diff --git a/common/speculative.cpp b/common/speculative.cpp
index 3e68c38e49..6cb7c19623 100644
--- a/common/speculative.cpp
+++ b/common/speculative.cpp
@@ -804,6 +804,12 @@ bool common_speculative_is_compat(llama_context * ctx_tgt) {
         return false;
     }
 
+    // Skip speculative decoding for embedding models
+    // Embedding models don't have output logits needed for speculative decoding
+    if (llama_pooling_type(ctx_tgt) != LLAMA_POOLING_TYPE_NONE) {
+        return false;
+    }
+
     bool res = true;
 
     llama_memory_clear(mem, true);
diff --git a/src/llama-context.cpp b/src/llama-context.cpp
index 1f7a52d789..6d19c5cbdb 100644
--- a/src/llama-context.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-context.cpp
@@ -1767,12 +1767,20 @@ int llama_context::decode(const llama_batch & batch_inp) {
                         // extract sequence embeddings (cleared before processing each batch)
                         auto & embd_seq_out = embd_seq;
 
+                        // For V-L models, the embedding output tensor may have different dimensions
+                        // The embedding dimension is determined by the tensor shape (ne[0]), not by model hparams
+                        const uint32_t n_embd_tensor = t_embd->ne[0];
+
+                        // Use the tensor's embedding dimension if valid, otherwise fall back to model dimension
+                        const uint32_t n_embd_to_use = n_embd_tensor > 0 ? n_embd_tensor : n_embd;
+
                         for (uint32_t s = 0; s < ubatch.n_seqs_unq; ++s) {
                             const llama_seq_id seq_id  = ubatch.seq_id_unq[s];
                             const int32_t      seq_idx = ubatch.seq_idx[seq_id];
 
-                            embd_seq_out[seq_id].resize(n_embd);
-                            ggml_backend_tensor_get_async(backend_embd, t_embd, embd_seq_out[seq_id].data(), (n_embd*seq_idx)*sizeof(float), n_embd*sizeof(float));
+                            embd_seq_out[seq_id].resize(n_embd_to_use);
+                            ggml_backend_tensor_get_async(backend_embd, t_embd, embd_seq_out[seq_id].data(),
+                                (n_embd_to_use*seq_idx)*sizeof(float), n_embd_to_use*sizeof(float));
                         }
                     } break;
                 case LLAMA_POOLING_TYPE_RANK: