diff --git a/configs/coco_model.yaml b/configs/coco_model.yaml
index 23516bea..dd0256b8 100644
--- a/configs/coco_model.yaml
+++ b/configs/coco_model.yaml
@@ -26,10 +26,47 @@ model:
       params:
         conf_thres: 0.25
         iou_thres: 0.45
+      losses:
+        name: ImplicitKeypointBBoxLoss
+        params:
+          keypoint_regression_loss_weight: 0.5
+          keypoint_visibility_loss_weight: 0.7
+          bbox_loss_weight: 0.05
+          objectness_loss_weight: 0.2
+      metrics:
+        - name: ObjectKeypointSimilarity
+          is_main_metric: true
+        - name: MeanAveragePrecisionKeypoints
+
+      visualizers:
+        name: MultiVisualizer
+        attached_to: ImplicitKeypointBBoxHead
+        params:
+          visualizers:
+            - name: KeypointVisualizer
+              params:
+                nonvisible_color: blue
+            - name: BBoxVisualizer
+              params:
+                colors:
+                  person: "#FF5055"
 
     - name: SegmentationHead
       inputs:
         - RepPANNeck
+      losses:
+        name: BCEWithLogitsLoss
+      metrics:
+        - name: F1Score
+          params:
+            task: binary
+        - name: JaccardIndex
+          params:
+            task: binary
+      visualizers:
+        name: SegmentationVisualizer
+        params:
+          colors: "#FF5055"
 
     - name: EfficientBBoxHead
       inputs:
@@ -37,55 +74,12 @@ model:
       params:
         conf_thres: 0.75
         iou_thres: 0.45
-
-  losses:
-    - name: AdaptiveDetectionLoss
-      attached_to: EfficientBBoxHead
-    - name: BCEWithLogitsLoss
-      attached_to: SegmentationHead
-    - name: ImplicitKeypointBBoxLoss
-      attached_to: ImplicitKeypointBBoxHead
-      params:
-        keypoint_regression_loss_weight: 0.5
-        keypoint_visibility_loss_weight: 0.7
-        bbox_loss_weight: 0.05
-        objectness_loss_weight: 0.2
-
-  metrics:
-    - name: ObjectKeypointSimilarity
-      is_main_metric: true
-      attached_to: ImplicitKeypointBBoxHead
-    - name: MeanAveragePrecisionKeypoints
-      attached_to: ImplicitKeypointBBoxHead
-    - name: MeanAveragePrecision
-      attached_to: EfficientBBoxHead
-    - name: F1Score
-      attached_to: SegmentationHead
-      params:
-        task: binary
-    - name: JaccardIndex
-      attached_to: SegmentationHead
-      params:
-        task: binary
-
-  visualizers:
-    - name: MultiVisualizer
-      attached_to: ImplicitKeypointBBoxHead
-      params:
-        visualizers:
-          - name: KeypointVisualizer
-            params:
-              nonvisible_color: blue
-          - name: BBoxVisualizer
-            params:
-              colors:
-                person: "#FF5055"
-    - name: SegmentationVisualizer
-      attached_to: SegmentationHead
-      params:
-        colors: "#FF5055"
-    - name: BBoxVisualizer
-      attached_to: EfficientBBoxHead
+      losses:
+        name: AdaptiveDetectionLoss
+      metrics:
+        name: MeanAveragePrecision
+      visualizers:
+        name: BBoxVisualizer
 
 tracker:
   project_name: coco_test
diff --git a/configs/resnet_model.yaml b/configs/resnet_model.yaml
index bb9f8f62..fd0b66cd 100644
--- a/configs/resnet_model.yaml
+++ b/configs/resnet_model.yaml
@@ -8,26 +8,21 @@ model:
         download_weights: True
 
     - name: ClassificationHead
-      inputs:
-        - ResNet
 
-  losses:
-    - name: CrossEntropyLoss
-      attached_to: ClassificationHead
+      losses:
+        name: CrossEntropyLoss
 
-  metrics:
-    - name: Accuracy
-      is_main_metric: true
-      attached_to: ClassificationHead
+      metrics:
+        name: Accuracy
+        is_main_metric: true
 
-  visualizers:
-    - name: ClassificationVisualizer
-      attached_to: ClassificationHead
-      params:
-        font_scale: 0.5
-        color: [255, 0, 0]
-        thickness: 2
-        include_plot: True
+      visualizers:
+        name: ClassificationVisualizer
+        params:
+          font_scale: 0.5
+          color: [255, 0, 0]
+          thickness: 2
+          include_plot: True
 
 loader:
   params:
diff --git a/luxonis_train/config/config.py b/luxonis_train/config/config.py
index 931bcd56..76a9baae 100644
--- a/luxonis_train/config/config.py
+++ b/luxonis_train/config/config.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import logging
 import sys
+import warnings
 from typing import Annotated, Any, Literal, TypeAlias
 
 from luxonis_ml.enums import DatasetType
@@ -83,6 +84,44 @@ class ModelConfig(BaseModelExtraForbid):
     visualizers: list[AttachedModuleConfig] = []
     outputs: list[str] = []
 
+    @field_validator("nodes", mode="before")
+    @classmethod
+    def validate_nodes(cls, nodes: Any) -> Any:
+        logged_general_warning = False
+        if not isinstance(nodes, list):
+            return nodes
+        names = []
+        last_body_index: int | None = None
+        for i, node in enumerate(nodes):
+            name = node.get("alias", node.get("name"))
+            if name is None:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"Node {i} does not specify the `name` field."
+                )
+            if "Head" in name and last_body_index is None:
+                last_body_index = i - 1
+            names.append(name)
+            if i > 0 and "inputs" not in node:
+                if last_body_index is not None:
+                    prev_name = names[last_body_index]
+                else:
+                    prev_name = names[i - 1]
+
+                if not logged_general_warning:
+                    logger.warning(
+                        f"Field `inputs` not specified for node '{name}'. "
+                        "Assuming the model follows a linear multi-head topology "
+                        "(backbone -> (neck?) -> head1, head2, ...). "
+                        "If this is incorrect, please specify the `inputs` field explicitly."
+                    )
+                    logged_general_warning = True
+
+                logger.warning(
+                    f"Setting `inputs` of '{name}' to '{prev_name}'. "
+                )
+                node["inputs"] = [prev_name]
+        return nodes
+
     @model_validator(mode="after")
     def check_predefined_model(self) -> Self:
         from .predefined_models.base_predefined_model import MODELS
@@ -170,6 +209,30 @@ def check_unique_names(self) -> Self:
                 names.add(name)
         return self
 
+    @model_validator(mode="before")
+    @classmethod
+    def check_attached_modules(cls, data: Params) -> Params:
+        if "nodes" not in data:
+            return data
+        for section in ["losses", "metrics", "visualizers"]:
+            if section not in data:
+                data[section] = []
+            else:
+                warnings.warn(
+                    f"Field `model.{section}` is deprecated. "
+                    f"Please specify `{section}`under "
+                    "the node they are attached to."
+                )
+            for node in data["nodes"]:
+                if section in node:
+                    cfg = node.pop(section)
+                    if not isinstance(cfg, list):
+                        cfg = [cfg]
+                    for c in cfg:
+                        c["attached_to"] = node.get("alias", node.get("name"))
+                    data[section] += cfg
+        return data
+
 
 class TrackerConfig(BaseModelExtraForbid):
     project_name: str | None = None
diff --git a/requirements-config.txt b/requirements-config.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0a7b2625
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements-config.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+luxonis-ml[data,utils]@git+https://github.com/luxonis/luxonis-ml.git@dev