diff --git a/src/pie_modules/taskmodules/metrics/wrapped_metric_with_prepare_function.py b/src/pie_modules/taskmodules/metrics/wrapped_metric_with_prepare_function.py
index 86acdba94..7daceb9dd 100644
--- a/src/pie_modules/taskmodules/metrics/wrapped_metric_with_prepare_function.py
+++ b/src/pie_modules/taskmodules/metrics/wrapped_metric_with_prepare_function.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import logging
-from collections.abc import Collection
+from collections.abc import Collection, Sized
 from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, Generic, List, Optional, Tuple, TypeVar, Union
 
 from torch import Tensor
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 T = TypeVar("T")
+T2 = TypeVar("T2")
 
 
 class WrappedMetricWithPrepareFunction(WrapperMetric, Generic[T]):
@@ -41,6 +42,22 @@ def __init__(
         self.prepare_both_function = prepare_together_function
         self.prepare_does_unbatch = prepare_does_unbatch
 
+    def _is_empty_batch(self, prediction: T2, target: T2) -> bool:
+        if isinstance(prediction, Sized) and isinstance(target, Sized):
+            pred_len = len(prediction)
+            target_len = len(target)
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Both prediction and target need to be sized when prepare_does_unbatch=False."
+            )
+        if pred_len != target_len:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Number of elements in prediction ({pred_len}) and target ({target_len}) do not match."
+            )
+        if pred_len == 0:
+            return True
+        return False
+
     def forward(self, prediction: T, target: T) -> Any:
         if self.prepare_function is not None:
             prediction = self.prepare_function(prediction)
@@ -65,7 +82,10 @@ def forward(self, prediction: T, target: T) -> Any:
                 results.append(current_result)
             return results
         else:
-            return self.metric(prediction, target)
+            if not self._is_empty_batch(prediction, target):
+                return self.metric(prediction, target)
+            else:
+                return None
 
     def update(self, prediction: T, target: T) -> None:
         if self.prepare_function is not None:
@@ -88,7 +108,8 @@ def update(self, prediction: T, target: T) -> None:
             for prediction_str, target_str in zip(prediction, target):
                 self.metric.update(prediction_str, target_str)
         else:
-            self.metric.update(prediction, target)
+            if not self._is_empty_batch(prediction, target):
+                self.metric.update(prediction, target)
 
     def compute(self) -> Any:
         return self.metric.compute()
diff --git a/tests/taskmodules/test_re_text_classification_with_indices.py b/tests/taskmodules/test_re_text_classification_with_indices.py
index 435c43980..e5d2a03ee 100644
--- a/tests/taskmodules/test_re_text_classification_with_indices.py
+++ b/tests/taskmodules/test_re_text_classification_with_indices.py
@@ -1813,5 +1813,43 @@ def test_configure_model_metric(documents, taskmodule):
         },
     )
 
+    # no targets and no predictions
+    metric.reset()
+    no_targets = {"labels": torch.tensor([0, 0, 0])}
+    no_predictions = {"labels": torch.tensor([0, 0, 0])}
+    metric.update(no_targets, no_predictions)
+    state = get_metric_state(metric)
+
+    assert state == {
+        "micro/f1_without_tn/tp": [0],
+        "micro/f1_without_tn/fp": [0],
+        "micro/f1_without_tn/tn": [0],
+        "micro/f1_without_tn/fn": [0],
+        "with_tn/f1_per_label/tp": [3, 0, 0, 0],
+        "with_tn/f1_per_label/fp": [0, 0, 0, 0],
+        "with_tn/f1_per_label/tn": [0, 3, 3, 3],
+        "with_tn/f1_per_label/fn": [0, 0, 0, 0],
+        "with_tn/macro/f1/tp": [3, 0, 0, 0],
+        "with_tn/macro/f1/fp": [0, 0, 0, 0],
+        "with_tn/macro/f1/tn": [0, 3, 3, 3],
+        "with_tn/macro/f1/fn": [0, 0, 0, 0],
+        "with_tn/micro/f1/tp": [3],
+        "with_tn/micro/f1/fp": [0],
+        "with_tn/micro/f1/tn": [9],
+        "with_tn/micro/f1/fn": [0],
+    }
+    torch.testing.assert_close(
+        metric.compute(),
+        {
+            "micro/f1_without_tn": tensor(0.0),
+            "no_relation/f1": tensor(1.0),
+            "org:founded_by/f1": tensor(0.0),
+            "per:employee_of/f1": tensor(0.0),
+            "per:founder/f1": tensor(0.0),
+            "macro/f1": tensor(1.0),
+            "micro/f1": tensor(1.0),
+        },
+    )
+
     # ensure that the metric can be pickled
     pickle.dumps(metric)