diff --git a/timm/models/layers/ml_decoder.py b/timm/models/layers/ml_decoder.py
index 87815aaa..3f828c6d 100644
--- a/timm/models/layers/ml_decoder.py
+++ b/timm/models/layers/ml_decoder.py
@@ -7,21 +7,28 @@ from torch.nn.modules.transformer import _get_activation_fn
 
 
 def add_ml_decoder_head(model):
-    if hasattr(model, 'global_pool') and hasattr(model, 'fc'):  # resnet50
+    if hasattr(model, 'global_pool') and hasattr(model, 'fc'):  # most CNN models, like Resnet50
         model.global_pool = nn.Identity()
         del model.fc
         num_classes = model.num_classes
         num_features = model.num_features
         model.fc = MLDecoder(num_classes=num_classes, initial_num_features=num_features)
-    elif hasattr(model, 'head'):  # tresnet
+    elif hasattr(model, 'global_pool') and hasattr(model, 'classifier'):  # EfficientNet
+        model.global_pool = nn.Identity()
+        del model.classifier
+        num_classes = model.num_classes
+        num_features = model.num_features
+        model.classifier = MLDecoder(num_classes=num_classes, initial_num_features=num_features)
+    elif 'RegNet' in model._get_name() or 'TResNet' in model._get_name():  # hasattr(model, 'head')
         del model.head
         num_classes = model.num_classes
         num_features = model.num_features
         model.head = MLDecoder(num_classes=num_classes, initial_num_features=num_features)
     else:
-        print("model is not suited for ml-decoder")
+        print("Model code-writing is not aligned currently with ml-decoder")
         exit(-1)
-
+    if hasattr(model, 'drop_rate'):  # Ml-Decoder has inner dropout
+        model.drop_rate = 0
     return model