diff --git a/common/arg.cpp b/common/arg.cpp
index b1754f30fca91..997f732cc472a 100644
--- a/common/arg.cpp
+++ b/common/arg.cpp
@@ -1678,7 +1678,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
         [](common_params & params) {
             params.warmup = false;
         }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_MAIN, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_EMBEDDING}));
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_MAIN, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_EMBEDDING, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_RETRIEVAL}));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"--spm-infill"},
         string_format(
diff --git a/examples/retrieval/retrieval.cpp b/examples/retrieval/retrieval.cpp
index 0efe20d4b3f5d..e3d0c9542ed8d 100644
--- a/examples/retrieval/retrieval.cpp
+++ b/examples/retrieval/retrieval.cpp
@@ -81,14 +81,14 @@ static void batch_add_seq(llama_batch & batch, const std::vector<int32_t> & toke
     }
 }
 
-static void batch_decode(llama_context * ctx, llama_batch & batch, float * output, int n_seq, int n_embd) {
+static void batch_encode(llama_context * ctx, llama_batch & batch, float * output, int n_seq, int n_embd) {
     // clear previous kv_cache values (irrelevant for embeddings)
     llama_kv_self_clear(ctx);
 
     // run model
     LOG_INF("%s: n_tokens = %d, n_seq = %d\n", __func__, batch.n_tokens, n_seq);
-    if (llama_decode(ctx, batch) < 0) {
-        LOG_ERR("%s : failed to decode\n", __func__);
+    if (llama_encode(ctx, batch) < 0) {
+        LOG_ERR("%s : failed to encode\n", __func__);
     }
 
     for (int i = 0; i < batch.n_tokens; i++) {
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
         // encode if at capacity
         if (batch.n_tokens + n_toks > n_batch) {
             float * out = emb + p * n_embd;
-            batch_decode(ctx, batch, out, s, n_embd);
+            batch_encode(ctx, batch, out, s, n_embd);
             common_batch_clear(batch);
             p += s;
             s = 0;
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 
     // final batch
     float * out = emb + p * n_embd;
-    batch_decode(ctx, batch, out, s, n_embd);
+    batch_encode(ctx, batch, out, s, n_embd);
 
     // save embeddings to chunks
     for (int i = 0; i < n_chunks; i++) {
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
         batch_add_seq(query_batch, query_tokens, 0);
 
         std::vector<float> query_emb(n_embd, 0);
-        batch_decode(ctx, query_batch, query_emb.data(), 1, n_embd);
+        batch_encode(ctx, query_batch, query_emb.data(), 1, n_embd);
 
         common_batch_clear(query_batch);