diff --git a/conversion/mistral3.py b/conversion/mistral3.py
index 106c329e7..6c771b26f 100644
--- a/conversion/mistral3.py
+++ b/conversion/mistral3.py
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ class Mistral3Model(TextModel):
             self.gguf_writer.add_add_bos_token(False)
             self.gguf_writer.add_add_eos_token(False)
 
+        def get_vocab_base_pre(self, tokenizer) -> str:
+            if self.origin_hf_arch == "Mistral3Model":
+                return "nemotron-3.5-embed"
+            return super().get_vocab_base_pre(tokenizer)
+
         def set_gguf_parameters(self):
             super().set_gguf_parameters()
             self._try_set_pooling_type()
diff --git a/src/llama-vocab.cpp b/src/llama-vocab.cpp
index 78512bef5..f72fbd221 100644
--- a/src/llama-vocab.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-vocab.cpp
@@ -422,6 +422,7 @@ struct llm_tokenizer_bpe : llm_tokenizer {
                 };
                 break;
             case LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_TEKKEN:
+            case LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_NEMOTRON_3_5_EMBD:
                 // original regex from tokenizer.json
                 // "[^\\r\\n\\p{L}\\p{N}]?[\\p{Lu}\\p{Lt}\\p{Lm}\\p{Lo}\\p{M}]*[\\p{Ll}\\p{Lm}\\p{Lo}\\p{M}]+|[^\\r\\n\\p{L}\\p{N}]?[\\p{Lu}\\p{Lt}\\p{Lm}\\p{Lo}\\p{M}]+[\\p{Ll}\\p{Lm}\\p{Lo}\\p{M}]*|\\p{N}| ?[^\\s\\p{L}\\p{N}]+[\\r\\n/]*|\\s*[\\r\\n]+|\\s+(?!\\S)|\\s+"
                 regex_exprs = {
@@ -637,11 +638,22 @@ struct llm_tokenizer_bpe_session {
     }
 
     virtual void tokenize(const std::string & text, std::vector<llama_token> & output) {
+        auto tok_pre = vocab.get_pre_type();
+
+        std::vector<std::string> word_collection;
+        if (tok_pre == LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_NEMOTRON_3_5_EMBD) {
+            static const std::string zwnj = "\xe2\x80\x8c";
+            std::string normalized_text = text;
+            replace_all(normalized_text, "[" + zwnj, "[");
+            replace_all(normalized_text, "<" + zwnj, "<");
+            word_collection = unicode_regex_split(normalized_text, tokenizer.regex_exprs, tokenizer.byte_encode);
+        } else {
+            word_collection = unicode_regex_split(text, tokenizer.regex_exprs, tokenizer.byte_encode);
+        }
+
         int final_prev_index = -1;
-        auto word_collection = unicode_regex_split(text, tokenizer.regex_exprs, tokenizer.byte_encode);
 
         symbols_final.clear();
-        auto tok_pre = vocab.get_pre_type();
 
         if (tok_pre == LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_MMBERT) {
             // Metaspace pre-tokenizer: a text starts with an escaped space, and each escaped space starts a new word
@@ -2713,6 +2725,11 @@ void llama_vocab::impl::load(llama_model_loader & ml, const LLM_KV & kv) {
                 tokenizer_pre == "k2-horizon") {
                 pre_type = LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_K2_HORIZON;
                 clean_spaces = false;
+            } else if (
+                tokenizer_pre == "nemotron-3.5-embed") {
+                pre_type = LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_NEMOTRON_3_5_EMBD;
+                ignore_merges = true;
+                add_bos = true;
             } else {
                 throw std::runtime_error(format("unknown pre-tokenizer type: '%s'", tokenizer_pre.c_str()));
             }
diff --git a/src/llama-vocab.h b/src/llama-vocab.h
index 40357dba7..c6f3ac06d 100644
--- a/src/llama-vocab.h
+++ b/src/llama-vocab.h
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ enum llama_vocab_pre_type {
     LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_K2_HORIZON        = 61,
     LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_FLINT             = 62,
     LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_DOMYN_SMALL       = 63,
+    LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_NEMOTRON_3_5_EMBD = 64,
 };
 
 // HF Metaspace pre-tokenizer prepend_scheme