diff --git a/pecos/xmr/reranker/model.py b/pecos/xmr/reranker/model.py
index 9a4721f..350ff7c 100644
--- a/pecos/xmr/reranker/model.py
+++ b/pecos/xmr/reranker/model.py
@@ -195,8 +195,8 @@ def __init__(self, config: TextNumrEncoderConfig):
         if config.text_config:
             text_encoder = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
                 config.text_config._name_or_path,
-                attn_implementation=config.text_config._attn_implementation,
-                trust_remote_code=config.text_config.trust_remote_code,
+                attn_implementation=getattr(config.text_config, "_attn_implementation", "eager"),
+                trust_remote_code=getattr(config.text_config, "trust_remote_code", None),
                 token=getattr(config.text_config, "token", None),
             )
             text_encoder.config.pad_token_id = (
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ def forward(
         text_emb = None
         if self.text_encoder:
             text_input_dict = {"input_ids": input_ids, "attention_mask": attention_mask}
-            if token_type_ids:
+            if token_type_ids is not None:
                 text_input_dict["token_type_ids"] = token_type_ids
             text_outputs = self.text_encoder(**text_input_dict, return_dict=True)
             if hasattr(text_outputs, "pooler_output"):
diff --git a/test/pecos/xmr/test_reranker.py b/test/pecos/xmr/test_reranker.py
index 60c79bc..dfb226c 100644
--- a/test/pecos/xmr/test_reranker.py
+++ b/test/pecos/xmr/test_reranker.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #  OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions
 #  and limitations under the License.
 import pytest  # noqa: F401; pylint: disable=unused-variable
+from pytest import approx
 
 
 def test_importable():
@@ -19,16 +20,88 @@ def test_importable():
     from pecos.xmr.reranker.trainer import RankingTrainer  # noqa: F401
 
 
-def test_model():
+def test_numr_encoder():
+    import torch
     from pecos.xmr.reranker.model import NumrMLPEncoderConfig
+    from pecos.xmr.reranker.model import NumrMLPEncoder
 
-    mlp_config = NumrMLPEncoderConfig(
-        inp_feat_dim=5,
-        inp_dropout_prob=0.5,
-        hid_actv_type="gelu",
-        hid_size_list=[8, 16],
+    numr_config = NumrMLPEncoderConfig(
+        inp_feat_dim=2,
+        inp_dropout_prob=0.0,
+        hid_dropout_prob=0.0,
+        hid_actv_type="identity",
+        hid_size_list=[2],
     )
-    assert mlp_config.inp_feat_dim == 5
-    assert mlp_config.inp_dropout_prob == 0.5
-    assert mlp_config.hid_actv_type == "gelu"
-    assert mlp_config.hid_size_list == [8, 16]
+    assert numr_config.inp_feat_dim == 2
+    assert numr_config.inp_dropout_prob == 0.0
+    assert numr_config.hid_dropout_prob == 0.0
+    assert numr_config.hid_actv_type == "identity"
+    assert numr_config.hid_size_list == [2]
+
+    numr_encoder = NumrMLPEncoder(numr_config)
+    linear_layer = numr_encoder.mlp_block.mlp_layers[0]
+    linear_layer.bias.data.fill_(0.0)
+    linear_layer.weight.data.fill_(0.0)
+    linear_layer.weight.data.fill_diagonal_(1.0)
+    with torch.no_grad():
+        inp_feat = torch.tensor([-1, 1]).float()
+        out_feat = numr_encoder(inp_feat)
+    assert out_feat.numpy() == approx(
+        out_feat.numpy(),
+        abs=0.0,
+    ), f"Enc(inp_feat) != inp_feat, given Enc is identity"
+
+
+def test_textnumr_encoder():
+    import torch
+    from transformers import set_seed
+    from transformers import AutoConfig, AutoTokenizer
+    from pecos.xmr.reranker.model import TextNumrEncoderConfig
+    from pecos.xmr.reranker.model import TextNumrEncoder
+
+    enc_list = [
+        "prajjwal1/bert-tiny",
+        "sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2",
+        "intfloat/multilingual-e5-small",
+    ]
+    ans_list = [
+        0.007879042997956276,
+        0.0035168465692549944,
+        -0.0047034271992743015,
+    ]
+    set_seed(1234)
+
+    for idx, enc_name in enumerate(enc_list):
+        text_config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(
+            enc_name,
+            hidden_dropout_prob=0.0,
+        )
+        textnumr_config = TextNumrEncoderConfig(
+            text_config=text_config,
+            numr_config=None,
+            text_pooling_type="cls",
+            head_actv_type="identity",
+            head_dropout_prob=0.0,
+            head_size_list=[1],
+        )
+        textnumr_encoder = TextNumrEncoder(textnumr_config)
+        linear_layer = textnumr_encoder.head_layers.mlp_layers[0]
+        linear_layer.bias.data.fill_(0.0)
+        linear_layer.weight.data.fill_(0.0)
+        linear_layer.weight.data.fill_diagonal_(1.0)
+        textnumr_encoder.scorer.bias.data.fill_(0.0)
+        textnumr_encoder.scorer.weight.data.fill_(1.0)
+
+        # obtained from bert-tiny tokenizer("I Like coffee")
+        tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(enc_name)
+        input_dict = tokenizer("I Like coffee", return_tensors="pt")
+        outputs = textnumr_encoder(**input_dict)
+        assert outputs.text_emb is not None
+        assert outputs.numr_emb is None
+
+        text_emb = outputs.text_emb
+        mu = torch.mean(text_emb).item()
+        assert mu == approx(
+            ans_list[idx],
+            abs=1e-3,
+        ), f"mu(text_emb)={mu} != {ans_list[idx]}"