diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/mamba.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/mamba.py
index 05b178aec6832..ac0d265a961f0 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/mamba.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/mamba.py
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ def __init__(self, *, vllm_config: VllmConfig, prefix: str = ""):
         self.sampler = get_sampler()
 
     def get_input_embeddings(self, input_ids: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
-        return self.model.get_input_embeddings(input_ids)
+        return self.backbone.get_input_embeddings(input_ids)
 
     def forward(self,
                 input_ids: torch.Tensor,