diff --git a/autointent/configs/_inference_node.py b/autointent/configs/_inference_node.py
index 755ee3b00..7a8580924 100644
--- a/autointent/configs/_inference_node.py
+++ b/autointent/configs/_inference_node.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 """Configuration for the nodes."""
 
-from dataclasses import asdict, dataclass
 from typing import Any
 
 from autointent.custom_types import NodeType
@@ -8,32 +7,54 @@
 from ._transformers import CrossEncoderConfig, EmbedderConfig
 
 
-@dataclass
 class InferenceNodeConfig:
     """Configuration for the inference node."""
 
-    node_type: NodeType
-    """Type of the node."""
-    module_name: str
-    """Name of module which is specified as :py:attr:`autointent.modules.base.BaseModule.name`."""
-    module_config: dict[str, Any]
-    """Hyperparameters of underlying module."""
-    load_path: str
-    """Path to the module dump."""
-    embedder_config: EmbedderConfig | None = None
-    """One can override presaved embedder config while loading from file system."""
-    cross_encoder_config: CrossEncoderConfig | None = None
-    """One can override presaved cross encoder config while loading from file system."""
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        node_type: NodeType,
+        module_name: str,
+        module_config: dict[str, Any],
+        load_path: str,
+        embedder_config: EmbedderConfig | None = None,
+        cross_encoder_config: CrossEncoderConfig | None = None,
+    ) -> None:
+        """Initialize the InferenceNodeConfig.
+
+        Args:
+            node_type: Type of the node.
+            module_name: Name of module which is specified as :py:attr:`autointent.modules.base.BaseModule.name`.
+            module_config: Hyperparameters of underlying module.
+            load_path: Path to the module dump.
+            embedder_config: One can override presaved embedder config while loading from file system.
+            cross_encoder_config: One can override presaved cross encoder config while loading from file system.
+        """
+        self.node_type = node_type
+        self.module_name = module_name
+        self.module_config = module_config
+        self.load_path = load_path
+
+        if embedder_config is not None:
+            self.embedder_config = embedder_config
+        if cross_encoder_config is not None:
+            self.cross_encoder_config = cross_encoder_config
 
     def asdict(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
-        """Convert config to dict format."""
-        res = asdict(self)
-        if self.embedder_config is not None:
-            res["embedder_config"] = self.embedder_config.model_dump()
-        else:
-            res.pop("embedder_config")
-        if self.cross_encoder_config is not None:
-            res["cross_encoder_config"] = self.cross_encoder_config.model_dump()
-        else:
-            res.pop("cross_encoder_config")
-        return res
+        """Convert the InferenceNodeConfig to a dictionary.
+
+        Returns:
+            A dictionary representation of the InferenceNodeConfig.
+        """
+        result = {
+            "node_type": self.node_type,
+            "module_name": self.module_name,
+            "module_config": self.module_config,
+            "load_path": self.load_path,
+        }
+
+        if hasattr(self, "embedder_config"):
+            result["embedder_config"] = self.embedder_config.model_dump()
+        if hasattr(self, "cross_encoder_config"):
+            result["cross_encoder_config"] = self.cross_encoder_config.model_dump()
+
+        return result
diff --git a/autointent/modules/scoring/_bert.py b/autointent/modules/scoring/_bert.py
index a2e3eb946..5fd075ebc 100644
--- a/autointent/modules/scoring/_bert.py
+++ b/autointent/modules/scoring/_bert.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 
 
 class BertScorer(BaseScorer):
-    name = "transformer"
+    name = "bert"
     supports_multiclass = True
     supports_multilabel = True
     _model: Any
@@ -79,12 +79,21 @@ def fit(
     ) -> None:
         if hasattr(self, "_model"):
             self.clear_cache()
-
         self._validate_task(labels)
 
         model_name = self.model_config.model_name
         self._tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
-        self._model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(model_name, num_labels=self._n_classes)
+
+        label2id = {i: i for i in range(self._n_classes)}
+        id2label = {i: i for i in range(self._n_classes)}
+
+        self._model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(
+            model_name,
+            num_labels=self._n_classes,
+            label2id=label2id,
+            id2label=id2label,
+            problem_type="multi_label_classification" if self._multilabel else "single_label_classification",
+        )
 
         use_cpu = self.model_config.device == "cpu"
 
@@ -94,7 +103,15 @@ def tokenize_function(examples: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any]:
             )
 
         dataset = Dataset.from_dict({"text": utterances, "labels": labels})
-        tokenized_dataset = dataset.map(tokenize_function, batched=True)
+
+        if self._multilabel:
+            # hugging face uses F.binary_cross_entropy_with_logits under the hood
+            # which requires target labels to be of float type
+            dataset = dataset.map(
+                lambda example: {"label": torch.tensor(example["labels"], dtype=torch.float)}, remove_columns="labels"
+            )
+
+        tokenized_dataset = dataset.map(tokenize_function, batched=True, batch_size=self.batch_size)
 
         with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmp_dir:
             training_args = TrainingArguments(
@@ -127,17 +144,19 @@ def predict(self, utterances: list[str]) -> npt.NDArray[Any]:
             msg = "Model is not trained. Call fit() first."
             raise RuntimeError(msg)
 
+        device = next(self._model.parameters()).device
         all_predictions = []
         for i in range(0, len(utterances), self.batch_size):
             batch = utterances[i : i + self.batch_size]
             inputs = self._tokenizer(batch, return_tensors="pt", **self.model_config.tokenizer_config.model_dump())
+            inputs = {k: v.to(device) for k, v in inputs.items()}
             with torch.no_grad():
                 outputs = self._model(**inputs)
                 logits = outputs.logits
             if self._multilabel:
-                batch_predictions = torch.sigmoid(logits).numpy()
+                batch_predictions = torch.sigmoid(logits).cpu().numpy()
             else:
-                batch_predictions = torch.softmax(logits, dim=1).numpy()
+                batch_predictions = torch.softmax(logits, dim=1).cpu().numpy()
             all_predictions.append(batch_predictions)
         return np.vstack(all_predictions) if all_predictions else np.array([])
 
diff --git a/autointent/nodes/_inference_node.py b/autointent/nodes/_inference_node.py
index 32d29f0ad..3fc7390fa 100644
--- a/autointent/nodes/_inference_node.py
+++ b/autointent/nodes/_inference_node.py
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ def from_config(cls, config: InferenceNodeConfig) -> "InferenceNode":
         module = node_info.modules_available[config.module_name](**config.module_config)
         module.load(
             config.load_path,
-            embedder_config=config.embedder_config,
-            cross_encoder_config=config.cross_encoder_config,
+            embedder_config=getattr(config, "embedder_config", None),
+            cross_encoder_config=getattr(config, "cross_encoder_config", None),
         )
         return cls(module, config.node_type)
 
diff --git a/tests/assets/configs/multiclass.yaml b/tests/assets/configs/multiclass.yaml
index 689813cd3..c21eb779a 100644
--- a/tests/assets/configs/multiclass.yaml
+++ b/tests/assets/configs/multiclass.yaml
@@ -28,6 +28,13 @@
     - module_name: sklearn
       clf_name: [RandomForestClassifier]
       n_estimators: [5, 10]
+    - module_name: bert
+      model_config:
+        - model_name: avsolatorio/GIST-small-Embedding-v0
+      num_train_epochs: [1]
+      batch_size: [8, 16]
+      learning_rate: [5.0e-5]
+      seed: [0]
 - node_type: decision
   target_metric: decision_accuracy
   search_space:
diff --git a/tests/assets/configs/multilabel.yaml b/tests/assets/configs/multilabel.yaml
index 241239b3c..f867c6109 100644
--- a/tests/assets/configs/multilabel.yaml
+++ b/tests/assets/configs/multilabel.yaml
@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@
     - module_name: sklearn
       clf_name: [RandomForestClassifier]
       n_estimators: [5, 10]
+    - module_name: bert
+      model_config:
+        - model_name: avsolatorio/GIST-small-Embedding-v0
+      num_train_epochs: [1]
+      batch_size: [8]
+      learning_rate: [5.0e-5]
+      seed: [0]
 - node_type: decision
   target_metric: decision_accuracy
   search_space: