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[Model] Enable LoRA support for tower and connector in Llama Nemotron VL - #52749

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Purpose

Part of #31479: enable LoRA on the Llama Nemotron VL vision tower + connector.

  • Implements get_num_mm_encoder_tokens() / get_num_mm_connector_tokens() for LlamaNemotronVLChatModel
  • Fixes startup crash: with enable_tower_connector_lora=True the tower token budget resolved to None, failing punica wrapper allocation with TypeError: empty(): argument 'size' must be tuple of ints, not NoneType
  • Token math differs from InternVL: vision features have no CLS token (extract_feature reshapes the full sequence to an h x w grid), so the encoder sees exactly (image_size // patch_size)^2 tokens per tile and the connector sees num_image_token tokens per tile after pixel shuffle

Test Plan

pytest tests/models/multimodal/processing/test_nemotron_vl.py -k mm_lora
pytest tests/lora/test_nemotron_vl.py   # serves the real 8B model, needs 1 GPU

Test Result

Unit tests: 5 passed.
E2E: 1 passed on RTX 8000 serving nvidia/Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Nano-VL-8B-V1 with enable_tower_connector_lora=True; image descriptions correct. The same test on main crashes at engine init with the TypeError above.


AI assistance: this PR was developed with assistance from Claude Code (Opus 5). All changes were reviewed line-by-line by the author, and all tests were run and verified by the author.

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@mergify mergify Bot added llama Related to Llama models multi-modality Related to multi-modality (#4194) labels Aug 18, 2026
Implement get_num_mm_encoder_tokens/get_num_mm_connector_tokens for
LlamaNemotronVLChatModel so the engine can size the tower/connector
punica wrappers at startup and build per-image LoRA mappings. Without
them, enabling enable_tower_connector_lora crashed engine init with a
None token budget.

Unlike InternVL, the vision features contain no CLS token: extract_feature
reshapes the full sequence to an h x w grid, so the encoder processes
exactly (image_size // patch_size)^2 tokens per tile and the connector
sees num_image_token tokens per tile after pixel shuffle.

Part of vllm-project#31479.

Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar <dtu.amit@gmail.com>
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aktech force-pushed the nemotron-vl-tower-connector-lora branch from 2de979e to 896ec27 Compare August 18, 2026 11:28
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