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

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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions fastembed/text/custom_text_embedding.py
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Expand Up @@ -110,6 +110,14 @@ def _pool(
return last_token_pooling(embeddings, attention_mask)

if self._pooling == PoolingType.DISABLED:
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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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
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return embeddings

raise ValueError(
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