From 1e57b1ee6312325a9dab99918422693c38f2b203 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cyrus Leung <tlleungac@connect.ust.hk>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 00:45:44 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] [Misc] Remove unnecessary decode call (#12833)

---
 vllm/inputs/preprocess.py | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/vllm/inputs/preprocess.py b/vllm/inputs/preprocess.py
index 4d8f28cb04175..53f89996f0fe9 100644
--- a/vllm/inputs/preprocess.py
+++ b/vllm/inputs/preprocess.py
@@ -260,8 +260,6 @@ class InputPreprocessor:
         mm_processor = self.mm_registry.create_processor(
             self.model_config, tokenizer)
 
-        if isinstance(prompt, list):
-            prompt = tokenizer.decode(prompt)
         if mm_processor_kwargs is None:
             mm_processor_kwargs = {}