diff --git a/pytorch3d/implicitron/models/implicit_function/decoding_functions.py b/pytorch3d/implicitron/models/implicit_function/decoding_functions.py
index fd33a3fd..2713ea46 100644
--- a/pytorch3d/implicitron/models/implicit_function/decoding_functions.py
+++ b/pytorch3d/implicitron/models/implicit_function/decoding_functions.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ This file contains
 
 import logging
 
+from enum import Enum
 from typing import Optional, Tuple
 
 import torch
@@ -30,6 +31,13 @@ from pytorch3d.implicitron.tools.config import (
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
+class DecoderActivation(Enum):
+    RELU = "relu"
+    SOFTPLUS = "softplus"
+    SIGMOID = "sigmoid"
+    IDENTITY = "identity"
+
+
 class DecoderFunctionBase(ReplaceableBase, torch.nn.Module):
     """
     Decoding function is a torch.nn.Module which takes the embedding of a location in
@@ -71,11 +79,16 @@ class ElementwiseDecoder(DecoderFunctionBase):
 
     scale: float = 1
     shift: float = 0
-    operation: str = "identity"
+    operation: DecoderActivation = DecoderActivation.IDENTITY
 
     def __post_init__(self):
         super().__post_init__()
-        if self.operation not in ["relu", "softplus", "sigmoid", "identity"]:
+        if self.operation not in [
+            DecoderActivation.RELU,
+            DecoderActivation.SOFTPLUS,
+            DecoderActivation.SIGMOID,
+            DecoderActivation.IDENTITY,
+        ]:
             raise ValueError(
                 "`operation` can only be `relu`, `softplus`, `sigmoid` or identity."
             )
@@ -84,11 +97,11 @@ class ElementwiseDecoder(DecoderFunctionBase):
         self, features: torch.Tensor, z: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
     ) -> torch.Tensor:
         transfomed_input = features * self.scale + self.shift
-        if self.operation == "softplus":
+        if self.operation == DecoderActivation.SOFTPLUS:
             return torch.nn.functional.softplus(transfomed_input)
-        if self.operation == "relu":
+        if self.operation == DecoderActivation.RELU:
             return torch.nn.functional.relu(transfomed_input)
-        if self.operation == "sigmoid":
+        if self.operation == DecoderActivation.SIGMOID:
             return torch.nn.functional.sigmoid(transfomed_input)
         return transfomed_input
 
@@ -104,7 +117,15 @@ class MLPWithInputSkips(Configurable, torch.nn.Module):
     appends a skip tensor `z` to the output of the preceding layer.
 
     Note that this follows the architecture described in the Supplementary
-    Material (Fig. 7) of [1].
+    Material (Fig. 7) of [1], for which keep the defaults for:
+        - `last_layer_bias_init` to None
+        - `last_activation` to "relu"
+        - `use_xavier_init` to `true`
+
+    If you want to use this as a part of the color prediction in TensoRF model set:
+        - `last_layer_bias_init` to 0
+        - `last_activation` to "sigmoid"
+        - `use_xavier_init` to `False`
 
     References:
         [1] Ben Mildenhall and Pratul P. Srinivasan and Matthew Tancik
@@ -121,6 +142,12 @@ class MLPWithInputSkips(Configurable, torch.nn.Module):
         hidden_dim: The number of hidden units of the MLP.
         input_skips: The list of layer indices at which we append the skip
             tensor `z`.
+        last_layer_bias_init: If set then all the biases in the last layer
+            are initialized to that value.
+        last_activation: Which activation to use in the last layer. Options are:
+            "relu", "softplus", "sigmoid" and "identity". Default is "relu".
+        use_xavier_init: If True uses xavier init for all linear layer weights.
+            Otherwise the default PyTorch initialization is used. Default True.
     """
 
     n_layers: int = 8
@@ -130,10 +157,30 @@ class MLPWithInputSkips(Configurable, torch.nn.Module):
     hidden_dim: int = 256
     input_skips: Tuple[int, ...] = (5,)
     skip_affine_trans: bool = False
-    no_last_relu = False
+    last_layer_bias_init: Optional[float] = None
+    last_activation: DecoderActivation = DecoderActivation.RELU
+    use_xavier_init: bool = True
 
     def __post_init__(self):
         super().__init__()
+
+        if self.last_activation not in [
+            DecoderActivation.RELU,
+            DecoderActivation.SOFTPLUS,
+            DecoderActivation.SIGMOID,
+            DecoderActivation.IDENTITY,
+        ]:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "`last_activation` can only be `relu`,"
+                " `softplus`, `sigmoid` or identity."
+            )
+        last_activation = {
+            DecoderActivation.RELU: torch.nn.ReLU(True),
+            DecoderActivation.SOFTPLUS: torch.nn.Softplus(),
+            DecoderActivation.SIGMOID: torch.nn.Sigmoid(),
+            DecoderActivation.IDENTITY: torch.nn.Identity(),
+        }[self.last_activation]
+
         layers = []
         skip_affine_layers = []
         for layeri in range(self.n_layers):
@@ -149,11 +196,14 @@ class MLPWithInputSkips(Configurable, torch.nn.Module):
                     dimin = self.hidden_dim + self.skip_dim
 
             linear = torch.nn.Linear(dimin, dimout)
-            _xavier_init(linear)
+            if self.use_xavier_init:
+                _xavier_init(linear)
+            if layeri == self.n_layers - 1 and self.last_layer_bias_init is not None:
+                torch.nn.init.constant_(linear.bias, self.last_layer_bias_init)
             layers.append(
                 torch.nn.Sequential(linear, torch.nn.ReLU(True))
-                if not self.no_last_relu or layeri + 1 < self.n_layers
-                else linear
+                if not layeri + 1 < self.n_layers
+                else torch.nn.Sequential(linear, last_activation)
             )
         self.mlp = torch.nn.ModuleList(layers)
         if self.skip_affine_trans:
@@ -164,8 +214,9 @@ class MLPWithInputSkips(Configurable, torch.nn.Module):
     def _make_affine_layer(self, input_dim, hidden_dim):
         l1 = torch.nn.Linear(input_dim, hidden_dim * 2)
         l2 = torch.nn.Linear(hidden_dim * 2, hidden_dim * 2)
-        _xavier_init(l1)
-        _xavier_init(l2)
+        if self.use_xavier_init:
+            _xavier_init(l1)
+            _xavier_init(l2)
         return torch.nn.Sequential(l1, torch.nn.ReLU(True), l2)
 
     def _apply_affine_layer(self, layer, x, z):