diff --git a/modules/exllamav2.py b/modules/exllamav2.py
index 6bb422ea..5d5c5b56 100644
--- a/modules/exllamav2.py
+++ b/modules/exllamav2.py
@@ -135,7 +135,8 @@ class Exllamav2Model:
         return result, result
 
     def encode(self, string, **kwargs):
-        return self.tokenizer.encode(string, add_bos=True, encode_special_tokens=True)
+        add_bos = kwargs.pop('add_bos', True)
+        return self.tokenizer.encode(string, add_bos=add_bos, encode_special_tokens=True, **kwargs)
 
     def decode(self, ids, **kwargs):
         if isinstance(ids, list):
diff --git a/modules/exllamav3.py b/modules/exllamav3.py
index 268a64ec..9201801c 100644
--- a/modules/exllamav3.py
+++ b/modules/exllamav3.py
@@ -316,7 +316,6 @@ class Exllamav3Model:
         return output
 
     def encode(self, string, **kwargs):
-        # Default add_bos to True for consistency with exllamav2 behavior
         add_bos = kwargs.pop('add_bos', True)
         return self.tokenizer.encode(string, add_bos=add_bos, **kwargs)