diff --git a/src/llama-context.cpp b/src/llama-context.cpp
index 14dccac5b5..1f7a52d789 100644
--- a/src/llama-context.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-context.cpp
@@ -512,7 +512,12 @@ void llama_context::sched_reserve() {
 
         if (cparams.fused_gdn_ch) {
             // more than one token in the batch per sequence in order to take the chunked path
-            auto * gf = graph_reserve(16*n_seqs, n_seqs, n_outputs, mctx.get(), true);
+            // note: n_outputs must match n_tokens for embedding models with mean/rank pooling,
+            // because build_pooling creates inp_mean with shape [n_tokens, n_seqs] and multiplies
+            // it with t_embd which is reduced to [n_outputs, ...] via out_ids. if n_outputs != n_tokens,
+            // the ggml_mul_mat assertion fails. this matches the pp reservation below (line ~553).
+            const uint32_t n_tokens_ch = 16*n_seqs;
+            auto * gf = graph_reserve(n_tokens_ch, n_seqs, n_tokens_ch, mctx.get(), true);
             if (!gf) {
                 throw std::runtime_error("failed to reserve graph for fused Gated Delta Net check (chunked)");
             }
diff --git a/tools/server/tests/unit/test_embedding.py b/tools/server/tests/unit/test_embedding.py
index 50601b8396..17ba09554b 100644
--- a/tools/server/tests/unit/test_embedding.py
+++ b/tools/server/tests/unit/test_embedding.py
@@ -101,6 +101,40 @@ def test_embedding_mixed_input(input, is_multi_prompt: bool):
         assert len(data[0]['embedding']) > 1
 
 
+def test_embedding_pooling_mean():
+    global server
+    server.pooling = 'mean'
+    server.start()
+    res = server.make_request("POST", "/v1/embeddings", data={
+        "input": "I believe the meaning of life is",
+    })
+    assert res.status_code == 200
+    assert len(res.body['data']) == 1
+    assert 'embedding' in res.body['data'][0]
+    assert len(res.body['data'][0]['embedding']) > 1
+
+    # make sure embedding vector is normalized
+    assert abs(sum([x ** 2 for x in res.body['data'][0]['embedding']]) - 1) < EPSILON
+
+
+def test_embedding_pooling_mean_multiple():
+    global server
+    server.pooling = 'mean'
+    server.start()
+    res = server.make_request("POST", "/v1/embeddings", data={
+        "input": [
+            "I believe the meaning of life is",
+            "Write a joke about AI",
+            "This is a test",
+        ],
+    })
+    assert res.status_code == 200
+    assert len(res.body['data']) == 3
+    for d in res.body['data']:
+        assert 'embedding' in d
+        assert len(d['embedding']) > 1
+
+
 def test_embedding_pooling_none():
     global server
     server.pooling = 'none'