseConvolution2D clone = (DepthwiseConvolution2D) super.clone();
@@ -118,11 +81,16 @@ public class DepthwiseConvolution2D extends ConvolutionLayer {
     return clone;
   }
 
-
   @Override
-    public Layer instantiate(NeuralNetConfiguration conf, Collection<TrainingListener> trainingListeners,
+  public Layer instantiate(
-                             int layerIndex, INDArray layerParamsView, boolean initializeParams, DataType networkDataType) {
+      NeuralNetConfiguration conf,
-        LayerValidation.assertNInNOutSet("DepthwiseConvolution2D", getName(), layerIndex, getNIn(), getNOut());
+      Collection<TrainingListener> trainingListeners,
+      int layerIndex,
+      INDArray layerParamsView,
+      boolean initializeParams,
+      DataType networkDataType) {
+    LayerValidation.assertNInNOutSet(
+        "DepthwiseConvolution2D", getName(), layerIndex, getNIn(), getNOut());
 
     LayerConfiguration lconf = conf.getFlattenedLayerConfigurations().get(layerIndex);
     runInheritance();
@@ -146,12 +114,25 @@ public class DepthwiseConvolution2D extends ConvolutionLayer {
   @Override
   public InputType getOutputType(int layerIndex, InputType inputType) {
     if (inputType == null || inputType.getType() != InputType.Type.CNN) {
-            throw new IllegalStateException("Invalid input for  depth-wise convolution layer (layer name=\""
+      throw new IllegalStateException(
-                            + getName() + "\"): Expected CNN input, got " + inputType);
+          "Invalid input for  depth-wise convolution layer (layer name=\""
+              + getName()
+              + "\"): Expected CNN input, got "
+              + inputType);
     }
 
-        return InputTypeUtil.getOutputTypeCnnLayers(inputType, kernelSize, stride, padding, dilation, convolutionMode,
+    return InputTypeUtil.getOutputTypeCnnLayers(
-                        nOut, layerIndex, getName(), dataFormat, DepthwiseConvolution2DLayer.class);
+        inputType,
+        getKernelSize(),
+        getStride(),
+        getPadding(),
+        getDilation(),
+        getConvolutionMode(),
+        nOut,
+        layerIndex,
+        getName(),
+        dataFormat,
+        DepthwiseConvolution2DLayer.class);
   }
 
   @Override
@@ -164,6 +145,44 @@ public class DepthwiseConvolution2D extends ConvolutionLayer {
     this.dataFormat = ((InputType.InputTypeConvolutional) inputType).getFormat();
   }
 
-
+  public abstract static class DepthwiseConvolution2DBuilder<
-
+          C extends DepthwiseConvolution2D, B extends DepthwiseConvolution2DBuilder<C, B>>
+      extends ConvolutionLayerBuilder<C, B> {
+    public C build() {
+      Preconditions.checkState(
+          depthMultiplier$value > 0,
+          "Depth multiplier must be > 0,  got %s",
+          depthMultiplier$value);
+      C l = this.initBuild();
+      ConvolutionUtils.validateConvolutionModePadding(l.getConvolutionMode(), l.getPadding());
+      ConvolutionUtils.validateCnnKernelStridePadding(
+          l.getKernelSize(), l.getStride(), l.getPadding());
+      l.initializeConstraints();
+      return l;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public B kernelSize(int... kernelSize) {
+      super.kernelSize(ValidationUtils.validate2NonNegative(kernelSize, false, "kernelSize"));
+      return self();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public B stride(int... stride) {
+      super.stride(ValidationUtils.validate2NonNegative(stride, false, "stride"));
+      return self();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public B padding(int... padding) {
+      super.padding(ValidationUtils.validate2NonNegative(padding, false, "padding"));
+      return self();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public B dilation(int... dilation) {
+      super.dilation(ValidationUtils.validate2NonNegative(dilation, false, "dilation"));
+      return self();
+    }
+  }
 }

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/DropoutLayer.java

@@ -45,15 +45,12 @@ import org.nd4j.linalg.learning.regularization.Regularization;
  * the input activation. See {@link Dropout} for the full details
  */
 @Data
-@NoArgsConstructor
+
 @ToString(callSuper = true)
 @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
 @SuperBuilder(builderMethodName = "innerBuilder")
 public class DropoutLayer extends FeedForwardLayer {
 
-  {
-    setType(LayerType.DO);
-  }
 
   public static DropoutLayerBuilder<?,?> builder() {
     return innerBuilder();

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/FeedForwardLayer.java

@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ import org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.preprocessor.RnnToFeedForwardPreProcessor;
 @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
 @SuperBuilder
 public abstract class FeedForwardLayer extends BaseLayerConfiguration {
+    public static abstract class FeedForwardLayerBuilder<C extends FeedForwardLayer, B extends FeedForwardLayerBuilder<C, B>>
+    extends BaseLayerConfigurationBuilder<C, B> {
+
+    }
     /**
      * Number of inputs for the layer (usually the size of the last layer). <br> Note that for Convolutional layers,
      * this is the input channels, otherwise is the previous layer size.
@@ -55,7 +59,7 @@ public abstract class FeedForwardLayer extends BaseLayerConfiguration {
      * this is the input channels, otherwise is the previous layer size.
      *
      */
-    @Getter
+    @Getter @Setter
     protected long nOut;
     protected DataFormat timeDistributedFormat;
 

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/LayerConfiguration.java

@@ -57,10 +57,10 @@ public abstract class LayerConfiguration
     implements ILayerConfiguration, Serializable, Cloneable { // ITrainableLayerConfiguration
 
   @Getter @Setter protected String name;
-  @Getter protected List<LayerConstraint> allParamConstraints;
+  @Getter @Setter protected List<LayerConstraint> allParamConstraints;
-  @Getter protected List<LayerConstraint> weightConstraints;
+  @Getter @Setter protected List<LayerConstraint> weightConstraints;
-  @Getter protected List<LayerConstraint> biasConstraints;
+  @Getter @Setter protected List<LayerConstraint> biasConstraints;
-  @Getter protected List<LayerConstraint> constraints;
+  @Getter @Setter protected List<LayerConstraint> constraints;
   @Getter @Setter protected IWeightNoise weightNoise;
   @Builder.Default private @Getter @Setter LinkedHashSet<String> variables = new LinkedHashSet<>();
   @Getter @Setter private IDropout dropOut;
@@ -325,4 +325,15 @@ public abstract class LayerConfiguration
     runInheritance(getNetConfiguration());
   }
 
+  public abstract static class LayerConfigurationBuilder<
+      C extends LayerConfiguration, B extends LayerConfigurationBuilder<C, B>> {
+    public B dropOut(double d) {
+      this.dropOut(new Dropout(d));
+      return self();
+    }
+    public B dropOut(IDropout d) {
+      this.dropOut = d;
+      return self();
+    }
+  }
 }

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/LearnedSelfAttentionLayer.java

@@ -61,9 +61,6 @@ public class LearnedSelfAttentionLayer extends SameDiffLayer {
   /** Number of queries to learn */
   private int nQueries;
 
-  private LearnedSelfAttentionLayer() {
-    /*No arg constructor for serialization*/
-  }
 
   @Override
   public InputPreProcessor getPreProcessorForInputType(InputType inputType) {

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/NoParamLayer.java

@@ -32,9 +32,6 @@ import org.nd4j.linalg.learning.regularization.Regularization;
 
 @SuperBuilder
 public abstract class NoParamLayer extends LayerConfiguration {
-  {
-    setType(LayerType.POOL);
-  }
 
   @Override
   public ParamInitializer initializer() {

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/SeparableConvolution2D.java

@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ import org.nd4j.linalg.api.ndarray.INDArray;
  * filter/kernel size, the stride and padding The pooling layer takes the kernel size
  */
 @Data
-@NoArgsConstructor
 @ToString(callSuper = true)
 @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
 @SuperBuilder(buildMethodName = "initBuild", builderMethodName = "innerBuilder")
@@ -103,20 +102,20 @@ public class SeparableConvolution2D extends ConvolutionLayer {
   }
 
   public boolean hasBias() {
-    return hasBias;
+    return isHasBias();
   }
 
   @Override
   public SeparableConvolution2D clone() {
     SeparableConvolution2D clone = (SeparableConvolution2D) super.clone();
-    if (clone.kernelSize != null) {
+    if (clone.getKernelSize() != null) {
-      clone.kernelSize = clone.kernelSize.clone();
+      clone.setKernelSize( clone.getKernelSize().clone());
     }
-    if (clone.stride != null) {
+    if (clone.getStride() != null) {
-      clone.stride = clone.stride.clone();
+      clone.setStride( clone.getStride().clone());
     }
-    if (clone.padding != null) {
+    if (clone.getPadding() != null) {
-      clone.padding = clone.padding.clone();
+      clone.setPadding( clone.getPadding().clone());
     }
     return clone;
   }
@@ -165,11 +164,11 @@ public class SeparableConvolution2D extends ConvolutionLayer {
 
     return InputTypeUtil.getOutputTypeCnnLayers(
         inputType,
-        kernelSize,
+        getKernelSize(),
-        stride,
+        getStride(),
-        padding,
+        getPadding(),
-        dilation,
+        getDilation(),
-        convolutionMode,
+        getConvolutionMode(),
         nOut,
         layerIndex,
         getName(),

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/misc/FrozenLayer.java

@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@
 
 package org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.layers.misc;
 
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Set;
 import lombok.EqualsAndHashCode;
 import lombok.Getter;
 import lombok.Setter;
@@ -37,25 +40,20 @@ import org.nd4j.linalg.api.buffer.DataType;
 import org.nd4j.linalg.api.ndarray.INDArray;
 import org.nd4j.linalg.learning.config.IUpdater;
 import org.nd4j.linalg.learning.regularization.Regularization;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
-
-import java.util.Collection;
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Set;
 
 @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = false)
-@SuperBuilder
+@SuperBuilder(builderMethodName = "innerBuilder")
 public class FrozenLayer extends LayerConfiguration {
 
-    /**
+  /** A layer configuration, only if this layer config has been created from another one */
-     * A layer configuration, only if this layer config has been created from another one
+  @Getter @Setter private LayerConfiguration innerConfiguration;
-     */
-    @Getter @Setter
-    private LayerConfiguration innerConfiguration;
 
+  public static FrozenLayerBuilder<?, ?> builder() {
+    return innerBuilder();
+  }
 
-    public FrozenLayer(@JsonProperty("layer") LayerConfiguration layer) {
+  public static FrozenLayerBuilder<?, ?> builder(LayerConfiguration innerConfiguration) {
-        this.innerConfiguration = layer;
+    return innerBuilder().innerConfiguration(innerConfiguration);
   }
 
   @Override
@@ -66,13 +64,23 @@ public class FrozenLayer extends LayerConfiguration {
   }
 
   @Override
-    public org.deeplearning4j.nn.api.Layer instantiate(NeuralNetConfiguration conf,
+  public org.deeplearning4j.nn.api.Layer instantiate(
-                                                       Collection<TrainingListener> trainingListeners, int layerIndex, INDArray layerParamsView,
+      NeuralNetConfiguration conf,
-                                                       boolean initializeParams, DataType networkDataType) {
+      Collection<TrainingListener> trainingListeners,
+      int layerIndex,
+      INDArray layerParamsView,
+      boolean initializeParams,
+      DataType networkDataType) {
 
     // Need to be able to instantiate a layer, from a config - for JSON -> net type situations
-        org.deeplearning4j.nn.api.Layer underlying = innerConfiguration.instantiate(getNetConfiguration(), trainingListeners,
+    org.deeplearning4j.nn.api.Layer underlying =
-                        layerIndex, layerParamsView, initializeParams, networkDataType);
+        innerConfiguration.instantiate(
+            getNetConfiguration(),
+            trainingListeners,
+            layerIndex,
+            layerParamsView,
+            initializeParams,
+            networkDataType);
 
     NeuralNetConfiguration nncUnderlying = underlying.getNetConfiguration();
     if (nncUnderlying.getNetWideVariables() != null) {
@@ -139,6 +147,4 @@ public class FrozenLayer extends LayerConfiguration {
     this.constraints = constraints;
     this.innerConfiguration.setConstraints(constraints);
   }
-
-
 }

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/misc/FrozenLayerWithBackprop.java

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ package org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.layers.misc;
 
 import lombok.Data;
 import lombok.EqualsAndHashCode;
+import lombok.experimental.SuperBuilder;
 import org.deeplearning4j.nn.api.ParamInitializer;
 import org.deeplearning4j.nn.api.layers.LayerConstraint;
 import org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.NeuralNetConfiguration;
@@ -39,19 +40,23 @@ import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Set;
 
-@Data
+
 @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = false)
+@SuperBuilder(builderMethodName = "innerBuilder")
 public class FrozenLayerWithBackprop extends BaseWrapperLayerConfiguration {
 
+
+    public static FrozenLayerWithBackpropBuilder<?, ?> builder() {
+        return innerBuilder();
+    }
     /**
      * Create a new Frozen Layer, that wraps another layer with backpropagation enabled.
      *
-     * @param layer configuration of the layer to wrap
+     * @param innerConfiguration configuration of the layer to wrap
      */
-    public FrozenLayerWithBackprop(@JsonProperty("layer") LayerConfiguration layer) {
+    public static FrozenLayerWithBackpropBuilder<?, ?> builder(LayerConfiguration innerConfiguration) {
-        super(layer);
+        return innerBuilder().underlying(innerConfiguration);
     }
-
     public NeuralNetConfiguration getInnerConf(NeuralNetConfiguration conf) {
         NeuralNetConfiguration nnc = conf.clone();
         nnc.getLayerConfigurations().add(0, underlying);

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/objdetect/Yolo2OutputLayer.java

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ import org.nd4j.linalg.lossfunctions.ILossFunction;
 import org.nd4j.linalg.lossfunctions.impl.LossL2;
 import org.nd4j.serde.jackson.shaded.NDArrayTextSerializer;
 
-@Data
+
 @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = false)
 @SuperBuilder(buildMethodName = "initBuild")
 public class Yolo2OutputLayer extends LayerConfiguration {
@@ -55,20 +55,20 @@ public class Yolo2OutputLayer extends LayerConfiguration {
    * Loss function coefficient for position and size/scale components of the loss function. Default
    * (as per paper): 5
    */
-  @Builder.Default private double lambdaCoord = 5;
+  @Builder.Default @Getter private double lambdaCoord = 5;
   /**
    * Loss function coefficient for the "no object confidence" components of the loss function.
    * Default (as per paper): 0.5
    */
-  @Builder.Default private double lambdaNoObj = 0.5;
+  @Builder.Default @Getter private double lambdaNoObj = 0.5;
   /** Loss function for position/scale component of the loss function */
-  @Builder.Default private ILossFunction lossPositionScale = new LossL2();
+  @Builder.Default @Getter private ILossFunction lossPositionScale = new LossL2();
   /**
    * Loss function for the class predictions - defaults to L2 loss (i.e., sum of squared errors, as
    * per the paper), however Loss MCXENT could also be used (which is more common for
    * classification).
    */
-  @Builder.Default private ILossFunction lossClassPredictions = new LossL2();
+  @Builder.Default @Getter private ILossFunction lossClassPredictions = new LossL2();
   ;
   /**
    * Bounding box priors dimensions [width, height]. For N bounding boxes, input has shape [rows,
@@ -78,15 +78,12 @@ public class Yolo2OutputLayer extends LayerConfiguration {
    */
   @JsonSerialize(using = NDArrayTextSerializer.class)
   @JsonDeserialize(using = BoundingBoxesDeserializer.class)
-  @Builder.Default
+  @Builder.Default @Getter
   private INDArray boundingBoxes;
 
-  @Builder.Default
+  @Builder.Default @Getter
   private CNN2DFormat format = CNN2DFormat.NCHW; // Default for serialization of old formats
 
-  private Yolo2OutputLayer() {
-    // No-arg constructor for Jackson JSON
-  }
 
   @Override
   public Layer instantiate(

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/recurrent/LastTimeStep.java

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 
 package org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.layers.recurrent;
 
+import lombok.experimental.SuperBuilder;
 import org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.NeuralNetConfiguration;
 import org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.inputs.InputType;
 import org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.layers.LayerConfiguration;
@@ -30,14 +31,18 @@ import org.nd4j.linalg.api.buffer.DataType;
 import org.nd4j.linalg.api.ndarray.INDArray;
 
 import java.util.Collection;
-
+@SuperBuilder(builderMethodName = "innerBuilder")
 public class LastTimeStep extends BaseWrapperLayerConfiguration {
 
-    private LastTimeStep() {}
+    public static LastTimeStepBuilder<?,?> builder() {
+        return innerBuilder();
+    }
 
-    public LastTimeStep(LayerConfiguration underlying) {
+
-        super(underlying);
+    public static LastTimeStepBuilder<?,?> builder(LayerConfiguration underlying) {
-        this.name = underlying.getName(); // needed for keras import to match names
+        return innerBuilder()
+                .underlying(underlying)
+                .name(underlying.getName());
     }
 
     public LayerConfiguration getUnderlying() {

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/recurrent/SimpleRnn.java

@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ import java.util.Map;
 
 
 @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = false)
-@NoArgsConstructor
 @SuperBuilder
 public class SimpleRnn extends BaseRecurrentLayer {
     /**

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/recurrent/TimeDistributed.java

@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@
 
 package org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.layers.recurrent;
 
-import lombok.Data;
+import java.util.Collection;
-import lombok.EqualsAndHashCode;
+import lombok.*;
-import lombok.NonNull;
+import lombok.experimental.SuperBuilder;
 import org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.InputPreProcessor;
 import org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.NeuralNetConfiguration;
 import org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.RNNFormat;
@@ -33,55 +33,56 @@ import org.deeplearning4j.nn.layers.recurrent.TimeDistributedLayer;
 import org.deeplearning4j.optimize.api.TrainingListener;
 import org.nd4j.linalg.api.buffer.DataType;
 import org.nd4j.linalg.api.ndarray.INDArray;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
 
-import java.util.Collection;
-
-@Data
 @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
+@SuperBuilder
 public class TimeDistributed extends BaseWrapperLayerConfiguration {
-
+  @Getter @Setter private RNNFormat rnnDataFormat = RNNFormat.NCW;
-    private RNNFormat rnnDataFormat = RNNFormat.NCW;
-
-    /**
-     * @param underlying Underlying (internal) layer - should be a feed forward type such as DenseLayerConfiguration
-     */
-    public TimeDistributed(@JsonProperty("underlying") @NonNull LayerConfiguration underlying, @JsonProperty("rnnDataFormat") RNNFormat rnnDataFormat) {
-        super(underlying);
-        this.rnnDataFormat = rnnDataFormat;
-    }
-
-    public TimeDistributed(LayerConfiguration underlying){
-        super(underlying);
-    }
 
   @Override
-    public org.deeplearning4j.nn.api.Layer instantiate(NeuralNetConfiguration conf, Collection<TrainingListener> trainingListeners,
+  public org.deeplearning4j.nn.api.Layer instantiate(
-                                                       int layerIndex, INDArray layerParamsView, boolean initializeParams, DataType networkDataType) {
+      NeuralNetConfiguration conf,
+      Collection<TrainingListener> trainingListeners,
+      int layerIndex,
+      INDArray layerParamsView,
+      boolean initializeParams,
+      DataType networkDataType) {
     LayerConfiguration lconf = conf.getFlattenedLayerConfigurations().get(layerIndex);
 
     NeuralNetConfiguration conf2 = conf.clone();
     conf2.setLayer(((TimeDistributed) lconf).getUnderlying());
-        return new TimeDistributedLayer(underlying.instantiate(conf2, trainingListeners, layerIndex, layerParamsView,
+    return new TimeDistributedLayer(
-                initializeParams, networkDataType), rnnDataFormat);
+        underlying.instantiate(
+            conf2,
+            trainingListeners,
+            layerIndex,
+            layerParamsView,
+            initializeParams,
+            networkDataType),
+        rnnDataFormat);
   }
 
   @Override
   public InputType getOutputType(int layerIndex, InputType inputType) {
     if (inputType.getType() != InputType.Type.RNN) {
-            throw new IllegalStateException("Only RNN input type is supported as input to TimeDistributed layer (layer #" + layerIndex + ")");
+      throw new IllegalStateException(
+          "Only RNN input type is supported as input to TimeDistributed layer (layer #"
+              + layerIndex
+              + ")");
     }
 
     InputType.InputTypeRecurrent rnn = (InputType.InputTypeRecurrent) inputType;
     InputType ff = InputType.feedForward(rnn.getSize());
     InputType ffOut = underlying.getOutputType(layerIndex, ff);
-        return InputType.recurrent(ffOut.arrayElementsPerExample(), rnn.getTimeSeriesLength(), rnnDataFormat);
+    return InputType.recurrent(
+        ffOut.arrayElementsPerExample(), rnn.getTimeSeriesLength(), rnnDataFormat);
   }
 
   @Override
   public void setNIn(InputType inputType, boolean override) {
     if (inputType.getType() != InputType.Type.RNN) {
-            throw new IllegalStateException("Only RNN input type is supported as input to TimeDistributed layer");
+      throw new IllegalStateException(
+          "Only RNN input type is supported as input to TimeDistributed layer");
     }
 
     InputType.InputTypeRecurrent rnn = (InputType.InputTypeRecurrent) inputType;

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/samediff/SameDiffLayer.java

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 
 package org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.layers.samediff;
 
+import lombok.Builder;
 import lombok.EqualsAndHashCode;
 import lombok.experimental.SuperBuilder;
 import org.deeplearning4j.nn.api.Layer;
@@ -47,7 +48,9 @@ public abstract class SameDiffLayer extends AbstractSameDiffLayer {
     /**
      * WeightInit, default is XAVIER.
      */
+    @Builder.Default
     protected WeightInit weightInit = WeightInit.XAVIER;
+    @Builder.Default
     protected Map<String,IWeightInit> paramWeightInit = new HashMap<>();
 
 

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/samediff/SameDiffOutputLayer.java

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 
 package org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.layers.samediff;
 
+import lombok.experimental.SuperBuilder;
 import org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.NeuralNetConfiguration;
 import org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.layers.LayerConfiguration;
 import org.deeplearning4j.optimize.api.TrainingListener;
@@ -30,13 +31,10 @@ import org.nd4j.linalg.api.ndarray.INDArray;
 
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.Map;
-
+@SuperBuilder
 public abstract class SameDiffOutputLayer extends AbstractSameDiffLayer {
 
 
-    protected SameDiffOutputLayer() {
-        //No op constructor for Jackson
-    }
 
     /**
      * Define the output layer

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/util/MaskLayer.java

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 package org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.layers.util;
 
 import lombok.NoArgsConstructor;
+import lombok.experimental.SuperBuilder;
 import org.deeplearning4j.nn.api.ParamInitializer;
 import org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.InputPreProcessor;
 import org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.NeuralNetConfiguration;
@@ -38,7 +39,7 @@ import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 
-@NoArgsConstructor
+@SuperBuilder
 public class MaskLayer extends NoParamLayer {
     @Override
     public org.deeplearning4j.nn.api.Layer instantiate(NeuralNetConfiguration conf,

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/util/MaskZeroLayer.java

@@ -35,22 +35,17 @@ import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
 
 import java.util.Collection;
 
-@Data
+
 @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = false)
 @SuperBuilder
 public class MaskZeroLayer extends BaseWrapperLayerConfiguration {
-@Builder.Default
+@Builder.Default @Getter @Setter
     private double maskingValue = 0.0;
 
     private static final long serialVersionUID = 9074525846200921839L;
 
 
 
-    public MaskZeroLayer(@JsonProperty("underlying") LayerConfiguration underlying, @JsonProperty("maskingValue") double maskingValue) {
-        this.underlying = underlying;
-        this.maskingValue = maskingValue;
-    }
-
 
     @Override
     public org.deeplearning4j.nn.api.Layer instantiate(NeuralNetConfiguration conf,

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/layers/wrapper/BaseWrapperLayerConfiguration.java

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ package org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.layers.wrapper;
 import java.util.List;
 import lombok.EqualsAndHashCode;
 import lombok.Getter;
+import lombok.Setter;
 import lombok.experimental.SuperBuilder;
 import org.deeplearning4j.nn.api.ParamInitializer;
 import org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.InputPreProcessor;
@@ -42,7 +43,8 @@ import org.nd4j.linalg.learning.regularization.Regularization;
 public abstract class BaseWrapperLayerConfiguration extends LayerConfiguration {
 
   /** The configuration to of another layer to wrap */
-  @Getter protected LayerConfiguration underlying;
+  @Getter @Setter
+  protected LayerConfiguration underlying;
 
   /**
    * Set the net configuration for this configuration as well as for the underlying layer (if not

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/conf/ocnn/OCNNOutputLayer.java

@@ -38,8 +38,6 @@ import org.nd4j.linalg.api.buffer.DataType;
 import org.nd4j.linalg.api.ndarray.INDArray;
 import org.nd4j.linalg.learning.regularization.Regularization;
 
-@Data
-@NoArgsConstructor
 @ToString(callSuper = true)
 @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
 @JsonIgnoreProperties("lossFn")

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/layers/BaseOutputLayer.java

@@ -349,6 +349,6 @@ public abstract class BaseOutputLayer<LayerConfT extends org.deeplearning4j.nn.c
 
     @Override
     public boolean hasBias() {
-        return getTypedLayerConfiguration().hasBias();
+        return getTypedLayerConfiguration().isHasBias();
     }
 }

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/params/DefaultParamInitializer.java

@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ public class DefaultParamInitializer extends AbstractParamInitializer {
 
     protected boolean hasBias(LayerConfiguration layer){
         if(layer instanceof BaseOutputLayer ) {
-            return ((BaseOutputLayer) layer).hasBias();
+            return ((BaseOutputLayer) layer).isHasBias();
         } else if(layer instanceof DenseLayer){
             return ((DenseLayer)layer).isHasBias();
         } else if(layer instanceof EmbeddingLayer){

cavis-dnn/cavis-dnn-nn/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/nn/transferlearning/TransferLearning.java

@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ public class TransferLearning {
                     }
 
                     LayerConfiguration origLayerConf = editedModel.getNetConfiguration().getFlattenedLayerConfigurations().get(i);
-                    LayerConfiguration newLayerConf = new org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.layers.misc.FrozenLayer(origLayerConf);
+                    LayerConfiguration newLayerConf = org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.layers.misc.FrozenLayer.builder().innerConfiguration(origLayerConf).build();
                     newLayerConf.setName(origLayerConf.getName());
                     editedModel.getNetConfiguration().getNetConfigurations().get(i).setLayer(newLayerConf);
                 }
@@ -1009,7 +1009,7 @@ public class TransferLearning {
                             String layerName = gv.getVertexName();
                             LayerVertex currLayerVertex = (LayerVertex) newConfig.getVertices().get(layerName);
                             LayerConfiguration origLayerConf = currLayerVertex.getLayerConfiguration();
-                            LayerConfiguration newLayerConf = new org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.layers.misc.FrozenLayer(origLayerConf);
+                            LayerConfiguration newLayerConf =  org.deeplearning4j.nn.conf.layers.misc.FrozenLayer.builder().innerConfiguration(origLayerConf).build();
                             newLayerConf.setName(origLayerConf.getName());
                             //Complication here(and reason for clone on next line): inner LayerConfiguration (implementation)
                             // NeuralNetConfiguration.layer (config) should keep the original layer config. While network