diff --git a/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j-nlp-parent/deeplearning4j-nlp-uima/src/test/java/org/deeplearning4j/models/WordVectorSerializerTest.java b/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j-nlp-parent/deeplearning4j-nlp-uima/src/test/java/org/deeplearning4j/models/WordVectorSerializerTest.java
index f4dd1a6c5..69eae7307 100755
--- a/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j-nlp-parent/deeplearning4j-nlp-uima/src/test/java/org/deeplearning4j/models/WordVectorSerializerTest.java
+++ b/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j-nlp-parent/deeplearning4j-nlp-uima/src/test/java/org/deeplearning4j/models/WordVectorSerializerTest.java
@@ -833,14 +833,14 @@ public class WordVectorSerializerTest extends BaseDL4JTest {
     public void testB64_1() throws Exception {
         String wordA = "night";
         String wordB = "night day";
-        String encA = WordVectorSerializer.encodeB64(wordA);
-        String encB = WordVectorSerializer.encodeB64(wordB);
+        String encA = WordVectorSerializer.ReadHelper.encodeB64(wordA);
+        String encB = WordVectorSerializer.ReadHelper.encodeB64(wordB);
 
-        assertEquals(wordA, WordVectorSerializer.decodeB64(encA));
-        assertEquals(wordB, WordVectorSerializer.decodeB64(encB));
+        assertEquals(wordA, WordVectorSerializer.ReadHelper.decodeB64(encA));
+        assertEquals(wordB, WordVectorSerializer.ReadHelper.decodeB64(encB));
 
-        assertEquals(wordA, WordVectorSerializer.decodeB64(wordA));
-        assertEquals(wordB, WordVectorSerializer.decodeB64(wordB));
+        assertEquals(wordA, WordVectorSerializer.ReadHelper.decodeB64(wordA));
+        assertEquals(wordB, WordVectorSerializer.ReadHelper.decodeB64(wordB));
 
     }
 
diff --git a/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j-nlp-parent/deeplearning4j-nlp/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/models/embeddings/loader/WordVectorSerializer.java b/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j-nlp-parent/deeplearning4j-nlp/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/models/embeddings/loader/WordVectorSerializer.java
index 210ab7686..80ce0bf34 100755
--- a/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j-nlp-parent/deeplearning4j-nlp/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/models/embeddings/loader/WordVectorSerializer.java
+++ b/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j-nlp-parent/deeplearning4j-nlp/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/models/embeddings/loader/WordVectorSerializer.java
@@ -3241,7 +3241,7 @@ public class WordVectorSerializer {
     /**
     *   Helper static methods to read data from input stream.
     */
-    private static class ReadHelper {
+    public static class ReadHelper {
         /**
          * Read a float from a data input stream Credit to:
          * https://github.com/NLPchina/Word2VEC_java/blob/master/src/com/ansj/vec/Word2VEC.java
@@ -3308,7 +3308,7 @@ public class WordVectorSerializer {
          * @param word String
          * @return String
          */
-        private static String encodeB64(String word) {
+        public static String encodeB64(String word) {
             try {
                 return B64 + Base64.encodeBase64String(word.getBytes("UTF-8")).replaceAll("(\r|\n)", "");
             } catch (Exception e) {
@@ -3323,7 +3323,7 @@ public class WordVectorSerializer {
          * @return String
          */
 
-        private static String decodeB64(String word) {
+        public static String decodeB64(String word) {
             if (word.startsWith(B64)) {
                 String arp = word.replaceFirst(B64, "");
                 try {