diff --git a/docs/source/_static/custom.css b/docs/source/_static/custom.css
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..79bd2082b49e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/source/_static/custom.css
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+.vertical-table-header th.head:not(.stub) {
+    writing-mode: sideways-lr;
+    white-space: nowrap;
+    max-width: 0;
+    p {
+       margin: 0;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index f4e8c8b949102..84c9a27be3bf0 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -78,8 +78,12 @@ html_theme_options = {
     'use_repository_button': True,
     'use_edit_page_button': True,
 }
+# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
+# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
+# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
 html_static_path = ["_static"]
 html_js_files = ["custom.js"]
+html_css_files = ["custom.css"]
 
 myst_url_schemes = {
     'http': None,
@@ -121,11 +125,6 @@ if READTHEDOCS_VERSION_TYPE == "tag":
     if os.path.exists(header_file):
         os.remove(header_file)
 
-# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
-# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
-# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
-# html_static_path = ['_static']
-
 
 # Generate additional rst documentation here.
 def setup(app):
diff --git a/docs/source/features/compatibility_matrix.md b/docs/source/features/compatibility_matrix.md
index ee5db70c7d5c8..6056ca0d366b5 100644
--- a/docs/source/features/compatibility_matrix.md
+++ b/docs/source/features/compatibility_matrix.md
@@ -4,8 +4,14 @@
 
 The tables below show mutually exclusive features and the support on some hardware.
 
+The symbols used have the following meanings:
+
+- ✅ = Full compatibility
+- 🟠 = Partial compatibility
+- ❌ = No compatibility
+
 :::{note}
-Check the '✗' with links to see tracking issue for unsupported feature/hardware combination.
+Check the ❌ or 🟠 with links to see tracking issue for unsupported feature/hardware combination.
 :::
 
 ## Feature x Feature
@@ -29,6 +35,7 @@ Check the '✗' with links to see tracking issue for unsupported feature/hardwar
 :header-rows: 1
 :stub-columns: 1
 :widths: auto
+:class: vertical-table-header
 
 - * Feature
   * [CP](#chunked-prefill)
@@ -48,7 +55,7 @@ Check the '✗' with links to see tracking issue for unsupported feature/hardwar
   * beam-search
   * <abbr title="Guided Decoding">guided dec</abbr>
 - * [CP](#chunked-prefill)
-  *
+  * ✅
   *
   *
   *
@@ -66,7 +73,7 @@ Check the '✗' with links to see tracking issue for unsupported feature/hardwar
   *
 - * [APC](#automatic-prefix-caching)
   * ✅
-  *
+  * ✅
   *
   *
   *
@@ -82,9 +89,9 @@ Check the '✗' with links to see tracking issue for unsupported feature/hardwar
   *
   *
 - * [LoRA](#lora-adapter)
-  * [✗](gh-pr:9057)
   * ✅
-  *
+  * ✅
+  * ✅
   *
   *
   *
@@ -102,7 +109,7 @@ Check the '✗' with links to see tracking issue for unsupported feature/hardwar
   * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
-  *
+  * ✅
   *
   *
   *
@@ -118,9 +125,9 @@ Check the '✗' with links to see tracking issue for unsupported feature/hardwar
 - * [SD](#spec_decode)
   * ✅
   * ✅
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
+  * ✅
   * ✅
-  *
   *
   *
   *
@@ -138,7 +145,7 @@ Check the '✗' with links to see tracking issue for unsupported feature/hardwar
   * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
-  *
+  * ✅
   *
   *
   *
@@ -150,13 +157,13 @@ Check the '✗' with links to see tracking issue for unsupported feature/hardwar
   *
   *
 - * <abbr title="Pooling Models">pooling</abbr>
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
-  *
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
+  * ✅
   *
   *
   *
@@ -167,14 +174,14 @@ Check the '✗' with links to see tracking issue for unsupported feature/hardwar
   *
   *
 - * <abbr title="Encoder-Decoder Models">enc-dec</abbr>
-  * ✗
-  * [✗](gh-issue:7366)
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
-  * [✗](gh-issue:7366)
+  * ❌
+  * [❌](gh-issue:7366)
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
+  * [❌](gh-issue:7366)
+  * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
-  *
   *
   *
   *
@@ -190,9 +197,9 @@ Check the '✗' with links to see tracking issue for unsupported feature/hardwar
   * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
+  * ✅
   * ✅
-  *
   *
   *
   *
@@ -205,12 +212,12 @@ Check the '✗' with links to see tracking issue for unsupported feature/hardwar
   * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
-  * [✗](gh-pr:8199)
-  * ✅
-  * ✗
   * ✅
   * ✅
-  *
+  * ❌
+  * ✅
+  * ✅
+  * ✅
   *
   *
   *
@@ -222,49 +229,49 @@ Check the '✗' with links to see tracking issue for unsupported feature/hardwar
   * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
+  * ✅
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
   * ✅
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
   * ✅
   * ✅
-  *
   *
   *
   *
   *
   *
 - * multi-step
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
   * ✅
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
+  * ✅
+  * ❌
+  * ✅
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
   * ✅
-  * ✗
   * ✅
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
   * ✅
-  * [✗](gh-issue:8198)
   * ✅
-  *
   *
   *
   *
   *
 - * <abbr title="Multimodal Inputs">mm</abbr>
   * ✅
-  * [✗](gh-pr:8348)
-  * [✗](gh-pr:7199)
-  * ?
-  * ?
+  * [🟠](gh-pr:8348)
+  * [🟠](gh-pr:4194)
+  * ❔
+  * ❔
   * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
-  * ?
-  *
+  * ❔
+  * ✅
   *
   *
   *
@@ -273,16 +280,16 @@ Check the '✗' with links to see tracking issue for unsupported feature/hardwar
   * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
-  * [✗](gh-issue:6137)
+  * [❌](gh-issue:6137)
   * ✅
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
   * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
-  * ?
-  * [✗](gh-issue:7968)
+  * ❔
+  * [❌](gh-issue:7968)
+  * ✅
   * ✅
-  *
   *
   *
 - * beam-search
@@ -290,35 +297,35 @@ Check the '✗' with links to see tracking issue for unsupported feature/hardwar
   * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
-  * [✗](gh-issue:6137)
+  * [❌](gh-issue:6137)
   * ✅
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
   * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
-  * ?
-  * [✗](gh-issue:7968)
-  * ?
+  * ❔
+  * [❌](gh-issue:7968)
+  * ❔
+  * ✅
   * ✅
-  *
   *
 - * <abbr title="Guided Decoding">guided dec</abbr>
   * ✅
   * ✅
-  * ?
-  * ?
-  * [✗](gh-issue:11484)
+  * ❔
+  * ❔
+  * [❌](gh-issue:11484)
   * ✅
-  * ✗
-  * ?
+  * ❌
+  * ❔
   * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
-  * [✗](gh-issue:9893)
-  * ?
+  * [❌](gh-issue:9893)
+  * ❔
+  * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
-  *
 :::
 
 (feature-x-hardware)=
@@ -339,7 +346,7 @@ Check the '✗' with links to see tracking issue for unsupported feature/hardwar
   * CPU
   * AMD
 - * [CP](#chunked-prefill)
-  * [✗](gh-issue:2729)
+  * [❌](gh-issue:2729)
   * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
@@ -347,7 +354,7 @@ Check the '✗' with links to see tracking issue for unsupported feature/hardwar
   * ✅
   * ✅
 - * [APC](#automatic-prefix-caching)
-  * [✗](gh-issue:3687)
+  * [❌](gh-issue:3687)
   * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
@@ -368,7 +375,7 @@ Check the '✗' with links to see tracking issue for unsupported feature/hardwar
   * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
-  * [✗](gh-issue:8475)
+  * [❌](gh-issue:8475)
   * ✅
 - * [SD](#spec_decode)
   * ✅
@@ -384,7 +391,7 @@ Check the '✗' with links to see tracking issue for unsupported feature/hardwar
   * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
   * ✅
 - * <abbr title="Pooling Models">pooling</abbr>
   * ✅
@@ -393,7 +400,7 @@ Check the '✗' with links to see tracking issue for unsupported feature/hardwar
   * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
-  * ?
+  * ❔
 - * <abbr title="Encoder-Decoder Models">enc-dec</abbr>
   * ✅
   * ✅
@@ -401,7 +408,7 @@ Check the '✗' with links to see tracking issue for unsupported feature/hardwar
   * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
 - * <abbr title="Multimodal Inputs">mm</abbr>
   * ✅
   * ✅
@@ -432,15 +439,15 @@ Check the '✗' with links to see tracking issue for unsupported feature/hardwar
   * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
 - * multi-step
   * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
   * ✅
-  * [✗](gh-issue:8477)
+  * [❌](gh-issue:8477)
   * ✅
 - * best-of
   * ✅
diff --git a/docs/source/features/quantization/supported_hardware.md b/docs/source/features/quantization/supported_hardware.md
index 555ed4ce4c8db..a5bd8caf77cd0 100644
--- a/docs/source/features/quantization/supported_hardware.md
+++ b/docs/source/features/quantization/supported_hardware.md
@@ -20,93 +20,93 @@ The table below shows the compatibility of various quantization implementations
   * AWS Inferentia
   * Google TPU
 - * AWQ
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
 - * GPTQ
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
 - * Marlin (GPTQ/AWQ/FP8)
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
 - * INT8 (W8A8)
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
   * ✅︎
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
 - * FP8 (W8A8)
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
 - * AQLM
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
 - * bitsandbytes
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
 - * DeepSpeedFP
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
 - * GGUF
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
@@ -114,16 +114,16 @@ The table below shows the compatibility of various quantization implementations
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
 
 :::
 
 - Volta refers to SM 7.0, Turing to SM 7.5, Ampere to SM 8.0/8.6, Ada to SM 8.9, and Hopper to SM 9.0.
-- "✅︎" indicates that the quantization method is supported on the specified hardware.
-- "✗" indicates that the quantization method is not supported on the specified hardware.
+- ✅︎ indicates that the quantization method is supported on the specified hardware.
+- ❌ indicates that the quantization method is not supported on the specified hardware.
 
 :::{note}
 This compatibility chart is subject to change as vLLM continues to evolve and expand its support for different hardware platforms and quantization methods.
diff --git a/docs/source/models/pooling_models.md b/docs/source/models/pooling_models.md
index 9704ccee745c4..764b67241999e 100644
--- a/docs/source/models/pooling_models.md
+++ b/docs/source/models/pooling_models.md
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ The selected option sets the default pooler used to extract the final hidden sta
 - * Embedding (`embed`)
   * `LAST`
   * ✅︎
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
 - * Classification (`classify`)
   * `LAST`
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
   * ✅︎
 - * Sentence Pair Scoring (`score`)
   * \*
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ The selected option sets the default pooler used to extract the final hidden sta
   * \*
 - * Reward Modeling (`reward`)
   * `ALL`
-  * ✗
-  * ✗
+  * ❌
+  * ❌
 :::
 
 \*The default pooler is always defined by the model.