diff --git a/chromadb/utils/embedding_functions.py b/chromadb/utils/embedding_functions.py
index 5e98588538d..da5f1591f1c 100644
--- a/chromadb/utils/embedding_functions.py
+++ b/chromadb/utils/embedding_functions.py
@@ -61,7 +61,16 @@ def __init__(
         model_name: str = "all-MiniLM-L6-v2",
         device: str = "cpu",
         normalize_embeddings: bool = False,
+        **kwargs: Any
     ):
+        """Initialize SentenceTransformerEmbeddingFunction.
+
+        Args:
+            model_name (str, optional): Identifier of the SentenceTransformer model, defaults to "all-MiniLM-L6-v2"
+            device (str, optional): Device used for computation, defaults to "cpu"
+            normalize_embeddings (bool, optional): Whether to normalize returned vectors, defaults to False
+            **kwargs: Additional arguments to pass to the SentenceTransformer model.
+        """
         if model_name not in self.models:
             try:
                 from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
@@ -69,7 +78,7 @@ def __init__(
                 raise ValueError(
                     "The sentence_transformers python package is not installed. Please install it with `pip install sentence_transformers`"
                 )
-            self.models[model_name] = SentenceTransformer(model_name, device=device)
+            self.models[model_name] = SentenceTransformer(model_name, device=device, **kwargs)
         self._model = self.models[model_name]
         self._normalize_embeddings = normalize_embeddings