diff --git a/dominoes/networks/pointer_decoder.py b/dominoes/networks/pointer_decoder.py
index 59987d1..385799e 100644
--- a/dominoes/networks/pointer_decoder.py
+++ b/dominoes/networks/pointer_decoder.py
@@ -156,11 +156,11 @@ def _pointer_loop(
         - updates the mask if permutation is enabled
         """
         # update context representation
-        decoder_context = self.decode(processed_encoding, decoder_input, decoder_context, mask)
+        decoder_context = self.decode(processed_encoding.stored_encoding, decoder_input, decoder_context, mask)
 
         # use pointer attention to evaluate scores of each possible input given the context
         decoder_state = self.get_decoder_state(decoder_input, decoder_context)
-        log_score = self.pointer(processed_encoding, decoder_state, mask=mask, temperature=temperature)
+        log_score = self.pointer(processed_encoding.stored_encoding, decoder_state, mask=mask, temperature=temperature)
 
         # choose token for this sample
         if thompson:
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ def _pointer_loop(
 
         # next decoder_input is whatever token had the highest probability
         index_tensor = choice.unsqueeze(-1).expand(batch_size, 1, self.embedding_dim)
-        decoder_input = torch.gather(processed_encoding, dim=1, index=index_tensor).squeeze(1)
+        decoder_input = torch.gather(processed_encoding.stored_encoding, dim=1, index=index_tensor).squeeze(1)
 
         if self.permutation:
             # mask previously chosen tokens (don't include this in the computation graph)
diff --git a/dominoes/networks/pointer_layers.py b/dominoes/networks/pointer_layers.py
index 061a61a..095ff02 100644
--- a/dominoes/networks/pointer_layers.py
+++ b/dominoes/networks/pointer_layers.py
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ def process_encoded(self, encoded):
 
     def _get_logits(self, encoded, decoder_state, mask):
         transform_decoded = self.W2(decoder_state)
-        logits = self.vt(torch.tanh(encoded.stored_encoding + transform_decoded.unsqueeze(1))).squeeze(2)
+        logits = self.vt(torch.tanh(encoded + transform_decoded.unsqueeze(1))).squeeze(2)
         return logits
 
 
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ def process_encoded(self, encoded):
 
     def _get_logits(self, encoded, decoder_state, mask):
         transform_decoded = self.dln(self.W2(decoder_state))
-        logits = torch.bmm(encoded.stored_encoding, transform_decoded.unsqueeze(2)).squeeze(2)
+        logits = torch.bmm(encoded, transform_decoded.unsqueeze(2)).squeeze(2)
         return logits
 
 
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ def process_encoded(self, encoded):
 
     def _get_logits(self, encoded, decoder_state, mask):
         transform_decoded = self.dln(self.W2(decoder_state))
-        logits = torch.bmm(encoded.stored_encoding, transform_decoded.unsqueeze(2)).squeeze(2)
+        logits = torch.bmm(encoded, transform_decoded.unsqueeze(2)).squeeze(2)
         return logits
 
 
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ def process_encoded(self, encoded):
 
     def _get_logits(self, encoded, decoder_state, mask):
         transform_decoded = self.dln(decoder_state)
-        logits = torch.bmm(encoded.stored_encoding, transform_decoded.unsqueeze(2)).squeeze(2)
+        logits = torch.bmm(encoded, transform_decoded.unsqueeze(2)).squeeze(2)
         return logits
 
 
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ def process_encoded(self, encoded):
 
     def _get_logits(self, encoded, decoder_state, mask):
         # attention on encoded representations with decoder_state
-        attended = self.attention(encoded.stored_encoding, [decoder_state], mask=mask)
+        attended = self.attention(encoded, [decoder_state], mask=mask)
         logits = self.vt(torch.tanh(attended)).squeeze(2)
         return logits
 
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ def process_encoded(self, encoded):
 
     def _get_logits(self, encoded, decoder_state, mask):
         # transform encoded representations with decoder_state
-        transformed = self.transformer(encoded.stored_encoding, [decoder_state], mask=mask)
+        transformed = self.transformer(encoded, [decoder_state], mask=mask)
         logits = self.vt(torch.tanh(transformed)).squeeze(2)
         return logits