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Allow multimodal_config.encoder_attention_backend to select VANILLA, TRTLLM or FLASHINFER for each supported multimodal encoder, independently of the language model. Unsupported values, disabled encoders and encoders whose attention cannot be changed are rejected before weights are allocated. Omitted settings keep today's defaults.
Every multimodal model declares, per encoder, which backends it supports or that its attention cannot be changed. A test fails if any model or encoder is missing a declaration, and the documentation lists all models. Validation and config handling live in shared helpers, and the generated serving schemas are updated.
Model
Encoder
Configurable backends
Notes
Qwen2.5-VL
vision
VANILLA, TRTLLM, FLASHINFER
Qwen3-VL, Qwen3-VL MoE
vision
VANILLA, TRTLLM, FLASHINFER
Qwen3.5, Qwen3.5 MoE
vision
VANILLA, TRTLLM, FLASHINFER
Qwen4 Exp
vision
VANILLA, TRTLLM, FLASHINFER
EXAONE 4.5
vision
VANILLA, TRTLLM, FLASHINFER
Cosmos3
vision
VANILLA, TRTLLM, FLASHINFER
Gemma 4
vision
VANILLA, TRTLLM, FLASHINFER
Kimi K2.5, Kimi K3
vision
VANILLA, TRTLLM, FLASHINFER
MiniCPM-V 4.6
vision
VANILLA, TRTLLM, FLASHINFER
The window merger keeps SDPA.
Mistral 3 / Pixtral
vision
VANILLA, TRTLLM, FLASHINFER
Nemotron H multimodal
vision
VANILLA, TRTLLM, FLASHINFER
Step3.7 VL
vision
VANILLA, TRTLLM, FLASHINFER
GLM5-Next
vision
TRTLLM
The vision tower requires full-mask TRTLLM attention.
DeepSeek-V4.1
vision
Not supported
The vision encoder calls SDPA directly.
MiniMax-M3 VL
vision
Not supported
The vision encoder calls SDPA directly.
Qwen2-VL
vision
Not supported
Hugging Face vision implementation.
VILA
vision
Not supported
Hugging Face CLIP or SigLIP.
Llama 4
vision
Not supported
Hugging Face vision implementation.
Phi-4-multimodal
vision, audio
Not supported
Hugging Face implementations.
Gemma 4
audio
Not supported
Chunked local attention with relative-position bias.
Nemotron H multimodal
audio
Not supported
Relative-position bias passed as an attention mask.
Gemma 3
vision
Not supported
The native vision path does not take the setting yet.
HyperCLOVAX
vision
Not supported
The native vision path does not take the setting yet.
LLaVA-NeXT
vision
Not supported
The native vision path does not take the setting yet.
Whisper
audio
Not supported
The native audio path does not take the setting yet.
Cosmos3 Edge
vision
Not supported
The custom SigLIP path does not take the setting. It used to accept an override and silently ignore it; it now rejects it.
Mllama
vision
Not supported
Vision input is not implemented.
Gemma 4 Unified
none
Not applicable
No attention encoder.
Test Coverage
CPU: 231 tests pass, covering parsing, validation errors, unchanged defaults, model declarations, encoder propagation and serving schemas. The new tests are collected by existing test-list entries.
GPU (one GB200): small Qwen3-VL and Gemma 4 encoders ran with each backend, and every explicit choice used the requested backend. Qwen3-VL outputs matched the default bitwise; Gemma 4 outputs differ slightly between backends (maximum relative L2 0.0054), as expected from different attention kernels.
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The change adds multimodal_config.encoder_attention_backend for per-encoder VANILLA, TRTLLM, or FLASHINFER selection. Shared config handling, model support declarations, loader validation, serving schemas, routing checks, and documentation implement the feature across multimodal model families.
The main correctness risk is keeping each model’s declared support aligned with the encoder implementation and its default. Backend selection also needs to preserve decoder configuration and model-specific state, including KV-cache quantization. Loader validation, disabled-encoder handling, and FlashInfer availability are important error paths to verify.
Test results and completion status are not available from completed checks on the current head. The objectives report CPU tests and hardware experiments, but those reports do not establish current-head results. The supplied CI comments include both successful and failed or unstable runs, without identifying the failing tests.
QA Engineer Review
Five test files changed: one was added and four were modified. They cover backend parsing and defaults, model declarations and propagation, loader validation and error cases, CUDA graph compatibility, serving schemas, KV-cache quantization, and Qwen4-Exp routing.
The test lists include the multimodal test directory and the two changed LLM API test files in CPU CI. The Qwen3-VL modeling test is covered by selected L40S entries. No matching CI or manual-QA list entry was found for the Qwen4-Exp routing test. The changed serving-schema test is listed in CPU CI. No changed integration tests or test-list files were found. The objectives report 231 CPU tests passing, but current-head test results are not available. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up, because the Qwen4-Exp routing test is not listed in the inspected test lists and current-head execution is unverified.
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docs/source/features/multi-modality.md — Verify documented encoder support, defaults, validation errors, and hardware caveats against runtime behavior.
scripts/generate_trtllm_serve_schemas.py — Verify schema generation preserves the supported case-insensitive values and rejects malformed values.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/routing.py — Verify routing declines requests when an encoder backend override is set.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_minicpmv4_6.py — Verify the selected backend and derived metadata configuration reach vision initialization.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_minimaxm3.py — Verify vision overrides are rejected.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_mistral.py — Verify vision overrides and the TRTLLM fallback.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_mllama.py — Verify vision overrides are rejected.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_multimodal_mixin.py — Verify the default empty support declaration is interpreted consistently during model loading.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_musespark_open_omni.py — Verify vision and audio overrides are rejected.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_nemotron_h_multimodal.py — Verify vision selection and fallback, and audio override rejection.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_phi4mm.py — Verify vision and audio overrides are rejected.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_qwen2vl.py — Verify backend support differences between Qwen2-VL and Qwen2.5-VL variants.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_qwen3_5.py — Verify inherited support declarations match the dense and MoE encoder implementations.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_qwen3vl_moe.py — Verify the MoE support declaration matches its encoder behavior.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_qwen4_exp.py — Verify the support declaration matches the encoder implementation.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_step3p7vl.py — Verify vision selection and fallback behavior.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_vila.py — Verify vision overrides are rejected.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_whisper.py — Verify audio overrides are rejected.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/model_loader.py — Verify unsupported, disabled, and unavailable-backend selections follow the intended validation paths before weight allocation.
tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py — Verify normalization, validation, and the None default for the public config field.
tensorrt_llm/schemas/trtllm-serve-config.schema.json — Verify the optional setting accepts only supported case-insensitive backend values.
tensorrt_llm/schemas/trtllm-serve-disagg-config.schema.json — Verify the disaggregated-serving schema matches the shared configuration contract.
tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_modeling_qwen3vl.py — Tests backend propagation, quantization behavior, support declarations, and rejection of unsupported Qwen2-VL selection. Selected Qwen3-VL modeling tests appear in the L40S CI list.
tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/test_modeling_v2_routing.py — Tests Qwen4-Exp routing with and without an encoder override. No matching test-list entry was found.
tests/unittest/_torch/multimodal/test_encoder_attention_backend.py — Tests parsing, defaults, declarations, loader validation, and model-specific selection. The unittest/_torch/multimodal directory is listed in CPU CI.
tests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.py — Adds assertions for the None default. This file is listed in CPU CI.
tests/unittest/llmapi/test_trtllm_serve_config_schemas.py — Tests accepted case-insensitive backend values and invalid schema inputs. This file is listed in CPU CI.
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[None][feat] configure attention backends per multimodal encoder
[None][feat] Add per-encoder attention backend selection for multimodal models
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Adds per-encoder attention backend configuration for multimodal models. Model declarations identify supported backends, and model loading validates overrides. Encoder setup applies selected backends while keeping the language-model backend independently configured.
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Configuration and selection contract tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/model_config.py, scripts/generate_trtllm_serve_schemas.py, tensorrt_llm/schemas/trtllm-serve-*.json, docs/source/features/multi-modality.md, tests/unittest/llmapi/*
Adds the optional per-encoder backend mapping and methods to resolve or apply an override. Generated and checked-in schemas accept backend names case-insensitively. Documentation describes defaults, supported encoders, and configuration failures.
Model capability declarations tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_*.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_multimodal_mixin.py, tests/unittest/_torch/multimodal/test_encoder_attention_backend.py
Adds supported-backend declarations across multimodal model classes. Tests compare declarations with registered models and documentation.
Updates encoder setup to use selected backend values. Gemma4 keeps the text backend separate from vision and audio configuration. Kimi vision configuration adjusts copied KV-cache quantization when the selected backend differs from the general backend.
Model loading rejects overrides for unknown, unsupported, fixed, disabled, or unavailable encoders and rejects FlashInfer when it is unavailable. Tests cover validation and the VANILLA CUDA graph restriction.
Add disaggregated-schema regression coverage to protect the accepted backend values. The remaining merge risk is bounded.
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Test Kimi K3 vision attention with an override.
K3 selects a backend for its own attention stack and metadata class. A K2.5 test would not cover K3's distinct construction path, and the new tests only check K3's declaration. Add a small K3 vision-forward case with an explicit non-default backend in tests/unittest/_torch/multimodal/test_encoder_attention_backend.py. Check that the selected attention and metadata work together. As per path instructions: “Review TensorRT-LLM production-code changes for meaningful test coverage in addition to normal code review.”
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Test Kimi K2.5 vision attention with an override.
This selection changes the backend used by MoonViT3dEncoder and its attention metadata. The new tests check the declaration, but none runs the K2.5 vision path with an override. A backend–metadata mismatch could therefore pass those tests and fail on the first image. Add a small vision-forward case with VANILLA and FLASHINFER in tests/unittest/_torch/multimodal/test_encoder_attention_backend.py, with GPU capability gating where needed. As per path instructions: “Review TensorRT-LLM production-code changes for meaningful test coverage in addition to normal code review.”
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Test MiniCPM-V attention after backend selection.
This change routes MiniCPM-V vision attention through the selected backend. The new tests verify its declaration but do not exercise attention with the matching metadata from _make_attn_metadata. A backend–metadata incompatibility could pass the CPU suite and fail on an image request. Add a small MiniCPM-V vision-forward case for a non-default backend in tests/unittest/_torch/multimodal/test_encoder_attention_backend.py. As per path instructions: “Review TensorRT-LLM production-code changes for meaningful test coverage in addition to normal code review.”
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The new tests call _validate_encoder_attention_backend_support directly. They do not exercise this loader call, so they would miss a regression in class resolution or argument forwarding. Add a CPU test in tests/unittest/_torch/multimodal/test_encoder_attention_backend.py that calls load_config_and_apply_defaults with a registered model and asserts that a disabled encoder override raises. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_mistral.py:
- Around line 861-862: Add a focused test for PixtralVisionModel backend
selection through get_encoder_attention_backend: verify the default passes
TRTLLM for vision, a VANILLA override updates the vision configuration, and the
decoder configuration remains unchanged in both cases.
Review comments at
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- Line 670: Add a focused test for the `RADIOVisionModel` construction path that
verifies `vision_attn_backend` receives the `FLASHINFER` default and a
configured `VANILLA` override. Test the argument passed at construction so the
test fails if `get_encoder_attention_backend` stops forwarding the override.
Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_qwen2vl.py:
- Around line 1354-1355: In Qwen2VisionModelBase, clear the vision encoder’s
KV-cache quantization to None when configuring the FlashInfer vision backend,
rather than preserving the decoder’s FP8 setting. Add a regression test covering
an FP8 decoder cache with a FLASHINFER vision backend.
Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_qwen3vl.py:
- Line 1329: Update VanillaAttention.no_kv_cache_forward to derive cumulative
lengths from replay-updated, graph-safe metadata, or reject VANILLA when encoder
CUDA graphs are enabled; ensure the
model_config.with_encoder_attention_backend("vision") path cannot enable the
unsafe combination. Apply the same correction to the Nemotron RADIO path and add
a GPU regression that captures one bucket, replays with different segment
lengths, and verifies the output matches eager execution.
Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_step3p7vl.py:
- Around line 733-734: Add a focused test for the backend selection in
Step3p7VisionEncoder, covering both an explicit vision backend override and the
default path. Record the ModelConfig passed to the encoder and verify the
override is honored while the decoder backend remains unchanged.
Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/model_loader.py:
- Line 1002: Update the configuration validation flow around
_load_and_validate_config to validate the effective pretrained configuration
after applying model_kwargs and before model construction. Ensure overrides such
as vision_config=None are reflected in validation.
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Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_kimi_k25.py:
- Around line 801-803: Add a small Kimi K2.5 vision-forward test for the backend
selection made by get_encoder_attention_backend, exercising both VANILLA and
FLASHINFER overrides through MoonViT3dEncoder. Verify the selected backend and
attention metadata stay consistent, and gate each case on the required GPU
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- Around line 294-296: Add a focused Kimi K3 vision-forward test with an
explicit non-default encoder attention backend in the encoder attention backend
tests. Exercise K3’s distinct construction path and verify that the selected
attention implementation works with its metadata class.
Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_minicpmv4_6.py:
- Around line 528-530: Add a focused MiniCPM-V vision-forward test using a
non-default backend, and build its attention metadata with `_make_attn_metadata`
so the selected backend is exercised with matching metadata. Keep the test
scoped to verifying the forward path rather than only checking the backend
declaration.
Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/model_loader.py:
- Around line 999-1003: Add a CPU test in test_encoder_attention_backend.py that
exercises load_config_and_apply_defaults with a registered model and verifies
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#21458 switches the Nemotron-H RADIO vision default from FLASHINFER to TRTLLM because FlashInfer stalls, on the same line this PR changes (modeling_nemotron_h_multimodal.py:670). Agree on which default lands, and update the docs table if the default changes.
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Follow-up Comments
Pass the required maxseqlen to the MiniCPM vision metadata helper.
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Pass the required max_seq_len to the MiniCPM vision metadata helper.
Any nonempty MiniCPM image or video input reaches _make_attn_metadata. That call omits the keyword-only max_seq_len that prepare_encoder_attn_metadata requires, so the vision forward raises TypeError before attention runs. The call predates this PR, but the new MiniCPM encoder backend declaration cannot run until the call is fixed.
Pass the segment capacity. The helper requires a positive value that is at least the largest segment length. max(seq_lens) meets that contract for this path, because _make_attn_metadata builds fresh metadata on each call and does not reuse captured buffers.
Add a MiniCPM forward case with a nonempty image input to tests/unittest/_torch/multimodal/test_encoder_attention_backend.py. It should run once for each declared backend. Without that case, this crash path has no test coverage.
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Update _make_attn_metadata to pass max(seq_lens) as max_seq_len when calling
_prepare_qwen_vl_vision_attn_metadata, preserving the helper’s positive
segment-capacity requirement. Add a MiniCPM forward test with nonempty image
input to the encoder attention backend tests and run it for each declared
backend.
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Thanks. In e045dcc, I aligned this with #21458. The RADIO vision default is now TRTLLM, on the same line and with the same comment as #21458. So whichever PR lands second has a trivial rebase. VANILLA and FLASHINFER can still be picked with encoder_attention_backend. The docs table lists supported backends, not defaults, so it stays the same. I added one sentence under it that names the TRTLLM default. test_radio_encoder_backend_keeps_decoder now checks the TRTLLM default with a FLASHINFER decoder, and the VANILLA and FLASHINFER overrides.
Problem:
Encoder backend choices mixed public attention backends with HF names
and repeated validation and config-copy logic across model families.
Solution:
Accept VANILLA, TRTLLM and FLASHINFER. Validate model declarations before
weight allocation, reject fixed or disabled encoders, and apply overrides
with shared config helpers. Preserve omitted defaults and decoder choices.
Update docs and schemas; reuse existing CPU test collection.
Validation:
Fresh SM100 core build; 230 CPU tests and applicable hooks passed.
BF16/TP1 Qwen3-VL and Gemma 4 smoke completed 16 forwards with all public
backends, including head64/head72 cases. Fixed elementwise checks met
atol/rtol 0.05 in 9/12 comparisons. Gemma FP differences are recorded;
maximum relative L2 was 0.005398392211645842. No tolerances were retuned.
Pretrained-model, multi-GPU and serving accuracy remain unverified.
Signed-off-by: Yechan Kim <161688079+yechank-nvidia@users.noreply.github.com>
Declare fixed encoder paths and reuse existing configurable mappings.
Reject Cosmos3 Edge overrides that its custom tower previously ignored.
Check registry completeness and the full docs table in one CPU test.
Validation: 231 CPU tests; applicable hooks; schema and manifest checks.
Signed-off-by: Yechan Kim <161688079+yechank-nvidia@users.noreply.github.com>
Problem:
An encoder override kept the decoder's FP8 KV-cache setting on
Qwen2.5-VL and Kimi K2.5; FlashInfer rejects it without a KV cache.
VANILLA derives segment boundaries on the host, so encoder CUDA graph
replay would reuse the captured ones. The loader checked encoder
presence before model_kwargs were applied. Tests did not check the
backend passed to the Pixtral, RADIO and Step3 towers.
Solution:
Drop KV-cache quantization when an override changes the encoder
backend; defaults are unchanged. Reject VANILLA for an encoder that
also enables encoder_cuda_graph. Check encoder presence on the config
loaded with model_kwargs, before model construction. Add CPU tests for
these cases, for the backend each tower receives, and for loader class
resolution.
Validation:
CPU suites of the PR and touched files match upstream main apart from
the new passing cases; applicable pre-commit hooks pass.
Signed-off-by: Yechan Kim <161688079+yechank-nvidia@users.noreply.github.com>
Problem:
trtllm-bench sets disable_mm_encoder for text-only runs, so a serving
config with encoder_attention_backend failed at startup. Under
modeling_v2 auto or require, the Qwen4-Exp target built its own vision
tower and ignored the selection. The Nemotron-H RADIO vision default was
FLASHINFER, whose plan build for a new image shape can stall during
CUDA graph replay. Backend names were repeated outside the config
Literal, and this PR also carried a MiniCPM-V 4.6 fix owned by another
change.
Solution:
Skip the encoder-presence check with one info log when the encoder is
disabled; model support checks still run. Decline the Qwen4-Exp target
when an encoder backend is selected, so auto uses the built-in model and
require names the setting. Default RADIO vision to TRTLLM; VANILLA and
FLASHINFER stay selectable. Read backend names from a named Literal and
document the ModelConfig helpers. Drop the MiniCPM-V 4.6 max_seq_len
change and a test that restated model declarations.
Validation:
CPU suites of the PR and touched files match the previous head apart
from the changed tests, which pass; applicable pre-commit hooks pass and
the serve schemas are unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Yechan Kim <161688079+yechank-nvidia@users.noreply.github.com>
The test checks only SERVE_SCHEMA. DISAGG_SCHEMA also accepts multimodal_config. No other test validates encoder_attention_backend against that schema, so a disaggregated-only regression, such as accepting SDPA or rejecting lowercase vanilla, can pass the suite. Running the same cases against both schemas closes this gap. The disaggregated multimodal_config uses the same top-level shape, so the test body changes only where the schema is selected.
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Extend test_encoder_attention_backend_schema to validate each backend case
against both SERVE_SCHEMA and DISAGG_SCHEMA. Parameterize the schema selection
and use it when constructing Draft202012Validator, preserving the existing
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Description
Allow
multimodal_config.encoder_attention_backendto select VANILLA, TRTLLM or FLASHINFER for each supported multimodal encoder, independently of the language model. Unsupported values, disabled encoders and encoders whose attention cannot be changed are rejected before weights are allocated. Omitted settings keep today's defaults.Every multimodal model declares, per encoder, which backends it supports or that its attention cannot be changed. A test fails if any model or encoder is missing a declaration, and the documentation lists all models. Validation and config handling live in shared helpers, and the generated serving schemas are updated.
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Dev Engineer Review
The change adds
multimodal_config.encoder_attention_backendfor per-encoderVANILLA,TRTLLM, orFLASHINFERselection. Shared config handling, model support declarations, loader validation, serving schemas, routing checks, and documentation implement the feature across multimodal model families.The main correctness risk is keeping each model’s declared support aligned with the encoder implementation and its default. Backend selection also needs to preserve decoder configuration and model-specific state, including KV-cache quantization. Loader validation, disabled-encoder handling, and FlashInfer availability are important error paths to verify.
Test results and completion status are not available from completed checks on the current head. The objectives report CPU tests and hardware experiments, but those reports do not establish current-head results. The supplied CI comments include both successful and failed or unstable runs, without identifying the failing tests.
QA Engineer Review
Five test files changed: one was added and four were modified. They cover backend parsing and defaults, model declarations and propagation, loader validation and error cases, CUDA graph compatibility, serving schemas, KV-cache quantization, and Qwen4-Exp routing.
The test lists include the multimodal test directory and the two changed LLM API test files in CPU CI. The Qwen3-VL modeling test is covered by selected L40S entries. No matching CI or manual-QA list entry was found for the Qwen4-Exp routing test. The changed serving-schema test is listed in CPU CI. No changed integration tests or test-list files were found. The objectives report 231 CPU tests passing, but current-head test results are not available. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up, because the Qwen4-Exp routing test is not listed in the inspected test lists and current-head execution is unverified.
Per-File QA Perspective
docs/source/features/multi-modality.md— Verify documented encoder support, defaults, validation errors, and hardware caveats against runtime behavior.scripts/generate_trtllm_serve_schemas.py— Verify schema generation preserves the supported case-insensitive values and rejects malformed values.tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/routing.py— Verify routing declines requests when an encoder backend override is set.tensorrt_llm/_torch/model_config.py— Verify override lookup, fallback behavior, and copied configuration state.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_cosmos3.py— Verify Cosmos3 inherits the intended Qwen3-VL backend support.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_cosmos3_edge.py— Verify fixed vision attention rejects overrides.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_deepseekv41_multimodal.py— Verify fixed SDPA vision attention rejects overrides.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_exaone4_5.py— Verify inherited Qwen2-VL support matches the encoder implementation.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_gemma3vl.py— Verify fixed vision attention rejects overrides.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_gemma4_unified.py— Verify the empty support mapping rejects overrides.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_gemma4_vision.py— Verify the documented TRTLLM default and supported overrides match runtime behavior.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_gemma4mm.py— Verify vision selection and TRTLLM fallback; confirm audio and text behavior remains unchanged.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_glm5_next_vision.py— Verify TRTLLM selection reaches vision initialization and unsupported choices fail.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_hyperclovax.py— Verify fixed vision attention rejects overrides.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_kimi_k25.py— Verify vision selection and KV-cache quantization behavior with and without an override.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_kimi_k3_vl.py— Verify inherited K2.5 support and selection during vision construction.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_llama.py— Verify fixed vision attention rejects overrides.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_llava_next.py— Verify fixed vision attention rejects overrides.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_minicpmv4_6.py— Verify the selected backend and derived metadata configuration reach vision initialization.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_minimaxm3.py— Verify vision overrides are rejected.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_mistral.py— Verify vision overrides and the TRTLLM fallback.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_mllama.py— Verify vision overrides are rejected.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_multimodal_mixin.py— Verify the default empty support declaration is interpreted consistently during model loading.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_musespark_open_omni.py— Verify vision and audio overrides are rejected.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_nemotron_h_multimodal.py— Verify vision selection and fallback, and audio override rejection.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_phi4mm.py— Verify vision and audio overrides are rejected.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_qwen2vl.py— Verify backend support differences between Qwen2-VL and Qwen2.5-VL variants.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_qwen3_5.py— Verify inherited support declarations match the dense and MoE encoder implementations.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_qwen3vl.py— Verify vision selection preserves decoder configuration and existing defaults.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_qwen3vl_moe.py— Verify the MoE support declaration matches its encoder behavior.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_qwen4_exp.py— Verify the support declaration matches the encoder implementation.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_step3p7vl.py— Verify vision selection and fallback behavior.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_vila.py— Verify vision overrides are rejected.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_whisper.py— Verify audio overrides are rejected.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/model_loader.py— Verify unsupported, disabled, and unavailable-backend selections follow the intended validation paths before weight allocation.tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py— Verify normalization, validation, and theNonedefault for the public config field.tensorrt_llm/schemas/trtllm-serve-config.schema.json— Verify the optional setting accepts only supported case-insensitive backend values.tensorrt_llm/schemas/trtllm-serve-disagg-config.schema.json— Verify the disaggregated-serving schema matches the shared configuration contract.tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_modeling_qwen3vl.py— Tests backend propagation, quantization behavior, support declarations, and rejection of unsupported Qwen2-VL selection. Selected Qwen3-VL modeling tests appear in the L40S CI list.tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/test_modeling_v2_routing.py— Tests Qwen4-Exp routing with and without an encoder override. No matching test-list entry was found.tests/unittest/_torch/multimodal/test_encoder_attention_backend.py— Tests parsing, defaults, declarations, loader validation, and model-specific selection. Theunittest/_torch/multimodaldirectory is listed in CPU CI.tests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.py— Adds assertions for theNonedefault. This file is listed in CPU CI.tests/unittest/llmapi/test_trtllm_serve_config_schemas.py— Tests accepted case-insensitive backend values and invalid schema inputs. This file is listed in CPU CI.