diff --git a/src/backend/langflow/components/embeddings/HuggingFaceEmbeddings.py b/src/backend/langflow/components/embeddings/HuggingFaceEmbeddings.py
index c3dc04ec8..44ad25212 100644
--- a/src/backend/langflow/components/embeddings/HuggingFaceEmbeddings.py
+++ b/src/backend/langflow/components/embeddings/HuggingFaceEmbeddings.py
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ class HuggingFaceEmbeddingsComponent(CustomComponent):
     def build(
         self,
         cache_folder: Optional[str] = None,
-        encode_kwargs: Optional[Dict] = None,
-        model_kwargs: Optional[Dict] = None,
+        encode_kwargs: Optional[Dict] = {},
+        model_kwargs: Optional[Dict] = {},
         model_name: str = "sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2",
         multi_process: bool = False,
     ) -> HuggingFaceEmbeddings: