diff --git a/luxonis_train/nodes/base_node.py b/luxonis_train/nodes/base_node.py
index 7338a802..c3124f82 100644
--- a/luxonis_train/nodes/base_node.py
+++ b/luxonis_train/nodes/base_node.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import inspect
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
 from typing import Generic, TypeVar
 
@@ -80,8 +81,6 @@ class BaseNode(
         Provide only in case the `input_shapes` were not provided.
     """
 
-    attach_index: AttachIndexType = "all"
-
     def __init__(
         self,
         *,
@@ -96,7 +95,21 @@ def __init__(
     ):
         super().__init__()
 
-        self.attach_index = attach_index or self.attach_index
+        if attach_index is None:
+            parameters = inspect.signature(self.forward).parameters
+            inputs_forward_type = parameters.get(
+                "inputs", parameters.get("input", parameters.get("x", None))
+            )
+            if (
+                inputs_forward_type is not None
+                and inputs_forward_type.annotation == Tensor
+            ):
+                self.attach_index = -1
+            else:
+                self.attach_index = "all"
+        else:
+            self.attach_index = attach_index
+
         self.in_protocols = in_protocols or [FeaturesProtocol]
         self.task_type = task_type
 
diff --git a/luxonis_train/nodes/bisenet_head.py b/luxonis_train/nodes/bisenet_head.py
index 99845177..a3b11df6 100644
--- a/luxonis_train/nodes/bisenet_head.py
+++ b/luxonis_train/nodes/bisenet_head.py
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 
 
 class BiSeNetHead(BaseNode[Tensor, Tensor]):
-    attach_index: int = -1
     in_height: int
     in_channels: int
 
@@ -45,6 +44,6 @@ def wrap(self, output: Tensor) -> Packet[Tensor]:
         return {"segmentation": [output]}
 
     def forward(self, inputs: Tensor) -> Tensor:
-        inputs = self.conv_3x3(inputs)
-        inputs = self.conv_1x1(inputs)
-        return self.upscale(inputs)
+        x = self.conv_3x3(inputs)
+        x = self.conv_1x1(x)
+        return self.upscale(x)
diff --git a/luxonis_train/nodes/classification_head.py b/luxonis_train/nodes/classification_head.py
index 10f9b3c9..d96e6b72 100644
--- a/luxonis_train/nodes/classification_head.py
+++ b/luxonis_train/nodes/classification_head.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 
 class ClassificationHead(BaseNode[Tensor, Tensor]):
     in_channels: int
-    attach_index: int = -1
 
     def __init__(
         self,
diff --git a/luxonis_train/nodes/contextspatial.py b/luxonis_train/nodes/contextspatial.py
index adbb84bc..1ca1460d 100644
--- a/luxonis_train/nodes/contextspatial.py
+++ b/luxonis_train/nodes/contextspatial.py
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@
 
 
 class ContextSpatial(BaseNode[Tensor, list[Tensor]]):
-    attach_index: int = -1
-
     def __init__(self, context_backbone: str = "MobileNetV2", **kwargs):
         """Context spatial backbone.
         TODO: Add more documentation.
@@ -34,9 +32,9 @@ def __init__(self, context_backbone: str = "MobileNetV2", **kwargs):
         self.spatial_path = SpatialPath(3, 128)
         self.ffm = FeatureFusionBlock(256, 256)
 
-    def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> list[Tensor]:
-        spatial_out = self.spatial_path(x)
-        context16, _ = self.context_path(x)
+    def forward(self, inputs: Tensor) -> list[Tensor]:
+        spatial_out = self.spatial_path(inputs)
+        context16, _ = self.context_path(inputs)
         fm_fuse = self.ffm(spatial_out, context16)
         outs = [fm_fuse]
         return outs
diff --git a/luxonis_train/nodes/efficientrep.py b/luxonis_train/nodes/efficientrep.py
index e6a014af..ccff4189 100644
--- a/luxonis_train/nodes/efficientrep.py
+++ b/luxonis_train/nodes/efficientrep.py
@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@
 
 
 class EfficientRep(BaseNode[Tensor, list[Tensor]]):
-    attach_index: int = -1
-
     def __init__(
         self,
         channels_list: list[int] | None = None,
@@ -104,9 +102,9 @@ def set_export_mode(self, mode: bool = True) -> None:
                 if isinstance(module, RepVGGBlock):
                     module.reparametrize()
 
-    def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> list[Tensor]:
+    def forward(self, inputs: Tensor) -> list[Tensor]:
         outputs = []
-        x = self.repvgg_encoder(x)
+        x = self.repvgg_encoder(inputs)
         for block in self.blocks:
             x = block(x)
             outputs.append(x)
diff --git a/luxonis_train/nodes/implicit_keypoint_bbox_head.py b/luxonis_train/nodes/implicit_keypoint_bbox_head.py
index 0fdca420..aff2b5a6 100644
--- a/luxonis_train/nodes/implicit_keypoint_bbox_head.py
+++ b/luxonis_train/nodes/implicit_keypoint_bbox_head.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import logging
 import math
-from typing import Literal, cast
+from typing import cast
 
 import torch
 from torch import Tensor, nn
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@
 
 
 class ImplicitKeypointBBoxHead(BaseNode):
-    attach_index: Literal["all"] = "all"
-
     def __init__(
         self,
         n_keypoints: int | None = None,
diff --git a/luxonis_train/nodes/micronet.py b/luxonis_train/nodes/micronet.py
index 03b43e1f..603eabde 100644
--- a/luxonis_train/nodes/micronet.py
+++ b/luxonis_train/nodes/micronet.py
@@ -15,8 +15,6 @@ class MicroNet(BaseNode[Tensor, list[Tensor]]):
     TODO: DOCS
     """
 
-    attach_index: int = -1
-
     def __init__(self, variant: Literal["M1", "M2", "M3"] = "M1", **kwargs):
         """MicroNet backbone.
 
@@ -236,23 +234,21 @@ def __init__(
                 ChannelShuffle(out_channels // 2) if y3 != 0 else nn.Sequential(),
             )
 
-    def forward(self, x: Tensor):
-        identity = x
-        out = self.layers(x)
+    def forward(self, inputs: Tensor) -> Tensor:
+        out = self.layers(inputs)
         if self.identity:
-            out += identity
+            out += inputs
         return out
 
 
 class ChannelShuffle(nn.Module):
     def __init__(self, groups: int):
-        super(ChannelShuffle, self).__init__()
+        super().__init__()
         self.groups = groups
 
-    def forward(self, x):
+    def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor:
         b, c, h, w = x.size()
         channels_per_group = c // self.groups
-        # reshape
         x = x.view(b, self.groups, channels_per_group, h, w)
         x = torch.transpose(x, 1, 2).contiguous()
         out = x.view(b, -1, h, w)
@@ -300,7 +296,7 @@ def __init__(
         indexs = torch.cat([indexs[1], indexs[0]], dim=2)
         self.index = indexs.view(in_channels).long()
 
-    def forward(self, x: Tensor):
+    def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor:
         B, C, _, _ = x.shape
         x_out = x
 
@@ -350,7 +346,7 @@ def __init__(self, in_channels: int, out_channels: int):
             nn.Linear(in_channels, out_channels), nn.BatchNorm1d(out_channels), HSwish()
         )
 
-    def forward(self, x: Tensor):
+    def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor:
         return self.linear(x)
 
 
@@ -383,7 +379,7 @@ def __init__(
             ChannelShuffle(out_channels1),
         )
 
-    def forward(self, x: Tensor):
+    def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor:
         return self.conv(x)
 
 
@@ -394,7 +390,7 @@ def __init__(self, in_channels: int, stride: int, outs: tuple[int, int] = (4, 4)
             SpatialSepConvSF(in_channels, outs, 3, stride), nn.ReLU6(True)
         )
 
-    def forward(self, x: Tensor):
+    def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor:
         return self.stem(x)
 
 
@@ -430,7 +426,7 @@ def __init__(
             nn.BatchNorm2d(out_channels),
         )
 
-    def forward(self, x: Tensor):
+    def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor:
         return self.conv(x)
 
 
diff --git a/luxonis_train/nodes/mobilenetv2.py b/luxonis_train/nodes/mobilenetv2.py
index 27fe87ec..732d0b12 100644
--- a/luxonis_train/nodes/mobilenetv2.py
+++ b/luxonis_train/nodes/mobilenetv2.py
@@ -15,8 +15,6 @@ class MobileNetV2(BaseNode[Tensor, list[Tensor]]):
     TODO: add more info
     """
 
-    attach_index: int = -1
-
     def __init__(self, download_weights: bool = False, **kwargs):
         """Constructor of the MobileNetV2 backbone.
 
@@ -37,8 +35,8 @@ def __init__(self, download_weights: bool = False, **kwargs):
 
     def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> list[Tensor]:
         outs = []
-        for i, m in enumerate(self.backbone.features):
-            x = m(x)
+        for i, module in enumerate(self.backbone.features):
+            x = module(x)
             if i in self.out_indices:
                 outs.append(x)
 
diff --git a/luxonis_train/nodes/mobileone.py b/luxonis_train/nodes/mobileone.py
index e92d3225..14e6e02b 100644
--- a/luxonis_train/nodes/mobileone.py
+++ b/luxonis_train/nodes/mobileone.py
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ class MobileOne(BaseNode[Tensor, list[Tensor]]):
     TODO: add more details
     """
 
-    attach_index: int = -1
     in_channels: int
 
     VARIANTS_SETTINGS: dict[str, dict] = {
@@ -115,9 +114,9 @@ def __init__(self, variant: Literal["s0", "s1", "s2", "s3", "s4"] = "s0", **kwar
             num_se_blocks=self.num_blocks_per_stage[3] if self.use_se else 0,
         )
 
-    def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> list[Tensor]:
+    def forward(self, inputs: Tensor) -> list[Tensor]:
         outs = []
-        x = self.stage0(x)
+        x = self.stage0(inputs)
         outs.append(x)
         x = self.stage1(x)
         outs.append(x)
diff --git a/luxonis_train/nodes/resnet.py b/luxonis_train/nodes/resnet.py
index 14ff8066..8228d37a 100644
--- a/luxonis_train/nodes/resnet.py
+++ b/luxonis_train/nodes/resnet.py
@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@
 
 
 class ResNet(BaseNode[Tensor, list[Tensor]]):
-    attach_index: int = -1
-
     def __init__(
         self,
         variant: Literal["18", "34", "50", "101", "152"] = "18",
@@ -47,9 +45,9 @@ def __init__(
         )
         self.channels_list = channels_list or [64, 128, 256, 512]
 
-    def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> list[Tensor]:
+    def forward(self, inputs: Tensor) -> list[Tensor]:
         outs = []
-        x = self.backbone.conv1(x)
+        x = self.backbone.conv1(inputs)
         x = self.backbone.bn1(x)
         x = self.backbone.relu(x)
         x = self.backbone.maxpool(x)
diff --git a/luxonis_train/nodes/rexnetv1.py b/luxonis_train/nodes/rexnetv1.py
index fb4de4b1..de2c08ae 100644
--- a/luxonis_train/nodes/rexnetv1.py
+++ b/luxonis_train/nodes/rexnetv1.py
@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@
 
 
 class ReXNetV1_lite(BaseNode[Tensor, list[Tensor]]):
-    attach_index: int = -1
-
     def __init__(
         self,
         fix_head_stem: bool = False,
@@ -129,8 +127,8 @@ def __init__(
 
     def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> list[Tensor]:
         outs = []
-        for i, m in enumerate(self.features):
-            x = m(x)
+        for i, module in enumerate(self.features):
+            x = module(x)
             if i in self.out_indices:
                 outs.append(x)
         return outs
@@ -186,12 +184,11 @@ def __init__(
 
         self.out = nn.Sequential(*out)
 
-    def forward(self, x):
+    def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor:
         out = self.out(x)
 
         if self.use_shortcut:
-            # this results in a ScatterND node which isn't supported yet in myriad
-            # out[:, 0:self.in_channels] += x
+            # NOTE: this results in a ScatterND node which isn't supported yet in myriad
             a = out[:, : self.in_channels]
             b = x
             a = a + b
diff --git a/luxonis_train/nodes/segmentation_head.py b/luxonis_train/nodes/segmentation_head.py
index bdfe814d..a3420491 100644
--- a/luxonis_train/nodes/segmentation_head.py
+++ b/luxonis_train/nodes/segmentation_head.py
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 
 
 class SegmentationHead(BaseNode[Tensor, Tensor]):
-    attach_index: int = -1
     in_height: int
     in_channels: int