diff --git a/tfjs-node/src/io/file_system.ts b/tfjs-node/src/io/file_system.ts
index 891a7a1128c..8880042974c 100644
--- a/tfjs-node/src/io/file_system.ts
+++ b/tfjs-node/src/io/file_system.ts
@@ -99,10 +99,19 @@ export class NodeFileSystem implements tfc.io.IOHandler {
         paths: [this.WEIGHTS_BINARY_FILENAME],
         weights: modelArtifacts.weightSpecs
       }];
-      const modelJSON = {
+      const modelJSON: tfc.io.ModelJSON = {
         modelTopology: modelArtifacts.modelTopology,
         weightsManifest,
+        format: modelArtifacts.format,
+        generatedBy: modelArtifacts.generatedBy,
+        convertedBy: modelArtifacts.convertedBy
       };
+      if (modelArtifacts.trainingConfig != null) {
+        modelJSON.trainingConfig = modelArtifacts.trainingConfig;
+      }
+      if (modelArtifacts.userDefinedMetadata != null) {
+        modelJSON.userDefinedMetadata = modelArtifacts.userDefinedMetadata;
+      }
       const modelJSONPath = join(this.path, this.MODEL_JSON_FILENAME);
       await writeFile(modelJSONPath, JSON.stringify(modelJSON), 'utf8');
       await writeFile(
@@ -165,6 +174,9 @@ export class NodeFileSystem implements tfc.io.IOHandler {
 
       const modelArtifacts: tfc.io.ModelArtifacts = {
         modelTopology: modelJSON.modelTopology,
+        format: modelJSON.format,
+        generatedBy: modelJSON.generatedBy,
+        convertedBy: modelJSON.convertedBy
       };
       if (modelJSON.weightsManifest != null) {
         const [weightSpecs, weightData] =
@@ -172,6 +184,12 @@ export class NodeFileSystem implements tfc.io.IOHandler {
         modelArtifacts.weightSpecs = weightSpecs;
         modelArtifacts.weightData = weightData;
       }
+      if (modelJSON.trainingConfig != null) {
+        modelArtifacts.trainingConfig = modelJSON.trainingConfig;
+      }
+      if (modelJSON.userDefinedMetadata != null) {
+        modelArtifacts.userDefinedMetadata = modelJSON.userDefinedMetadata;
+      }
       return modelArtifacts;
     } else {
       throw new Error(
diff --git a/tfjs-node/src/io/file_system_test.ts b/tfjs-node/src/io/file_system_test.ts
index 67fda2d72b8..e132a85280b 100644
--- a/tfjs-node/src/io/file_system_test.ts
+++ b/tfjs-node/src/io/file_system_test.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
  */
 
 import * as tfc from '@tensorflow/tfjs-core';
+import * as tfl from '@tensorflow/tfjs-layers';
 import {expectArraysClose} from '@tensorflow/tfjs-core/dist/test_util';
 import * as fs from 'fs';
 import * as path from 'path';
@@ -451,6 +452,65 @@ describe('File system IOHandler', () => {
     expect(typeof handler.load).toEqual('function');
   });
 
+  it('Save and load model with loss and optimizer', async () => {
+    const model = tfl.sequential();
+    model.add(tfl.layers.dense({
+      units: 1,
+      kernelInitializer: 'zeros',
+      inputShape: [1]
+    }));
+    model.compile({
+      loss: 'meanSquaredError',
+      optimizer: tfc.train.adam(2.5e-2)
+    });
+
+    const xs = tfc.tensor2d([1, 2, 3, 4], [4, 1]);
+    const ys = tfc.tensor2d([-1, -3, -5, -7], [4, 1]);
+    await model.fit(xs, ys, {
+      epochs: 2,
+      shuffle: false,
+      verbose: 0
+    });
+
+    const saveURL = `file://${testDir}`;
+    const loadURL = `file://${testDir}/model.json`;
+
+    await model.save(saveURL, {includeOptimizer: true});
+    const model2 = await tfl.loadLayersModel(loadURL);
+    const optimizerConfig = model2.optimizer.getConfig();
+    expect(model2.optimizer.getClassName()).toEqual('Adam');
+    expect(optimizerConfig['learningRate']).toEqual(2.5e-2);
+
+    // Test that model2 can be trained immediately, without a compile() call
+    // due to the loaded optimizer and loss information.
+    const history2 = await model2.fit(xs, ys, {
+      epochs: 2,
+      shuffle: false,
+      verbose: 0
+    });
+    // The final loss value from training the model twice, 2 epochs
+    // at a time, should be equal to the final loss of trainig the
+    // model only once with 4 epochs.
+    expect(history2.history.loss[1]).toBeCloseTo(18.603);
+  });
+
+  it('Save and load model with user-defined metadata', async () => {
+    const model = tfl.sequential();
+    model.add(tfl.layers.dense({units: 3, inputShape: [4]}));
+    model.setUserDefinedMetadata({
+      'outputLabels': ['Label1', 'Label2', 'Label3']
+    });
+
+    const saveURL = `file://${testDir}`;
+    const loadURL = `file://${testDir}/model.json`;
+
+    await model.save(saveURL);
+    const model2 = await tfl.loadLayersModel(loadURL);
+    expect(model2.getUserDefinedMetadata()).toEqual({
+      'outputLabels': ['Label1', 'Label2', 'Label3']
+    });
+  });
+
   describe('nodeFileSystemRouter', () => {
     it('should handle single path', () => {
       expect(nodeFileSystemRouter('file://model.json')).toBeDefined();