diff --git a/aeon/networks/_ae_bgru.py b/aeon/networks/_ae_bgru.py
index c1bdf781d8..0fa91aefd1 100644
--- a/aeon/networks/_ae_bgru.py
+++ b/aeon/networks/_ae_bgru.py
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ class AEBiGRUNetwork(BaseDeepNetwork):
             Flag to choose whether the latent space is an MTS or Euclidean space.
     """
 
+    _tags = {"auto-encoder": True}
+
     def __init__(
         self,
         latent_space_dim=128,