diff --git a/src/mlpack/methods/ann/layer/weight_norm_impl.hpp b/src/mlpack/methods/ann/layer/weight_norm_impl.hpp
index d56b6156dc..dd08027c93 100644
--- a/src/mlpack/methods/ann/layer/weight_norm_impl.hpp
+++ b/src/mlpack/methods/ann/layer/weight_norm_impl.hpp
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ void WeightNorm<InputDataType, OutputDataType, CustomLayers...>::serialize(
     boost::apply_visitor(deleteVisitor, wrappedLayer);
   }
 
-  ar & BOOST_SERIALIZATION_NVP(wrappedLayer);
+  //ar & BOOST_SERIALIZATION_NVP(wrappedLayer);
   ar & BOOST_SERIALIZATION_NVP(layerWeightSize);
 
   // If we are loading, we need to initialize the weights.