diff --git a/toolkit.py b/toolkit.py
index b32e2152f62020da0fe6fd12228779fea1ee41a1..a8fe83334a688a1f11d5d4f44332670b60189464 100755
--- a/toolkit.py
+++ b/toolkit.py
@@ -2025,10 +2025,12 @@ class ClassificationProjectRNN(ClassificationProject):
 
 class ClassificationProjectDecorr(ClassificationProject):
 
-    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        super(ClassificationProjectDecorr, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+    def _init_from_args(self, name,
+                        decorr_bins=10,
+                        **kwargs):
+        super(ClassificationProjectDecorr, self)._init_from_args(name, **kwargs)
         self.decorr_binnings = []
-        self.decorr_bins = 10
+        self.decorr_bins = decorr_bins
         self._write_info("project_type", "ClassificationProjectDecorr")
         self._class_layers = None
         self._adv_hidden_layers = None