diff --git a/src/llama-batch.cpp b/src/llama-batch.cpp
index 0d4939fdb0..86a1a4ba18 100644
--- a/src/llama-batch.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-batch.cpp
@@ -261,15 +261,29 @@ bool llama_batch_allocr::init(
 
             const llama_pos p0 = memory ? memory->seq_pos_max(s) : -1;
 
-            if (p0 >= 0 && p0 >= seq_pos_min(s)) {
-                LLAMA_LOG_ERROR(
-                        "%s: the tokens of sequence %d in the input batch have inconsistent sequence positions:\n"
-                        " - the last position stored in the memory module of the context (i.e. the KV cache) for sequence %d is X = %d\n"
-                        " - the tokens for sequence %d in the input batch have a starting position of Y = %d\n"
-                        " for M-RoPE, it is required that the position satisfies: X < Y\n",
-                        __func__, s, s, p0, s, seq_pos_min(s));
+            if (batch.token) {
+                if (p0 >= 0 && p0 >= seq_pos_min(s)) {
+                    LLAMA_LOG_ERROR(
+                            "%s: the tokens of sequence %d in the input batch have inconsistent sequence positions:\n"
+                            " - the last position stored in the memory module of the context (i.e. the KV cache) for sequence %d is X = %d\n"
+                            " - the tokens for sequence %d in the input batch have a starting position of Y = %d\n"
+                            " for M-RoPE, it is required that the position satisfies: X < Y\n",
+                            __func__, s, s, p0, s, seq_pos_min(s));
 
-                return false;
+                    return false;
+                }
+            } else {
+                // embedding inputs can have overlapping positions
+                if (p0 >= 0 && p0 > seq_pos_min(s)) {
+                    LLAMA_LOG_ERROR(
+                            "%s: the tokens of sequence %d in the input batch have inconsistent sequence positions:\n"
+                            " - the last position stored in the memory module of the context (i.e. the KV cache) for sequence %d is X = %d\n"
+                            " - the tokens for sequence %d in the input batch have a starting position of Y = %d\n"
+                            " for M-RoPE, it is required that the position satisfies: X <= Y\n",
+                            __func__, s, s, p0, s, seq_pos_min(s));
+
+                    return false;
+                }
             }
         }
     } else {