diff --git a/src/lighteval/models/abstract_model.py b/src/lighteval/models/abstract_model.py
index d9d5b4100..8d924069b 100644
--- a/src/lighteval/models/abstract_model.py
+++ b/src/lighteval/models/abstract_model.py
@@ -133,24 +133,24 @@ def _parse_args(args: str) -> dict:
                 'model': {'model_name': 'gpt2', 'use_cache': True, 'generation_parameters': {'temperature': 0.7}},
             }
         """
-        # Looking for generation_parameters in the model_args
-        generation_parameters_dict = None
-        pattern = re.compile(r"(\w+)=(\{.*\}|[^,]+)")
-        matches = pattern.findall(args)
-        for key, value in matches:
-            key = key.strip()
-            if key == "generation_parameters":
-                # Keys must be quoted (since they are strings)
-                gen_params = re.sub(r"(\w+):", r'"\1":', value)
-                # for k, v where v are strings, we quote them too
-                gen_params = re.sub(r":\s*([A-Za-z_][\w.-]*)\s*(?=[,}])", r':"\1"', gen_params)
-                generation_parameters_dict = json.loads(gen_params)
-
-        args = re.sub(r"generation_parameters=\{.*?\},?", "", args).strip(",")
-        model_config = {k.split("=")[0]: k.split("=")[1] if "=" in k else True for k in args.split(",")}
-
-        if generation_parameters_dict is not None:
-            model_config["generation_parameters"] = generation_parameters_dict
+        # Extract all key={...} dict parameters (e.g. generation_parameters, extra_body)
+        dict_params = {}
+        dict_pattern = re.compile(r"(\w+)=(\{[^}]*\})")
+        for match in dict_pattern.finditer(args):
+            key = match.group(1)
+            value = match.group(2)
+            # Keys must be quoted (since they are strings)
+            parsed = re.sub(r"(\w+):", r'"\1":', value)
+            # for k, v where v are strings, we quote them too
+            parsed = re.sub(r":\s*([A-Za-z_][\w.-]*)\s*(?=[,}])", r':"\1"', parsed)
+            dict_params[key] = json.loads(parsed)
+
+        # Strip dict params from args string, then parse remaining simple key=value pairs
+        remaining = dict_pattern.sub("", args)
+        remaining = re.sub(r",+", ",", remaining).strip(",")
+        model_config = {k.split("=")[0]: k.split("=")[1] if "=" in k else True for k in remaining.split(",") if k}
+
+        model_config.update(dict_params)
 
         return model_config
 
diff --git a/src/lighteval/models/endpoints/litellm_model.py b/src/lighteval/models/endpoints/litellm_model.py
index 87332d1d7..18f95eab1 100644
--- a/src/lighteval/models/endpoints/litellm_model.py
+++ b/src/lighteval/models/endpoints/litellm_model.py
@@ -131,6 +131,11 @@ class LiteLLMModelConfig(ModelConfig):
     api_retry_multiplier: float = 2.0
     timeout: float | None = None
 
+    # Extra body parameters passed through to the API request body.
+    # Useful for provider-specific params not in the standard OpenAI API,
+    # e.g., vLLM supports top_k, min_p, repetition_penalty via extra_body.
+    extra_body: dict | None = None
+
 
 @requires("litellm")
 class LiteLLMClient(LightevalModel):
@@ -153,6 +158,7 @@ def __init__(self, config: LiteLLMModelConfig) -> None:
         self.API_RETRY_SLEEP = config.api_retry_sleep
         self.API_RETRY_MULTIPLIER = config.api_retry_multiplier
         self.timeout = config.timeout
+        self.extra_body = config.extra_body
 
         self._tokenizer = encode
         self.pairwise_tokenization = False
@@ -165,6 +171,12 @@ def __init__(self, config: LiteLLMModelConfig) -> None:
         # Initialize cache for tokenization and predictions
         self._cache = SampleCache(config)
 
+        # Log sampling params so the user can verify what will be sent to the server
+        sampling_params = self.generation_parameters.to_litellm_dict()
+        if self.extra_body:
+            sampling_params["extra_body"] = self.extra_body
+        logger.info(f"Sampling parameters: {sampling_params}")
+
     def _prepare_stop_sequence(self, stop_sequence):
         """Prepare and validate stop sequence."""
         if self.provider == "anthropic":
@@ -210,6 +222,7 @@ def __call_api(self, prompt, return_logits, max_new_tokens, num_samples, stop_se
             "n": num_samples,
             "caching": True,
             "timeout": self.timeout,
+            "extra_body": self.extra_body,
         }
 
         if "o1" in self.model: