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fix: raise an error when DISABLED pooling gets per-token model output - #794

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When pooling is disabled, CustomTextEmbedding._pool now raises a ValueError if the model output is not two-dimensional. The error reports the output shape and suggests supported pooling modes or a pooled output_name. Two-dimensional outputs remain unchanged.

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Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: tuanzirwar

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A custom model that squeezes the batch axis on token-level output can return multiple embeddings for one document. The new check misses that shape; validate batch cardinality. The risk is limited to this model output pattern.

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Description check Inconclusive The description references PR #793, but it does not summarize the pooling behavior change. The reference is related, but the description is too vague to assess fully. Add a brief summary stating that the change raises a ValueError when DISABLED pooling receives per-token model output.
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Review comments at @fastembed/text/custom_text_embedding.py:
- Around line 113-120: In `_post_process_onnx_output`, validate that `DISABLED`
pooling returns one embedding per input document by comparing
`embeddings.shape[0]` with the batch size from `output.input_ids` when
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Comment on lines +113 to +120
if embeddings.ndim != 2:
raise ValueError(
f"{PoolingType.DISABLED} pooling expects the model to output sentence "
f"embeddings of shape (batch_size, dim), got an output of shape "
f"{embeddings.shape}. Use {PoolingType.CLS}, {PoolingType.MEAN} or "
f"{PoolingType.LAST_TOKEN} pooling, or set `output_name` to a pooled output "
"of the model, e.g. `sentence_embedding`."
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- diff ---'
git diff --unified=80 539499b855478bcb6a810ac89a047de24c3b1866 41613b00fe037fe4c02016dd7f35960ec88e4e37 -- fastembed/text/custom_text_embedding.py
printf '%s\n' '--- custom implementation ---'
nl -ba fastembed/text/custom_text_embedding.py | sed -n '1,180p'
printf '%s\n' '--- ONNX batching and post-processing ---'
nl -ba fastembed/text/onnx_text_model.py | sed -n '80,135p;300,365p'
printf '%s\n' '--- public registration and callers ---'
nl -ba fastembed/text/text_embedding.py | sed -n '35,100p'
rg -n -F --glob '*.py' --glob '*.md' -- 'add_custom_model' . || test "$?" -eq 1
printf '%s\n' '--- custom tests ---'
nl -ba tests/test_custom_models.py | sed -n '35,135p;190,275p'

Repository: qdrant/fastembed

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Validate the batch dimension for DISABLED pooling.

A registered custom ONNX model can return per-token output with the batch axis squeezed to (sequence_length, embedding_dim). The new check accepts this because it checks only ndim == 2. The post-processing path iterates the returned array, so each token row can be yielded as a separate document embedding.

Compare the output batch dimension with the input batch size before returning DISABLED output.

Suggested fix
     def _post_process_onnx_output(
         self, output: OnnxOutputContext, **kwargs: Any
     ) -> Iterable[NumpyArray]:
         embeddings = self._normalize(self._pool(output.model_output, output.attention_mask))
+        if (
+            self._pooling == PoolingType.DISABLED
+            and output.input_ids is not None
+            and embeddings.shape[0] != output.input_ids.shape[0]
+        ):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"{PoolingType.DISABLED} pooling returned {embeddings.shape[0]} embeddings "
+                f"for a batch of {output.input_ids.shape[0]} documents"
+            )
         # mean pooling returns float64, float embeddings are cast back to the dtype of the model
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Review comment at @fastembed/text/custom_text_embedding.py around lines 113 -
120:
In `_post_process_onnx_output`, validate that `DISABLED` pooling returns one
embedding per input document by comparing `embeddings.shape[0]` with the batch
size from `output.input_ids` when available; raise a `ValueError` on mismatch
before yielding embeddings.

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