[Misc] Refactor tokenizer interface (#29693)

Signed-off-by: DarkLight1337 <tlleungac@connect.ust.hk>

.buildkite/test-amd.yaml

@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ steps:
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/
   - tests/engine
-  - tests/tokenization
+  - tests/tokenizers_
   - tests/test_sequence
   - tests/test_config
   - tests/test_logger
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ steps:
   commands:
   - pytest -v -s engine test_sequence.py test_config.py test_logger.py test_vllm_port.py
   # OOM in the CI unless we run this separately
-  - pytest -v -s tokenization
+  - pytest -v -s tokenizers_
 
 - label: V1 Test e2e + engine # 30min
   timeout_in_minutes: 45

.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml

@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ steps:
   source_file_dependencies:
   - vllm/
   - tests/engine
-  - tests/tokenization
+  - tests/tokenizers_
   - tests/test_sequence
   - tests/test_config
   - tests/test_logger
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ steps:
   commands:
   - pytest -v -s engine test_sequence.py test_config.py test_logger.py test_vllm_port.py
   # OOM in the CI unless we run this separately
-  - pytest -v -s tokenization
+  - pytest -v -s tokenizers_
 
 - label: V1 Test e2e + engine # 30min
   timeout_in_minutes: 45

benchmarks/backend_request_func.py

@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ def get_tokenizer(
         kwargs["use_fast"] = False
     if tokenizer_mode == "mistral":
         try:
-            from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import MistralTokenizer
+            from vllm.tokenizers import MistralTokenizer
         except ImportError as e:
             raise ImportError(
                 "MistralTokenizer requires vllm package.\n"

docs/features/reasoning_outputs.md

@@ -216,14 +216,13 @@ You can add a new `ReasoningParser` similar to [vllm/reasoning/deepseek_r1_reaso
     # import the required packages
 
     from vllm.reasoning import ReasoningParser, ReasoningParserManager
-    from vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol import (ChatCompletionRequest,
-                                                DeltaMessage)
+    from vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol import ChatCompletionRequest, DeltaMessage
 
     # define a reasoning parser and register it to vllm
     # the name list in register_module can be used
     # in --reasoning-parser.
     class ExampleParser(ReasoningParser):
-        def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+        def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
             super().__init__(tokenizer)
 
         def extract_reasoning_streaming(

docs/features/tool_calling.md

@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ Here is a summary of a plugin file:
     # in --tool-call-parser. you can define as many
     # tool parsers as you want here.
     class ExampleToolParser(ToolParser):
-        def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+        def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
             super().__init__(tokenizer)
 
         # adjust request. e.g.: set skip special tokens

tests/entrypoints/openai/test_serving_engine.py

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import pytest
 from vllm.config import ModelConfig
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.serving_engine import OpenAIServing
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.serving_models import OpenAIServingModels
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizers.mistral import MistralTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import MistralTokenizer
 
 
 @pytest.fixture()

tests/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/conftest.py

@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 import pytest
 from transformers import AutoTokenizer
 
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(scope="function")
-def default_tokenizer() -> AnyTokenizer:
+def default_tokenizer() -> TokenizerLike:
     return AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("gpt2")

tests/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/test_hermes_tool_parser.py

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import pytest
 
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol import ChatCompletionRequest
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.hermes_tool_parser import Hermes2ProToolParser
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 from ....utils import RemoteOpenAIServer
 
@@ -270,14 +270,14 @@ async def test_streaming_product_tool_call():
 
 
 @pytest.fixture
-def qwen_tokenizer() -> AnyTokenizer:
+def qwen_tokenizer() -> TokenizerLike:
     from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import get_tokenizer
 
     return get_tokenizer("Qwen/Qwen3-32B")
 
 
 @pytest.fixture
-def hermes_parser(qwen_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer) -> Hermes2ProToolParser:
+def hermes_parser(qwen_tokenizer: TokenizerLike) -> Hermes2ProToolParser:
     return Hermes2ProToolParser(qwen_tokenizer)
 
 
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ def any_chat_request() -> ChatCompletionRequest:
 
 
 def test_hermes_parser_streaming_just_forward_text(
-    qwen_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+    qwen_tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
     hermes_parser: Hermes2ProToolParser,
     any_chat_request: ChatCompletionRequest,
 ) -> None:
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ def test_hermes_parser_streaming_just_forward_text(
 
 
 def test_hermes_parser_streaming_failure_case_bug_19056(
-    qwen_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+    qwen_tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
     hermes_parser: Hermes2ProToolParser,
     any_chat_request: ChatCompletionRequest,
 ) -> None:
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ def test_hermes_parser_streaming_failure_case_bug_19056(
 
 
 def test_hermes_parser_streaming(
-    qwen_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+    qwen_tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
     hermes_parser: Hermes2ProToolParser,
     any_chat_request: ChatCompletionRequest,
 ) -> None:

tests/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/test_llama3_json_tool_parser.py

@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ import pytest
 
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol import ExtractedToolCallInformation
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.llama_tool_parser import Llama3JsonToolParser
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 
 @pytest.fixture
-def parser(default_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+def parser(default_tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
     return Llama3JsonToolParser(default_tokenizer)
 
 

tests/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/test_llama4_pythonic_tool_parser.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from tests.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.utils import (
 )
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol import FunctionCall
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers import ToolParser, ToolParserManager
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 # Test cases similar to pythonic parser but with Llama4 specific format
 SIMPLE_FUNCTION_OUTPUT = "[get_weather(city='LA', metric='C')]"
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ PYTHON_TAG_FUNCTION_OUTPUT = (
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("streaming", [True, False])
-def test_no_tool_call(streaming: bool, default_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+def test_no_tool_call(streaming: bool, default_tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
     tool_parser: ToolParser = ToolParserManager.get_tool_parser("llama4_pythonic")(
         default_tokenizer
     )
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ def test_tool_call(
     streaming: bool,
     model_output: str,
     expected_tool_calls: list[FunctionCall],
-    default_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+    default_tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
 ):
     tool_parser: ToolParser = ToolParserManager.get_tool_parser("llama4_pythonic")(
         default_tokenizer
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ def test_tool_call(
         assert actual.function == expected
 
 
-def test_streaming_tool_call_with_large_steps(default_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+def test_streaming_tool_call_with_large_steps(default_tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
     tool_parser: ToolParser = ToolParserManager.get_tool_parser("llama4_pythonic")(
         default_tokenizer
     )
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ def test_streaming_tool_call_with_large_steps(default_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("streaming", [False])
-def test_regex_timeout_handling(streaming: bool, default_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+def test_regex_timeout_handling(streaming: bool, default_tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
     """test regex timeout is handled gracefully"""
     tool_parser: ToolParser = ToolParserManager.get_tool_parser("llama4_pythonic")(
         default_tokenizer

tests/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/test_olmo3_tool_parser.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from tests.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.utils import (
 )
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol import FunctionCall
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers import ToolParser, ToolParserManager
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 # https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-models/blob/main/models/llama3_2/text_prompt_format.md#model-response-format-1
 SIMPLE_FUNCTION_OUTPUT = "get_weather(city='San Francisco', metric='celsius')"
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ ESCAPED_STRING_FUNCTION_CALL = FunctionCall(
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("streaming", [True, False])
-def test_no_tool_call(streaming: bool, default_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+def test_no_tool_call(streaming: bool, default_tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
     tool_parser: ToolParser = ToolParserManager.get_tool_parser("olmo3")(
         default_tokenizer
     )
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ def test_tool_call(
     streaming: bool,
     model_output: str,
     expected_tool_calls: list[FunctionCall],
-    default_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+    default_tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
 ):
     tool_parser: ToolParser = ToolParserManager.get_tool_parser("olmo3")(
         default_tokenizer
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ def test_tool_call(
         assert actual.function == expected
 
 
-def test_streaming_tool_call_with_large_steps(default_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+def test_streaming_tool_call_with_large_steps(default_tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
     tool_parser: ToolParser = ToolParserManager.get_tool_parser("olmo3")(
         default_tokenizer
     )
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ def test_streaming_tool_call_with_large_steps(default_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("streaming", [False])
-def test_regex_timeout_handling(streaming: bool, default_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+def test_regex_timeout_handling(streaming: bool, default_tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
     """test regex timeout is handled gracefully"""
     tool_parser: ToolParser = ToolParserManager.get_tool_parser("olmo3")(
         default_tokenizer

tests/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/test_pythonic_tool_parser.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from tests.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.utils import (
 )
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol import FunctionCall
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers import ToolParser, ToolParserManager
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 # https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-models/blob/main/models/llama3_2/text_prompt_format.md#model-response-format-1
 SIMPLE_FUNCTION_OUTPUT = "get_weather(city='San Francisco', metric='celsius')"
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ ESCAPED_STRING_FUNCTION_CALL = FunctionCall(
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("streaming", [True, False])
-def test_no_tool_call(streaming: bool, default_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+def test_no_tool_call(streaming: bool, default_tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
     tool_parser: ToolParser = ToolParserManager.get_tool_parser("pythonic")(
         default_tokenizer
     )
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ def test_tool_call(
     streaming: bool,
     model_output: str,
     expected_tool_calls: list[FunctionCall],
-    default_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+    default_tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
 ):
     tool_parser: ToolParser = ToolParserManager.get_tool_parser("pythonic")(
         default_tokenizer
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ def test_tool_call(
         assert actual.function == expected
 
 
-def test_streaming_tool_call_with_large_steps(default_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+def test_streaming_tool_call_with_large_steps(default_tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
     tool_parser: ToolParser = ToolParserManager.get_tool_parser("pythonic")(
         default_tokenizer
     )
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ def test_streaming_tool_call_with_large_steps(default_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("streaming", [False])
-def test_regex_timeout_handling(streaming: bool, default_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+def test_regex_timeout_handling(streaming: bool, default_tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
     """test regex timeout is handled gracefully"""
     tool_parser: ToolParser = ToolParserManager.get_tool_parser("pythonic")(
         default_tokenizer

tests/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/utils.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol import (
     ToolCall,
 )
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers import ToolParser
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 
 class StreamingToolReconstructor:
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ def run_tool_extraction_nonstreaming(
     return tool_parser.extract_tool_calls(model_output, request)
 
 
-def split_string_into_token_deltas(tokenizer: AnyTokenizer, text: str) -> list[str]:
+def split_string_into_token_deltas(tokenizer: TokenizerLike, text: str) -> list[str]:
     # Split a string into a series of deltas using the provided tokenizer. Each
     # delta will be the string equivalent of a single token.
     token_ids = tokenizer.encode(text, add_special_tokens=False)

tests/entrypoints/test_chat_utils.py

@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ from vllm.multimodal.utils import (
     encode_image_base64,
     encode_video_base64,
 )
+from vllm.tokenizers import MistralTokenizer
 from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import get_tokenizer
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizers.mistral import MistralTokenizer
 
 from ..models.registry import HF_EXAMPLE_MODELS
 from ..utils import VLLM_PATH

tests/models/language/generation/test_mistral.py

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.mistral_tool_parser import (
     MistralToolParser,
 )
 from vllm.sampling_params import SamplingParams
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import MistralTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import MistralTokenizer
 
 from ...utils import check_logprobs_close
 

tests/models/multimodal/generation/test_voxtral.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from mistral_common.audio import Audio
 from mistral_common.protocol.instruct.chunk import AudioChunk, RawAudio, TextChunk
 from mistral_common.protocol.instruct.messages import UserMessage
 
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import MistralTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import MistralTokenizer
 
 from ....conftest import AudioTestAssets
 from ....utils import RemoteOpenAIServer

tests/models/multimodal/generation/vlm_utils/core.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import torch
 from transformers.models.auto.auto_factory import _BaseAutoModelClass
 
 from vllm.config.model import RunnerOption
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 from .....conftest import HfRunner, VllmRunner
 from ....registry import HF_EXAMPLE_MODELS
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ def run_test(
     auto_cls: type[_BaseAutoModelClass],
     use_tokenizer_eos: bool,
     comparator: Callable[..., None],
-    get_stop_token_ids: Callable[[AnyTokenizer], list[int]] | None,
+    get_stop_token_ids: Callable[[TokenizerLike], list[int]] | None,
     stop_str: list[str] | None,
     limit_mm_per_prompt: dict[str, int],
     vllm_runner_kwargs: dict[str, Any] | None,

tests/models/multimodal/generation/vlm_utils/types.py

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ from transformers.models.auto.auto_factory import _BaseAutoModelClass
 
 from vllm.config.model import RunnerOption
 from vllm.logprobs import SampleLogprobs
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 from .....conftest import (
     AUDIO_ASSETS,
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ class VLMTestInfo(NamedTuple):
     vllm_runner_kwargs: dict[str, Any] | None = None
 
     # Optional callable which gets a list of token IDs from the model tokenizer
-    get_stop_token_ids: Callable[[AnyTokenizer], list[int]] | None = None
+    get_stop_token_ids: Callable[[TokenizerLike], list[int]] | None = None
     # Optional list of strings to stop generation, useful when stop tokens are
     # not special tokens in the tokenizer
     stop_str: list[str] | None = None

tests/models/multimodal/processing/test_common.py

@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ from vllm.multimodal import MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY, MultiModalDataDict
 from vllm.multimodal.cache import MultiModalProcessorOnlyCache
 from vllm.multimodal.inputs import MultiModalInputs
 from vllm.multimodal.processing import BaseMultiModalProcessor, InputProcessingContext
+from vllm.tokenizers import MistralTokenizer
 from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import (
-    MistralTokenizer,
     cached_tokenizer_from_config,
     encode_tokens,
 )

tests/multimodal/test_processing.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
 
+import time
 from contextlib import nullcontext
 from typing import cast
 
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ from vllm.multimodal.processing import (
     replace_token_matches,
 )
 from vllm.multimodal.profiling import MultiModalProfiler
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 from .utils import random_image
 
@@ -238,7 +239,7 @@ def test_find_token_matches(
     update_type,
 ):
     # Should not be used since there is nothing to convert to token IDs
-    mock_tokenizer = cast(AnyTokenizer, object())
+    mock_tokenizer = cast(TokenizerLike, object())
 
     prompt_updates = {
         key: update_type(key, target, []).resolve(0)
@@ -385,7 +386,7 @@ def test_find_text_matches(
     update_type,
 ):
     # Should not be used since there is nothing to convert to text
-    mock_tokenizer = cast(AnyTokenizer, object())
+    mock_tokenizer = cast(TokenizerLike, object())
 
     prompt_updates = {
         key: update_type(key, target, []).resolve(0)
@@ -545,7 +546,7 @@ def test_find_update_text(
     expected_by_update_type_mm_count,
 ):
     # Should not be used since there is nothing to convert to text
-    mock_tokenizer = cast(AnyTokenizer, object())
+    mock_tokenizer = cast(TokenizerLike, object())
 
     for (
         update_type,
@@ -750,7 +751,7 @@ def test_find_update_tokens(
     expected_by_update_type_mm_count,
 ):
     # Should not be used since there is nothing to convert to tokens
-    mock_tokenizer = cast(AnyTokenizer, object())
+    mock_tokenizer = cast(TokenizerLike, object())
 
     for (
         update_type,
@@ -900,7 +901,7 @@ def test_find_mm_placeholders(
     update_type,
 ):
     # Should not be used since there is nothing to convert to tokens
-    mock_tokenizer = cast(AnyTokenizer, object())
+    mock_tokenizer = cast(TokenizerLike, object())
 
     mm_prompt_updates = {
         key: [[update_type(key, [], repl).resolve(i)] for i in range(3)]
@@ -1029,7 +1030,7 @@ def test_hf_processor_init_kwargs(
     expected_kwargs,
 ):
     # Should not be used since there is nothing to convert to tokens
-    mock_tokenizer = cast(AnyTokenizer, object())
+    mock_tokenizer = cast(TokenizerLike, object())
 
     ctx = InputProcessingContext(
         model_config=ModelConfig(model_id, mm_processor_kwargs=config_kwargs),
@@ -1065,7 +1066,7 @@ def test_hf_processor_call_kwargs(
     expected_kwargs,
 ):
     # Should not be used since there is nothing to convert to tokens
-    mock_tokenizer = cast(AnyTokenizer, object())
+    mock_tokenizer = cast(TokenizerLike, object())
 
     ctx = InputProcessingContext(
         model_config=ModelConfig(model_id, mm_processor_kwargs=config_kwargs),
@@ -1088,9 +1089,7 @@ def test_apply_matches_no_match_exits_quickly():
 
     With the fix, it should exit immediately when no match is found.
     """
-    import time
-
-    mock_tokenizer = cast(AnyTokenizer, object())
+    mock_tokenizer = cast(TokenizerLike, object())
 
     # Create a long prompt with no placeholder
     long_prompt = "x" * 10000

tests/reasoning/test_mistral_reasoning_parser.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import pytest
 
 from tests.reasoning.utils import run_reasoning_extraction_mistral
 from vllm.reasoning import ReasoningParser, ReasoningParserManager
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizers.mistral import MistralTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import MistralTokenizer
 
 parser_name = "mistral"
 

tests/reasoning/utils.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol import ChatCompletionRequest, DeltaMessage
 from vllm.reasoning import ReasoningParser
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizers.mistral import MistralTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import MistralTokenizer
 
 
 class StreamingReasoningReconstructor:

tests/tokenization/test_do_lower_case.py

@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
-
-import pytest
-
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import get_tokenizer
-
-TOKENIZER_NAMES = ["BAAI/bge-base-en"]
-
-
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("tokenizer_name", TOKENIZER_NAMES)
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("n_tokens", [510])
-def test_special_tokens(tokenizer_name: str, n_tokens: int):
-    tokenizer = get_tokenizer(tokenizer_name, revision="main")
-
-    prompts = "[UNK]" * n_tokens
-    prompt_token_ids = tokenizer.encode(prompts)
-    assert len(prompt_token_ids) == n_tokens + 2

tests/tokenization/test_get_eos.py

@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
-"""
-This test file includes some cases where it is inappropriate to
-only get the `eos_token_id` from the tokenizer as defined by
-{meth}`vllm.LLMEngine._get_eos_token_id`.
-"""
-
-from vllm.transformers_utils.config import try_get_generation_config
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import get_tokenizer
-
-
-def test_get_llama3_eos_token():
-    model_name = "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct"
-
-    tokenizer = get_tokenizer(model_name)
-    assert tokenizer.eos_token_id == 128009
-
-    generation_config = try_get_generation_config(model_name, trust_remote_code=False)
-    assert generation_config is not None
-    assert generation_config.eos_token_id == [128001, 128008, 128009]
-
-
-def test_get_blip2_eos_token():
-    model_name = "Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b"
-
-    tokenizer = get_tokenizer(model_name)
-    assert tokenizer.eos_token_id == 2
-
-    generation_config = try_get_generation_config(model_name, trust_remote_code=False)
-    assert generation_config is not None
-    assert generation_config.eos_token_id == 50118

tests/tokenization/test_tokenizer.py

@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
-
-import pytest
-from transformers import PreTrainedTokenizerBase
-
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import get_tokenizer
-
-TOKENIZER_NAMES = [
-    "facebook/opt-125m",
-    "gpt2",
-]
-
-
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("tokenizer_name", TOKENIZER_NAMES)
-def test_tokenizer_revision(tokenizer_name: str):
-    # Assume that "main" branch always exists
-    tokenizer = get_tokenizer(tokenizer_name, revision="main")
-    assert isinstance(tokenizer, PreTrainedTokenizerBase)
-
-    # Assume that "never" branch always does not exist
-    with pytest.raises(OSError, match="not a valid git identifier"):
-        get_tokenizer(tokenizer_name, revision="never")

tests/tokenization/test_tokenizer_registry.py

@@ -1,120 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
-
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any
-
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import get_tokenizer
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer_base import TokenizerBase, TokenizerRegistry
-
-if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from vllm.entrypoints.chat_utils import ChatCompletionMessageParam
-
-
-class TestTokenizer(TokenizerBase):
-    @classmethod
-    def from_pretrained(cls, *args, **kwargs) -> "TestTokenizer":
-        return TestTokenizer()
-
-    @property
-    def all_special_tokens(self) -> list[str]:
-        raise NotImplementedError()
-
-    @property
-    def all_special_ids(self) -> list[int]:
-        raise NotImplementedError()
-
-    @property
-    def bos_token_id(self) -> int:
-        return 0
-
-    @property
-    def eos_token_id(self) -> int:
-        return 1
-
-    @property
-    def sep_token(self) -> str:
-        raise NotImplementedError()
-
-    @property
-    def pad_token(self) -> str:
-        raise NotImplementedError()
-
-    @property
-    def is_fast(self) -> bool:
-        raise NotImplementedError()
-
-    @property
-    def vocab_size(self) -> int:
-        raise NotImplementedError()
-
-    @property
-    def max_token_id(self) -> int:
-        raise NotImplementedError()
-
-    @property
-    def truncation_side(self) -> str:
-        raise NotImplementedError()
-
-    def __call__(
-        self,
-        text: str | list[str] | list[int],
-        text_pair: str | None = None,
-        add_special_tokens: bool = False,
-        truncation: bool = False,
-        max_length: int | None = None,
-    ):
-        raise NotImplementedError()
-
-    def get_vocab(self) -> dict[str, int]:
-        raise NotImplementedError()
-
-    def get_added_vocab(self) -> dict[str, int]:
-        raise NotImplementedError()
-
-    def encode_one(
-        self,
-        text: str,
-        truncation: bool = False,
-        max_length: int | None = None,
-    ) -> list[int]:
-        raise NotImplementedError()
-
-    def encode(self, text: str, add_special_tokens: bool | None = None) -> list[int]:
-        raise NotImplementedError()
-
-    def apply_chat_template(
-        self,
-        messages: list["ChatCompletionMessageParam"],
-        tools: list[dict[str, Any]] | None = None,
-        **kwargs,
-    ) -> list[int]:
-        raise NotImplementedError()
-
-    def convert_tokens_to_string(self, tokens: list[str]) -> str:
-        raise NotImplementedError()
-
-    def decode(self, ids: list[int] | int, skip_special_tokens: bool = True) -> str:
-        raise NotImplementedError()
-
-    def convert_ids_to_tokens(
-        self,
-        ids: list[int],
-        skip_special_tokens: bool = True,
-    ) -> list[str]:
-        raise NotImplementedError()
-
-
-def test_customized_tokenizer():
-    TokenizerRegistry.register(
-        "test_tokenizer", "tests.tokenization.test_tokenizer_registry", "TestTokenizer"
-    )
-
-    tokenizer = TokenizerRegistry.get_tokenizer("test_tokenizer")
-    assert isinstance(tokenizer, TestTokenizer)
-    assert tokenizer.bos_token_id == 0
-    assert tokenizer.eos_token_id == 1
-
-    tokenizer = get_tokenizer("test_tokenizer", tokenizer_mode="custom")
-    assert isinstance(tokenizer, TestTokenizer)
-    assert tokenizer.bos_token_id == 0
-    assert tokenizer.eos_token_id == 1

tests/tokenizers_/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+# NOTE: Since CI runs the tests from the `tests` directory, it is necessary to rename
+# this module to avoid conflicting with HF's `tokenizers` package

tests/tokenizers_/test_basic.py

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+from typing import _get_protocol_attrs  # type: ignore
+
+import pytest
+from transformers import PreTrainedTokenizerBase
+
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
+from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import get_tokenizer
+
+
+def _get_missing_attrs(obj: object, target: type):
+    return [k for k in _get_protocol_attrs(target) if not hasattr(obj, k)]
+
+
+def test_tokenizer_like_protocol():
+    assert not (
+        missing_attrs := _get_missing_attrs(
+            get_tokenizer("gpt2", use_fast=False),
+            TokenizerLike,
+        )
+    ), f"Missing attrs: {missing_attrs}"
+
+    assert not (
+        missing_attrs := _get_missing_attrs(
+            get_tokenizer("gpt2", use_fast=True),
+            TokenizerLike,
+        )
+    ), f"Missing attrs: {missing_attrs}"
+
+    assert not (
+        missing_attrs := _get_missing_attrs(
+            get_tokenizer(
+                "mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3", tokenizer_mode="mistral"
+            ),
+            TokenizerLike,
+        )
+    ), f"Missing attrs: {missing_attrs}"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("tokenizer_name", ["facebook/opt-125m", "gpt2"])
+def test_tokenizer_revision(tokenizer_name: str):
+    # Assume that "main" branch always exists
+    tokenizer = get_tokenizer(tokenizer_name, revision="main")
+    assert isinstance(tokenizer, PreTrainedTokenizerBase)
+
+    # Assume that "never" branch always does not exist
+    with pytest.raises(OSError, match="not a valid git identifier"):
+        get_tokenizer(tokenizer_name, revision="never")
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("tokenizer_name", ["BAAI/bge-base-en"])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("n_tokens", [510])
+def test_special_tokens(tokenizer_name: str, n_tokens: int):
+    tokenizer = get_tokenizer(tokenizer_name, revision="main")
+
+    prompts = "[UNK]" * n_tokens
+    prompt_token_ids = tokenizer.encode(prompts)
+    assert len(prompt_token_ids) == n_tokens + 2

tests/tokenizers_/test_cached_tokenizer.py

@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ from copy import deepcopy
 import pytest
 from transformers import AutoTokenizer
 
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer, get_cached_tokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
+from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import get_cached_tokenizer
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("model_id", ["gpt2", "zai-org/chatglm3-6b"])
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ def test_cached_tokenizer(model_id: str):
     _check_consistency(unpickled_tokenizer, reference_tokenizer)
 
 
-def _check_consistency(target: AnyTokenizer, expected: AnyTokenizer):
+def _check_consistency(target: TokenizerLike, expected: TokenizerLike):
     assert isinstance(target, type(expected))
 
     # Cached attributes

tests/tokenizers_/test_detokenize.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import pytest
 from transformers import AutoTokenizer, PreTrainedTokenizer, PreTrainedTokenizerFast
 
 from vllm.sampling_params import SamplingParams
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizers.mistral import MistralTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import MistralTokenizer
 from vllm.v1.engine import EngineCoreRequest
 from vllm.v1.engine.detokenizer import (
     FastIncrementalDetokenizer,

tests/tokenizers_/test_mistral.py

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import pytest
 from mistral_common.exceptions import InvalidMessageStructureException
 from mistral_common.tokens.tokenizers.base import SpecialTokenPolicy
 
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizers.mistral import (
+from vllm.tokenizers.mistral import (
     MistralTokenizer,
     _prepare_apply_chat_template_tools_and_messages,
 )
@@ -308,25 +308,6 @@ class TestMistralTokenizer:
     def test_get_added_vocab(self, mistral_tokenizer: MistralTokenizer):
         assert mistral_tokenizer.get_added_vocab() == {}
 
-    def test_encode_one(self, mistral_tokenizer: MistralTokenizer):
-        token_ids = (
-            [22177, 4304, 2662] if mistral_tokenizer.is_tekken else [23325, 2294, 1686]
-        )
-
-        assert mistral_tokenizer.encode_one("Hello world !") == token_ids
-        assert mistral_tokenizer.encode_one("Hello world !", max_length=1) == token_ids
-        assert (
-            mistral_tokenizer.encode_one("Hello world !", truncation=True, max_length=1)
-            == token_ids[:-2]
-        )
-        assert (
-            mistral_tokenizer.encode_one(
-                "Hello world !", truncation=False, max_length=1
-            )
-            == token_ids
-        )
-        assert mistral_tokenizer.encode_one("") == []
-
     def test_encode(self, mistral_tokenizer: MistralTokenizer):
         token_ids = (
             [1, 22177, 4304, 2662]

tests/tokenizers_/test_registry.py

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike, TokenizerRegistry
+from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import get_tokenizer
+
+
+class TestTokenizer(TokenizerLike):
+    @classmethod
+    def from_pretrained(cls, *args, **kwargs) -> "TestTokenizer":
+        return TestTokenizer()  # type: ignore
+
+    @property
+    def bos_token_id(self) -> int:
+        return 0
+
+    @property
+    def eos_token_id(self) -> int:
+        return 1
+
+
+def test_customized_tokenizer():
+    TokenizerRegistry.register(
+        "test_tokenizer",
+        __name__,
+        TestTokenizer.__name__,
+    )
+
+    tokenizer = TokenizerRegistry.get_tokenizer("test_tokenizer")
+    assert isinstance(tokenizer, TestTokenizer)
+    assert tokenizer.bos_token_id == 0
+    assert tokenizer.eos_token_id == 1
+
+    tokenizer = get_tokenizer("test_tokenizer", tokenizer_mode="custom")
+    assert isinstance(tokenizer, TestTokenizer)
+    assert tokenizer.bos_token_id == 0
+    assert tokenizer.eos_token_id == 1

tests/tool_use/test_ernie45_moe_tool_parser.py

@@ -14,8 +14,9 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol import (
     ToolCall,
 )
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.ernie45_tool_parser import Ernie45ToolParser
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.transformers_utils.detokenizer_utils import detokenize_incrementally
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer, get_tokenizer
+from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import get_tokenizer
 
 # Use a common model that is likely to be available
 MODEL = "baidu/ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking"
@@ -173,7 +174,7 @@ def test_extract_tool_calls(
 
 def stream_delta_message_generator(
     ernie45_tool_parser: Ernie45ToolParser,
-    ernie45_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+    ernie45_tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
     model_output: str,
     request: ChatCompletionRequest | None = None,
 ) -> Generator[DeltaMessage, None, None]:

tests/tool_use/test_jamba_tool_parser.py

@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@ from partial_json_parser.core.options import Allow
 
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol import DeltaMessage, FunctionCall, ToolCall
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.jamba_tool_parser import JambaToolParser
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.transformers_utils.detokenizer_utils import detokenize_incrementally
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer, get_tokenizer
+from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import get_tokenizer
 
 pytestmark = pytest.mark.cpu_test
 
@@ -44,7 +45,9 @@ def assert_tool_calls(
 
 
 def stream_delta_message_generator(
-    jamba_tool_parser: JambaToolParser, jamba_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer, model_output: str
+    jamba_tool_parser: JambaToolParser,
+    jamba_tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
+    model_output: str,
 ) -> Generator[DeltaMessage, None, None]:
     all_token_ids = jamba_tokenizer.encode(model_output, add_special_tokens=False)
 

tests/tool_use/test_qwen3coder_tool_parser.py

@@ -17,8 +17,9 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.qwen3coder_tool_parser import (
     Qwen3CoderToolParser,
 )
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.qwen3xml_tool_parser import Qwen3XMLToolParser
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.transformers_utils.detokenizer_utils import detokenize_incrementally
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer, get_tokenizer
+from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import get_tokenizer
 
 pytestmark = pytest.mark.cpu_test
 
@@ -104,7 +105,7 @@ def assert_tool_calls(
 
 def stream_delta_message_generator(
     qwen3_tool_parser,
-    qwen3_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+    qwen3_tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
     model_output: str,
     request: ChatCompletionRequest | None = None,
 ) -> Generator[DeltaMessage, None, None]:

tests/tool_use/test_seed_oss_tool_parser.py

@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol import (
     ToolCall,
 )
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.seed_oss_tool_parser import SeedOssToolParser
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.transformers_utils.detokenizer_utils import detokenize_incrementally
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer, get_tokenizer
+from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import get_tokenizer
 
 pytestmark = pytest.mark.cpu_test
 
@@ -256,7 +257,7 @@ def test_streaming_tool_calls_no_tools(seed_oss_tool_parser):
 
 def stream_delta_message_generator(
     seed_oss_tool_parser: SeedOssToolParser,
-    seed_oss_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+    seed_oss_tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
     model_output: str,
     request: ChatCompletionRequest | None = None,
 ) -> Generator[DeltaMessage, None, None]:

tests/tool_use/test_xlam_tool_parser.py

@@ -13,8 +13,9 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol import (
     ToolCall,
 )
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.xlam_tool_parser import xLAMToolParser
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.transformers_utils.detokenizer_utils import detokenize_incrementally
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer, get_tokenizer
+from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import get_tokenizer
 
 pytestmark = pytest.mark.cpu_test
 
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ def assert_tool_calls(
 
 def stream_delta_message_generator(
     xlam_tool_parser: xLAMToolParser,
-    xlam_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+    xlam_tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
     model_output: str,
     request: ChatCompletionRequest | None = None,
 ) -> Generator[DeltaMessage, None, None]:

tests/transformers_utils/test_config.py

@@ -1,62 +1,32 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+"""
+This test file includes some cases where it is inappropriate to
+only get the `eos_token_id` from the tokenizer as defined by
+`vllm.LLMEngine._get_eos_token_id`.
+"""
+
+from vllm.transformers_utils.config import try_get_generation_config
+from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import get_tokenizer
 
 
-import tempfile
-from pathlib import Path
-from unittest.mock import MagicMock, call, patch
+def test_get_llama3_eos_token():
+    model_name = "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct"
 
-import pytest
+    tokenizer = get_tokenizer(model_name)
+    assert tokenizer.eos_token_id == 128009
 
-from vllm.transformers_utils.repo_utils import list_filtered_repo_files
+    generation_config = try_get_generation_config(model_name, trust_remote_code=False)
+    assert generation_config is not None
+    assert generation_config.eos_token_id == [128001, 128008, 128009]
 
 
-@pytest.mark.parametrize(
-    "allow_patterns,expected_relative_files",
-    [
-        (
-            ["*.json", "correct*.txt"],
-            ["json_file.json", "subfolder/correct.txt", "correct_2.txt"],
-        ),
-    ],
-)
-def test_list_filtered_repo_files(
-    allow_patterns: list[str], expected_relative_files: list[str]
-):
-    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmp_dir:
-        # Prep folder and files
-        path_tmp_dir = Path(tmp_dir)
-        subfolder = path_tmp_dir / "subfolder"
-        subfolder.mkdir()
-        (path_tmp_dir / "json_file.json").touch()
-        (path_tmp_dir / "correct_2.txt").touch()
-        (path_tmp_dir / "uncorrect.txt").touch()
-        (path_tmp_dir / "uncorrect.jpeg").touch()
-        (subfolder / "correct.txt").touch()
-        (subfolder / "uncorrect_sub.txt").touch()
+def test_get_blip2_eos_token():
+    model_name = "Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b"
 
-        def _glob_path() -> list[str]:
-            return [
-                str(file.relative_to(path_tmp_dir))
-                for file in path_tmp_dir.glob("**/*")
-                if file.is_file()
-            ]
+    tokenizer = get_tokenizer(model_name)
+    assert tokenizer.eos_token_id == 2
 
-        # Patch list_repo_files called by fn
-        with patch(
-            "vllm.transformers_utils.repo_utils.list_repo_files",
-            MagicMock(return_value=_glob_path()),
-        ) as mock_list_repo_files:
-            out_files = sorted(
-                list_filtered_repo_files(
-                    tmp_dir, allow_patterns, "revision", "model", "token"
-                )
-            )
-        assert out_files == sorted(expected_relative_files)
-        assert mock_list_repo_files.call_count == 1
-        assert mock_list_repo_files.call_args_list[0] == call(
-            repo_id=tmp_dir,
-            revision="revision",
-            repo_type="model",
-            token="token",
-        )
+    generation_config = try_get_generation_config(model_name, trust_remote_code=False)
+    assert generation_config is not None
+    assert generation_config.eos_token_id == 50118

tests/transformers_utils/test_repo_utils.py

@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+
+
+import tempfile
+from pathlib import Path
+from unittest.mock import MagicMock, call, patch
+
+import pytest
+
+from vllm.transformers_utils.repo_utils import list_filtered_repo_files
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "allow_patterns,expected_relative_files",
+    [
+        (
+            ["*.json", "correct*.txt"],
+            ["json_file.json", "subfolder/correct.txt", "correct_2.txt"],
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+def test_list_filtered_repo_files(
+    allow_patterns: list[str], expected_relative_files: list[str]
+):
+    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmp_dir:
+        # Prep folder and files
+        path_tmp_dir = Path(tmp_dir)
+        subfolder = path_tmp_dir / "subfolder"
+        subfolder.mkdir()
+        (path_tmp_dir / "json_file.json").touch()
+        (path_tmp_dir / "correct_2.txt").touch()
+        (path_tmp_dir / "uncorrect.txt").touch()
+        (path_tmp_dir / "uncorrect.jpeg").touch()
+        (subfolder / "correct.txt").touch()
+        (subfolder / "uncorrect_sub.txt").touch()
+
+        def _glob_path() -> list[str]:
+            return [
+                str(file.relative_to(path_tmp_dir))
+                for file in path_tmp_dir.glob("**/*")
+                if file.is_file()
+            ]
+
+        # Patch list_repo_files called by fn
+        with patch(
+            "vllm.transformers_utils.repo_utils.list_repo_files",
+            MagicMock(return_value=_glob_path()),
+        ) as mock_list_repo_files:
+            out_files = sorted(
+                list_filtered_repo_files(
+                    tmp_dir, allow_patterns, "revision", "model", "token"
+                )
+            )
+        assert out_files == sorted(expected_relative_files)
+        assert mock_list_repo_files.call_count == 1
+        assert mock_list_repo_files.call_args_list[0] == call(
+            repo_id=tmp_dir,
+            revision="revision",
+            repo_type="model",
+            token="token",
+        )

tests/v1/engine/test_output_processor.py

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ from vllm.logprobs import PromptLogprobs, SampleLogprobs
 from vllm.lora.request import LoRARequest
 from vllm.outputs import CompletionOutput, RequestOutput
 from vllm.sampling_params import RequestOutputKind, SamplingParams
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.v1.engine import (
     EngineCoreEvent,
     EngineCoreEventType,
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ from vllm.v1.metrics.stats import IterationStats, SchedulerStats
 
 
 def _ref_convert_id_to_token(
-    tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+    tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
     token_id: int,
 ) -> str:
     """Reference impl of logprobs detokenization.

tools/pre_commit/check_pickle_imports.py

@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ ALLOWED_FILES = {
     "vllm/distributed/device_communicators/shm_broadcast.py",
     "vllm/distributed/device_communicators/shm_object_storage.py",
     "vllm/utils/hashing.py",
+    "tests/tokenizers_/test_cached_tokenizer.py",
     "tests/utils_/test_hashing.py",
-    "tests/tokenization/test_cached_tokenizer.py",
     "benchmarks/kernels/graph_machete_bench.py",
     "benchmarks/kernels/benchmark_lora.py",
     "benchmarks/kernels/benchmark_machete.py",

tools/pre_commit/mypy.py

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ FILES = [
     "vllm/multimodal",
     "vllm/platforms",
     "vllm/plugins",
+    "vllm/tokenizers",
     "vllm/transformers_utils",
     "vllm/triton_utils",
     "vllm/usage",

vllm/benchmarks/datasets.py

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ from vllm.lora.request import LoRARequest
 from vllm.lora.utils import get_adapter_absolute_path
 from vllm.multimodal import MultiModalDataDict
 from vllm.multimodal.image import convert_image_mode
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.utils.import_utils import PlaceholderModule
 
 try:
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ def lora_path_on_disk(lora_path: str) -> str:
 
 
 # Global cache for LoRA tokenizers.
-lora_tokenizer_cache: dict[int, AnyTokenizer] = {}
+lora_tokenizer_cache: dict[int, TokenizerLike] = {}
 
 
 def process_image(image: Any) -> Mapping[str, Any]:

vllm/engine/protocol.py

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ from vllm.plugins.io_processors import IOProcessor
 from vllm.pooling_params import PoolingParams
 from vllm.sampling_params import SamplingParams
 from vllm.tasks import SupportedTask
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.v1.engine import EngineCoreRequest
 from vllm.v1.engine.input_processor import InputProcessor
 
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ class EngineClient(ABC):
         ...
 
     @abstractmethod
-    async def get_tokenizer(self) -> AnyTokenizer:
+    async def get_tokenizer(self) -> TokenizerLike:
         """Get the tokenizer"""
         ...
 

vllm/entrypoints/chat_utils.py

@@ -49,9 +49,9 @@ from vllm.logger import init_logger
 from vllm.model_executor.models import SupportsMultiModal
 from vllm.multimodal import MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY, MultiModalDataDict, MultiModalUUIDDict
 from vllm.multimodal.utils import MEDIA_CONNECTOR_REGISTRY, MediaConnector
+from vllm.tokenizers import MistralTokenizer, TokenizerLike
 from vllm.transformers_utils.chat_templates import get_chat_template_fallback_path
 from vllm.transformers_utils.processor import cached_get_processor
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer, MistralTokenizer
 from vllm.utils import random_uuid
 from vllm.utils.func_utils import supports_kw
 
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ def resolve_hf_chat_template(
 def _resolve_chat_template_content_format(
     chat_template: str | None,
     tools: list[dict[str, Any]] | None,
-    tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+    tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
     *,
     model_config: ModelConfig,
 ) -> _ChatTemplateContentFormat:
@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ def resolve_chat_template_content_format(
     chat_template: str | None,
     tools: list[dict[str, Any]] | None,
     given_format: ChatTemplateContentFormatOption,
-    tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+    tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
     *,
     model_config: ModelConfig,
 ) -> _ChatTemplateContentFormat:
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ class BaseMultiModalItemTracker(ABC, Generic[_T]):
     maximum per prompt.
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, model_config: ModelConfig, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+    def __init__(self, model_config: ModelConfig, tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
         super().__init__()
 
         self._model_config = model_config
@@ -1592,7 +1592,7 @@ def _postprocess_messages(messages: list[ConversationMessage]) -> None:
 def parse_chat_messages(
     messages: list[ChatCompletionMessageParam],
     model_config: ModelConfig,
-    tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+    tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
     content_format: _ChatTemplateContentFormat,
 ) -> tuple[
     list[ConversationMessage],
@@ -1624,7 +1624,7 @@ def parse_chat_messages(
 def parse_chat_messages_futures(
     messages: list[ChatCompletionMessageParam],
     model_config: ModelConfig,
-    tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+    tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
     content_format: _ChatTemplateContentFormat,
 ) -> tuple[
     list[ConversationMessage],

vllm/entrypoints/llm.py

@@ -71,11 +71,8 @@ from vllm.platforms import current_platform
 from vllm.pooling_params import PoolingParams
 from vllm.sampling_params import BeamSearchParams, RequestOutputKind, SamplingParams
 from vllm.tasks import PoolingTask
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import (
-    AnyTokenizer,
-    MistralTokenizer,
-    get_cached_tokenizer,
-)
+from vllm.tokenizers import MistralTokenizer, TokenizerLike
+from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import get_cached_tokenizer
 from vllm.usage.usage_lib import UsageContext
 from vllm.utils.collection_utils import as_iter, is_list_of
 from vllm.utils.counter import Counter
@@ -350,11 +347,11 @@ class LLM:
         self.input_processor = self.llm_engine.input_processor
         self.io_processor = self.llm_engine.io_processor
 
-    def get_tokenizer(self) -> AnyTokenizer:
+    def get_tokenizer(self) -> TokenizerLike:
         return self.llm_engine.get_tokenizer()
 
     @deprecated("`set_tokenizer` is deprecated and will be removed in v0.13.")
-    def set_tokenizer(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer) -> None:
+    def set_tokenizer(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike) -> None:
         # While CachedTokenizer is dynamic, have no choice but
         # compare class name. Misjudgment will arise from
         # user-defined tokenizer started with 'Cached'
@@ -1244,7 +1241,7 @@ class LLM:
 
     def _embedding_score(
         self,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         text_1: list[str | TextPrompt | TokensPrompt],
         text_2: list[str | TextPrompt | TokensPrompt],
         truncate_prompt_tokens: int | None = None,
@@ -1276,7 +1273,7 @@ class LLM:
 
     def _cross_encoding_score(
         self,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         data_1: list[str] | list[ScoreContentPartParam],
         data_2: list[str] | list[ScoreContentPartParam],
         truncate_prompt_tokens: int | None = None,

vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_chat.py

@@ -62,8 +62,9 @@ from vllm.logger import init_logger
 from vllm.logprobs import Logprob
 from vllm.outputs import CompletionOutput, RequestOutput
 from vllm.sampling_params import BeamSearchParams, SamplingParams
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer, MistralTokenizer
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizers import (
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
+from vllm.tokenizers.mistral import (
+    MistralTokenizer,
     maybe_serialize_tool_calls,
     truncate_tool_call_ids,
     validate_request_params,
@@ -530,7 +531,7 @@ class OpenAIServingChat(OpenAIServing):
         request_id: str,
         model_name: str,
         conversation: list[ConversationMessage],
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         request_metadata: RequestResponseMetadata,
     ) -> AsyncGenerator[str, None]:
         created_time = int(time.time())
@@ -1296,7 +1297,7 @@ class OpenAIServingChat(OpenAIServing):
         request_id: str,
         model_name: str,
         conversation: list[ConversationMessage],
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         request_metadata: RequestResponseMetadata,
     ) -> ErrorResponse | ChatCompletionResponse:
         created_time = int(time.time())
@@ -1624,7 +1625,7 @@ class OpenAIServingChat(OpenAIServing):
         self,
         logprobs: dict[int, Logprob],
         top_logprobs: int | None,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         should_return_as_token_id: bool,
     ) -> list[ChatCompletionLogProb]:
         return [
@@ -1648,7 +1649,7 @@ class OpenAIServingChat(OpenAIServing):
         self,
         token_ids: GenericSequence[int],
         top_logprobs: GenericSequence[dict[int, Logprob] | None],
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         num_output_top_logprobs: int | None = None,
         return_as_token_id: bool | None = None,
     ) -> ChatCompletionLogProbs:

vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_classification.py

@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ class ServingClassification(ClassificationMixin):
 
     def _create_pooling_params(
         self,
-        ctx: ClassificationServeContext,
+        ctx: ServeContext[ClassificationRequest],
     ) -> PoolingParams | ErrorResponse:
         pooling_params = super()._create_pooling_params(ctx)
         if isinstance(pooling_params, ErrorResponse):

vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_completion.py

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ from vllm.logger import init_logger
 from vllm.logprobs import Logprob
 from vllm.outputs import RequestOutput
 from vllm.sampling_params import BeamSearchParams, SamplingParams
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.utils.async_utils import merge_async_iterators
 from vllm.utils.collection_utils import as_list
 from vllm.v1.sample.logits_processor import validate_logits_processors_parameters
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ class OpenAIServingCompletion(OpenAIServing):
         created_time: int,
         model_name: str,
         num_prompts: int,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike | None,
         request_metadata: RequestResponseMetadata,
     ) -> AsyncGenerator[str, None]:
         num_choices = 1 if request.n is None else request.n
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ class OpenAIServingCompletion(OpenAIServing):
         request_id: str,
         created_time: int,
         model_name: str,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike | None,
         request_metadata: RequestResponseMetadata,
     ) -> CompletionResponse:
         choices: list[CompletionResponseChoice] = []
@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ class OpenAIServingCompletion(OpenAIServing):
         token_ids: GenericSequence[int],
         top_logprobs: GenericSequence[dict[int, Logprob] | None],
         num_output_top_logprobs: int,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike | None,
         initial_text_offset: int = 0,
         return_as_token_id: bool | None = None,
     ) -> CompletionLogProbs:
@@ -642,9 +642,15 @@ class OpenAIServingCompletion(OpenAIServing):
         for i, token_id in enumerate(token_ids):
             step_top_logprobs = top_logprobs[i]
             if step_top_logprobs is None:
-                token = tokenizer.decode(token_id)
                 if should_return_as_token_id:
                     token = f"token_id:{token_id}"
+                else:
+                    if tokenizer is None:
+                        raise ValueError(
+                            "Unable to get tokenizer because `skip_tokenizer_init=True`"
+                        )
+
+                    token = tokenizer.decode(token_id)
 
                 out_tokens.append(token)
                 out_token_logprobs.append(None)

vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_engine.py

@@ -7,13 +7,14 @@ import time
 import traceback
 from collections.abc import AsyncGenerator, Callable, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
 from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from http import HTTPStatus
 from typing import Any, ClassVar, Generic, TypeAlias, TypeVar
 
 import numpy as np
 import torch
 from fastapi import Request
-from pydantic import BaseModel, ConfigDict, Field, TypeAdapter
+from pydantic import ConfigDict, TypeAdapter
 from starlette.datastructures import Headers
 from typing_extensions import TypeIs
 
@@ -96,12 +97,12 @@ from vllm.outputs import CompletionOutput, PoolingRequestOutput, RequestOutput
 from vllm.pooling_params import PoolingParams
 from vllm.reasoning import ReasoningParser, ReasoningParserManager
 from vllm.sampling_params import BeamSearchParams, SamplingParams
+from vllm.tokenizers import MistralTokenizer, TokenizerLike
 from vllm.tracing import (
     contains_trace_headers,
     extract_trace_headers,
     log_tracing_disabled_warning,
 )
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer, MistralTokenizer
 from vllm.utils import random_uuid
 from vllm.utils.async_utils import (
     AsyncMicrobatchTokenizer,
@@ -184,19 +185,19 @@ def is_embeds_prompt(prompt: RequestPrompt) -> TypeIs[EmbedsPrompt]:
 RequestT = TypeVar("RequestT", bound=AnyRequest)
 
 
-class RequestProcessingMixin(BaseModel):
+@dataclass(kw_only=True)
+class RequestProcessingMixin:
     """
     Mixin for request processing,
     handling prompt preparation and engine input.
     """
 
-    request_prompts: Sequence[RequestPrompt] | None = []
-    engine_prompts: list[EngineTokensPrompt] | None = []
-
-    model_config = ConfigDict(arbitrary_types_allowed=True)
+    request_prompts: Sequence[RequestPrompt] | None = field(default_factory=list)
+    engine_prompts: list[EngineTokensPrompt] | None = field(default_factory=list)
 
 
-class ResponseGenerationMixin(BaseModel):
+@dataclass(kw_only=True)
+class ResponseGenerationMixin:
     """
     Mixin for response generation,
     managing result generators and final batch results.
@@ -205,54 +206,38 @@ class ResponseGenerationMixin(BaseModel):
     result_generator: (
         AsyncGenerator[tuple[int, RequestOutput | PoolingRequestOutput], None] | None
     ) = None
-    final_res_batch: list[RequestOutput | PoolingRequestOutput] = Field(
+    final_res_batch: list[RequestOutput | PoolingRequestOutput] = field(
         default_factory=list
     )
 
     model_config = ConfigDict(arbitrary_types_allowed=True)
 
 
-class ServeContext(
-    RequestProcessingMixin,
-    ResponseGenerationMixin,
-    BaseModel,
-    Generic[RequestT],
-):
+@dataclass(kw_only=True)
+class ServeContext(RequestProcessingMixin, ResponseGenerationMixin, Generic[RequestT]):
     # Shared across all requests
     request: RequestT
     raw_request: Request | None = None
     model_name: str
     request_id: str
-    created_time: int = Field(default_factory=lambda: int(time.time()))
+    created_time: int = field(default_factory=lambda: int(time.time()))
     lora_request: LoRARequest | None = None
 
     # Shared across most requests
-    tokenizer: AnyTokenizer | None = None
-
-    # `protected_namespaces` resolves Pydantic v2's warning
-    # on conflict with protected namespace "model_"
-    model_config = ConfigDict(
-        protected_namespaces=(),
-        arbitrary_types_allowed=True,
-    )
+    tokenizer: TokenizerLike | None = None
 
 
-ClassificationServeContext = ServeContext[ClassificationRequest]
+@dataclass(kw_only=True)
+class ClassificationServeContext(ServeContext[ClassificationRequest]):
+    pass
 
 
+@dataclass(kw_only=True)
 class EmbeddingServeContext(ServeContext[EmbeddingRequest]):
     chat_template: str | None = None
     chat_template_content_format: ChatTemplateContentFormatOption
 
 
-# Used to resolve the Pydantic error related to
-# forward reference of MultiModalDataDict in TokensPrompt
-RequestProcessingMixin.model_rebuild()
-ServeContext.model_rebuild()
-ClassificationServeContext.model_rebuild()
-EmbeddingServeContext.model_rebuild()
-
-
 class OpenAIServing:
     request_id_prefix: ClassVar[str] = """
     A short string prepended to every request’s ID (e.g. "embd", "classify")
@@ -281,7 +266,7 @@ class OpenAIServing:
             apply_mistral_chat_template, executor=self._tokenizer_executor
         )
 
-        self._async_tokenizer_pool: dict[AnyTokenizer, AsyncMicrobatchTokenizer] = {}
+        self._async_tokenizer_pool: dict[TokenizerLike, AsyncMicrobatchTokenizer] = {}
         self.log_error_stack = log_error_stack
 
         self.input_processor = self.models.input_processor
@@ -291,7 +276,7 @@ class OpenAIServing:
 
     def _get_tool_parser(
         self, tool_parser_name: str | None = None, enable_auto_tools: bool = False
-    ) -> Callable[[AnyTokenizer], ToolParser] | None:
+    ) -> Callable[[TokenizerLike], ToolParser] | None:
         """Get the tool parser based on the name."""
         parser = None
         if not enable_auto_tools or tool_parser_name is None:
@@ -317,7 +302,7 @@ class OpenAIServing:
     def _get_reasoning_parser(
         self,
         reasoning_parser_name: str,
-    ) -> Callable[[AnyTokenizer], ReasoningParser] | None:
+    ) -> Callable[[TokenizerLike], ReasoningParser] | None:
         """Get the reasoning parser based on the name."""
         parser = None
         if not reasoning_parser_name:
@@ -547,7 +532,7 @@ class OpenAIServing:
             prompt_logprobs=None,
         )
 
-    def _get_renderer(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer | None) -> BaseRenderer:
+    def _get_renderer(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike | None) -> BaseRenderer:
         """
         Get a Renderer instance with the provided tokenizer.
         Uses shared async tokenizer pool for efficiency.
@@ -877,7 +862,7 @@ class OpenAIServing:
         self,
         request: AnyRequest,
         prompt: str,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         add_special_tokens: bool,
     ) -> TextTokensPrompt:
         async_tokenizer = self._get_async_tokenizer(tokenizer)
@@ -919,7 +904,7 @@ class OpenAIServing:
         self,
         request: AnyRequest,
         prompt_ids: list[int],
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer | None,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike | None,
     ) -> TextTokensPrompt:
         truncate_prompt_tokens = getattr(request, "truncate_prompt_tokens", None)
 
@@ -1015,7 +1000,7 @@ class OpenAIServing:
     async def _tokenize_prompt_input_async(
         self,
         request: AnyRequest,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         prompt_input: str | list[int],
         add_special_tokens: bool = True,
     ) -> TextTokensPrompt:
@@ -1034,7 +1019,7 @@ class OpenAIServing:
     async def _tokenize_prompt_inputs_async(
         self,
         request: AnyRequest,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         prompt_inputs: Iterable[str | list[int]],
         add_special_tokens: bool = True,
     ) -> AsyncGenerator[TextTokensPrompt, None]:
@@ -1079,7 +1064,7 @@ class OpenAIServing:
     async def _preprocess_chat(
         self,
         request: ChatLikeRequest | ResponsesRequest,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike | None,
         messages: list[ChatCompletionMessageParam],
         chat_template: str | None,
         chat_template_content_format: ChatTemplateContentFormatOption,
@@ -1088,13 +1073,18 @@ class OpenAIServing:
         tool_dicts: list[dict[str, Any]] | None = None,
         documents: list[dict[str, str]] | None = None,
         chat_template_kwargs: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
-        tool_parser: Callable[[AnyTokenizer], ToolParser] | None = None,
+        tool_parser: Callable[[TokenizerLike], ToolParser] | None = None,
         add_special_tokens: bool = False,
     ) -> tuple[
         list[ConversationMessage],
         Sequence[RequestPrompt],
         list[EngineTokensPrompt],
     ]:
+        if tokenizer is None:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Unable to get tokenizer because `skip_tokenizer_init=True`"
+            )
+
         model_config = self.model_config
 
         resolved_content_format = resolve_chat_template_content_format(
@@ -1370,9 +1360,9 @@ class OpenAIServing:
     @staticmethod
     def _parse_tool_calls_from_content(
         request: ResponsesRequest | ChatCompletionRequest,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         enable_auto_tools: bool,
-        tool_parser_cls: Callable[[AnyTokenizer], ToolParser] | None,
+        tool_parser_cls: Callable[[TokenizerLike], ToolParser] | None,
         content: str | None = None,
     ) -> tuple[list[FunctionCall] | None, str | None]:
         function_calls = list[FunctionCall]()
@@ -1442,7 +1432,7 @@ class OpenAIServing:
     def _get_decoded_token(
         logprob: Logprob,
         token_id: int,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike | None,
         return_as_token_id: bool = False,
     ) -> str:
         if return_as_token_id:
@@ -1450,6 +1440,12 @@ class OpenAIServing:
 
         if logprob.decoded_token is not None:
             return logprob.decoded_token
+
+        if tokenizer is None:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Unable to get tokenizer because `skip_tokenizer_init=True`"
+            )
+
         return tokenizer.decode(token_id)
 
     def _is_model_supported(self, model_name: str | None) -> bool:

vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_responses.py

@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ from vllm.logprobs import Logprob as SampleLogprob
 from vllm.logprobs import SampleLogprobs
 from vllm.outputs import CompletionOutput
 from vllm.sampling_params import SamplingParams, StructuredOutputsParams
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.utils import random_uuid
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ class OpenAIServingResponses(OpenAIServing):
         self,
         request: ResponsesRequest,
         prev_response: ResponsesResponse | None,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
     ):
         if request.tools is None or (
             request.tool_choice == "none" and self.exclude_tools_when_tool_choice_none
@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ class OpenAIServingResponses(OpenAIServing):
         result_generator: AsyncIterator[ConversationContext],
         context: ConversationContext,
         model_name: str,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         request_metadata: RequestResponseMetadata,
         created_time: int | None = None,
     ) -> ErrorResponse | ResponsesResponse:
@@ -675,7 +675,7 @@ class OpenAIServingResponses(OpenAIServing):
         self,
         logprobs: dict[int, SampleLogprob],
         top_logprobs: int,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
     ) -> list[LogprobTopLogprob]:
         """Returns the top-k logprobs from the logprobs dictionary."""
         out = []
@@ -700,7 +700,7 @@ class OpenAIServingResponses(OpenAIServing):
         self,
         token_ids: Sequence[int],
         logprobs: SampleLogprobs | None,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         top_logprobs: int | None = None,
     ) -> list[Logprob]:
         assert logprobs is not None, "logprobs must be provided"
@@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ class OpenAIServingResponses(OpenAIServing):
         self,
         token_ids: Sequence[int],
         logprobs: SampleLogprobs | None,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         top_logprobs: int | None = None,
     ) -> list[response_text_delta_event.Logprob]:
         lgs = self._create_response_logprobs(
@@ -763,7 +763,7 @@ class OpenAIServingResponses(OpenAIServing):
         self,
         request: ResponsesRequest,
         final_output: CompletionOutput,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
     ) -> list[ResponseOutputItem]:
         if self.reasoning_parser:
             try:
@@ -1135,7 +1135,7 @@ class OpenAIServingResponses(OpenAIServing):
         result_generator: AsyncIterator[ConversationContext | None],
         context: ConversationContext,
         model_name: str,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         request_metadata: RequestResponseMetadata,
         created_time: int,
         _increment_sequence_number_and_return: Callable[
@@ -1438,7 +1438,7 @@ class OpenAIServingResponses(OpenAIServing):
         result_generator: AsyncIterator[ConversationContext | None],
         context: ConversationContext,
         model_name: str,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         request_metadata: RequestResponseMetadata,
         created_time: int,
         _increment_sequence_number_and_return: Callable[
@@ -1891,7 +1891,7 @@ class OpenAIServingResponses(OpenAIServing):
         result_generator: AsyncIterator[ConversationContext | None],
         context: ConversationContext,
         model_name: str,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         request_metadata: RequestResponseMetadata,
         created_time: int | None = None,
     ) -> AsyncGenerator[StreamingResponsesResponse, None]:

vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_score.py

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ from vllm.inputs.data import TokensPrompt
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
 from vllm.lora.request import LoRARequest
 from vllm.outputs import PoolingRequestOutput, ScoringRequestOutput
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer, MistralTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import MistralTokenizer, TokenizerLike
 from vllm.utils.async_utils import make_async, merge_async_iterators
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ class ServingScores(OpenAIServing):
 
     async def _embedding_score(
         self,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         texts_1: list[str],
         texts_2: list[str],
         request: RerankRequest | ScoreRequest,
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ class ServingScores(OpenAIServing):
     def _preprocess_score(
         self,
         request: RerankRequest | ScoreRequest,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         tokenization_kwargs: dict[str, Any],
         data_1: str | ScoreContentPartParam,
         data_2: str | ScoreContentPartParam,
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ class ServingScores(OpenAIServing):
 
     async def _cross_encoding_score(
         self,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         data_1: list[str] | list[ScoreContentPartParam],
         data_2: list[str] | list[ScoreContentPartParam],
         request: RerankRequest | ScoreRequest,

vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_tokenization.py

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.serving_engine import OpenAIServing
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.serving_models import OpenAIServingModels
 from vllm.entrypoints.renderer import RenderConfig
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ class OpenAIServingTokenization(OpenAIServing):
 
 @dataclass
 class TokenizerInfo:
-    tokenizer: AnyTokenizer
+    tokenizer: TokenizerLike
     chat_template: str | None
 
     def to_dict(self) -> dict[str, Any]:

vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/abstract_tool_parser.py

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ from vllm.logger import init_logger
 from vllm.sampling_params import (
     StructuredOutputsParams,
 )
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.utils.collection_utils import is_list_of
 from vllm.utils.import_utils import import_from_path
 
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ class ToolParser:
     derived classes.
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
         self.prev_tool_call_arr: list[dict] = []
         # the index of the tool call that is currently being parsed
         self.current_tool_id: int = -1

vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/deepseekv31_tool_parser.py

@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.abstract_tool_parser import (
     ToolParser,
 )
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
 
 class DeepSeekV31ToolParser(ToolParser):
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
         super().__init__(tokenizer)
 
         self.current_tool_name_sent: bool = False

vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/deepseekv3_tool_parser.py

@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.abstract_tool_parser import (
     ToolParser,
 )
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
 
 class DeepSeekV3ToolParser(ToolParser):
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
         super().__init__(tokenizer)
 
         self.current_tool_name_sent: bool = False

vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/ernie45_tool_parser.py

@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.abstract_tool_parser import (
     ToolParser,
 )
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
 
 class Ernie45ToolParser(ToolParser):
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
         """
         Ernie thinking model format:
         abc\n</think>\n\n\n<tool_call>\ndef\n</tool_call>\n

vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/glm4_moe_tool_parser.py

@@ -22,13 +22,13 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.abstract_tool_parser import (
     ToolParser,
 )
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
 
 class Glm4MoeModelToolParser(ToolParser):
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
         super().__init__(tokenizer)
         self.current_tool_name_sent = False
         self.prev_tool_call_arr: list[dict] = []

vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/granite_20b_fc_tool_parser.py

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.utils import (
     partial_json_loads,
 )
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ class Granite20bFCToolParser(ToolParser):
     are all set
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
         super().__init__(tokenizer)
 
         self.bot_token = "<function_call>"

vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/granite_tool_parser.py

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.utils import (
     partial_json_loads,
 )
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ class GraniteToolParser(ToolParser):
     are all set
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
         super().__init__(tokenizer)
         # for granite 3.0, the token `<|tool_call|>`
         self.bot_token = "<|tool_call|>"

vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/hermes_tool_parser.py

@@ -22,18 +22,18 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.abstract_tool_parser import (
     ToolParser,
 )
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer, MistralTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import MistralTokenizer, TokenizerLike
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
 
 class Hermes2ProToolParser(ToolParser):
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
         super().__init__(tokenizer)
 
-        if isinstance(self.model_tokenizer, MistralTokenizer):
+        if isinstance(tokenizer, MistralTokenizer):
             logger.error("Detected Mistral tokenizer when using a Hermes model")
-            self.model_tokenizer = self.model_tokenizer.tokenizer
+            self.model_tokenizer = tokenizer.tokenizer
 
         self.current_tool_name_sent: bool = False
         self.prev_tool_call_arr: list[dict] = []

vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/hunyuan_a13b_tool_parser.py

@@ -22,14 +22,14 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.abstract_tool_parser import (
 )
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.utils import consume_space
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.utils import random_uuid
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
 
 class HunyuanA13BToolParser(ToolParser):
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
         super().__init__(tokenizer)
 
         # Initialize state for streaming mode

vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/internlm2_tool_parser.py

@@ -22,13 +22,13 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.abstract_tool_parser import (
 )
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.utils import extract_intermediate_diff
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
 
 class Internlm2ToolParser(ToolParser):
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
         super().__init__(tokenizer)
         self.position = 0
 

vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/jamba_tool_parser.py

@@ -21,14 +21,13 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol import (
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers import ToolParser
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.utils import extract_intermediate_diff
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizers import MistralTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import MistralTokenizer, TokenizerLike
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
 
 class JambaToolParser(ToolParser):
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
         super().__init__(tokenizer)
 
         if isinstance(self.model_tokenizer, MistralTokenizer):

vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/kimi_k2_tool_parser.py

@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.abstract_tool_parser import (
     ToolParser,
 )
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
 
 class KimiK2ToolParser(ToolParser):
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
         super().__init__(tokenizer)
         self.current_tool_name_sent: bool = False
         self.prev_tool_call_arr: list[dict] = []

vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/longcat_tool_parser.py

@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@
 import regex as re
 
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.hermes_tool_parser import Hermes2ProToolParser
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 
 class LongcatFlashToolParser(Hermes2ProToolParser):
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
         super().__init__(tokenizer)
 
         self.tool_call_start_token: str = "<longcat_tool_call>"

vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/minimax_m2_tool_parser.py

@@ -21,13 +21,13 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.abstract_tool_parser import (
     ToolParser,
 )
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
 
 class MinimaxM2ToolParser(ToolParser):
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
         super().__init__(tokenizer)
 
         self.prev_tool_call_arr: list[dict] = []

vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/minimax_tool_parser.py

@@ -22,13 +22,13 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.abstract_tool_parser import (
 )
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.utils import extract_intermediate_diff
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
 
 class MinimaxToolParser(ToolParser):
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
         super().__init__(tokenizer)
 
         # Initialize streaming state for tracking tool call progress

vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/mistral_tool_parser.py

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.abstract_tool_parser import (
 )
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.utils import extract_intermediate_diff
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer, MistralTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import MistralTokenizer, TokenizerLike
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ class MistralToolCall(ToolCall):
         return id.isalnum() and len(id) == 9
 
 
-def _is_fn_name_regex_support(model_tokenizer: AnyTokenizer) -> bool:
+def _is_fn_name_regex_support(model_tokenizer: TokenizerLike) -> bool:
     return (
         isinstance(model_tokenizer, MistralTokenizer) and model_tokenizer.version >= 11
     )
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ class MistralToolParser(ToolParser):
     Used when --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser mistral are all set
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
         super().__init__(tokenizer)
 
         if not isinstance(self.model_tokenizer, MistralTokenizer):

vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/openai_tool_parser.py

@@ -18,15 +18,15 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.abstract_tool_parser import (
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+    from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 else:
-    AnyTokenizer = object
+    TokenizerLike = object
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
 
 class OpenAIToolParser(ToolParser):
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: "AnyTokenizer"):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: "TokenizerLike"):
         super().__init__(tokenizer)
 
     def extract_tool_calls(

vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/qwen3coder_tool_parser.py

@@ -22,13 +22,13 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.abstract_tool_parser import (
     ToolParser,
 )
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
 
 class Qwen3CoderToolParser(ToolParser):
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
         super().__init__(tokenizer)
 
         self.current_tool_name_sent: bool = False

vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/qwen3xml_tool_parser.py

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.abstract_tool_parser import (
     ToolParser,
 )
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
@@ -1165,7 +1165,7 @@ class StreamingXMLToolCallParser:
 
 
 class Qwen3XMLToolParser(ToolParser):
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
         super().__init__(tokenizer)
         self.parser = StreamingXMLToolCallParser()
 

vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/seed_oss_tool_parser.py

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.abstract_tool_parser import (
     ToolParser,
 )
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ class SeedOssToolParser(ToolParser):
     TOOL_CALL_START = "<seed:tool_call>"
     TOOL_CALL_END = "</seed:tool_call>"
 
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
         super().__init__(tokenizer)
 
         # --- streaming state ---

vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/step3_tool_parser.py

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.abstract_tool_parser import (
     ToolParser,
 )
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.utils import random_uuid
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ class Step3ToolParser(ToolParser):
     TOOL_SEP = "<｜tool_sep｜>"
     SPECIAL_TOKENS = [TOOL_CALLS_BEGIN, TOOL_CALLS_END, TOOL_CALL_BEGIN, TOOL_CALL_END]
 
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
         super().__init__(tokenizer)
         self.position = 0
         # Explicit state flags for robust streaming

vllm/entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/xlam_tool_parser.py

@@ -21,14 +21,14 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.tool_parsers.abstract_tool_parser import (
     ToolParser,
 )
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.utils import random_uuid
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
 
 class xLAMToolParser(ToolParser):
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike):
         super().__init__(tokenizer)
 
         # Initialize state for streaming mode

vllm/entrypoints/renderer.py

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ from vllm.inputs.data import EmbedsPrompt as EngineEmbedsPrompt
 from vllm.inputs.data import TextPrompt as EngineTextPrompt
 from vllm.inputs.data import TokensPrompt as EngineTokensPrompt
 from vllm.inputs.parse import get_prompt_components, parse_raw_prompts
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.utils.async_utils import AsyncMicrobatchTokenizer
 
 
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ class BaseRenderer(ABC):
     def __init__(
         self,
         model_config: ModelConfig,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer | None = None,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike | None = None,
     ):
         super().__init__()
         self.model_config = model_config
@@ -200,8 +200,8 @@ class CompletionRenderer(BaseRenderer):
     def __init__(
         self,
         model_config: ModelConfig,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer | None = None,
-        async_tokenizer_pool: dict[AnyTokenizer, AsyncMicrobatchTokenizer]
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike | None = None,
+        async_tokenizer_pool: dict[TokenizerLike, AsyncMicrobatchTokenizer]
         | None = None,
     ):
         super().__init__(model_config, tokenizer)
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ class CompletionRenderer(BaseRenderer):
             return async_tokenizer
 
         tokenizer = self.tokenizer
-        if self.tokenizer is None:
+        if tokenizer is None:
             raise ValueError("No tokenizer available for text input processing")
 
         if self.async_tokenizer_pool is None:

vllm/entrypoints/score_utils.py

@@ -19,11 +19,7 @@ from vllm.inputs import TokensPrompt
 from vllm.model_executor.models.interfaces import supports_score_template
 from vllm.multimodal.inputs import MultiModalDataDict
 from vllm.outputs import PoolingRequestOutput
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import (
-    AnyTokenizer,
-    PreTrainedTokenizer,
-    PreTrainedTokenizerFast,
-)
+from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import TokenizerLike
 
 ScoreContentPartParam: TypeAlias = (
     ChatCompletionContentPartImageParam | ChatCompletionContentPartImageEmbedsParam
@@ -45,7 +41,7 @@ class ScoreMultiModalParam(TypedDict, total=False):
 
 
 def _cosine_similarity(
-    tokenizer: PreTrainedTokenizer | PreTrainedTokenizerFast,
+    tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
     embed_1: list[PoolingRequestOutput],
     embed_2: list[PoolingRequestOutput],
 ) -> list[PoolingRequestOutput]:
@@ -93,7 +89,7 @@ def parse_score_data(
     data_1: str | ScoreContentPartParam,
     data_2: str | ScoreContentPartParam,
     model_config: ModelConfig,
-    tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+    tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
 ) -> tuple[str, str, MultiModalDataDict | None]:
     mm_tracker = MultiModalItemTracker(model_config, tokenizer)
 
@@ -118,12 +114,14 @@ def _parse_score_content(
     mm_tracker: BaseMultiModalItemTracker,
 ) -> _ContentPart | None:
     if isinstance(data, str):
-        data = ChatCompletionContentPartTextParam(type="text", text=data)
+        part = ChatCompletionContentPartTextParam(type="text", text=data)
+    else:
+        part = data
 
     mm_parser = mm_tracker.create_parser()
 
     parse_res = _parse_chat_message_content_part(
-        data,
+        part,
         mm_parser,
         wrap_dicts=False,
         interleave_strings=False,
@@ -181,7 +179,7 @@ def post_process_tokens(
 
 def get_score_prompt(
     model_config: ModelConfig,
-    tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+    tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
     tokenization_kwargs: dict[str, Any],
     data_1: str | ScoreContentPartParam,
     data_2: str | ScoreContentPartParam,

vllm/entrypoints/utils.py

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol import (
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.serving_models import LoRAModulePath
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
 from vllm.platforms import current_platform
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizers import MistralTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import MistralTokenizer
 from vllm.utils.argparse_utils import FlexibleArgumentParser
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)

vllm/inputs/preprocess.py

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ from vllm.multimodal.inputs import (
     MultiModalUUIDDict,
 )
 from vllm.multimodal.processing import BaseMultiModalProcessor
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.utils.jsontree import json_iter_leaves
 from vllm.v1.metrics.stats import MultiModalCacheStats
 
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ class InputPreprocessor:
     def __init__(
         self,
         model_config: ModelConfig,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer | None,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike | None,
         mm_registry: MultiModalRegistry = MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY,
         mm_processor_cache: BaseMultiModalProcessorCache | None = None,
     ) -> None:
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ class InputPreprocessor:
 
         self.mm_cache_stats = MultiModalCacheStats() if mm_processor_cache else None
 
-    def get_tokenizer(self) -> AnyTokenizer:
+    def get_tokenizer(self) -> TokenizerLike:
         if self.tokenizer is None:
             raise ValueError(
                 "You cannot pass text prompts when `skip_tokenizer_init` is True"
@@ -228,11 +228,11 @@ class InputPreprocessor:
 
         return tokenizer.encode(prompt, **tokenization_kwargs)
 
-    def _get_mm_tokenizer(self) -> AnyTokenizer:
+    def _get_mm_tokenizer(self) -> TokenizerLike:
         # PrithviGeoSpatialMAE needs to be initialized without a tokenizer
         # while using also multi-modal input
         if not self.tokenizer:
-            return cast(AnyTokenizer, object())  # Dummy
+            return cast(TokenizerLike, object())  # Dummy
 
         tokenizer = self.get_tokenizer()
         return tokenizer

vllm/logits_process.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ from typing import TypeAlias
 
 import torch
 
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 LogitsProcessor: TypeAlias = (
     Callable[[list[int], torch.Tensor], torch.Tensor]
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ to sample from."""
 
 
 def get_bad_words_logits_processors(
-    bad_words: list[str], tokenizer: AnyTokenizer
+    bad_words: list[str], tokenizer: TokenizerLike
 ) -> list[LogitsProcessor]:
     bad_words_ids: list[list[int]] = list()
 

vllm/model_executor/models/h2ovl.py

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ from vllm.multimodal.processing import (
     PromptUpdate,
     PromptUpdateDetails,
 )
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 from .intern_vit import InternVisionModel
 from .internvl import (
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ class H2OVLProcessor(BaseInternVLProcessor):
     def __init__(
         self,
         config: PretrainedConfig,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         *,
         min_dynamic_patch: int | None = None,
         max_dynamic_patch: int | None = None,

vllm/model_executor/models/internvl.py

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ from vllm.multimodal.processing import (
 )
 from vllm.multimodal.profiling import BaseDummyInputsBuilder
 from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.utils.tensor_schema import TensorSchema, TensorShape
 from vllm.utils.torch_utils import set_default_torch_num_threads
 
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ class BaseInternVLProcessor(ABC):
     def __init__(
         self,
         config: PretrainedConfig,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         *,
         min_dynamic_patch: int | None = None,
         max_dynamic_patch: int | None = None,
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ class InternVLProcessor(BaseInternVLProcessor):
     def __init__(
         self,
         config: PretrainedConfig,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         *,
         min_dynamic_patch: int | None = None,
         max_dynamic_patch: int | None = None,

vllm/model_executor/models/nano_nemotron_vl.py

@@ -73,9 +73,9 @@ from vllm.multimodal.processing import (
 )
 from vllm.multimodal.profiling import BaseDummyInputsBuilder
 from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.transformers_utils.configs.radio import RadioConfig
 from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import (
-    AnyTokenizer,
     cached_tokenizer_from_config,
     encode_tokens,
 )
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ class BaseNanoNemotronVLProcessor(ABC):
     def __init__(
         self,
         config: PretrainedConfig,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         *args,
         max_num_tiles: int | None = None,
         **kwargs,
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ class NanoNemotronVLProcessor(BaseNanoNemotronVLProcessor):
     def __init__(
         self,
         config: PretrainedConfig,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         *,
         max_num_tiles: int | None = None,
         min_dynamic_patch: int | None = None,
@@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ class NanoNemotronVLProcessor(BaseNanoNemotronVLProcessor):
         tokens_per_frame: list[int],
         frames_indices: list[int],
         frame_duration_ms: int,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         img_start_token_ids: list[int],
         img_end_token_ids: list[int],
         img_context_token_ids: list[int],
@@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ class NanoNemotronVLProcessor(BaseNanoNemotronVLProcessor):
             tokens_per_frame (list[int]): number of tokens per frame
             frames_indices (list[int]): frame indices
             frame_duration_ms (int): duration of each frame in milliseconds
-            tokenizer (AnyTokenizer): tokenizer to use for tokenizing frame separators
+            tokenizer (TokenizerLike): tokenizer to use for tokenizing frame separators
             img_start_token_ids (list[int]): pre-tokenized IMG_START tokens
             img_end_token_ids (list[int]): pre-tokenized IMG_END tokens
             img_context_token_ids (list[int]): pre-tokenized IMG_CONTEXT tokens

vllm/model_executor/models/nemotron_vl.py

@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ from vllm.multimodal import MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY
 from vllm.multimodal.image import convert_image_mode
 from vllm.multimodal.processing import PromptUpdateDetails
 from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.transformers_utils.processor import cached_image_processor_from_config
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
 
 from .interfaces import (
     MultiModalEmbeddings,
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ class NemotronVLProcessor(InternVLProcessor):
     def __init__(
         self,
         config: PretrainedConfig,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         image_processor: BaseImageProcessorFast,
         *,
         min_dynamic_patch: int | None = None,

vllm/model_executor/models/opencua.py

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ from vllm.multimodal.processing import (
     PromptReplacement,
     PromptUpdate,
 )
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 from .qwen2_5_vl import (
     Qwen2_5_VisionTransformer as OpenCUAVisionTransformer,
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ class OpenCUAProcessor(Qwen2VLProcessor):
     def __init__(
         self,
         vision_config: dict,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         **kwargs,
     ):
         image_processor = Qwen2VLImageProcessor(**vision_config)

vllm/model_executor/models/pixtral.py

@@ -59,10 +59,8 @@ from vllm.multimodal.processing import (
 from vllm.multimodal.profiling import BaseDummyInputsBuilder, ProcessorInputs
 from vllm.platforms import current_platform
 from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import (
-    MistralTokenizer,
-    cached_tokenizer_from_config,
-)
+from vllm.tokenizers import MistralTokenizer
+from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import cached_tokenizer_from_config
 from vllm.utils.tensor_schema import TensorSchema, TensorShape
 
 from .interfaces import MultiModalEmbeddings, SupportsMultiModal, SupportsPP

vllm/model_executor/models/qwen2_vl.py

@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ from vllm.multimodal.processing import (
 )
 from vllm.multimodal.profiling import BaseDummyInputsBuilder
 from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.utils.tensor_schema import TensorSchema, TensorShape
 
 from .interfaces import (
@@ -1533,7 +1533,7 @@ class Tarsier2Processor(Qwen2VLProcessor):
     def __init__(
         self,
         vision_config: dict,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         **kwargs,
     ):
         self.image_processor = Tarsier2ImageProcessor(**vision_config)

vllm/model_executor/models/skyworkr1v.py

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ from vllm.multimodal.processing import (
 )
 from vllm.multimodal.profiling import BaseDummyInputsBuilder
 from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.utils.tensor_schema import TensorSchema, TensorShape
 
 from .interfaces import MultiModalEmbeddings, SupportsMultiModal, SupportsPP
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ class SkyworkR1VProcessor:
     def __init__(
         self,
         config: PretrainedConfig,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         *,
         min_dynamic_patch: int | None = None,
         max_dynamic_patch: int | None = None,

vllm/model_executor/models/step3_vl.py

@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ from vllm.multimodal.processing import (
 )
 from vllm.multimodal.profiling import BaseDummyInputsBuilder
 from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.transformers_utils.configs import Step3VisionEncoderConfig
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
 from vllm.utils.tensor_schema import TensorSchema, TensorShape
 
 from .interfaces import MultiModalEmbeddings, SupportsMultiModal, SupportsPP
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ class Step3VLProcessor:
     def __init__(
         self,
         config: PretrainedConfig,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
     ) -> None:
         super().__init__()
 

vllm/model_executor/models/voxtral.py

@@ -51,10 +51,8 @@ from vllm.multimodal.processing import (
 )
 from vllm.multimodal.profiling import BaseDummyInputsBuilder, ProcessorInputs
 from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import (
-    MistralTokenizer,
-    cached_tokenizer_from_config,
-)
+from vllm.tokenizers import MistralTokenizer
+from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import cached_tokenizer_from_config
 
 from .interfaces import SupportsLoRA, SupportsMultiModal, SupportsTranscription
 from .utils import init_vllm_registered_model, maybe_prefix

vllm/multimodal/processing.py

@@ -23,8 +23,9 @@ import torch
 from typing_extensions import TypeVar, assert_never
 
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.transformers_utils.processor import cached_processor_from_config
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer, decode_tokens, encode_tokens
+from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import decode_tokens, encode_tokens
 from vllm.utils.collection_utils import flatten_2d_lists, full_groupby
 from vllm.utils.func_utils import get_allowed_kwarg_only_overrides
 from vllm.utils.jsontree import JSONTree, json_map_leaves
@@ -76,7 +77,7 @@ PromptSeq: TypeAlias = str | list[int]
 
 @lru_cache(maxsize=2048)
 def _cached_encode(
-    tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+    tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
     text: str,
     *,
     add_special_tokens: bool | None = None,
@@ -86,7 +87,7 @@ def _cached_encode(
 
 @lru_cache(maxsize=2048)
 def _cached_decode(
-    tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+    tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
     token_ids: tuple[int, ...],
     *,
     skip_special_tokens: bool | None = None,
@@ -96,14 +97,14 @@ def _cached_decode(
     )
 
 
-def _seq2text(tokenizer: AnyTokenizer, seq: PromptSeq) -> str:
+def _seq2text(tokenizer: TokenizerLike, seq: PromptSeq) -> str:
     if isinstance(seq, str):
         return seq
 
     return _cached_decode(tokenizer, tuple(seq))
 
 
-def _seq2tokens(tokenizer: AnyTokenizer, seq: PromptSeq) -> list[int]:
+def _seq2tokens(tokenizer: TokenizerLike, seq: PromptSeq) -> list[int]:
     if isinstance(seq, str):
         return _cached_encode(tokenizer, seq, add_special_tokens=False)
 
@@ -113,7 +114,7 @@ def _seq2tokens(tokenizer: AnyTokenizer, seq: PromptSeq) -> list[int]:
 class _GetMatchIndex(Protocol):
     def __call__(
         self,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         prompt: PromptSeq,
         start_idx: int = 0,
     ) -> int | None: ...
@@ -143,7 +144,7 @@ class PromptIndexTargets:
         """
 
         def get_match_index(
-            tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+            tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
             prompt: PromptSeq,
             start_idx: int = 0,
         ) -> int | None:
@@ -199,7 +200,7 @@ class PromptUpdateDetails(Generic[_S]):
     full: _S
     """The full content."""
 
-    is_embed: Callable[[AnyTokenizer, PromptSeq], torch.Tensor] | None = None
+    is_embed: Callable[[TokenizerLike, PromptSeq], torch.Tensor] | None = None
     """
     Given [`full`][vllm.multimodal.processing.PromptUpdateDetails.full],
     return a boolean mask of shape `(len(full),)` indicating which positions
@@ -220,7 +221,7 @@ class PromptUpdateDetails(Generic[_S]):
         seq: _S,
         embed_text: str,
     ) -> "PromptUpdateDetails[_S]":
-        def is_embed(tokenizer: AnyTokenizer, full: PromptSeq) -> torch.Tensor:
+        def is_embed(tokenizer: TokenizerLike, full: PromptSeq) -> torch.Tensor:
             embed_token_ids = encode_tokens(tokenizer, embed_text)
             token_ids = _seq2tokens(tokenizer, full)
 
@@ -236,7 +237,7 @@ class PromptUpdateDetails(Generic[_S]):
         seq: _S,
         embed_token_id: int,
     ) -> "PromptUpdateDetails[_S]":
-        def is_embed(tokenizer: AnyTokenizer, full: PromptSeq) -> torch.Tensor:
+        def is_embed(tokenizer: TokenizerLike, full: PromptSeq) -> torch.Tensor:
             token_ids = _seq2tokens(tokenizer, full)
 
             return torch.tensor(token_ids) == embed_token_id
@@ -522,7 +523,7 @@ class ResolvedPromptUpdate:
     def iter_token_matches(
         self,
         prompt: list[int],
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         *,
         start_idx: int = 0,
     ) -> Generator[PromptTargetMatch]:
@@ -544,7 +545,7 @@ class ResolvedPromptUpdate:
     def iter_text_matches(
         self,
         prompt: str,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         *,
         start_idx: int = 0,
     ) -> Generator[PromptTargetMatch]:
@@ -566,7 +567,7 @@ class ResolvedPromptUpdate:
     def iter_matches(
         self,
         prompt: list[int] | str,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
         *,
         start_idx: int = 0,
     ) -> Generator[PromptTargetMatch]:
@@ -675,7 +676,7 @@ _MatchToApply = tuple[tuple[str, int], tuple[PromptTargetMatch, int]]
 def _find_matches(
     prompt: _S,
     mm_prompt_updates: "MultiModalPromptUpdates",
-    tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+    tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
     *,
     prev_end_idx: int = 0,
     current_result: "MultiModalPromptUpdatesApplyResult",
@@ -740,7 +741,7 @@ def _all_items_found(
 def _apply_matches(
     prompt: _S,
     mm_prompt_updates: "MultiModalPromptUpdates",
-    tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+    tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
 ) -> tuple[list[_S], "MultiModalPromptUpdatesApplyResult"]:
     mm_item_counts = {m: len(items) for m, items in mm_prompt_updates.items()}
 
@@ -806,7 +807,7 @@ def _apply_matches(
 def apply_token_matches(
     prompt: list[int],
     mm_prompt_updates: "MultiModalPromptUpdates",
-    tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+    tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
 ) -> tuple[list[int], "MultiModalPromptUpdatesApplyResult"]:
     """
     Apply the updates in `mm_prompt_updates` to `prompt`.
@@ -823,7 +824,7 @@ def apply_token_matches(
 def apply_text_matches(
     prompt: str,
     mm_prompt_updates: "MultiModalPromptUpdates",
-    tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+    tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
 ) -> tuple[str, "MultiModalPromptUpdatesApplyResult"]:
     """
     Apply the updates in `mm_prompt_updates` to `prompt`.
@@ -840,7 +841,7 @@ def apply_text_matches(
 def _iter_placeholders(
     prompt: list[int],
     mm_prompt_updates: "MultiModalPromptUpdates",
-    tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+    tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
 ) -> Iterable[PlaceholderFeaturesInfo]:
     """
     Yield each set of placeholder tokens found in `prompt`.
@@ -909,7 +910,7 @@ def _iter_placeholders(
 def find_mm_placeholders(
     prompt: list[int],
     mm_prompt_updates: "MultiModalPromptUpdates",
-    tokenizer: AnyTokenizer,
+    tokenizer: TokenizerLike,
 ) -> Mapping[str, list[PlaceholderFeaturesInfo]]:
     it = _iter_placeholders(prompt, mm_prompt_updates, tokenizer)
     return dict(full_groupby_modality(it))
@@ -930,7 +931,7 @@ class InputProcessingContext:
     model_config: ModelConfig
     """The configuration of the model."""
 
-    tokenizer: AnyTokenizer
+    tokenizer: TokenizerLike
     """The tokenizer used to tokenize the inputs."""
 
     @overload
@@ -1146,7 +1147,7 @@ class BaseProcessingInfo:
     def model_id(self) -> str:
         return self.ctx.model_config.model
 
-    def get_tokenizer(self) -> AnyTokenizer:
+    def get_tokenizer(self) -> TokenizerLike:
         return self.ctx.tokenizer
 
     def get_hf_config(self) -> PretrainedConfig:

vllm/multimodal/registry.py

@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Generic, Protocol, TypeVar, cast
 
 from vllm.config.multimodal import BaseDummyOptions
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer, cached_tokenizer_from_config
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
+from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import cached_tokenizer_from_config
 
 from .cache import BaseMultiModalProcessorCache
 from .processing import (
@@ -231,17 +232,20 @@ class MultiModalRegistry:
     def _create_processing_ctx(
         self,
         model_config: "ModelConfig",
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer | None = None,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike | None = None,
     ) -> InputProcessingContext:
-        if tokenizer is None and not model_config.skip_tokenizer_init:
+        if model_config.skip_tokenizer_init:
+            tokenizer = cast(TokenizerLike, object())
+        elif tokenizer is None:
             tokenizer = cached_tokenizer_from_config(model_config)
+
         return InputProcessingContext(model_config, tokenizer)
 
     def _create_processing_info(
         self,
         model_config: "ModelConfig",
         *,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer | None = None,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike | None = None,
     ) -> BaseProcessingInfo:
         model_cls = self._get_model_cls(model_config)
         factories = model_cls._processor_factory
@@ -252,7 +256,7 @@ class MultiModalRegistry:
         self,
         model_config: "ModelConfig",
         *,
-        tokenizer: AnyTokenizer | None = None,
+        tokenizer: TokenizerLike | None = None,
         cache: BaseMultiModalProcessorCache | None = None,
     ) -> BaseMultiModalProcessor[BaseProcessingInfo]:
         """

vllm/reasoning/abs_reasoning_parsers.py

@@ -19,12 +19,12 @@ if TYPE_CHECKING:
         DeltaMessage,
         ResponsesRequest,
     )
-    from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+    from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 else:
     ChatCompletionRequest = Any
     DeltaMessage = Any
     ResponsesRequest = Any
-    AnyTokenizer = Any
+    TokenizerLike = Any
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ class ReasoningParser:
     It is used to extract reasoning content from the model output.
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer, *args, **kwargs):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike, *args, **kwargs):
         self.model_tokenizer = tokenizer
 
     @cached_property

vllm/reasoning/basic_parsers.py

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any
 
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol import DeltaMessage
 from vllm.reasoning.abs_reasoning_parsers import ReasoningParser
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol import (
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ class BaseThinkingReasoningParser(ReasoningParser):
         """The token that ends reasoning content."""
         raise NotImplementedError
 
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer, *args, **kwargs):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike, *args, **kwargs):
         super().__init__(tokenizer, *args, **kwargs)
 
         if not self.model_tokenizer:

vllm/reasoning/minimax_m2_reasoning_parser.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol import (
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
 from vllm.reasoning.abs_reasoning_parsers import ReasoningParser
 from vllm.reasoning.basic_parsers import BaseThinkingReasoningParser
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ class MiniMaxM2AppendThinkReasoningParser(ReasoningParser):
     Reasoning parser for MiniMax M2 model.
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer, *args, **kwargs):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike, *args, **kwargs):
         super().__init__(tokenizer, *args, **kwargs)
         self.end_token_id = self.vocab.get("</think>")
 

vllm/reasoning/mistral_reasoning_parser.py

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from functools import cached_property
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
 from vllm.reasoning import ReasoningParser
 from vllm.reasoning.deepseek_r1_reasoning_parser import DeepSeekR1ReasoningParser
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizers.mistral import MistralTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import MistralTokenizer
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 

vllm/reasoning/olmo3_reasoning_parser.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 import regex as re
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+    from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 
 from vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol import (
     ChatCompletionRequest,
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ class Olmo3ReasoningParser(ReasoningParser):
           token is missing from generation.
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: "AnyTokenizer", *args, **kwargs):
+    def __init__(self, tokenizer: "TokenizerLike", *args, **kwargs):
         super().__init__(tokenizer, *args, **kwargs)
 
         self.think_start = r"<think>"

vllm/sampling_params.py

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ from pydantic.dataclasses import dataclass
 
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
 from vllm.logits_process import LogitsProcessor
-from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import AnyTokenizer
+from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.v1.serial_utils import PydanticMsgspecMixin
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ class SamplingParams(
                     eos_ids.update(self.stop_token_ids)
                     self.stop_token_ids = list(eos_ids)
 
-    def update_from_tokenizer(self, tokenizer: AnyTokenizer) -> None:
+    def update_from_tokenizer(self, tokenizer: TokenizerLike) -> None:
         if not self.bad_words:
             return
         self._bad_words_token_ids = []