diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2879bd3b..e107b8bb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@
 
 * `process_dataset`: Sample ATAC peaks by position and cap the sample at the number of non-zero peaks. The guard tested `ncol(ad2) > 10000` but sampled from the non-zero peaks only, so a dataset with many peaks but fewer than 10000 non-zero ones errored out (PR #35).
 
+* `novel`: Merge `wf_method.yaml` rather than `comp_method.yaml`, matching `simple_mlp`. It is a Nextflow-only workflow, so the executable-based output check never applied to it (PR #44).
+
+* `simple_mlp`: Drop the `input_transform` key from the `simple_mlp_predict` call, which is not an argument of that component (PR #44).
+
 # task_predict_modality 0.1.1
 
 ## NEW FUNCTIONALITY
diff --git a/src/methods/novel/novel/config.vsh.yaml b/src/methods/novel/novel/config.vsh.yaml
index f372f394..da744a07 100644
--- a/src/methods/novel/novel/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/methods/novel/novel/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__merge__: ../../../api/comp_method.yaml
+__merge__: /src/api/wf_method.yaml
 name: novel
 label: Novel
 summary: A method using encoder-decoder MLP model
diff --git a/src/methods/simple_mlp/simple_mlp/main.nf b/src/methods/simple_mlp/simple_mlp/main.nf
index 386675e1..997a1d33 100644
--- a/src/methods/simple_mlp/simple_mlp/main.nf
+++ b/src/methods/simple_mlp/simple_mlp/main.nf
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ workflow run_wf {
     )
 
     | simple_mlp_predict.run(
-      fromState: ["input_train_mod2", "input_test_mod1", "input_model", "input_transform"],
+      fromState: ["input_train_mod2", "input_test_mod1", "input_model"],
       toState: ["output": "output"]
     )