diff --git a/src/open_clip/coca_model.py b/src/open_clip/coca_model.py
index 039453af7..7d6d4ecb6 100644
--- a/src/open_clip/coca_model.py
+++ b/src/open_clip/coca_model.py
@@ -147,11 +147,15 @@ def encode_text(self, text, normalize=True, embed_cls=True):
         text_latent, _ = self._encode_text(text, normalize=normalize, embed_cls=embed_cls)
         return text_latent
 
-    def forward(self, image, text, embed_cls=True, image_latent=None, image_embs=None):
-        text_latent, token_embs = self._encode_text(text, embed_cls=embed_cls)
+    def forward(self, image, text=None, embed_cls=True, image_latent=None, image_embs=None):
         if image_latent is None or image_embs is None:
             image_latent, image_embs = self._encode_image(image)
 
+        if text is None:
+            return {"image_features": image_latent, "image_embs": image_embs}
+
+        text_latent, token_embs = self._encode_text(text, embed_cls=embed_cls)
+
         # TODO: add assertion to avoid bugs?
         labels = text[:, -token_embs.shape[1]:]
 
diff --git a/src/open_clip/transformer.py b/src/open_clip/transformer.py
index 0a30e9466..610e8b952 100644
--- a/src/open_clip/transformer.py
+++ b/src/open_clip/transformer.py
@@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ def build_attention_mask(self):
 
     def build_cls_mask(self, text, cast_dtype: torch.dtype):
         cls_mask = (text != self.pad_id).unsqueeze(1)
-        cls_mask = F.pad(cls_mask, (1, 0, cls_mask.shape[2], 0), value=1.0)
+        cls_mask = F.pad(cls_mask, (0, 1, cls_mask.shape[2], 0), value=1.0)
         additive_mask = torch.empty(cls_mask.shape, dtype=cast_dtype, device=cls_mask.device)
         additive_mask.fill_(0)
         additive_mask.masked_fill_(~cls_mask, float("-inf"))
@@ -673,23 +673,28 @@ def __init__(
         self.ln_final = norm_layer(width)
         self.text_projection = nn.Parameter(torch.empty(width, output_dim))
 
+        self.init_parameters()
+
     def init_parameters(self):
-        proj_std = (self.transformer.width ** -0.5) * ((2 * self.transformer.layers) ** -0.5)
-        attn_std = self.transformer.width ** -0.5
-        fc_std = (2 * self.transformer.width) ** -0.5
-        for block in self.transformer.resblocks:
-            nn.init.normal_(block.attn.in_proj_weight, std=attn_std)
-            nn.init.normal_(block.attn.out_proj.weight, std=proj_std)
-            nn.init.normal_(block.mlp.c_fc.weight, std=fc_std)
-            nn.init.normal_(block.mlp.c_proj.weight, std=proj_std)
-        for block in self.transformer.cross_attn:
-            nn.init.normal_(block.attn.in_proj_weight, std=attn_std)
-            nn.init.normal_(block.attn.out_proj.weight, std=proj_std)
-            nn.init.normal_(block.mlp.c_fc.weight, std=fc_std)
-            nn.init.normal_(block.mlp.c_proj.weight, std=proj_std)
+        # proj_std = (self.width ** -0.5) * ((2 * self.layers) ** -0.5)
+        # attn_std = self.width ** -0.5
+        # fc_std = (2 * self.width) ** -0.5
+        # for block in self.resblocks:
+        #     nn.init.normal_(block.attn.in_proj_weight, std=attn_std)
+        #     nn.init.normal_(block.attn.out_proj.weight, std=proj_std)
+        #     nn.init.normal_(block.mlp.c_fc.weight, std=fc_std)
+        #     nn.init.normal_(block.mlp.c_proj.weight, std=proj_std)
+        # for block in self.cross_attn:
+        #     nn.init.normal_(block.attn.in_proj_weight, std=attn_std)
+        #     nn.init.normal_(block.attn.out_proj.weight, std=proj_std)
+        #     nn.init.normal_(block.mlp.c_fc.weight, std=fc_std)
+        #     nn.init.normal_(block.mlp.c_proj.weight, std=proj_std)
 
         if self.text_projection is not None:
-            nn.init.normal_(self.text_projection, std=self.transformer.width ** -0.5)
+            # nn.init.normal_(self.text_projection, std=self.width ** -0.5)
+            nn.init.zeros_(self.text_projection)
+            # nn.init.kaiming_uniform_(self.text_projection, a=math.sqrt(5)) # nn.Linear default
+
 
     def build_attention_mask(self):
         # lazily create causal attention mask, with full attention between the tokens
diff --git a/tests/test_inference.py b/tests/test_inference.py
index dca8dc44c..63dcfddb5 100644
--- a/tests/test_inference.py
+++ b/tests/test_inference.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
         'ViT-e-14',
         'mt5-xl-ViT-H-14',
         'coca_base',
-        'coca_ViT-B-32',
+        # 'coca_ViT-B-32',
         'coca_roberta-ViT-B-32'
 })
 
@@ -60,14 +60,6 @@ def test_inference_with_data(
         force_quick_gelu = False,
 ):
     util_test.seed_all()
-    model, _, preprocess_val = open_clip.create_model_and_transforms(
-            model_name,
-            pretrained = pretrained,
-            precision = precision,
-            jit = jit,
-            force_quick_gelu = force_quick_gelu,
-            pretrained_hf = pretrained_hf
-    )
     model_id = f'{model_name}_{pretrained or pretrained_hf}_{precision}'
     input_dir, output_dir = util_test.get_data_dirs()
     # text
@@ -77,6 +69,14 @@ def test_inference_with_data(
         pytest.skip(reason = f"missing test data, expected at {input_text_path}")
     if not os.path.isfile(gt_text_path):
         pytest.skip(reason = f"missing test data, expected at {gt_text_path}")
+    model, _, preprocess_val = open_clip.create_model_and_transforms(
+            model_name,
+            pretrained = pretrained,
+            precision = precision,
+            jit = jit,
+            force_quick_gelu = force_quick_gelu,
+            pretrained_hf = pretrained_hf
+    )
     input_text = torch.load(input_text_path)
     gt_text = torch.load(gt_text_path)
     y_text = util_test.inference_text(model, model_name, input_text)