diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/bert.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/bert.py
index 13e2f508c754a..42dd6119e76f1 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/bert.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/bert.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 from transformers import BertConfig
 
 from vllm.attention import Attention, AttentionMetadata, AttentionType
-from vllm.config import CacheConfig, VllmConfig
+from vllm.config import CacheConfig, PoolerConfig, VllmConfig
 from vllm.distributed import get_tensor_model_parallel_world_size
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.activation import get_act_fn
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.linear import (ColumnParallelLinear,
@@ -384,13 +384,9 @@ class BertEmbeddingModel(nn.Module):
     def __init__(self, *, vllm_config: VllmConfig, prefix: str = ""):
         super().__init__()
         pooler_config = vllm_config.model_config.pooler_config
-        self.model = BertModel(vllm_config=vllm_config,
-                               prefix=maybe_prefix(prefix, "model"))
-        self._pooler = Pooler.from_config_with_defaults(
-            pooler_config,
-            pooling_type=PoolingType.CLS,
-            normalize=True,
-            softmax=False)
+        self.model = self._build_model(vllm_config=vllm_config,
+                                       prefix=maybe_prefix(prefix, "model"))
+        self._pooler = self._build_pooler(pooler_config)
 
     def forward(
         self,
@@ -418,6 +414,15 @@ def pooler(
     def load_weights(self, weights: Iterable[Tuple[str, torch.Tensor]]):
         self.model.load_weights(weights)
 
-    def _build_model(self, vllm_config: VllmConfig):
+    def _build_model(self,
+                     vllm_config: VllmConfig,
+                     prefix: str = "") -> BertModel:
         return BertModel(vllm_config=vllm_config,
+                         prefix=prefix,
                          embedding_class=BertEmbedding)
+
+    def _build_pooler(self, pooler_config: PoolerConfig) -> Pooler:
+        return Pooler.from_config_with_defaults(pooler_config,
+                                                pooling_type=PoolingType.CLS,
+                                                normalize=True,
+                                                softmax=False)
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/roberta.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/roberta.py
index b0bd58548bad7..5b36c91b584ac 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/roberta.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/roberta.py
@@ -3,22 +3,10 @@
 from transformers import RobertaConfig
 
 from vllm.config import VllmConfig
-from vllm.model_executor.layers.pooler import Pooler, PoolingType
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.vocab_parallel_embedding import (
     VocabParallelEmbedding)
 from vllm.model_executor.models.bert import (BertEmbedding, BertEmbeddingModel,
-                                             BertEncoder, BertModel)
-
-
-class RobertaModel(BertModel):
-
-    def __init__(self, vllm_config: VllmConfig):
-        nn.Module.__init__(self)
-        config = vllm_config.model_config.hf_config
-        cache_config = vllm_config.cache_config
-        quant_config = vllm_config.quant_config
-        self.embeddings = RobertaEmbedding(config)
-        self.encoder = BertEncoder(config, cache_config, quant_config)
+                                             BertModel)
 
 
 class RobertaEmbedding(BertEmbedding):
@@ -50,24 +38,17 @@ def __init__(self, config: RobertaConfig):
 class RobertaEmbeddingModel(BertEmbeddingModel):
     """A model that uses Roberta to provide embedding functionalities.
 
-   This class encapsulates the RobertaModel and provides an interface for
+   This class encapsulates the BertModel and provides an interface for
    embedding operations and customized pooling functions.
 
    Attributes:
-       model: An instance of RobertaModel used for forward operations.
+       model: An instance of BertModel used for forward operations.
        _pooler: An instance of Pooler used for pooling operations.
    """
 
-    def __init__(self, *, vllm_config: VllmConfig) -> None:
-        nn.Module.__init__(self)
-        pooler_config = vllm_config.model_config.pooler_config
-        self.model = RobertaModel(vllm_config=vllm_config)
-        self._pooler = Pooler.from_config_with_defaults(
-            pooler_config,
-            pooling_type=PoolingType.CLS,
-            normalize=True,
-            softmax=False)
-
-    def _build_model(self, vllm_config: VllmConfig):
+    def _build_model(self,
+                     vllm_config: VllmConfig,
+                     prefix: str = "") -> BertModel:
         return BertModel(vllm_config=vllm_config,
+                         prefix=prefix,
                          embedding_class=RobertaEmbedding)