[Bugfix][Scale-out] Apply stop strings during batch derender

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Summary

Scale-out generation returns complete token IDs. When the engine stops on a stop string, its visible text may be shorter than decoding those IDs again on the derender host. The earlier version of this PR re-matched stop strings against the full decoded text, but that could incorrectly remove a stop string the engine ignored while min_tokens was in effect.

This revision carries the engine's final output.text as optional output_text on non-streaming generate choices when stop strings and detokenization are enabled. Plain chat and completion derender use it when the original request has stop strings. Token IDs and token-based usage remain unchanged. Parser-enabled chat and streaming derender are outside this PR's scope.

Fixes the non-streaming plain-response part of #57052.

Why this is not a duplicate

Open PR #55483 addresses stop token IDs, not stop strings in scale-out derender. Searches for 57052 in:body, derender stop strings, and scale-out output_text found no other open PR implementing this batch fix. PR #58588 discusses output modes for /inference/v1/generate and does not apply the engine's truncated stop-string text to batch derender.

Tests

Run locally on Windows:

• pre-commit run ruff-format --files <five changed Python files>: passed.
• pre-commit run ruff-check --files <five changed Python files>: passed.
• .venv/Scripts/python.exe -m py_compile <five changed Python files>: passed.
• git diff --check: passed.
• .venv/Scripts/python.exe -m pytest tests/entrypoints/scale_out/derender/test_derender.py tests/entrypoints/scale_out/token_in_token_out/test_generate_stream.py -k 'engine_stop_text or preserves_engine_stop_text' -q: could not collect on Windows because vLLM imports uvloop, which has no Windows wheel. The human submitter reports running relevant Linux tests; exact commands and results have not yet been supplied for this description.

Model evaluation: not run on this Windows host. This serving-output change still needs a Linux/GPU evaluation result before merge.

AI assistance

AI assistance was used to develop and revise this change. The human submitter has confirmed line-by-line review, execution of relevant tests, and authorization of the DCO sign-off; exact Linux test output remains to be documented.

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