diff --git a/rankers/modelling/sparse.py b/rankers/modelling/sparse.py
index 45081dc..6805376 100644
--- a/rankers/modelling/sparse.py
+++ b/rankers/modelling/sparse.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ def __init__(
         model_name_or_path: str = "bert-base-uncased",
         query_processing: str = 'splade_max',
         doc_processing: str = 'splade_max',
-        pooling_type="cls",
+        pooling_type="none",
         inbatch_loss=None,
         model_tied=True,
         use_pooler=False,
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ def from_pretrained(
         model_name_or_path: str = "bert-base-uncased",
         query_processing: str = 'splade_max',
         doc_processing: str = 'splade_max',
-        pooling_type="cls",
+        pooling_type="none",
         inbatch_loss=None,
         model_tied=True,
         use_pooler=False,