Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a device (e.g., a user equipment (UE)) may obtain a configuration message indicating one or more neural network models from abase station. The UE may then obtain an indication of a sequence of operations for a signal processing procedure for a neural network model of the one or more neural network models. In some examples, the signal processing procedure includes an input pre-processing procedure or an output pre-processing procedure. Upon obtaining a signal from a base station, the UE may perform the signal processing procedure on the received signal for the neural network model according to the sequence of operations.