diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 238a0c958..f872c7f3f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ Options:
           [env: DENSE_PATH=]
 
       --hf-token <HF_TOKEN>
-          Your Hugging Face Hub token. If neither `--hf-token` nor `HF_TOKEN` is set, the token will be read from the `$HF_HOME/token` path, if it exists. This ensures access to private or gated models, and allows for a more permissive rate limiting
+          Your Hugging Face Hub token. If neither `--hf-token` nor `HF_TOKEN` are set, the token will be read from the `$HF_HOME/token` path, if it exists. This ensures access to private or gated models, and allows for a more permissive rate limiting
 
           [env: HF_TOKEN=]
 
diff --git a/backends/candle/src/layers/mod.rs b/backends/candle/src/layers/mod.rs
index 1849d31b5..8f455b90d 100644
--- a/backends/candle/src/layers/mod.rs
+++ b/backends/candle/src/layers/mod.rs
@@ -14,4 +14,4 @@ pub use layer_norm::{LayerNorm, LayerNormNoBias};
 pub use linear::{HiddenAct, Linear};
 #[allow(unused_imports)]
 pub use rms_norm::RMSNorm;
-pub use rotary::{apply_rotary, get_cos_sin, get_inv_freqs, RopeScaling};
+pub use rotary::{apply_rotary, get_cos_sin, get_inv_freqs, RopeParameters, RopeScaling};
diff --git a/backends/candle/src/layers/rotary.rs b/backends/candle/src/layers/rotary.rs
index 967d11c5f..b23ad0aac 100644
--- a/backends/candle/src/layers/rotary.rs
+++ b/backends/candle/src/layers/rotary.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 use candle::{DType, Device, Result, Tensor, D};
 use serde::Deserialize;
 
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Deserialize)]
+pub struct RopeParameters {
+    pub rope_theta: f32,
+    #[allow(unused)]
+    rope_type: String,
+}
+
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Deserialize)]
 #[serde(untagged)]
 pub enum RopeScaling {
diff --git a/backends/candle/src/lib.rs b/backends/candle/src/lib.rs
index 5396e5027..d44ff5e53 100644
--- a/backends/candle/src/lib.rs
+++ b/backends/candle/src/lib.rs
@@ -538,6 +538,7 @@ impl CandleBackend {
                         rms_norm_eps: config.rms_norm_eps,
                         model_type: config.model_type.clone(),
                         rope_theta: config.rope_theta,
+                        rope_parameters: config.rope_parameters,
                         sliding_window: config.sliding_window,
                         rope_scaling: config.rope_scaling,
                         use_bidirectional_attention: config.use_bidirectional_attention,
diff --git a/backends/candle/src/models/flash_gte.rs b/backends/candle/src/models/flash_gte.rs
index c1a5d5112..014dbbca2 100644
--- a/backends/candle/src/models/flash_gte.rs
+++ b/backends/candle/src/models/flash_gte.rs
@@ -199,9 +199,18 @@ impl FlashGTEModel {
             Self::inner_load(vb.pp("new"), config)
                 .or_else(|_| Self::inner_load(vb.clone(), config))?;
 
+        // NOTE: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/39847
+        let rope_theta = match config.rope_theta {
+            Some(rope_theta) => rope_theta,
+            None => match &config.rope_parameters {
+                Some(rope_parameters) => rope_parameters.rope_theta,
+                None => candle::bail!("Neither `rope_theta` nor `rope_parameters.rope_theta` are defined in the `config.json`"),
+            },
+        };
+
         let inv_freqs = get_inv_freqs(
             layers[0].attention.attention_head_size,
-            config.rope_theta,
+            rope_theta,
             vb.device(),
             config.rope_scaling.as_ref(),
         )?;
diff --git a/backends/candle/src/models/flash_mistral.rs b/backends/candle/src/models/flash_mistral.rs
index 09956cdf7..3cc4b503a 100644
--- a/backends/candle/src/models/flash_mistral.rs
+++ b/backends/candle/src/models/flash_mistral.rs
@@ -268,9 +268,18 @@ impl FlashMistralModel {
 
         let norm = RMSNorm::load(vb.pp("norm"), config.hidden_size, config.rms_norm_eps)?;
 
+        // NOTE: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/39847
+        let rope_theta = match config.rope_theta {
+            Some(rope_theta) => rope_theta,
+            None => match &config.rope_parameters {
+                Some(rope_parameters) => rope_parameters.rope_theta,
+                None => candle::bail!("Neither `rope_theta` nor `rope_parameters.rope_theta` are defined in the `config.json`"),
+            },
+        };
+
         let inv_freqs = get_inv_freqs(
             layers[0].attention.attention_head_size,
-            config.rope_theta,
+            rope_theta,
             vb.device(),
             config.rope_scaling.as_ref(),
         )?;
diff --git a/backends/candle/src/models/flash_qwen2.rs b/backends/candle/src/models/flash_qwen2.rs
index f00eb3f14..c133d92d7 100644
--- a/backends/candle/src/models/flash_qwen2.rs
+++ b/backends/candle/src/models/flash_qwen2.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 use crate::flash_attn::flash_attn_varlen;
 use crate::layers::{get_cos_sin, get_inv_freqs, index_select, HiddenAct, Linear, RMSNorm};
 use crate::models::{Model, Qwen2Config};
+
 use candle::{DType, Device, IndexOp, Result, Tensor};
 use candle_nn::{Embedding, Module, VarBuilder};
 use candle_rotary::apply_rotary_inplace;
+
 use text_embeddings_backend_core::{Batch, ModelType, Pool};
 
 struct Qwen2Attention {
@@ -285,9 +287,18 @@ impl FlashQwen2Model {
 
         let norm = RMSNorm::load(vb.pp("norm"), config.hidden_size, config.rms_norm_eps)?;
 
+        // NOTE: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/39847
+        let rope_theta = match config.rope_theta {
+            Some(rope_theta) => rope_theta,
+            None => match &config.rope_parameters {
+                Some(rope_parameters) => rope_parameters.rope_theta,
+                None => candle::bail!("Neither `rope_theta` nor `rope_parameters.rope_theta` are defined in the `config.json`"),
+            },
+        };
+
         let inv_freqs = get_inv_freqs(
             layers[0].attention.attention_head_size,
-            config.rope_theta,
+            rope_theta,
             vb.device(),
             None,
         )?;
diff --git a/backends/candle/src/models/flash_qwen3.rs b/backends/candle/src/models/flash_qwen3.rs
index efa96dfa0..29cc5c8b7 100644
--- a/backends/candle/src/models/flash_qwen3.rs
+++ b/backends/candle/src/models/flash_qwen3.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 use crate::flash_attn::flash_attn_varlen;
 use crate::layers::{get_cos_sin, get_inv_freqs, index_select, HiddenAct, Linear, RMSNorm};
 use crate::models::{Model, Qwen3Config};
+
 use candle::{DType, Device, IndexOp, Result, Tensor};
 use candle_nn::{Embedding, Module, VarBuilder};
 use candle_rotary::apply_rotary_inplace;
+
 use text_embeddings_backend_core::{Batch, ModelType, Pool};
 
 struct Qwen3Attention {
@@ -353,9 +355,18 @@ impl FlashQwen3Model {
             None
         };
 
+        // NOTE: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/39847
+        let rope_theta = match config.rope_theta {
+            Some(rope_theta) => rope_theta,
+            None => match &config.rope_parameters {
+                Some(rope_parameters) => rope_parameters.rope_theta,
+                None => candle::bail!("Neither `rope_theta` nor `rope_parameters.rope_theta` are defined in the `config.json`"),
+            },
+        };
+
         let inv_freqs = get_inv_freqs(
             layers[0].attention.attention_head_size,
-            config.rope_theta,
+            rope_theta,
             vb.device(),
             None,
         )?;
diff --git a/backends/candle/src/models/gemma3.rs b/backends/candle/src/models/gemma3.rs
index 81485e0b1..90c52a00c 100644
--- a/backends/candle/src/models/gemma3.rs
+++ b/backends/candle/src/models/gemma3.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 use crate::layers::{
     apply_rotary, get_cos_sin, get_cublas_lt_wrapper, get_inv_freqs, HiddenAct, Linear,
+    RopeParameters,
 };
 use crate::models::Model;
 
@@ -23,9 +24,10 @@ pub struct Gemma3Config {
     pub query_pre_attn_scalar: usize,
     pub rms_norm_eps: f32,
     pub rope_local_base_freq: f32,
-    pub rope_theta: f32,
+    pub rope_theta: Option<f32>,
+    pub rope_parameters: Option<RopeParameters>,
     pub sliding_window: Option<usize>,
-    #[serde(rename(deserialize = "_sliding_window_pattern"))]
+    #[serde(rename = "_sliding_window_pattern")]
     pub sliding_window_pattern: usize,
     pub vocab_size: usize,
 }
@@ -653,7 +655,16 @@ impl Gemma3Model {
             .head_dim
             .unwrap_or(config.hidden_size / config.num_attention_heads);
 
-        let inv_freqs = get_inv_freqs(rotary_dim, config.rope_theta, vb.device(), None)?;
+        // NOTE: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/39847
+        let rope_theta = match config.rope_theta {
+            Some(rope_theta) => rope_theta,
+            None => match &config.rope_parameters {
+                Some(rope_parameters) => rope_parameters.rope_theta,
+                None => candle::bail!("Neither `rope_theta` nor `rope_parameters.rope_theta` are defined in the `config.json`"),
+            },
+        };
+
+        let inv_freqs = get_inv_freqs(rotary_dim, rope_theta, vb.device(), None)?;
         let rotary_cache =
             get_cos_sin(config.max_position_embeddings, &inv_freqs, vb.dtype(), true)?;
 
diff --git a/backends/candle/src/models/gte.rs b/backends/candle/src/models/gte.rs
index d5cf34120..6387a4df9 100644
--- a/backends/candle/src/models/gte.rs
+++ b/backends/candle/src/models/gte.rs
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 use crate::layers::{
     apply_rotary, get_cos_sin, get_cublas_lt_wrapper, get_inv_freqs, HiddenAct, LayerNorm, Linear,
-    RopeScaling,
+    RopeParameters, RopeScaling,
 };
 use crate::models::{Model, PositionEmbeddingType};
+
 use candle::{DType, Device, IndexOp, Result, Tensor, D};
 use candle_nn::{Embedding, Module, VarBuilder};
 use serde::Deserialize;
 use std::collections::HashMap;
+
 use text_embeddings_backend_core::{Batch, ModelType, Pool};
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Deserialize)]
@@ -22,7 +24,8 @@ pub struct GTEConfig {
     pub layer_norm_type: String,
     pub layer_norm_eps: f32,
     pub position_embedding_type: PositionEmbeddingType,
-    pub rope_theta: f32,
+    pub rope_theta: Option<f32>,
+    pub rope_parameters: Option<RopeParameters>,
     pub rope_scaling: Option<RopeScaling>,
     #[serde(default)]
     pub logn_attention_scale: bool,
@@ -412,10 +415,19 @@ impl GTEModel {
             Self::inner_load(vb.pp("new"), config)
                 .or_else(|_| Self::inner_load(vb.clone(), config))?;
 
+        // NOTE: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/39847
+        let rope_theta = match config.rope_theta {
+            Some(rope_theta) => rope_theta,
+            None => match &config.rope_parameters {
+                Some(rope_parameters) => rope_parameters.rope_theta,
+                None => candle::bail!("Neither `rope_theta` nor `rope_parameters.rope_theta` are defined in the `config.json`"),
+            },
+        };
+
         let rotary_dim = encoder.layers[0].attention.attention_head_size;
         let inv_freqs = get_inv_freqs(
             rotary_dim,
-            config.rope_theta,
+            rope_theta,
             vb.device(),
             config.rope_scaling.as_ref(),
         )?;
diff --git a/backends/candle/src/models/llama.rs b/backends/candle/src/models/llama.rs
index dc993f808..0b7e26227 100644
--- a/backends/candle/src/models/llama.rs
+++ b/backends/candle/src/models/llama.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-use crate::layers::{HiddenAct, RopeScaling};
+use crate::layers::{HiddenAct, RopeParameters, RopeScaling};
+
 use serde::Deserialize;
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Deserialize)]
@@ -14,7 +15,8 @@ pub struct LlamaConfig {
     pub initializer_range: f64,
     pub rms_norm_eps: f32,
     pub model_type: Option<String>,
-    pub rope_theta: f32,
+    pub rope_theta: Option<f32>,
+    pub rope_parameters: Option<RopeParameters>,
     pub sliding_window: Option<usize>,
     pub rope_scaling: Option<RopeScaling>,
     #[serde(default)]
diff --git a/backends/candle/src/models/mistral.rs b/backends/candle/src/models/mistral.rs
index 8fa91d017..85a590896 100644
--- a/backends/candle/src/models/mistral.rs
+++ b/backends/candle/src/models/mistral.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-use crate::layers::{HiddenAct, RopeScaling};
+use crate::layers::{HiddenAct, RopeParameters, RopeScaling};
+
 use serde::Deserialize;
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Deserialize)]
@@ -14,7 +15,8 @@ pub struct MistralConfig {
     pub initializer_range: f64,
     pub rms_norm_eps: f32,
     pub model_type: Option<String>,
-    pub rope_theta: f32,
+    pub rope_theta: Option<f32>,
+    pub rope_parameters: Option<RopeParameters>,
     pub sliding_window: Option<usize>,
     pub rope_scaling: Option<RopeScaling>,
     #[serde(default)]
diff --git a/backends/candle/src/models/qwen2.rs b/backends/candle/src/models/qwen2.rs
index 10cbb76ec..a19727f70 100644
--- a/backends/candle/src/models/qwen2.rs
+++ b/backends/candle/src/models/qwen2.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use crate::layers::HiddenAct;
+use crate::layers::{HiddenAct, RopeParameters};
 use serde::Deserialize;
 
 fn default_is_causal() -> bool {
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ pub struct Qwen2Config {
     pub hidden_act: HiddenAct,
     pub max_position_embeddings: usize,
     pub rms_norm_eps: f32,
-    pub rope_theta: f32,
+    pub rope_theta: Option<f32>,
+    pub rope_parameters: Option<RopeParameters>,
     pub sliding_window: Option<usize>,
     pub use_sliding_window: bool,
     #[serde(default = "default_is_causal")]
diff --git a/backends/candle/src/models/qwen3.rs b/backends/candle/src/models/qwen3.rs
index 8c76aa090..f21094b9d 100644
--- a/backends/candle/src/models/qwen3.rs
+++ b/backends/candle/src/models/qwen3.rs
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 use crate::layers::{
     apply_rotary, get_cos_sin, get_cublas_lt_wrapper, get_inv_freqs, HiddenAct, Linear, RMSNorm,
+    RopeParameters,
 };
 use crate::models::Model;
+
 use candle::{DType, Device, IndexOp, Result, Tensor, D};
 use candle_nn::{Embedding, Module, VarBuilder};
 use serde::Deserialize;
+
 use text_embeddings_backend_core::{Batch, ModelType, Pool};
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Deserialize)]
@@ -20,7 +23,8 @@ pub struct Qwen3Config {
     pub hidden_act: HiddenAct,
     pub max_position_embeddings: usize,
     pub rms_norm_eps: f32,
-    pub rope_theta: f32,
+    pub rope_theta: Option<f32>,
+    pub rope_parameters: Option<RopeParameters>,
     pub sliding_window: Option<usize>,
     pub use_sliding_window: bool,
     pub eos_token_id: usize,
@@ -454,7 +458,16 @@ impl Qwen3Model {
             .head_dim
             .unwrap_or(config.hidden_size / config.num_attention_heads);
 
-        let inv_freqs = get_inv_freqs(rotary_dim, config.rope_theta, vb.device(), None)?;
+        // NOTE: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/39847
+        let rope_theta = match config.rope_theta {
+            Some(rope_theta) => rope_theta,
+            None => match &config.rope_parameters {
+                Some(rope_parameters) => rope_parameters.rope_theta,
+                None => candle::bail!("Neither `rope_theta` nor `rope_parameters.rope_theta` are defined in the `config.json`"),
+            },
+        };
+
+        let inv_freqs = get_inv_freqs(rotary_dim, rope_theta, vb.device(), None)?;
 
         let rotary_cache =
             get_cos_sin(config.max_position_embeddings, &inv_freqs, vb.dtype(), true)?;
diff --git a/docs/source/en/cli_arguments.md b/docs/source/en/cli_arguments.md
index 7d05a7f12..fea608657 100644
--- a/docs/source/en/cli_arguments.md
+++ b/docs/source/en/cli_arguments.md
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ Options:
           [env: DENSE_PATH=]
 
       --hf-token <HF_TOKEN>
-          Your Hugging Face Hub token. If neither `--hf-token` nor `HF_TOKEN` is set, the token will be read from the `$HF_HOME/token` path, if it exists. This ensures access to private or gated models, and allows for a more permissive rate limiting
+          Your Hugging Face Hub token. If neither `--hf-token` nor `HF_TOKEN` are set, the token will be read from the `$HF_HOME/token` path, if it exists. This ensures access to private or gated models, and allows for a more permissive rate limiting
 
           [env: HF_TOKEN=]
 
diff --git a/router/src/lib.rs b/router/src/lib.rs
index a05508184..21920f578 100644
--- a/router/src/lib.rs
+++ b/router/src/lib.rs
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ pub async fn run(
         || &config.model_type == "camembert"
         || &config.model_type == "roberta"
     {
-        config.pad_token_id + 1
+        config.pad_token_id.unwrap_or(0) + 1
     } else {
         0
     };
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ pub struct ModelConfig {
     #[serde(alias = "n_positions")]
     pub max_position_embeddings: usize,
     #[serde(default)]
-    pub pad_token_id: usize,
+    pub pad_token_id: Option<usize>,
     pub id2label: Option<HashMap<String, String>>,
     pub label2id: Option<HashMap<String, usize>>,
     pub auto_map: Option<HashMap<String, String>>,
diff --git a/router/src/main.rs b/router/src/main.rs
index baabb5c49..4e14acffa 100644
--- a/router/src/main.rs
+++ b/router/src/main.rs
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ struct Args {
     #[redact(partial)]
     hf_api_token: Option<String>,
 
-    /// Your Hugging Face Hub token. If neither `--hf-token` nor `HF_TOKEN` is set, the token
+    /// Your Hugging Face Hub token. If neither `--hf-token` nor `HF_TOKEN` are set, the token
     /// will be read from the `$HF_HOME/token` path, if it exists. This ensures access to private
     /// or gated models, and allows for a more permissive rate limiting.
     #[clap(long, env, conflicts_with = "hf_api_token")]