[Model] Pooling model activation supports per request control by PoolingParams (#20538)

Signed-off-by: wang.yuqi <noooop@126.com>

tests/entrypoints/llm/test_classify.py

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+
+import weakref
+
+import pytest
+import torch
+
+from vllm import LLM, PoolingParams
+from vllm.distributed import cleanup_dist_env_and_memory
+
+from ...models.utils import softmax
+
+MODEL_NAME = "jason9693/Qwen2.5-1.5B-apeach"
+
+prompts = ["The chef prepared a delicious meal."]
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def v1(run_with_both_engines):
+    # Simple autouse wrapper to run both engines for each test
+    # This can be promoted up to conftest.py to run for every
+    # test in a package
+    pass
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
+def llm():
+    # pytest caches the fixture so we use weakref.proxy to
+    # enable garbage collection
+    llm = LLM(model=MODEL_NAME,
+              max_num_batched_tokens=32768,
+              tensor_parallel_size=1,
+              gpu_memory_utilization=0.75,
+              enforce_eager=True,
+              seed=0)
+
+    with llm.deprecate_legacy_api():
+        yield weakref.proxy(llm)
+
+        del llm
+
+    cleanup_dist_env_and_memory()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip_global_cleanup
+def test_pooling_params(llm: LLM):
+
+    def get_outputs(activation):
+        outputs = llm.classify(
+            prompts,
+            pooling_params=PoolingParams(activation=activation),
+            use_tqdm=False)
+        return torch.tensor([x.outputs.probs for x in outputs])
+
+    default = get_outputs(activation=None)
+    w_activation = get_outputs(activation=True)
+    wo_activation = get_outputs(activation=False)
+
+    assert torch.allclose(default, w_activation,
+                          atol=1e-2), "Default should use activation."
+    assert not torch.allclose(
+        w_activation, wo_activation,
+        atol=1e-2), "wo_activation should not use activation."
+    assert torch.allclose(
+        softmax(wo_activation), w_activation, atol=1e-2
+    ), "w_activation should be close to activation(wo_activation)."

tests/entrypoints/llm/test_embedding.py

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+
+import weakref
+
+import pytest
+import torch
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+
+from vllm import LLM, PoolingParams
+from vllm.distributed import cleanup_dist_env_and_memory
+
+MODEL_NAME = "intfloat/multilingual-e5-small"
+
+prompts = ["The chef prepared a delicious meal."]
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
+def llm():
+    # pytest caches the fixture so we use weakref.proxy to
+    # enable garbage collection
+    llm = LLM(model=MODEL_NAME,
+              max_num_batched_tokens=32768,
+              tensor_parallel_size=1,
+              gpu_memory_utilization=0.75,
+              enforce_eager=True,
+              seed=0)
+
+    with llm.deprecate_legacy_api():
+        yield weakref.proxy(llm)
+
+        del llm
+
+    cleanup_dist_env_and_memory()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip_global_cleanup
+def test_pooling_params(llm: LLM):
+
+    def get_outputs(normalize):
+        outputs = llm.embed(prompts,
+                            pooling_params=PoolingParams(normalize=normalize),
+                            use_tqdm=False)
+        return torch.tensor([x.outputs.embedding for x in outputs])
+
+    default = get_outputs(normalize=None)
+    w_normal = get_outputs(normalize=True)
+    wo_normal = get_outputs(normalize=False)
+
+    assert torch.allclose(default, w_normal,
+                          atol=1e-2), "Default should use normal."
+    assert not torch.allclose(w_normal, wo_normal,
+                              atol=1e-2), "wo_normal should not use normal."
+    assert torch.allclose(
+        w_normal, F.normalize(wo_normal, p=2, dim=-1),
+        atol=1e-2), "w_normal should be close to normal(wo_normal)."

tests/entrypoints/llm/test_reward.py

@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+
+import weakref
+
+import pytest
+import torch
+
+from vllm import LLM, PoolingParams
+from vllm.distributed import cleanup_dist_env_and_memory
+
+from ...models.utils import softmax
+
+MODEL_NAME = "internlm/internlm2-1_8b-reward"
+
+prompts = ["The chef prepared a delicious meal."]
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def v1(run_with_both_engines):
+    # Simple autouse wrapper to run both engines for each test
+    # This can be promoted up to conftest.py to run for every
+    # test in a package
+    pass
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
+def llm():
+    # pytest caches the fixture so we use weakref.proxy to
+    # enable garbage collection
+    llm = LLM(model=MODEL_NAME,
+              max_num_batched_tokens=32768,
+              tensor_parallel_size=1,
+              gpu_memory_utilization=0.75,
+              enforce_eager=True,
+              trust_remote_code=True,
+              seed=0)
+
+    with llm.deprecate_legacy_api():
+        yield weakref.proxy(llm)
+
+        del llm
+
+    cleanup_dist_env_and_memory()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip_global_cleanup
+def test_pooling_params(llm: LLM):
+
+    def get_outputs(softmax):
+        outputs = llm.reward(prompts,
+                             pooling_params=PoolingParams(softmax=softmax),
+                             use_tqdm=False)
+        return torch.cat([x.outputs.data for x in outputs])
+
+    default = get_outputs(softmax=None)
+    w_softmax = get_outputs(softmax=True)
+    wo_softmax = get_outputs(softmax=False)
+
+    assert torch.allclose(default, w_softmax,
+                          atol=1e-2), "Default should use softmax."
+    assert not torch.allclose(w_softmax, wo_softmax,
+                              atol=1e-2), "wo_softmax should not use softmax."
+    assert torch.allclose(
+        softmax(wo_softmax), w_softmax,
+        atol=1e-2), "w_softmax should be close to softmax(wo_softmax)."

tests/entrypoints/llm/test_score.py

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+
+import weakref
+
+import pytest
+import torch
+
+from vllm import LLM, PoolingParams
+from vllm.distributed import cleanup_dist_env_and_memory
+
+from ...models.utils import softmax
+
+MODEL_NAME = "tomaarsen/Qwen3-Reranker-0.6B-seq-cls"
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def v1(run_with_both_engines):
+    # Simple autouse wrapper to run both engines for each test
+    # This can be promoted up to conftest.py to run for every
+    # test in a package
+    pass
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
+def llm():
+    # pytest caches the fixture so we use weakref.proxy to
+    # enable garbage collection
+    llm = LLM(model=MODEL_NAME,
+              max_num_batched_tokens=32768,
+              tensor_parallel_size=1,
+              gpu_memory_utilization=0.75,
+              enforce_eager=True,
+              seed=0)
+
+    with llm.deprecate_legacy_api():
+        yield weakref.proxy(llm)
+
+        del llm
+
+    cleanup_dist_env_and_memory()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip_global_cleanup
+def test_pooling_params(llm: LLM):
+
+    def get_outputs(activation):
+        text_1 = "What is the capital of France?"
+        text_2 = "The capital of France is Paris."
+
+        outputs = llm.score(
+            text_1,
+            text_2,
+            pooling_params=PoolingParams(activation=activation),
+            use_tqdm=False)
+        return torch.tensor([x.outputs.score for x in outputs])
+
+    default = get_outputs(activation=None)
+    w_activation = get_outputs(activation=True)
+    wo_activation = get_outputs(activation=False)
+
+    assert torch.allclose(default, w_activation,
+                          atol=1e-2), "Default should use activation."
+    assert not torch.allclose(
+        w_activation, wo_activation,
+        atol=1e-2), "wo_activation should not use activation."
+    assert torch.allclose(
+        softmax(wo_activation), w_activation, atol=1e-2
+    ), "w_activation should be close to activation(wo_activation)."

tests/entrypoints/openai/test_classification.py

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 
 import pytest
 import requests
+import torch
+import torch.nn.functional as F
 
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol import ClassificationResponse
 
@@ -181,3 +183,32 @@ async def test_invocations(server: RemoteOpenAIServer):
         assert classification_data.keys() == invocation_data.keys()
         assert classification_data["probs"] == pytest.approx(
             invocation_data["probs"], rel=0.01)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("model_name", [MODEL_NAME])
+async def test_activation(server: RemoteOpenAIServer, model_name: str):
+    input_text = ["This product was excellent and exceeded my expectations"]
+
+    async def get_outputs(activation):
+        response = requests.post(server.url_for("classify"),
+                                 json={
+                                     "model": model_name,
+                                     "input": input_text,
+                                     "activation": activation
+                                 })
+        outputs = response.json()
+        return torch.tensor([x['probs'] for x in outputs["data"]])
+
+    default = await get_outputs(activation=None)
+    w_activation = await get_outputs(activation=True)
+    wo_activation = await get_outputs(activation=False)
+
+    assert torch.allclose(default, w_activation,
+                          atol=1e-2), "Default should use activation."
+    assert not torch.allclose(
+        w_activation, wo_activation,
+        atol=1e-2), "wo_activation should not use activation."
+    assert torch.allclose(
+        F.softmax(wo_activation, dim=-1), w_activation, atol=1e-2
+    ), "w_activation should be close to activation(wo_activation)."

tests/entrypoints/openai/test_embedding.py

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ import openai
 import pytest
 import pytest_asyncio
 import requests
+import torch
+import torch.nn.functional as F
 
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol import EmbeddingResponse
 from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import get_tokenizer
@@ -369,3 +371,35 @@ async def test_invocations_conversation(server: RemoteOpenAIServer):
                                embeddings_1_lst=[invocation_data["embedding"]],
                                name_0="chat",
                                name_1="invocation")
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("model_name", [MODEL_NAME])
+async def test_normalize(server: RemoteOpenAIServer, model_name: str):
+    input_text = ["The chef prepared a delicious meal."]
+
+    async def get_outputs(normalize):
+        request_args = {
+            "model": MODEL_NAME,
+            "input": input_text,
+            "encoding_format": "float",
+            "normalize": normalize
+        }
+
+        response = requests.post(server.url_for("v1/embeddings"),
+                                 json=request_args)
+        outputs = response.json()
+
+        return torch.tensor([x['embedding'] for x in outputs["data"]])
+
+    default = await get_outputs(normalize=None)
+    w_normal = await get_outputs(normalize=True)
+    wo_normal = await get_outputs(normalize=False)
+
+    assert torch.allclose(default, w_normal,
+                          atol=1e-2), "Default should use normal."
+    assert not torch.allclose(w_normal, wo_normal,
+                              atol=1e-2), "wo_normal should not use normal."
+    assert torch.allclose(
+        w_normal, F.normalize(wo_normal, p=2, dim=-1),
+        atol=1e-2), "w_normal should be close to normal(wo_normal)."

tests/entrypoints/openai/test_rerank.py

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 
 import pytest
 import requests
+import torch
+import torch.nn.functional as F
 
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol import RerankResponse
 
@@ -125,3 +127,39 @@ def test_invocations(server: RemoteOpenAIServer):
         assert rerank_result.keys() == invocations_result.keys()
         assert rerank_result["relevance_score"] == pytest.approx(
             invocations_result["relevance_score"], rel=0.01)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("model_name", [MODEL_NAME])
+async def test_activation(server: RemoteOpenAIServer, model_name: str):
+
+    async def get_outputs(activation):
+        query = "What is the capital of France?"
+        documents = [
+            "The capital of Brazil is Brasilia.",
+            "The capital of France is Paris."
+        ]
+
+        response = requests.post(server.url_for("rerank"),
+                                 json={
+                                     "model": model_name,
+                                     "query": query,
+                                     "documents": documents,
+                                     "activation": activation
+                                 })
+        outputs = response.json()
+
+        return torch.tensor([x['relevance_score'] for x in outputs["results"]])
+
+    default = await get_outputs(activation=None)
+    w_activation = await get_outputs(activation=True)
+    wo_activation = await get_outputs(activation=False)
+
+    assert torch.allclose(default, w_activation,
+                          atol=1e-2), "Default should use activation."
+    assert not torch.allclose(
+        w_activation, wo_activation,
+        atol=1e-2), "wo_activation should not use activation."
+    assert torch.allclose(
+        F.sigmoid(wo_activation), w_activation, atol=1e-2
+    ), "w_activation should be close to activation(wo_activation)."

tests/entrypoints/openai/test_score.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ from typing import Any
 
 import pytest
 import requests
+import torch
 import torch.nn.functional as F
 from torch import tensor
 
@@ -220,3 +221,43 @@ class TestModel:
             assert score_data.keys() == invocation_data.keys()
             assert score_data["score"] == pytest.approx(
                 invocation_data["score"], rel=0.01)
+
+    def test_activation(self, server: RemoteOpenAIServer, model: dict[str,
+                                                                      Any]):
+
+        def get_outputs(activation):
+            text_1 = "What is the capital of France?"
+            text_2 = "The capital of France is Paris."
+            response = requests.post(server.url_for("score"),
+                                     json={
+                                         "model": model["name"],
+                                         "text_1": text_1,
+                                         "text_2": text_2,
+                                         "activation": activation
+                                     })
+            if response.status_code != 200:
+                return response
+
+            outputs = response.json()
+            return torch.tensor([x['score'] for x in outputs["data"]])
+
+        if model["is_cross_encoder"]:
+
+            default = get_outputs(activation=None)
+            w_activation = get_outputs(activation=True)
+            wo_activation = get_outputs(activation=False)
+
+            assert torch.allclose(default, w_activation,
+                                  atol=1e-2), "Default should use activation."
+            assert not torch.allclose(
+                w_activation, wo_activation,
+                atol=1e-2), "wo_activation should not use activation."
+            assert torch.allclose(
+                F.sigmoid(wo_activation), w_activation, atol=1e-2
+            ), "w_activation should be close to activation(wo_activation)."
+        else:
+            get_outputs(activation=None)
+
+            # The activation parameter only works for the is_cross_encoder model
+            response = get_outputs(activation=True)
+            assert response.status_code == 400

tests/models/language/pooling/test_override_pooler_config.py

@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+import pytest
+import torch
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+
+from tests.models.utils import softmax
+from vllm.config import PoolerConfig
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "model",
+    [
+        "jason9693/Qwen2.5-1.5B-apeach",
+        "papluca/xlm-roberta-base-language-detection"
+    ],
+)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("dtype", ["half"])
+def test_classify_models_using_activation(
+    hf_runner,
+    vllm_runner,
+    example_prompts,
+    model: str,
+    dtype: str,
+) -> None:
+
+    with vllm_runner(model,
+                     max_model_len=512,
+                     dtype=dtype,
+                     override_pooler_config=PoolerConfig(
+                         activation=False)) as vllm_model:
+        wo_activation_out = vllm_model.classify(example_prompts)
+
+    with vllm_runner(model,
+                     max_model_len=512,
+                     dtype=dtype,
+                     override_pooler_config=PoolerConfig(
+                         activation=True)) as vllm_model:
+        w_activation_out = vllm_model.classify(example_prompts)
+
+    for wo_activation, w_activation in zip(wo_activation_out,
+                                           w_activation_out):
+        wo_activation = torch.tensor(wo_activation)
+        w_activation = torch.tensor(w_activation)
+
+        assert not torch.allclose(
+            wo_activation, w_activation,
+            atol=1e-2), "override_pooler_config is not working"
+        assert torch.allclose(softmax(wo_activation), w_activation,
+                              1e-3 if dtype == "float" else 1e-2)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "model",
+    [
+        "intfloat/multilingual-e5-small",
+    ],
+)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("dtype", ["half"])
+def test_embed_models_using_normalize(
+    hf_runner,
+    vllm_runner,
+    example_prompts,
+    model: str,
+    dtype: str,
+) -> None:
+
+    with vllm_runner(model,
+                     max_model_len=512,
+                     dtype=dtype,
+                     override_pooler_config=PoolerConfig(
+                         normalize=False)) as vllm_model:
+        wo_normalize = torch.tensor(vllm_model.embed(example_prompts))
+
+    with vllm_runner(
+            model,
+            max_model_len=512,
+            dtype=dtype,
+            override_pooler_config=PoolerConfig(normalize=True)) as vllm_model:
+        w_normalize = torch.tensor(vllm_model.embed(example_prompts))
+
+    assert not torch.allclose(
+        wo_normalize, w_normalize,
+        atol=1e-2), "override_pooler_config normalize is not working"
+    assert torch.allclose(
+        F.normalize(wo_normalize, p=2, dim=-1), w_normalize,
+        atol=1e-2), "w_normal should be close to normal(wo_normal)."
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "model",
+    [
+        "internlm/internlm2-1_8b-reward",
+    ],
+)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("dtype", ["half"])
+def test_reward_models_using_softmax(
+    hf_runner,
+    vllm_runner,
+    example_prompts,
+    model: str,
+    dtype: str,
+) -> None:
+
+    with vllm_runner(
+            model,
+            max_model_len=1024,
+            dtype=dtype,
+            override_pooler_config=PoolerConfig(softmax=False)) as vllm_model:
+        wo_softmax = vllm_model.encode(example_prompts)
+
+    with vllm_runner(
+            model,
+            max_model_len=1024,
+            dtype=dtype,
+            override_pooler_config=PoolerConfig(softmax=True)) as vllm_model:
+        w_softmax = vllm_model.encode(example_prompts)
+
+    for wo, w in zip(wo_softmax, w_softmax):
+        wo = torch.tensor(wo)
+        w = torch.tensor(w)
+
+        assert not torch.allclose(
+            wo, w, atol=1e-2), "override_pooler_config softmax is not working"
+        assert torch.allclose(
+            softmax(wo), w,
+            atol=1e-2), "w_softmax should be close to softmax(wo_softmax)."

tests/models/language/pooling/test_reward.py

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ def test_prm_models(
 
     # check logits difference
     for hf_output, vllm_output in zip(hf_outputs, vllm_outputs):
-        hf_output = torch.tensor(hf_output)
+        hf_output = torch.tensor(hf_output).float()
-        vllm_output = torch.tensor(vllm_output)
+        vllm_output = torch.tensor(vllm_output).float()
 
         assert torch.allclose(hf_output, vllm_output, 1.5e-2)

tests/models/utils.py

@@ -330,6 +330,13 @@ def matryoshka_fy(tensor: torch.Tensor, dimensions: int):
     return tensor
 
 
+def softmax(data):
+    if data.shape[-1] == 1:
+        return F.sigmoid(data)
+    else:
+        return F.softmax(data, dim=-1)
+
+
 class EmbedModelInfo(NamedTuple):
     name: str
     is_matryoshka: bool = False

tests/test_pooling_params.py

@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+import pytest
+
+from tests.models.utils import EmbedModelInfo
+from vllm import PoolingParams
+from vllm.config import ModelConfig
+
+EMBEDDING_MODELS = [
+    EmbedModelInfo("intfloat/multilingual-e5-small", is_matryoshka=False),
+    EmbedModelInfo("Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-m-v1.5",
+                   is_matryoshka=True,
+                   matryoshka_dimensions=[256]),
+]
+
+
+def test_task():
+    pooling_params = PoolingParams()
+    pooling_params.verify(task="score")
+
+    pooling_params = PoolingParams(task="score")
+    pooling_params.verify(task="score")
+
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+        pooling_params.verify(task="encode")
+
+
+def test_embed():
+    task = "embed"
+    pooling_params = PoolingParams(normalize=None)
+    pooling_params.verify(task=task)
+
+    pooling_params = PoolingParams(normalize=True)
+    pooling_params.verify(task=task)
+
+    pooling_params = PoolingParams(normalize=False)
+    pooling_params.verify(task=task)
+
+    invalid_parameters = ["activation", "softmax"]
+    for p in invalid_parameters:
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+            pooling_params = PoolingParams(**{p: True})
+            pooling_params.verify(task=task)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("model_info", EMBEDDING_MODELS)
+def test_embed_dimensions(model_info: EmbedModelInfo):
+    task = "embed"
+    model_config = ModelConfig(
+        model_info.name,
+        task="auto",
+        tokenizer=model_info.name,
+        tokenizer_mode="auto",
+        trust_remote_code=False,
+        seed=0,
+        dtype="float16",
+    )
+
+    pooling_params = PoolingParams(dimensions=None)
+    pooling_params.verify(task=task, model_config=model_config)
+
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+        pooling_params = PoolingParams(dimensions=1)
+        pooling_params.verify(task=task, model_config=model_config)
+
+    if model_info.is_matryoshka:
+        assert model_info.matryoshka_dimensions is not None
+        pooling_params = PoolingParams(
+            dimensions=model_info.matryoshka_dimensions[0])
+        pooling_params.verify(task=task, model_config=model_config)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("task", ["score", "classify"])
+def test_classify(task):
+    pooling_params = PoolingParams(activation=None)
+    pooling_params.verify(task=task)
+
+    pooling_params = PoolingParams(activation=True)
+    pooling_params.verify(task=task)
+
+    pooling_params = PoolingParams(activation=False)
+    pooling_params.verify(task=task)
+
+    invalid_parameters = ["dimensions", "normalize", "softmax"]
+    for p in invalid_parameters:
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+            pooling_params = PoolingParams(**{p: True})
+            pooling_params.verify(task=task)
+
+
+def test_encode():
+    task = "encode"
+    pooling_params = PoolingParams(softmax=None)
+    pooling_params.verify(task=task)
+
+    pooling_params = PoolingParams(softmax=True)
+    pooling_params.verify(task=task)
+
+    pooling_params = PoolingParams(softmax=False)
+    pooling_params.verify(task=task)
+
+    invalid_parameters = ["dimensions", "normalize", "activation"]
+    for p in invalid_parameters:
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+            pooling_params = PoolingParams(**{p: True})
+            pooling_params.verify(task=task)

vllm/config.py

@@ -913,15 +913,6 @@ class ModelConfig:
                     if getattr(pooler_config, k) is None:
                         setattr(pooler_config, k, v)
 
-            if self.is_matryoshka:
-                if pooler_config.normalize is None:
-                    pooler_config.normalize = True
-                elif not pooler_config.normalize:
-                    raise ValueError(
-                        "`normalize` must be enabled (set to True) "
-                        "for models that are compatible with "
-                        "Matryoshka Representation.")
-
             return pooler_config
 
         return None
@@ -3438,25 +3429,34 @@ class PoolerConfig:
     [`vllm.model_executor.layers.pooler.PoolingType`][].
     """
 
+    ## for embeddings models
     normalize: Optional[bool] = None
     """
-    Whether to normalize the pooled outputs. Usually, this should be set to
+    Whether to normalize the embeddings outputs. 
-    ``True`` for embedding outputs.
+    """
+    dimensions: Optional[int] = None
+    """
+    Reduce the dimensions of embeddings if model 
+    support matryoshka representation.
     """
 
+    ## for classification models
+    activation: Optional[bool] = None
+    """
+    Whether to apply activation function to the classification outputs. 
+    """
+
+    ## for reward models
     softmax: Optional[bool] = None
     """
-    Whether to apply softmax to the pooled outputs. Usually, this should be set
+    Whether to apply softmax to the reward outputs. 
-    to ``True`` for classification outputs.
     """
-
     step_tag_id: Optional[int] = None
     """
     If set, only the score corresponding to the ``step_tag_id`` in the
     generated sentence should be returned. Otherwise, the scores for all tokens
     are returned.
     """
-
     returned_token_ids: Optional[list[int]] = None
     """
     A list of indices for the vocabulary dimensions to be extracted,

vllm/entrypoints/llm.py

@@ -1189,6 +1189,8 @@ class LLM:
         /,
         *,
         use_tqdm: Union[bool, Callable[..., tqdm]] = True,
+        pooling_params: Optional[Union[PoolingParams,
+                                       Sequence[PoolingParams]]] = None,
         lora_request: Optional[Union[list[LoRARequest], LoRARequest]] = None,
     ) -> list[ClassificationRequestOutput]:
         """
@@ -1207,7 +1209,8 @@ class LLM:
                 it is used to create the progress bar.
                 If `False`, no progress bar is created.
             lora_request: LoRA request to use for generation, if any.
-
+            pooling_params: The pooling parameters for pooling. If None, we
+                use the default pooling parameters.
         Returns:
             A list of `ClassificationRequestOutput` objects containing the
             embedding vectors in the same order as the input prompts.
@@ -1220,6 +1223,7 @@ class LLM:
         items = self.encode(
             prompts,
             use_tqdm=use_tqdm,
+            pooling_params=pooling_params,
             lora_request=lora_request,
             pooling_task="classify",
         )
@@ -1272,6 +1276,7 @@ class LLM:
         text_2: list[Union[str, TextPrompt, TokensPrompt]],
         truncate_prompt_tokens: Optional[int] = None,
         use_tqdm: Union[bool, Callable[..., tqdm]] = True,
+        pooling_params: Optional[PoolingParams] = None,
         lora_request: Optional[Union[list[LoRARequest], LoRARequest]] = None,
     ) -> list[ScoringRequestOutput]:
 
@@ -1280,6 +1285,7 @@ class LLM:
             truncate_prompt_tokens=truncate_prompt_tokens,
             use_tqdm=use_tqdm,
             lora_request=lora_request,
+            pooling_params=pooling_params,
             pooling_task="embed",
         )
 
@@ -1306,6 +1312,7 @@ class LLM:
         data_2: Union[list[str], list[ScoreContentPartParam]],
         truncate_prompt_tokens: Optional[int] = None,
         use_tqdm: Union[bool, Callable[..., tqdm]] = True,
+        pooling_params: Optional[PoolingParams] = None,
         lora_request: Optional[Union[list[LoRARequest], LoRARequest]] = None,
     ) -> list[ScoringRequestOutput]:
         model_config = self.llm_engine.model_config
@@ -1317,7 +1324,12 @@ class LLM:
         if len(data_1) == 1:
             data_1 = data_1 * len(data_2)
 
-        pooling_params = PoolingParams(task="score")
+        if pooling_params is None:
+            pooling_params = PoolingParams(task="score")
+
+        model_config = self.llm_engine.model_config
+        pooling_params.verify("score", model_config)
+
         tokenization_kwargs: dict[str, Any] = {}
 
         _validate_truncation_size(model_config.max_model_len,
@@ -1379,6 +1391,7 @@ class LLM:
         *,
         truncate_prompt_tokens: Optional[int] = None,
         use_tqdm: Union[bool, Callable[..., tqdm]] = True,
+        pooling_params: Optional[PoolingParams] = None,
         lora_request: Optional[Union[list[LoRARequest], LoRARequest]] = None,
     ) -> list[ScoringRequestOutput]:
         """Generate similarity scores for all pairs `<text,text_pair>` or
@@ -1410,7 +1423,8 @@ class LLM:
                 it is used to create the progress bar.
                 If `False`, no progress bar is created.
             lora_request: LoRA request to use for generation, if any.
-
+            pooling_params: The pooling parameters for pooling. If None, we
+                use the default pooling parameters.
         Returns:
             A list of `ScoringRequestOutput` objects containing the
             generated scores in the same order as the input prompts.
@@ -1494,6 +1508,7 @@ class LLM:
                 data_2,  # type: ignore[arg-type]
                 truncate_prompt_tokens,
                 use_tqdm,
+                pooling_params,
                 lora_request)
         else:
             return self._embedding_score(
@@ -1502,6 +1517,7 @@ class LLM:
                 data_2,  # type: ignore[arg-type]
                 truncate_prompt_tokens,
                 use_tqdm,
+                pooling_params,
                 lora_request)
 
     def start_profile(self) -> None:

vllm/entrypoints/openai/protocol.py

@@ -1274,11 +1274,13 @@ class EmbeddingCompletionRequest(OpenAIBaseModel):
             "not set it, a random_uuid will be generated. This id is used "
             "through out the inference process and return in response."),
     )
+    normalize: Optional[bool] = None
 
     # --8<-- [end:embedding-extra-params]
 
     def to_pooling_params(self):
-        return PoolingParams(dimensions=self.dimensions)
+        return PoolingParams(dimensions=self.dimensions,
+                             normalize=self.normalize)
 
 
 class EmbeddingChatRequest(OpenAIBaseModel):
@@ -1332,6 +1334,7 @@ class EmbeddingChatRequest(OpenAIBaseModel):
             "not set it, a random_uuid will be generated. This id is used "
             "through out the inference process and return in response."),
     )
+    normalize: Optional[bool] = None
     # --8<-- [end:chat-embedding-extra-params]
 
     @model_validator(mode="before")
@@ -1344,7 +1347,8 @@ class EmbeddingChatRequest(OpenAIBaseModel):
         return data
 
     def to_pooling_params(self):
-        return PoolingParams(dimensions=self.dimensions)
+        return PoolingParams(dimensions=self.dimensions,
+                             normalize=self.normalize)
 
 
 EmbeddingRequest = Union[EmbeddingCompletionRequest, EmbeddingChatRequest]
@@ -1375,10 +1379,12 @@ class ScoreRequest(OpenAIBaseModel):
             "if the served model does not use priority scheduling."),
     )
 
+    activation: Optional[bool] = None
+
     # --8<-- [end:score-extra-params]
 
     def to_pooling_params(self):
-        return PoolingParams()
+        return PoolingParams(activation=self.activation)
 
 
 class RerankRequest(OpenAIBaseModel):
@@ -1403,10 +1409,12 @@ class RerankRequest(OpenAIBaseModel):
             "if the served model does not use priority scheduling."),
     )
 
+    activation: Optional[bool] = None
+
     # --8<-- [end:rerank-extra-params]
 
     def to_pooling_params(self):
-        return PoolingParams()
+        return PoolingParams(activation=self.activation)
 
 
 class RerankDocument(BaseModel):
@@ -1553,10 +1561,12 @@ class ClassificationRequest(OpenAIBaseModel):
             "if the served model does not use priority scheduling."),
     )
 
+    activation: Optional[bool] = None
+
     # --8<-- [end:classification-extra-params]
 
     def to_pooling_params(self):
-        return PoolingParams()
+        return PoolingParams(activation=self.activation)
 
 
 class ClassificationData(OpenAIBaseModel):

vllm/model_executor/layers/pooler.py

@@ -41,35 +41,18 @@ class PoolingType(IntEnum):
 @dataclass(frozen=True)
 class ResolvedPoolingConfig:
     pooling_type: PoolingType
-
+    task: PoolingTask
-    normalize: bool
-    softmax: bool
-    step_tag_id: Optional[int]
-    returned_token_ids: Optional[list[int]]
 
     @classmethod
     def from_config_with_defaults(
         cls,
+        task: PoolingTask,
         pooler_config: PoolerConfig,
         pooling_type: PoolingType,
-        normalize: bool,
-        softmax: bool,
-        step_tag_id: Optional[int] = None,
-        returned_token_ids: Optional[list[int]] = None,
     ) -> "ResolvedPoolingConfig":
-        return cls(
+        return cls(task=task,
-            pooling_type=PoolingType[pooler_config.pooling_type]
+                   pooling_type=PoolingType[pooler_config.pooling_type]
-            if pooler_config.pooling_type is not None else pooling_type,
+                   if pooler_config.pooling_type is not None else pooling_type)
-            normalize=pooler_config.normalize
-            if pooler_config.normalize is not None else normalize,
-            softmax=pooler_config.softmax
-            if pooler_config.softmax is not None else softmax,
-            step_tag_id=pooler_config.step_tag_id
-            if pooler_config.step_tag_id is not None else step_tag_id,
-            returned_token_ids=pooler_config.returned_token_ids
-            if pooler_config.returned_token_ids is not None else
-            returned_token_ids,
-        )
 
 
 @dataclass(frozen=True)
@@ -89,22 +72,15 @@ class Pooler(nn.Module, ABC):
         pooler_config: PoolerConfig,
         *,
         default_pooling_type: PoolingType = PoolingType.ALL,
-        default_normalize: bool = False,
-        default_softmax: bool = False,
-        default_step_tag_id: Optional[int] = None,
-        default_returned_token_ids: Optional[list[int]] = None,
     ):
         resolved_config = ResolvedPoolingConfig.from_config_with_defaults(
+            task="encode",
             pooler_config=pooler_config,
             pooling_type=default_pooling_type,
-            normalize=default_normalize,
-            softmax=default_softmax,
-            step_tag_id=default_step_tag_id,
-            returned_token_ids=default_returned_token_ids,
         )
 
         if resolved_config.pooling_type == PoolingType.STEP:
-            return StepPooler.from_config(resolved_config)
+            return StepPooler()
 
         return SimplePooler.from_config(resolved_config)
 
@@ -113,14 +89,11 @@ class Pooler(nn.Module, ABC):
         pooler_config: PoolerConfig,
         *,
         default_pooling_type: PoolingType = PoolingType.LAST,
-        default_normalize: bool = True,
-        default_softmax: bool = False,
     ):
         resolved_config = ResolvedPoolingConfig.from_config_with_defaults(
+            task="embed",
             pooler_config=pooler_config,
             pooling_type=default_pooling_type,
-            normalize=default_normalize,
-            softmax=default_softmax,
         )
 
         return SimplePooler.from_config(resolved_config)
@@ -131,23 +104,18 @@ class Pooler(nn.Module, ABC):
         classifier: Optional[ClassifierFn],
         *,
         default_pooling_type: PoolingType = PoolingType.LAST,
-        default_normalize: bool = False,
-        default_softmax: bool = True,
     ):
         resolved_config = ResolvedPoolingConfig.from_config_with_defaults(
+            task="classify",
             pooler_config=pooler_config,
             pooling_type=default_pooling_type,
-            normalize=default_normalize,
-            softmax=default_softmax,
         )
-        base_pooler = SimplePooler.from_config(resolved_config)
+
-        if classifier is None:
+        pooling = PoolingMethod.from_pooling_type(resolved_config.pooling_type)
-            return base_pooler
 
         return ClassifierPooler(
-            pooling=base_pooler.pooling,
+            pooling=pooling,
             classifier=classifier,
-            act_fn=base_pooler.head.activation,
         )
 
     @abstractmethod
@@ -198,11 +166,17 @@ def get_prompt_token_ids(
     ]
 
 
-def get_tasks(pooling_metadata: PoolingMetadata) -> list[PoolingTask]:
+def get_pooling_params(
+        pooling_metadata: PoolingMetadata) -> list[PoolingParams]:
     if isinstance(pooling_metadata, V0PoolingMetadata):
         pooling_params = [p for _, p in pooling_metadata.seq_groups]
     else:
         pooling_params = pooling_metadata.pooling_params
+    return pooling_params
+
+
+def get_tasks(pooling_metadata: PoolingMetadata) -> list[PoolingTask]:
+    pooling_params = get_pooling_params(pooling_metadata)
 
     tasks: list[PoolingTask] = [
         task for pooling_param in pooling_params
@@ -484,49 +458,30 @@ class LambdaPoolerActivation(PoolerActivation):
 
 class PoolerHead(nn.Module):
 
-    @classmethod
-    def from_config(cls, pooler_config: ResolvedPoolingConfig) -> "PoolerHead":
-        if pooler_config.normalize and pooler_config.softmax:
-            raise ValueError("`normalize=True` and `softmax=True` should not "
-                             "be set together")
-
-        activation: PoolerActivation
-        if pooler_config.normalize:
-            activation = PoolerNormalize()
-        elif pooler_config.softmax:
-            activation = PoolerClassify()
-        else:
-            activation = PoolerIdentity()
-
-        return cls(activation)
-
     def __init__(self, activation: PoolerActivation) -> None:
         super().__init__()
-
         self.activation = activation
 
     def forward(self, pooled_data: Union[list[torch.Tensor], torch.Tensor],
                 pooling_metadata: PoolingMetadata):
 
-        # Using float32 in PoolerHead
+        return self.activation(pooled_data)
-        if isinstance(pooled_data, list):
+
-            for i in range(len(pooled_data)):
+
-                pooled_data[i] = pooled_data[i].to(torch.float32)
+class EmbeddingPoolerHead(PoolerHead):
-        else:
+
-            pooled_data = pooled_data.to(torch.float32)
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        super().__init__(activation=PoolerNormalize())
+
+    def forward(self, pooled_data: Union[list[torch.Tensor], torch.Tensor],
+                pooling_metadata: PoolingMetadata):
+
+        pooling_params = get_pooling_params(pooling_metadata)
 
         # for matryoshka representation
-        if isinstance(pooling_metadata, V0PoolingMetadata):
+        dimensions_list = [
-            dimensions_list = [
+            pooling_param.dimensions for pooling_param in pooling_params
-                pooling_param.dimensions
+        ]
-                for _, pooling_param in pooling_metadata.seq_groups
-            ]
-        else:
-            assert isinstance(pooled_data, list)
-            dimensions_list = [
-                pooling_param.dimensions
-                for pooling_param in pooling_metadata.pooling_params
-            ]
         if any(d is not None for d in dimensions_list):
             # change the output dimension
             assert len(pooled_data) == len(dimensions_list)
@@ -541,7 +496,41 @@ class PoolerHead(nn.Module):
                     for vecs, d in zip(pooled_data, dimensions_list)
                 ]
 
-        return self.activation(pooled_data)
+        # for normalize
+        flags = [p.normalize for p in pooling_params]
+        if len(set(flags)) == 1:
+            if flags[0]:
+                pooled_data = self.activation(pooled_data)
+        else:
+            pooled_data = [
+                self.activation(vecs) if f else vecs
+                for vecs, f in zip(pooled_data, flags)
+            ]
+
+        return pooled_data
+
+
+class RewardPoolerHead(PoolerHead):
+
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        super().__init__(activation=PoolerClassify())
+
+    def forward(self, pooled_data: Union[list[torch.Tensor], torch.Tensor],
+                pooling_metadata: PoolingMetadata):
+        pooling_params = get_pooling_params(pooling_metadata)
+
+        # for softmax
+        flags = [p.softmax for p in pooling_params]
+        if len(set(flags)) == 1:
+            if flags[0]:
+                pooled_data = self.activation(pooled_data)
+        else:
+            pooled_data = [
+                self.activation(vecs) if f else vecs
+                for vecs, f in zip(pooled_data, flags)
+            ]
+
+        return pooled_data
 
 
 class SimplePooler(Pooler):
@@ -559,8 +548,12 @@ class SimplePooler(Pooler):
         pooler_config: ResolvedPoolingConfig,
     ) -> "SimplePooler":
         pooling = PoolingMethod.from_pooling_type(pooler_config.pooling_type)
-        head = PoolerHead.from_config(pooler_config)
+        if pooler_config.task == "embed":
-
+            head = EmbeddingPoolerHead()
+        elif pooler_config.task == "encode":
+            head = RewardPoolerHead()
+        else:
+            raise NotImplementedError(f"Unknown task: {pooler_config.task}")
         return cls(pooling, head)
 
     def __init__(self, pooling: PoolingMethod, head: PoolerHead) -> None:
@@ -587,29 +580,11 @@ class SimplePooler(Pooler):
 
 class StepPooler(Pooler):
 
-    @classmethod
+    def __init__(self, ) -> None:
-    def from_config(cls, pooler_config: ResolvedPoolingConfig) -> "StepPooler":
-        assert pooler_config.pooling_type == PoolingType.STEP
-
-        return cls(
-            PoolerHead.from_config(pooler_config),
-            step_tag_id=pooler_config.step_tag_id,
-            returned_token_ids=pooler_config.returned_token_ids,
-        )
-
-    def __init__(
-        self,
-        head: PoolerHead,
-        *,
-        step_tag_id: Optional[int] = None,
-        returned_token_ids: Optional[list[int]] = None,
-    ) -> None:
         super().__init__()
 
         self.pooling = AllPool()
-        self.head = head
+        self.head = RewardPoolerHead()
-        self.step_tag_id = step_tag_id
-        self.returned_token_ids = returned_token_ids
 
     def extract_states(
         self,
@@ -620,10 +595,15 @@ class StepPooler(Pooler):
         prompt_token_ids = get_prompt_token_ids(pooling_metadata)
 
         pooled_data = list[torch.Tensor]()
-        returned_token_ids = self.returned_token_ids
-        step_tag_id = self.step_tag_id
 
-        for data, token_id in zip(pooled_data_lst, prompt_token_ids):
+        pooling_params = get_pooling_params(pooling_metadata)
+
+        for data, token_id, pooling_param in zip(pooled_data_lst,
+                                                 prompt_token_ids,
+                                                 pooling_params):
+            step_tag_id = pooling_param.step_tag_id
+            returned_token_ids = pooling_param.returned_token_ids
+
             if returned_token_ids is not None and len(returned_token_ids) > 0:
                 data = data[:, returned_token_ids]
 
@@ -669,14 +649,14 @@ class ClassifierPooler(Pooler):
     def __init__(
         self,
         pooling: PoolingFn,
-        classifier: ClassifierFn,
+        classifier: Optional[ClassifierFn],
-        act_fn: PoolerActivation,
+        act_fn: Optional[PoolerActivation] = None,
     ) -> None:
         super().__init__()
 
         self.pooling = pooling
         self.classifier = classifier
-        self.act_fn = act_fn
+        self.act_fn = act_fn or PoolerClassify()
 
     def get_supported_tasks(self) -> Set[PoolingTask]:
         return {"classify", "score"}
@@ -688,15 +668,25 @@ class ClassifierPooler(Pooler):
     ) -> PoolerOutput:
         pooled_data = self.pooling(hidden_states, pooling_metadata)
 
-        # apply classifier once on the full batch if possible
+        if self.classifier is not None:
-        if isinstance(pooled_data, torch.Tensor):
+            # apply classifier once on the full batch if possible
-            pooled_output = self.classifier(pooled_data)
+            if isinstance(pooled_data, torch.Tensor):
-        elif len({data.shape for data in pooled_data}) <= 1:
+                pooled_data = self.classifier(pooled_data)
-            pooled_output = self.classifier(torch.stack(pooled_data))
+            elif len({data.shape for data in pooled_data}) <= 1:
-        else:
+                pooled_data = self.classifier(torch.stack(pooled_data))
-            pooled_output = [self.classifier(data) for data in pooled_data]
+            else:
+                pooled_data = [self.classifier(data) for data in pooled_data]
 
-        scores = self.act_fn(pooled_output)
+        pooling_params = get_pooling_params(pooling_metadata)
+        flags = [p.activation for p in pooling_params]
+
+        if len(set(flags)) == 1:
+            scores = self.act_fn(pooled_data) if flags[0] else pooled_data
+        else:
+            scores = [
+                self.act_fn(vecs) if f else vecs
+                for vecs, f in zip(pooled_data, flags)
+            ]
 
         return build_output(scores)
 

vllm/model_executor/models/config.py

@@ -44,6 +44,15 @@ class GteNewModelConfig(VerifyAndUpdateConfig):
         }
 
 
+class JambaForSequenceClassificationConfig(VerifyAndUpdateConfig):
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def verify_and_update_config(vllm_config: "VllmConfig") -> None:
+        pooler_config = vllm_config.model_config.pooler_config
+        if pooler_config.activation is None:
+            pooler_config.activation = False
+
+
 class JinaRobertaModelConfig(VerifyAndUpdateConfig):
 
     @staticmethod
@@ -155,6 +164,26 @@ class NomicBertModelConfig(VerifyAndUpdateConfig):
             vllm_config.recalculate_max_model_len(max_model_len)
 
 
+class Qwen2ForProcessRewardModelConfig(VerifyAndUpdateConfig):
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def verify_and_update_config(vllm_config: "VllmConfig") -> None:
+        pooler_config = vllm_config.model_config.pooler_config
+
+        if pooler_config.step_tag_id is None:
+            pooler_config.step_tag_id = 151651
+
+
+class Qwen2ForRewardModelConfig(VerifyAndUpdateConfig):
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def verify_and_update_config(vllm_config: "VllmConfig") -> None:
+        pooler_config = vllm_config.model_config.pooler_config
+
+        if pooler_config.softmax is None:
+            pooler_config.softmax = False
+
+
 class Qwen3ForSequenceClassificationConfig(VerifyAndUpdateConfig):
 
     @staticmethod
@@ -309,8 +338,11 @@ MODELS_CONFIG_MAP: dict[str, type[VerifyAndUpdateConfig]] = {
     "GteModel": SnowflakeGteNewModelConfig,
     "GteNewModel": GteNewModelConfig,
     "NomicBertModel": NomicBertModelConfig,
+    "Qwen2ForProcessRewardModel": Qwen2ForProcessRewardModelConfig,
+    "Qwen2ForRewardModel": Qwen2ForRewardModelConfig,
     "Qwen3ForSequenceClassification": Qwen3ForSequenceClassificationConfig,
     "XLMRobertaModel": JinaRobertaModelConfig,
     "JinaVLForRanking": JinaVLForSequenceClassificationConfig,
+    "JambaForSequenceClassification": JambaForSequenceClassificationConfig,
     "GraniteMoeHybridForCausalLM": GraniteMoeHybridModelConfig,
 }

vllm/model_executor/models/jamba.py

@@ -593,7 +593,5 @@ class JambaForSequenceClassification(JambaForCausalLM):
                 pooler_config,
                 classifier=self.score,
                 default_pooling_type=PoolingType.LAST,
-                default_normalize=False,
-                default_softmax=False,
             ),
         })

vllm/model_executor/models/jina_vl.py

@@ -90,15 +90,12 @@ class JinaVLForSequenceClassification(Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration,
                          prefix=maybe_prefix(prefix, "qwen2_vl"))
         config = vllm_config.model_config.hf_config
         pooler_config = vllm_config.model_config.pooler_config
+        assert pooler_config is not None
 
         # logit bias for sigmoid normalization
         self.LOGIT_BIAS = 2.65
 
         self.score = JinaVLScorer(config)
-
-        pooler_config = vllm_config.model_config.pooler_config
-        assert pooler_config is not None
-
         self.pooler = DispatchPooler({
             "encode":
             Pooler.for_encode(pooler_config),

vllm/model_executor/models/qwen2_rm.py

@@ -117,8 +117,5 @@ class Qwen2ForProcessRewardModel(Qwen2RewardBaseModel):
             Pooler.for_encode(
                 pooler_config,
                 default_pooling_type=PoolingType.STEP,
-                default_normalize=False,
-                default_softmax=True,
-                default_step_tag_id=151651,
             )
         })

vllm/pooling_params.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
 
+from copy import deepcopy
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Optional
 
 import msgspec
@@ -19,13 +20,25 @@ class PoolingParams(
     """API parameters for pooling models.
 
     Attributes:
+        normalize: Whether to normalize the embeddings outputs.
         dimensions: Reduce the dimensions of embeddings
                     if model support matryoshka representation.
+        activation: Whether to apply activation function to
+                    the classification outputs.
+        softmax: Whether to apply softmax to the reward outputs.
     """
 
+    ## for embeddings models
     dimensions: Optional[int] = None
+    normalize: Optional[bool] = None
 
-    output_kind: RequestOutputKind = RequestOutputKind.FINAL_ONLY
+    ## for classification models
+    activation: Optional[bool] = None
+
+    ## for reward models
+    softmax: Optional[bool] = None
+    step_tag_id: Optional[int] = None
+    returned_token_ids: Optional[list[int]] = None
 
     task: Optional[PoolingTask] = None
     """Internal use only."""
@@ -33,15 +46,32 @@ class PoolingParams(
     requires_token_ids: bool = False
     """Internal use only."""
 
+    output_kind: RequestOutputKind = RequestOutputKind.FINAL_ONLY
+
+    @property
+    def all_parameters(self) -> list[str]:
+        return [
+            "dimensions", "normalize", "activation", "softmax", "step_tag_id",
+            "returned_token_ids"
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def valid_parameters(self):
+        return {
+            "embed": ["dimensions", "normalize"],
+            "classify": ["activation"],
+            "score": ["activation"],
+            "encode": ["softmax", "step_tag_id", "returned_token_ids"],
+        }
+
     def clone(self) -> "PoolingParams":
         """Returns a deep copy of the PoolingParams instance."""
-        return PoolingParams(
+        return deepcopy(self)
-            dimensions=self.dimensions,
+
-            task=self.task,
+    def verify(self,
-            requires_token_ids=self.requires_token_ids,
+               task: PoolingTask,
-        )
+               model_config: Optional["ModelConfig"] = None) -> None:
 
-    def verify(self, task: PoolingTask, model_config: "ModelConfig") -> None:
         if self.task is None:
             self.task = task
         elif self.task != task:
@@ -52,28 +82,91 @@ class PoolingParams(
         # which is not available in model config. So, it's not included
         # in this method
 
-        if self.dimensions is not None:
+        self._merge_default_parameters(model_config)
-            if not model_config.is_matryoshka:
+        self._set_default_parameters(model_config)
-                raise ValueError(
+        self._verify_valid_parameters()
-                    f'Model "{model_config.served_model_name}" does not '
-                    f'support matryoshka representation, '
-                    f'changing output dimensions will lead to poor results.')
 
-            mds = model_config.matryoshka_dimensions
+    def _merge_default_parameters(self,
-            if mds is not None:
+                                  model_config: Optional["ModelConfig"] = None
-                if self.dimensions not in mds:
+                                  ) -> None:
+
+        if model_config is None:
+            return
+
+        pooler_config = model_config.pooler_config
+        if pooler_config is None:
+            return
+
+        assert self.task is not None, "task must be set"
+        valid_parameters = self.valid_parameters[self.task]
+
+        for k in valid_parameters:
+            if getattr(pooler_config, k, None) is None:
+                continue
+
+            if getattr(self, k, None) is None:
+                setattr(self, k, getattr(pooler_config, k))
+
+    def _set_default_parameters(self, model_config: Optional["ModelConfig"]):
+        if self.task == "embed":
+            if self.normalize is None:
+                self.normalize = True
+
+            if self.dimensions is not None and model_config is not None:
+                if not model_config.is_matryoshka:
                     raise ValueError(
-                        f'Model "{model_config.served_model_name}" '
+                        f'Model "{model_config.served_model_name}" does not '
-                        f'only supports {str(mds)} matryoshka dimensions, '
+                        f'support matryoshka representation, '
-                        f'use other output dimensions will '
+                        f'changing output dimensions will lead to poor results.'
-                        f'lead to poor results.')
+                    )
-            elif self.dimensions < 1:
+
-                raise ValueError("Dimensions must be greater than 0")
+                mds = model_config.matryoshka_dimensions
+                if mds is not None:
+                    if self.dimensions not in mds:
+                        raise ValueError(
+                            f'Model "{model_config.served_model_name}" '
+                            f'only supports {str(mds)} matryoshka dimensions, '
+                            f'use other output dimensions will '
+                            f'lead to poor results.')
+                elif self.dimensions < 1:
+                    raise ValueError("Dimensions must be greater than 0")
+
+        elif self.task in ["classify", "score"]:
+            if self.activation is None:
+                self.activation = True
+
+        elif self.task == "encode":
+            if self.softmax is None:
+                self.softmax = True
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(f"Unknown pooling task: {self.task}")
+
+    def _verify_valid_parameters(self):
+        assert self.task is not None, "task must be set"
+        valid_parameters = self.valid_parameters[self.task]
+        invalid_parameters = []
+        for k in self.all_parameters:
+            if k in valid_parameters:
+                continue
+
+            if getattr(self, k, None) is not None:
+                invalid_parameters.append(k)
+
+        if invalid_parameters:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Task {self.task} only supports {valid_parameters} "
+                f"parameters, does not support "
+                f"{invalid_parameters} parameters")
 
     def __repr__(self) -> str:
         return (f"PoolingParams("
-                f"dimensions={self.dimensions}, "
                 f"task={self.task}, "
+                f"normalize={self.normalize}, "
+                f"dimensions={self.dimensions}, "
+                f"activation={self.activation}, "
+                f"softmax={self.softmax}, "
+                f"step_tag_id={self.step_tag_id}, "
+                f"returned_token_ids={self.returned_token_ids}, "
                 f"requires_token_ids={self.requires_token_ids})")
 
     def __post_init__(self) -> None: