<p>Add serialize function to the layers of ann and const correctness.</p>

<p>Since CNN,FNN,and RNN can be serialized already, do we still need to make those layers serializeable?</p>

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<h4>You can view, comment on, or merge this pull request online at:</h4>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href='https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/536'>https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/536</a></p>

<h4>Commit Summary</h4>
<ul>
  <li>implement serialize</li>
  <li>implement serialize and remove move constructor and move assignemnt since</li>
  <li>implement serialize</li>
  <li>implement serialize</li>
  <li>implement serialize</li>
  <li>only serialize weights</li>
  <li>implement serialize</li>
  <li>implement serialize</li>
  <li>implement serialize</li>
  <li>implement serialize</li>
  <li>implement serialize</li>
  <li>implement serialize</li>
  <li>format codes</li>
  <li>implement serialization</li>
  <li>first commit</li>
  <li>fix bug--did not specify range</li>
  <li>merge from mlpack</li>
  <li>adjust format</li>
  <li>change namespace to boost and provide overload of serialize</li>
  <li>remove useless file</li>
  <li>remove serialization of net</li>
  <li>const correctness and adjust format</li>
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<h4>File Changes</h4>
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    <a href="https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/536/files#diff-1">src/mlpack/methods/ann/layer/base_layer.hpp</a>
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    <a href="https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/536/files#diff-2">src/mlpack/methods/ann/layer/bias_layer.hpp</a>
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    <a href="https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/536/files#diff-3">src/mlpack/methods/ann/layer/binary_classification_layer.hpp</a>
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    <a href="https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/536/files#diff-4">src/mlpack/methods/ann/layer/conv_layer.hpp</a>
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    <a href="https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/536/files#diff-5">src/mlpack/methods/ann/layer/dropout_layer.hpp</a>
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    <a href="https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/536/files#diff-6">src/mlpack/methods/ann/layer/linear_layer.hpp</a>
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    <a href="https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/536/files#diff-7">src/mlpack/methods/ann/layer/lstm_layer.hpp</a>
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    <a href="https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/536/files#diff-8">src/mlpack/methods/ann/layer/pooling_layer.hpp</a>
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    <a href="https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/536/files#diff-9">src/mlpack/methods/ann/layer/recurrent_layer.hpp</a>
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    <a href="https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/536/files#diff-10">src/mlpack/methods/ann/layer/softmax_layer.hpp</a>
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    <a href="https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/536/files#diff-11">src/mlpack/methods/ann/layer/sparse_bias_layer.hpp</a>
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    <a href="https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/536/files#diff-12">src/mlpack/methods/ann/layer/sparse_input_layer.hpp</a>
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    <a href="https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/536/files#diff-13">src/mlpack/methods/ann/layer/sparse_output_layer.hpp</a>
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    <a href="https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/536/files#diff-14">src/mlpack/methods/ann/rnn_impl.hpp</a>
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<h4>Patch Links:</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href='https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/536.patch'>https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/536.patch</a></li>
  <li><a href='https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/536.diff'>https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/536.diff</a></li>
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