diff --git a/transformer_engine/jax/praxis/module.py b/transformer_engine/jax/praxis/module.py
index b82c0915e4..e5649bfe7c 100644
--- a/transformer_engine/jax/praxis/module.py
+++ b/transformer_engine/jax/praxis/module.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 """
 Praxis Modules
 """
+from dataclasses import field
 from functools import partial
 from typing import Callable, Iterable, Sequence, Tuple, Union
 
@@ -74,7 +75,9 @@ class LayerNorm(TransformerEngineBaseLayer):
     zero_centered_gamma: bool = False
     scale_init: WeightInit = None
     scale_axes: Tuple[str, ...] = ()
-    bias_init: WeightInit = WeightInit.Constant(0.0)
+    bias_init: WeightInit = field(  # pylint: disable=invalid-field-call
+        default_factory=partial(WeightInit.Constant, scale=0.0)
+    )
     bias_axes: Tuple[str, ...] = ()
     transpose_batch_sequence: bool = False
 
@@ -129,7 +132,9 @@ class Linear(TransformerEngineBaseLayer):
     out_features: int = 512
     kernel_axes: Tuple[str, ...] = ()
     use_bias: bool = True
-    bias_init: WeightInit = WeightInit.Constant(0.0)
+    bias_init: WeightInit = field(  # pylint: disable=invalid-field-call
+        default_factory=partial(WeightInit.Constant, scale=0.0)
+    )
     bias_axes: Tuple[str, ...] = ()
     enable_low_rank_adaptation: bool = False
     low_rank_adaptation_dim: int = 32
@@ -174,11 +179,15 @@ class LayerNormLinear(TransformerEngineBaseLayer):
     zero_centered_gamma: bool = False
     scale_init: WeightInit = None
     scale_axes: Tuple[str, ...] = ()
-    ln_bias_init: WeightInit = WeightInit.Constant(1.0)
+    ln_bias_init: WeightInit = field(  # pylint: disable=invalid-field-call
+        default_factory=partial(WeightInit.Constant, scale=1.0)
+    )
     ln_bias_axes: Tuple[str, ...] = ()
     kernel_axes: Tuple[str, ...] = ()
     use_bias: bool = False
-    bias_init: WeightInit = WeightInit.Constant(0.0)
+    bias_init: WeightInit = field(  # pylint: disable=invalid-field-call
+        default_factory=partial(WeightInit.Constant, scale=0.0)
+    )
     bias_axes: Tuple[str, ...] = ()
     enable_low_rank_adaptation: bool = False
     low_rank_adaptation_dim: int = 32
@@ -237,12 +246,16 @@ class LayerNormMLP(TransformerEngineBaseLayer):
     zero_centered_gamma: bool = False
     scale_init: WeightInit = None
     scale_axes: Tuple[str, ...] = ()
-    ln_bias_init: WeightInit = WeightInit.Constant(1.0)
+    ln_bias_init: WeightInit = field(  # pylint: disable=invalid-field-call
+        default_factory=partial(WeightInit.Constant, scale=1.0)
+    )
     ln_bias_axes: Tuple[str, ...] = ()
     kernel_axes_1: Tuple[str, ...] = ()
     kernel_axes_2: Tuple[str, ...] = ()
     use_bias: bool = False
-    bias_init: WeightInit = WeightInit.Constant(0.0)
+    bias_init: WeightInit = field(  # pylint: disable=invalid-field-call
+        default_factory=partial(WeightInit.Constant, scale=0.0)
+    )
     bias_axes_1: Tuple[str, ...] = ()
     bias_axes_2: Tuple[str, ...] = ()
     enable_low_rank_adaptation: bool = False
diff --git a/transformer_engine/jax/praxis/transformer.py b/transformer_engine/jax/praxis/transformer.py
index f2ac802f10..2ae212afb9 100644
--- a/transformer_engine/jax/praxis/transformer.py
+++ b/transformer_engine/jax/praxis/transformer.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 """
 Praxis Modules related Transformer
 """
+from dataclasses import field
 from functools import partial
 from typing import Optional, Sequence, Tuple
 import warnings
@@ -138,7 +139,9 @@ class MultiHeadAttention(TransformerEngineBaseLayer):
     zero_centered_gamma: bool = False
     return_layernorm_output: bool = False
     use_bias: bool = False
-    bias_init: WeightInit = WeightInit.Constant(0.0)
+    bias_init: WeightInit = field(  # pylint: disable=invalid-field-call
+        default_factory=partial(WeightInit.Constant, scale=0.0)
+    )
     attn_mask_type: str = "causal"
     attn_bias_type: Optional[str] = None
     enable_rotary_pos_emb: bool = False
@@ -275,7 +278,9 @@ class TransformerLayer(TransformerEngineBaseLayer):
     dropout_rng_name: str = "dropout"
     mlp_activations: Sequence[str] = ("relu",)
     use_bias: bool = False
-    bias_init: WeightInit = WeightInit.Constant(0.0)
+    bias_init: WeightInit = field(  # pylint: disable=invalid-field-call
+        default_factory=partial(WeightInit.Constant, scale=0.0)
+    )
     apply_residual_connection_post_layernorm: bool = False
     output_layernorm: bool = False
     float32_attention_logits: bool = False