diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.array.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.array.cs
index c63fe7fe..b10e1d77 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.array.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.array.cs
@@ -30,5 +30,13 @@ namespace Tensorflow
         /// <returns></returns>
         public static Tensor transpose(Tensor a, int[] perm = null, string name = "transpose", bool conjugate = false)
             => array_ops.transpose(a, perm, name, conjugate);
+
+        public static Tensor squeeze(Tensor input, int[] axis = null, string name = null, int squeeze_dims = -1)
+            => gen_array_ops.squeeze(input, axis, name);
+
+        public static Tensor one_hot(Tensor indices, int depth)
+        {
+            throw new NotImplementedException("one_hot");
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.init.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.init.cs
index fb5421c3..c6455341 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.init.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.init.cs
@@ -27,5 +27,13 @@ namespace Tensorflow
                   default_name,
                   values,
                   auxiliary_name_scope);
+
+        public static IInitializer truncated_normal_initializer(float mean = 0.0f,
+            float stddev = 1.0f,
+            int? seed = null,
+            TF_DataType dtype = TF_DataType.DtInvalid) => new TruncatedNormal(mean: mean,
+                stddev: stddev,
+                seed: seed,
+                dtype: dtype);
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.layers.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.layers.cs
index ba543953..faf0d089 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.layers.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.layers.cs
@@ -126,6 +126,26 @@ namespace Tensorflow
 
                 return layer.apply(inputs);
             }
+
+            public static Tensor dense(Tensor inputs,
+                int units,
+                IActivation activation = null,
+                bool use_bias = true,
+                IInitializer kernel_initializer = null,
+                IInitializer bias_initializer = null,
+                bool trainable = true,
+                string name = null,
+                bool? reuse = null)
+            {
+                if (bias_initializer == null)
+                    bias_initializer = tf.zeros_initializer;
+
+                var layer = new Dense(units, activation, 
+                    use_bias: use_bias,
+                    kernel_initializer: kernel_initializer);
+
+                return layer.apply(inputs);
+            }
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.math.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.math.cs
index 9226ce63..ad548864 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.math.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.math.cs
@@ -6,21 +6,26 @@ namespace Tensorflow
 {
     public static partial class tf
     {
-        public static Tensor add(Tensor a, Tensor b) => gen_math_ops.add(a, b);
+        public static Tensor add(Tensor a, Tensor b) 
+            => gen_math_ops.add(a, b);
 
-        public static Tensor sub(Tensor a, Tensor b) => gen_math_ops.sub(a, b);
+        public static Tensor sub(Tensor a, Tensor b) 
+            => gen_math_ops.sub(a, b);
 
-        public static Tensor sqrt(Tensor a, string name = null) => gen_math_ops.sqrt(a, name);
+        public static Tensor sqrt(Tensor a, string name = null) 
+            => gen_math_ops.sqrt(a, name);
 
         public static Tensor subtract<T>(Tensor x, T[] y, string name = null) where T : struct
             => gen_math_ops.sub(x, ops.convert_to_tensor(y, dtype: x.dtype.as_base_dtype(), name: "y"), name);
 
-        public static Tensor multiply(Tensor x, Tensor y) => gen_math_ops.mul(x, y);
+        public static Tensor multiply(Tensor x, Tensor y) 
+            => gen_math_ops.mul(x, y);
 
         public static Tensor divide<T>(Tensor x, T[] y, string name = null) where T : struct
             => x / ops.convert_to_tensor(y, dtype: x.dtype.as_base_dtype(), name: "y");
 
-        public static Tensor pow<T1, T2>(T1 x, T2 y) => gen_math_ops.pow(x, y);
+        public static Tensor pow<T1, T2>(T1 x, T2 y) 
+            => gen_math_ops.pow(x, y);
 
         /// <summary>
         /// Computes the sum of elements across dimensions of a tensor.
@@ -28,9 +33,13 @@ namespace Tensorflow
         /// <param name="input"></param>
         /// <param name="axis"></param>
         /// <returns></returns>
-        public static Tensor reduce_sum(Tensor input, int[] axis = null) => math_ops.reduce_sum(input);
+        public static Tensor reduce_sum(Tensor input, int[] axis = null) 
+            => math_ops.reduce_sum(input);
 
         public static Tensor cast(Tensor x, TF_DataType dtype = TF_DataType.DtInvalid, string name = null) 
             => math_ops.cast(x, dtype, name);
+
+        public static Tensor argmax(Tensor input, int axis = -1, string name = null, int? dimension = null, TF_DataType output_type = TF_DataType.TF_INT64)
+            => gen_math_ops.arg_max(input, axis, name: name, output_type: output_type);
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.nn.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.nn.cs
index 5a940afe..87b646d7 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.nn.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.nn.cs
@@ -42,7 +42,10 @@ namespace Tensorflow
                     is_training: is_training,
                     name: name);
 
-            public static Tensor max_pool() => gen_nn_ops.max_pool();
+            public static IPoolFunction max_pool => new MaxPoolFunction();
+
+            public static Tensor[] top_k(Tensor input, int k = 1, bool sorted = true, string name = null)
+                => gen_nn_ops.top_kv2(input, k: k, sorted: sorted, name: name);
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.reshape.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.reshape.cs
index 41861968..30098581 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.reshape.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.reshape.cs
@@ -10,5 +10,8 @@ namespace Tensorflow
                 Tensor shape,
                 string name = null) => gen_array_ops.reshape(tensor, shape, name);
 
+        public static Tensor reshape(Tensor tensor,
+                int[] shape,
+                string name = null) => gen_array_ops.reshape(tensor, shape, name);
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/Engine/InputSpec.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/Engine/InputSpec.cs
index bfd96d6a..d84c31e1 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/Engine/InputSpec.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/Engine/InputSpec.cs
@@ -10,16 +10,19 @@ namespace Tensorflow.Keras.Engine
     public class InputSpec
     {
         public int ndim;
+        public int? min_ndim;
         Dictionary<int, int> axes;
 
-        public InputSpec(TF_DataType dtype = TF_DataType.DtInvalid, 
+        public InputSpec(TF_DataType dtype = TF_DataType.DtInvalid,
             int? ndim = null,
+            int? min_ndim = null,
             Dictionary<int, int> axes = null)
         {
             this.ndim = ndim.Value;
             if (axes == null)
                 axes = new Dictionary<int, int>();
             this.axes = axes;
+            this.min_ndim = min_ndim;
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/Engine/Layer.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/Engine/Layer.cs
index 7e722ff2..12df6b4d 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/Engine/Layer.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/Engine/Layer.cs
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ namespace Tensorflow.Keras.Engine
 
         protected virtual void build(TensorShape input_shape)
         {
-            throw new NotImplementedException("Layer.build");
+            built = true;
         }
 
         protected virtual RefVariable add_weight(string name,
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/Layers/Dense.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/Layers/Dense.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7bf63413
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/Layers/Dense.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Text;
+using Tensorflow.Keras.Engine;
+using Tensorflow.Operations.Activation;
+
+namespace Tensorflow.Keras.Layers
+{
+    public class Dense : Tensorflow.Layers.Layer
+    {
+        protected int uints;
+        protected IActivation activation;
+        protected bool use_bias;
+        protected IInitializer kernel_initializer;
+        protected IInitializer bias_initializer;
+
+        public Dense(int units,
+            IActivation activation,
+            bool use_bias = true,
+            bool trainable = false,
+            IInitializer kernel_initializer = null,
+            IInitializer bias_initializer = null) : base(trainable: trainable)
+        {
+            this.uints = units;
+            this.activation = activation;
+            this.use_bias = use_bias;
+            this.kernel_initializer = kernel_initializer;
+            this.bias_initializer = bias_initializer;
+            this.supports_masking = true;
+            this.input_spec = new InputSpec(min_ndim: 2);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/Layers/IPoolFunction.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/Layers/IPoolFunction.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..07544f10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/Layers/IPoolFunction.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Text;
+
+namespace Tensorflow
+{
+    public interface IPoolFunction
+    {
+        Tensor Apply(Tensor value,
+            int[] ksize,
+            int[] strides,
+            string padding,
+            string data_format = "NHWC",
+            string name = null);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/Layers/Pooling2D.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/Layers/Pooling2D.cs
index 1bdb769b..69c4d65c 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/Layers/Pooling2D.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Keras/Layers/Pooling2D.cs
@@ -8,14 +8,14 @@ namespace Tensorflow.Keras.Layers
 {
     public class Pooling2D : Tensorflow.Layers.Layer
     {
-        private Func<Tensor> pool_function;
+        private IPoolFunction pool_function;
         private int[] pool_size;
         private int[] strides;
         private string padding;
         private string data_format;
         private InputSpec input_spec;
 
-        public Pooling2D(Func<Tensor> pool_function,
+        public Pooling2D(IPoolFunction pool_function,
             int[] pool_size,
             int[] strides,
             string padding = "valid",
@@ -29,5 +29,29 @@ namespace Tensorflow.Keras.Layers
             this.data_format = conv_utils.normalize_data_format(data_format);
             this.input_spec = new InputSpec(ndim: 4);
         }
+
+        protected override Tensor call(Tensor inputs, Tensor training = null)
+        {
+            int[] pool_shape;
+            if (data_format == "channels_last")
+            {
+                pool_shape = new int[] { 1, pool_size[0], pool_size[1], 1 };
+                strides = new int[] { 1, strides[0], strides[1], 1 };
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                pool_shape = new int[] { 1, 1, pool_size[0], pool_size[1] };
+                strides = new int[] { 1, 1, strides[0], strides[1] };
+            }
+
+            var outputs = pool_function.Apply(
+                inputs,
+                ksize: pool_shape,
+                strides: strides,
+                padding: padding.ToUpper(),
+                data_format: conv_utils.convert_data_format(data_format, 4));
+
+            return outputs;
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Layers/Dense.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Layers/Dense.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e2868877
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Layers/Dense.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Text;
+using Tensorflow.Operations.Activation;
+
+namespace Tensorflow.Layers
+{
+    public class Dense : Keras.Layers.Dense
+    {
+        public Dense(int units,
+            IActivation activation,
+            bool use_bias = true,
+            bool trainable = false,
+            IInitializer kernel_initializer = null) : base(units,
+                activation,
+                use_bias: use_bias,
+                trainable: trainable,
+                kernel_initializer: kernel_initializer)
+        {
+
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/Initializers/TruncatedNormal.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/Initializers/TruncatedNormal.cs
index 4c0a7cee..b4f7197b 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/Initializers/TruncatedNormal.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/Initializers/TruncatedNormal.cs
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ namespace Tensorflow.Operations.Initializers
         private int? seed;
         private TF_DataType dtype;
 
-        public TruncatedNormal(float mean = 0.0f, 
-            float stddev = 1.0f, 
-            int? seed = null, 
+        public TruncatedNormal(float mean = 0.0f,
+            float stddev = 1.0f,
+            int? seed = null,
             TF_DataType dtype = TF_DataType.TF_FLOAT)
         {
             this.mean = mean;
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/NnOps/MaxPoolFunction.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/NnOps/MaxPoolFunction.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5f15706e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/NnOps/MaxPoolFunction.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Text;
+
+namespace Tensorflow.Operations
+{
+    public class MaxPoolFunction : Python, IPoolFunction
+    {
+        public Tensor Apply(Tensor value,
+            int[] ksize,
+            int[] strides,
+            string padding,
+            string data_format = "NHWC",
+            string name = null)
+        {
+            return with(ops.name_scope(name, "MaxPool", new { value }), scope => {
+
+                value = ops.convert_to_tensor(value, name: "input");
+                return gen_nn_ops.max_pool(
+                    value,
+                    ksize: ksize,
+                    strides: strides,
+                    padding: padding,
+                    data_format: data_format,
+                    name: name);
+            });
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/NnOps/gen_nn_ops.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/NnOps/gen_nn_ops.cs
index 9dd853d9..4f8cd7ff 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/NnOps/gen_nn_ops.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/NnOps/gen_nn_ops.cs
@@ -78,9 +78,35 @@ namespace Tensorflow.Operations
             return _op.outputs;
         }
 
-        public static Tensor max_pool()
+        public static Tensor max_pool(Tensor input,
+            int[] ksize,
+            int[] strides,
+            string padding,
+            string data_format = "NHWC",
+            string name = null)
         {
-            throw new NotImplementedException("");
+            var _op = _op_def_lib._apply_op_helper("MaxPool", name: name, args: new
+            {
+                input,
+                ksize,
+                strides,
+                padding,
+                data_format,
+            });
+
+            return _op.outputs[0];
+        }
+
+        public static Tensor[] top_kv2(Tensor input, int k, bool sorted = true, string name = null)
+        {
+            var _op = _op_def_lib._apply_op_helper("TopKV2", name: name, args: new
+            {
+                input,
+                k,
+                sorted
+            });
+
+            return _op.outputs;
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/gen_array_ops.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/gen_array_ops.cs
index de8cc9d5..9260d9fe 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/gen_array_ops.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/gen_array_ops.cs
@@ -115,6 +115,12 @@ namespace Tensorflow
             return _op.outputs[0];
         }
 
+        public static Tensor reshape(Tensor tensor, int[] shape, string name = null)
+        {
+            var _op = _op_def_lib._apply_op_helper("Reshape", name, new { tensor, shape });
+            return _op.outputs[0];
+        }
+
         public static Tensor where()
         {
             throw new NotImplementedException("where");
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/gen_math_ops.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/gen_math_ops.cs
index 9d1e8788..1033f76c 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/gen_math_ops.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/gen_math_ops.cs
@@ -221,5 +221,20 @@ namespace Tensorflow
 
             return _op.outputs[0];
         }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Returns the index with the largest value across dimensions of a tensor.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="input"></param>
+        /// <param name="dimension"></param>
+        /// <param name="output_type"></param>
+        /// <param name="name"></param>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        public static Tensor arg_max(Tensor input, int dimension, TF_DataType output_type = TF_DataType.TF_INT64, string name = null)
+        {
+            var _op = _op_def_lib._apply_op_helper("ArgMax", name, new { input, dimension, output_type });
+
+            return _op.outputs[0];
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/test/TensorFlowNET.Examples/TextClassification/cnn_models/VdCnn.cs b/test/TensorFlowNET.Examples/TextClassification/cnn_models/VdCnn.cs
index d62e52c1..cce3bbef 100644
--- a/test/TensorFlowNET.Examples/TextClassification/cnn_models/VdCnn.cs
+++ b/test/TensorFlowNET.Examples/TextClassification/cnn_models/VdCnn.cs
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ namespace TensorFlowNET.Examples.TextClassification
         private int[] num_blocks;
         private float learning_rate;
         private IInitializer cnn_initializer;
+        private IInitializer fc_initializer;
         private Tensor x;
         private Tensor y;
         private Tensor is_training;
@@ -30,6 +31,8 @@ namespace TensorFlowNET.Examples.TextClassification
             num_blocks = new int[] { 2, 2, 2, 2 };
             learning_rate = 0.001f;
             cnn_initializer = tf.keras.initializers.he_normal();
+            fc_initializer = tf.truncated_normal_initializer(stddev: 0.05f);
+
             x = tf.placeholder(tf.int32, new TensorShape(-1, document_max_len), name: "x");
             y = tf.placeholder(tf.int32, new TensorShape(-1), name: "y");
             is_training = tf.placeholder(tf.boolean, new TensorShape(), name: "is_training");
@@ -46,6 +49,14 @@ namespace TensorFlowNET.Examples.TextClassification
 
             Tensor conv0 = null;
             Tensor conv1 = null;
+            Tensor conv2 = null;
+            Tensor conv3 = null;
+            Tensor conv4 = null;
+            Tensor h_flat = null;
+            Tensor fc1_out = null;
+            Tensor fc2_out = null;
+            Tensor logits = null;
+            Tensor predictions = null;
 
             // First Convolution Layer
             with(tf.variable_scope("conv-0"), delegate
@@ -62,7 +73,50 @@ namespace TensorFlowNET.Examples.TextClassification
             with(tf.name_scope("conv-block-1"), delegate {
                 conv1 = conv_block(conv0, 1);
             });
-            
+
+            with(tf.name_scope("conv-block-2"), delegate {
+                conv2 = conv_block(conv1, 2);
+            });
+
+            with(tf.name_scope("conv-block-3"), delegate {
+                conv3 = conv_block(conv2, 3);
+            });
+
+            with(tf.name_scope("conv-block-4"), delegate
+            {
+                conv4 = conv_block(conv3, 4, max_pool: false);
+            });
+
+            // ============= k-max Pooling =============
+            with(tf.name_scope("k-max-pooling"), delegate
+            {
+                var h = tf.transpose(tf.squeeze(conv4, new int[] { -1 }), new int[] { 0, 2, 1 });
+                var top_k = tf.nn.top_k(h, k: 8, sorted: false)[0];
+                h_flat = tf.reshape(top_k, new int[] { -1, 512 * 8 });
+            });
+
+            // ============= Fully Connected Layers =============
+            with(tf.name_scope("fc-1"), scope =>
+            {
+                fc1_out = tf.layers.dense(h_flat, 2048, activation: tf.nn.relu, kernel_initializer: fc_initializer);
+            });
+
+            with(tf.name_scope("fc-2"), scope =>
+            {
+                fc2_out = tf.layers.dense(fc1_out, 2048, activation: tf.nn.relu, kernel_initializer: fc_initializer);
+            });
+
+            with(tf.name_scope("fc-3"), scope =>
+            {
+                logits = tf.layers.dense(fc2_out, num_class, activation: null, kernel_initializer: fc_initializer);
+                predictions = tf.argmax(logits, -1, output_type: tf.int32);
+            });
+
+            // ============= Loss and Accuracy =============
+            with(tf.name_scope("loss"), delegate
+            {
+                var y_one_hot = tf.one_hot(y, num_class);
+            });
         }
 
         private Tensor conv_block(Tensor input, int i, bool max_pool = true)