[CI fix] Fix image download failures in VLM CI tests

python/sglang/test/test_utils.py

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
 from datetime import datetime
 from functools import partial, wraps
+from io import BytesIO
 from pathlib import Path
 from types import SimpleNamespace
 from typing import Any, Awaitable, Callable, List, Optional, Tuple
@@ -25,6 +26,7 @@
 import requests
 import torch
 import torch.nn.functional as F
+from PIL import Image
 
 from sglang.bench_serving import run_benchmark
 from sglang.global_config import global_config
@@ -129,6 +131,22 @@
 DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_FOR_SERVER_LAUNCH = 600
 
 
+def download_image_with_retry(image_url: str, max_retries: int = 3) -> Image.Image:
+    for i in range(max_retries):
+        try:
+            response = requests.get(image_url, timeout=30)
+            response.raise_for_status()
+            image = Image.open(BytesIO(response.content))
+            image.load()
+            return image
+        except Exception as e:
+            if i == max_retries - 1:
+                raise RuntimeError(
+                    f"Failed to download image after {max_retries} retries: {image_url}"
+                ) from e
+            time.sleep(2**i)
+
+
 def is_in_ci():
     """Return whether it is in CI runner."""
     return get_bool_env_var("SGLANG_IS_IN_CI")

test/srt/test_skip_tokenizer_init.py

@@ -5,10 +5,8 @@
 
 import json
 import unittest
-from io import BytesIO
 
 import requests
-from PIL import Image
 from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoTokenizer
 
 from sglang.lang.chat_template import get_chat_template_by_model_path
@@ -20,6 +18,7 @@
     DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_FOR_SERVER_LAUNCH,
     DEFAULT_URL_FOR_TEST,
     CustomTestCase,
+    download_image_with_retry,
     popen_launch_server,
 )
 
@@ -204,8 +203,7 @@ class TestSkipTokenizerInitVLM(TestSkipTokenizerInit):
     @classmethod
     def setUpClass(cls):
         cls.image_url = DEFAULT_IMAGE_URL
-        response = requests.get(cls.image_url)
-        cls.image = Image.open(BytesIO(response.content))
+        cls.image = download_image_with_retry(cls.image_url)
         cls.model = DEFAULT_SMALL_VLM_MODEL_NAME_FOR_TEST
         cls.tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(cls.model, use_fast=False)
         cls.processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(cls.model, trust_remote_code=True)

test/srt/test_vlm_accuracy.py

@@ -2,14 +2,11 @@
 """
 
 import unittest
-from io import BytesIO
 from typing import List, Optional
 
 import numpy as np
-import requests
 import torch
 import torch.nn.functional as F
-from PIL import Image
 from transformers import AutoModel, AutoProcessor, AutoTokenizer
 
 from sglang.srt.configs.model_config import ModelConfig
@@ -24,6 +21,7 @@
 from sglang.srt.multimodal.processors.base_processor import BaseMultimodalProcessor
 from sglang.srt.parser.conversation import generate_chat_conv
 from sglang.srt.server_args import ServerArgs
+from sglang.test.test_utils import download_image_with_retry
 
 
 # Test the logits output between HF and SGLang
@@ -35,8 +33,7 @@ def setUpClass(cls):
         cls.model_path = ""
         cls.chat_template = ""
         cls.processor = ""
-        response = requests.get(cls.image_url)
-        cls.main_image = Image.open(BytesIO(response.content))
+        cls.main_image = download_image_with_retry(cls.image_url)
 
     def compare_outputs(self, sglang_output: torch.Tensor, hf_output: torch.Tensor):
         # Convert to float32 for numerical stability if needed

test/srt/test_vlm_input_format.py

@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
 import json
 import unittest
-from io import BytesIO
 from typing import Optional
 
-import requests
 import torch
-from PIL import Image
 from transformers import (
     AutoProcessor,
     Gemma3ForConditionalGeneration,
@@ -15,6 +12,7 @@
 from sglang import Engine
 from sglang.srt.entrypoints.openai.protocol import ChatCompletionRequest
 from sglang.srt.parser.conversation import generate_chat_conv
+from sglang.test.test_utils import download_image_with_retry
 
 TEST_IMAGE_URL = "https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/blob/main/examples/assets/example_image.png?raw=true"
 
@@ -31,8 +29,7 @@ def setUpClass(cls):
         assert cls.chat_template is not None, "Set chat_template in subclass"
         cls.image_url = TEST_IMAGE_URL
         cls.device = torch.device("cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")
-        response = requests.get(cls.image_url)
-        cls.main_image = Image.open(BytesIO(response.content))
+        cls.main_image = download_image_with_retry(cls.image_url)
         cls.processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(
             cls.model_path, trust_remote_code=True, use_fast=True
         )