diff --git a/milli/src/update/index_documents/mod.rs b/milli/src/update/index_documents/mod.rs
index 913fbc881..dbacb4002 100644
--- a/milli/src/update/index_documents/mod.rs
+++ b/milli/src/update/index_documents/mod.rs
@@ -2652,6 +2652,7 @@ mod tests {
                         path_to_embeddings: Setting::NotSet,
                         embedding_object: Setting::NotSet,
                         input_type: Setting::NotSet,
+                        distribution: Setting::NotSet,
                     }),
                 );
                 settings.set_embedder_settings(embedders);
diff --git a/milli/src/update/settings.rs b/milli/src/update/settings.rs
index 2b1be9453..9f47768c1 100644
--- a/milli/src/update/settings.rs
+++ b/milli/src/update/settings.rs
@@ -1146,6 +1146,7 @@ fn validate_prompt(
             path_to_embeddings,
             embedding_object,
             input_type,
+            distribution,
         }) => {
             // validate
             let template = crate::prompt::Prompt::new(template)
@@ -1165,6 +1166,7 @@ fn validate_prompt(
                 path_to_embeddings,
                 embedding_object,
                 input_type,
+                distribution,
             }))
         }
         new => Ok(new),
@@ -1190,6 +1192,7 @@ pub fn validate_embedding_settings(
         path_to_embeddings,
         embedding_object,
         input_type,
+        distribution,
     } = settings;
 
     if let Some(0) = dimensions.set() {
@@ -1221,6 +1224,7 @@ pub fn validate_embedding_settings(
             path_to_embeddings,
             embedding_object,
             input_type,
+            distribution,
         }));
     };
     match inferred_source {
@@ -1365,6 +1369,7 @@ pub fn validate_embedding_settings(
         path_to_embeddings,
         embedding_object,
         input_type,
+        distribution,
     }))
 }
 
diff --git a/milli/src/vector/hf.rs b/milli/src/vector/hf.rs
index e341a553e..725d702ec 100644
--- a/milli/src/vector/hf.rs
+++ b/milli/src/vector/hf.rs
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ enum WeightSource {
 pub struct EmbedderOptions {
     pub model: String,
     pub revision: Option<String>,
+    pub distribution: Option<DistributionShift>,
 }
 
 impl EmbedderOptions {
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@ impl EmbedderOptions {
         Self {
             model: "BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5".to_string(),
             revision: Some("617ca489d9e86b49b8167676d8220688b99db36e".into()),
+            distribution: None,
         }
     }
 }
@@ -193,13 +195,15 @@ impl Embedder {
     }
 
     pub fn distribution(&self) -> Option<DistributionShift> {
-        if self.options.model == "BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5" {
-            Some(DistributionShift {
-                current_mean: ordered_float::OrderedFloat(0.85),
-                current_sigma: ordered_float::OrderedFloat(0.1),
-            })
-        } else {
-            None
-        }
+        self.options.distribution.or_else(|| {
+            if self.options.model == "BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5" {
+                Some(DistributionShift {
+                    current_mean: ordered_float::OrderedFloat(0.85),
+                    current_sigma: ordered_float::OrderedFloat(0.1),
+                })
+            } else {
+                None
+            }
+        })
     }
 }
diff --git a/milli/src/vector/manual.rs b/milli/src/vector/manual.rs
index 7ed48a251..e5d3689c0 100644
--- a/milli/src/vector/manual.rs
+++ b/milli/src/vector/manual.rs
@@ -1,19 +1,21 @@
 use super::error::EmbedError;
-use super::Embeddings;
+use super::{DistributionShift, Embeddings};
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
 pub struct Embedder {
     dimensions: usize,
+    distribution: Option<DistributionShift>,
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Hash, PartialEq, Eq, serde::Deserialize, serde::Serialize)]
 pub struct EmbedderOptions {
     pub dimensions: usize,
+    pub distribution: Option<DistributionShift>,
 }
 
 impl Embedder {
     pub fn new(options: EmbedderOptions) -> Self {
-        Self { dimensions: options.dimensions }
+        Self { dimensions: options.dimensions, distribution: options.distribution }
     }
 
     pub fn embed(&self, mut texts: Vec<String>) -> Result<Vec<Embeddings<f32>>, EmbedError> {
@@ -31,4 +33,8 @@ impl Embedder {
     ) -> Result<Vec<Vec<Embeddings<f32>>>, EmbedError> {
         text_chunks.into_iter().map(|prompts| self.embed(prompts)).collect()
     }
+
+    pub fn distribution(&self) -> Option<DistributionShift> {
+        self.distribution
+    }
 }
diff --git a/milli/src/vector/mod.rs b/milli/src/vector/mod.rs
index 8b25de56d..4a3a9920e 100644
--- a/milli/src/vector/mod.rs
+++ b/milli/src/vector/mod.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 use std::collections::HashMap;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 
+use deserr::{DeserializeError, Deserr};
 use ordered_float::OrderedFloat;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 
@@ -292,7 +293,7 @@ impl Embedder {
             Embedder::HuggingFace(embedder) => embedder.distribution(),
             Embedder::OpenAi(embedder) => embedder.distribution(),
             Embedder::Ollama(embedder) => embedder.distribution(),
-            Embedder::UserProvided(_embedder) => None,
+            Embedder::UserProvided(embedder) => embedder.distribution(),
             Embedder::Rest(embedder) => embedder.distribution(),
         }
     }
diff --git a/milli/src/vector/ollama.rs b/milli/src/vector/ollama.rs
index 578b6c8e2..cf5030fb4 100644
--- a/milli/src/vector/ollama.rs
+++ b/milli/src/vector/ollama.rs
@@ -14,11 +14,12 @@ pub struct EmbedderOptions {
     pub embedding_model: String,
     pub url: Option<String>,
     pub api_key: Option<String>,
+    pub distribution: Option<DistributionShift>,
 }
 
 impl EmbedderOptions {
     pub fn with_default_model(api_key: Option<String>, url: Option<String>) -> Self {
-        Self { embedding_model: "nomic-embed-text".into(), api_key, url }
+        Self { embedding_model: "nomic-embed-text".into(), api_key, url, distribution: None }
     }
 }
 
@@ -27,8 +28,8 @@ impl Embedder {
         let model = options.embedding_model.as_str();
         let rest_embedder = match RestEmbedder::new(RestEmbedderOptions {
             api_key: options.api_key,
-            distribution: None,
             dimensions: None,
+            distribution: options.distribution,
             url: options.url.unwrap_or_else(get_ollama_path),
             query: serde_json::json!({
                 "model": model,
@@ -90,7 +91,7 @@ impl Embedder {
     }
 
     pub fn distribution(&self) -> Option<DistributionShift> {
-        None
+        self.rest_embedder.distribution()
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/milli/src/vector/openai.rs b/milli/src/vector/openai.rs
index 24e94a9f7..141de486b 100644
--- a/milli/src/vector/openai.rs
+++ b/milli/src/vector/openai.rs
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ pub struct EmbedderOptions {
     pub api_key: Option<String>,
     pub embedding_model: EmbeddingModel,
     pub dimensions: Option<usize>,
+    pub distribution: Option<DistributionShift>,
 }
 
 impl EmbedderOptions {
@@ -37,6 +38,10 @@ impl EmbedderOptions {
 
         query
     }
+
+    pub fn distribution(&self) -> Option<DistributionShift> {
+        self.distribution.or(self.embedding_model.distribution())
+    }
 }
 
 #[derive(
@@ -139,11 +144,11 @@ pub const OPENAI_EMBEDDINGS_URL: &str = "https://api.openai.com/v1/embeddings";
 
 impl EmbedderOptions {
     pub fn with_default_model(api_key: Option<String>) -> Self {
-        Self { api_key, embedding_model: Default::default(), dimensions: None }
+        Self { api_key, embedding_model: Default::default(), dimensions: None, distribution: None }
     }
 
     pub fn with_embedding_model(api_key: Option<String>, embedding_model: EmbeddingModel) -> Self {
-        Self { api_key, embedding_model, dimensions: None }
+        Self { api_key, embedding_model, dimensions: None, distribution: None }
     }
 }
 
@@ -170,7 +175,7 @@ impl Embedder {
 
         let rest_embedder = RestEmbedder::new(RestEmbedderOptions {
             api_key: Some(api_key.clone()),
-            distribution: options.embedding_model.distribution(),
+            distribution: None,
             dimensions: Some(options.dimensions()),
             url: OPENAI_EMBEDDINGS_URL.to_owned(),
             query: options.query(),
@@ -256,6 +261,6 @@ impl Embedder {
     }
 
     pub fn distribution(&self) -> Option<DistributionShift> {
-        self.options.embedding_model.distribution()
+        self.options.distribution()
     }
 }