[Core][MM] Optimize encoder cache manager by operating with embeddings only (#30475)

Signed-off-by: Roger Wang <hey@rogerw.io>
Co-authored-by: Sun Kim <sunytokki@gmail.com>

tests/models/multimodal/processing/test_mllama4.py

@@ -60,12 +60,12 @@ def test_profiling(model_id: str, max_model_len: int):
         total_num_patches.item() + num_tiles.item() + 3
     )  # image start, image, image end
 
-    profiled_tokens = profiler.get_mm_max_contiguous_tokens(
+    profiled_tokens = profiler.get_mm_max_tokens(
         max_model_len,
         mm_counts=mm_counts,
     )
 
-    assert total_tokens == profiled_tokens["image"]
+    assert total_num_patches == profiled_tokens["image"]
     assert total_tokens == sum(
         placeholder.length
         for placeholder in decoder_dummy_data.multi_modal_placeholders["image"]

tests/multimodal/test_utils.py

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile, TemporaryDirectory
 
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
+import torch
 from PIL import Image, ImageChops
 
 from vllm.multimodal.image import convert_image_mode
@@ -410,6 +411,97 @@ def test_argsort_mm_positions(case):
     assert modality_idxs == expected_modality_idxs
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "is_embed,expected",
+    [
+        (None, 5),
+        (torch.tensor([True, True, True, True, True]), 5),
+        (torch.tensor([False, False, False, False, False]), 0),
+        (torch.tensor([True, False, True, False, True]), 3),
+        (torch.tensor([True]), 1),
+    ],
+)
+def test_placeholder_range_get_num_embeds(is_embed, expected):
+    length = len(is_embed) if is_embed is not None else 5
+    pr = PlaceholderRange(offset=0, length=length, is_embed=is_embed)
+    assert pr.get_num_embeds == expected
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "is_embed,expected",
+    [
+        (None, None),
+        (
+            torch.tensor([False, True, False, True, True]),
+            torch.tensor([0, 1, 1, 2, 3]),
+        ),
+        (torch.tensor([True, True, True]), torch.tensor([1, 2, 3])),
+    ],
+)
+def test_placeholder_range_embeds_cumsum(is_embed, expected):
+    length = len(is_embed) if is_embed is not None else 5
+    pr = PlaceholderRange(offset=0, length=length, is_embed=is_embed)
+
+    if expected is None:
+        assert pr.embeds_cumsum is None
+        return
+
+    assert torch.equal(pr.embeds_cumsum, expected)
+    # cached_property should return the same object on repeated access
+    assert pr.embeds_cumsum is pr.embeds_cumsum
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "is_embed,start_idx,end_idx,expected",
+    [
+        (None, 2, 4, (2, 4)),
+        (
+            torch.tensor([False, True, False, True, True]),
+            3,
+            5,
+            (1, 3),
+        ),
+        (
+            torch.tensor([False, True, False, True, True]),
+            0,
+            2,
+            (0, 1),
+        ),
+        (
+            torch.tensor([True, False, True, False]),
+            2,
+            2,
+            (1, 1),
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+def test_placeholder_range_get_embeds_indices_in_range(
+    is_embed, start_idx, end_idx, expected
+):
+    length = len(is_embed) if is_embed is not None else 5
+    pr = PlaceholderRange(offset=0, length=length, is_embed=is_embed)
+    assert pr.get_embeds_indices_in_range(start_idx, end_idx) == expected
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "offset,is_embed,expected",
+    [
+        (0, None, [(0, 4)]),
+        (
+            2,
+            torch.tensor([False, True, False, True, True]),
+            [(3, 3), (5, 6)],
+        ),
+        (0, torch.tensor([True, True, True, True]), [(0, 3)]),
+        (0, torch.tensor([False, False, False, False]), []),
+    ],
+)
+def test_placeholder_range_extract_embeds_range(offset, is_embed, expected):
+    length = len(is_embed) if is_embed is not None else 5
+    pr = PlaceholderRange(offset=offset, length=length, is_embed=is_embed)
+    assert pr.extract_embeds_range() == expected
+
+
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("video_url", TEST_VIDEO_URLS)
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("num_frames", [-1, 32, 1800])

tests/v1/core/test_encoder_cache_manager.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
 import pytest
+import torch
 
 from vllm.multimodal.inputs import MultiModalFeatureSpec, PlaceholderRange
 from vllm.v1.core.encoder_cache_manager import EncoderCacheManager
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ class MockRequest:
             )
             self.mm_features.append(feature)
 
-    def get_num_encoder_tokens(self, input_id: int) -> int:
+    def get_num_encoder_embeds(self, input_id: int) -> int:
         return self._token_counts[input_id]
 
 
@@ -162,8 +163,8 @@ def test_schedule_request_multi_images_respect_space_limit():
 
     num_tokens_to_schedule = 0
     assert manager.can_allocate(req, 0, compute_budget, num_tokens_to_schedule)
-    num_tokens_to_schedule += req.get_num_encoder_tokens(0)
-    compute_budget -= req.get_num_encoder_tokens(0)
+    num_tokens_to_schedule += req.get_num_encoder_embeds(0)
+    compute_budget -= req.get_num_encoder_embeds(0)
 
     assert not manager.can_allocate(req, 1, compute_budget, num_tokens_to_schedule)
 
@@ -174,7 +175,75 @@ def test_schedule_request_multi_images_respect_compute_limit():
     compute_budget = 10
     num_tokens_to_schedule = 0
     assert manager.can_allocate(req, 0, compute_budget, num_tokens_to_schedule)
-    num_tokens_to_schedule += req.get_num_encoder_tokens(0)
-    compute_budget -= req.get_num_encoder_tokens(0)
+    num_tokens_to_schedule += req.get_num_encoder_embeds(0)
+    compute_budget -= req.get_num_encoder_embeds(0)
 
     assert not manager.can_allocate(req, 1, compute_budget, num_tokens_to_schedule)
+
+
+def test_encoder_cache_with_is_embed_mask():
+    class MockRequestWithMask(MockRequest):
+        def get_num_encoder_embeds(self, input_id: int) -> int:
+            return self.mm_features[input_id].mm_position.get_num_embeds
+
+    is_embed = torch.zeros(100, dtype=torch.bool)
+    is_embed[torch.tensor([5, 15, 25, 35, 45, 55, 65, 75])] = True
+
+    request = MockRequestWithMask("r1", ["img1"], [100])
+    request.mm_features[0] = MultiModalFeatureSpec(
+        data=None,
+        modality="image",
+        identifier="img1",
+        mm_position=PlaceholderRange(offset=0, length=100, is_embed=is_embed),
+    )
+
+    manager = EncoderCacheManager(cache_size=100)
+    manager.allocate(request, 0)
+
+    assert manager.num_free_slots == 92
+    assert "img1" in manager.cached
+
+    old_size = 100
+    new_size = request.mm_features[0].mm_position.get_num_embeds
+    assert new_size == 8
+    savings_ratio = old_size / new_size
+    assert savings_ratio == 12.5
+
+
+def test_encoder_cache_mask_based_retrieval():
+    class MockRequestWithMask(MockRequest):
+        def get_num_encoder_embeds(self, input_id: int) -> int:
+            return self.mm_features[input_id].mm_position.get_num_embeds
+
+    is_embed = torch.tensor(
+        [False, False, True, True, False, True, True, True, False, False]
+    )
+
+    request = MockRequestWithMask("r1", ["img1"], [10])
+    request.mm_features[0] = MultiModalFeatureSpec(
+        data=None,
+        modality="image",
+        identifier="img1",
+        mm_position=PlaceholderRange(offset=0, length=10, is_embed=is_embed),
+    )
+
+    manager = EncoderCacheManager(cache_size=50)
+    manager.allocate(request, 0)
+
+    assert request.mm_features[0].mm_position.get_num_embeds == 5
+
+    start_idx = 2
+    end_idx = 8
+    num_embeds_before = is_embed[:start_idx].sum().item()
+    num_embeds_in_range = is_embed[start_idx:end_idx].sum().item()
+
+    assert num_embeds_before == 0
+    assert num_embeds_in_range == 5
+
+    start_idx = 0
+    end_idx = 5
+    num_embeds_before = is_embed[:start_idx].sum().item() if start_idx > 0 else 0
+    num_embeds_in_range = is_embed[start_idx:end_idx].sum().item()
+
+    assert num_embeds_before == 0
+    assert num_embeds_in_range == 2

tests/v1/ec_connector/unit/test_ec_example_connector.py

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ class MockRequest:
             )
             self.mm_features.append(feature)
 
-    def get_num_encoder_tokens(self, input_id: int) -> int:
+    def get_num_encoder_embeds(self, input_id: int) -> int:
         assert input_id < len(self._token_counts)
         return self._token_counts[input_id]
 

vllm/distributed/ec_transfer/ec_connector/example_connector.py

@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ class ECExampleConnector(ECConnectorBase):
         Update ECConnector state after encoder cache allocation.
         """
         mm_hash = request.mm_features[index].identifier
-        num_encoder_token = request.get_num_encoder_tokens(index)
+        num_encoder_token = request.get_num_encoder_embeds(index)
         # Insert mm_hash only if this block has not been recorded yet.
         self._mm_datas_need_loads[mm_hash] = num_encoder_token
 

vllm/model_executor/models/qwen3_vl.py

@@ -713,17 +713,13 @@ class Qwen3VLProcessingInfo(Qwen2VLProcessingInfo):
         mm_counts: Mapping[str, int],
     ) -> int:
         target_width, target_height = self.get_image_size_with_most_features()
-        video_soft_tokens = self.get_num_video_tokens(
+        num_video_soft_tokens = self.get_num_video_tokens(
             image_width=target_width,
             image_height=target_height,
             num_frames=self.get_num_frames_with_most_features(seq_len, mm_counts),
             image_processor=None,
         )
-
-        # NOTE: By default in Qwen3-VL, one video token is converted to
-        # "<{timestamp} seconds>" (on average 9.5 tokens) + vision_start_token + video_token + vision_end_token # noqa: E501
-        formatted_video_soft_tokens = video_soft_tokens * 12.5
-        return int(formatted_video_soft_tokens)
+        return num_video_soft_tokens
 
     def _calculate_timestamps(
         self, indices: list[int] | torch.Tensor, video_fps: float, merge_size: int

vllm/multimodal/inputs.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
 from collections import UserDict, defaultdict
 from collections.abc import Mapping, Sequence
 from dataclasses import dataclass
-from functools import partial
+from functools import cached_property, partial
 from itertools import accumulate
 from typing import (
     TYPE_CHECKING,
@@ -169,11 +169,42 @@ class PlaceholderRange:
     between `offset` and `offset + length` to assign embeddings to.
     """
 
-    def get_num_embeds(self) -> int:
+    @cached_property
+    def embeds_cumsum(self) -> torch.Tensor | None:
         if self.is_embed is None:
+            return None
+
+        return self.is_embed.cumsum(dim=0)
+
+    @cached_property
+    def get_num_embeds(self) -> int:
+        if self.embeds_cumsum is None:
             return self.length
 
-        return int(self.is_embed.sum().item())
+        return int(self.embeds_cumsum[-1])
+
+    def get_embeds_indices_in_range(
+        self, start_idx: int, end_idx: int
+    ) -> tuple[int, int]:
+        """
+        Returns the starting and ending indices of the embeddings of encoder outputs
+        in the range of [start_idx, end_idx) in the placeholders.
+
+        For example, given:
+        PlaceholderRange(offset=2, length=5, is_embed=[False, True, False, True, True])
+
+        If start_idx=3 and end_idx=5, the output is (1, 3) because we want to get
+        the second and the third embeddings from the encoder output.
+        """
+        if self.embeds_cumsum is None:
+            return start_idx, end_idx
+
+        embeds_start_idx = (
+            int(self.embeds_cumsum[start_idx - 1]) if start_idx > 0 else 0
+        )
+        embeds_end_idx = int(self.embeds_cumsum[end_idx - 1])
+
+        return embeds_start_idx, embeds_end_idx
 
     def extract_embeds_range(self) -> list[tuple[int, int]]:
         """Extract the start and end indices of the embedded region in prompt.
@@ -188,7 +219,7 @@ class PlaceholderRange:
             Returns full placeholder range if `is_embed` is `None`.
         """
         if self.is_embed is None:
-            return [(self.offset, self.offset + self.length)]
+            return [(self.offset, self.offset + self.length - 1)]
 
         mask_i = self.is_embed.int()
         starts = torch.nonzero(

vllm/multimodal/profiling.py

@@ -274,15 +274,11 @@ class MultiModalProfiler(Generic[_I]):
     def _get_mm_num_tokens(
         self,
         mm_inputs: MultiModalInputs,
-        mm_embeddings_only: bool = True,
     ) -> Mapping[str, int]:
         placeholders_by_modality = mm_inputs["mm_placeholders"]
 
         return {
-            modality: sum(
-                item.get_num_embeds() if mm_embeddings_only else item.length
-                for item in placeholders
-            )
+            modality: sum(item.get_num_embeds for item in placeholders)
             for modality, placeholders in placeholders_by_modality.items()
         }
 
@@ -328,12 +324,15 @@ class MultiModalProfiler(Generic[_I]):
             multi_modal_placeholders=mm_inputs["mm_placeholders"],
         )
 
-    def _get_mm_max_tokens(
+    def get_mm_max_tokens(
         self,
         seq_len: int,
         mm_counts: Mapping[str, int] | None = None,
-        mm_embeddings_only: bool = True,
     ) -> Mapping[str, int]:
+        """
+        Returns the maximum number of embeddings per item of each modality, excluding
+        any break/text tokens in-between multimodal embeddings/encoder outputs.
+        """
         if mm_counts is None:
             mm_counts = self.get_mm_limits()
 
@@ -349,21 +348,4 @@ class MultiModalProfiler(Generic[_I]):
             }
 
         mm_inputs = self._get_dummy_mm_inputs(seq_len, mm_counts)
-        return self._get_mm_num_tokens(mm_inputs, mm_embeddings_only=mm_embeddings_only)
-
-    def get_mm_max_contiguous_tokens(
-        self,
-        seq_len: int,
-        mm_counts: Mapping[str, int] | None = None,
-    ) -> Mapping[str, int]:
-        """
-        Returns the maximum length of the multimodal (image placeholders+text)
-        tokens, including any break/text tokens in-between image embeddings.
-
-        `<im_start> [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] <row_break> [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] <im_end>`
-        Returns 9, even when the number of image embeddings is 6.
-
-        This is important to take into account when profiling and
-        initializing the encoder cache size.
-        """
-        return self._get_mm_max_tokens(seq_len, mm_counts, mm_embeddings_only=False)
+        return self._get_mm_num_tokens(mm_inputs)

vllm/multimodal/registry.py

@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ class MultiModalRegistry:
             profiler.get_mm_limits() if profiler_limits is None else profiler_limits
         )
 
-        return profiler.get_mm_max_contiguous_tokens(
+        return profiler.get_mm_max_tokens(
             seq_len,
             {modality: 1 for modality, limit in profiler_limits.items() if limit > 0},
         )

vllm/v1/core/encoder_cache_manager.py

@@ -39,20 +39,26 @@ class EncoderCacheManager:
     space for new embeddings.
     Oldest cached embeddings with no request referenced will be first evicted.
 
+    NOTE: The EncoderCacheManager operates on the level of multimodal embeddings
+    instead of encoder tokens (i.e. all tokens that represent the multimodal data
+    in the input sequence). This means all break/text tokens in-between multimodal
+    embeddings are not considered with respect to the cache size and the number
+    of free slots.
+
     Args:
         cache_size: Limit the size of the cache, measured by the number of
-                    tokens from the input sequence.
+                    encoder embeddings from the input sequence.
 
     Attributes:
-        cache_size: Total cache capacity in encoder tokens.
-        num_free_slots: Current available cache capacity in encoder tokens.
+        cache_size: Total cache capacity in encoder embeddings.
+        num_free_slots: Current available cache capacity in encoder embeddings.
         num_freeable_slots: Capacity that can be immediately reclaimed by
-            evicting entries with zero references (in encoder tokens).
+            evicting entries with zero references (in encoder embeddings).
         cached: Mapping from mm_hash to a set of request IDs that currently
             reference the cached entry. If the set is empty, the entry exists
             but is not referenced by any request and is eligible for
             reclamation.
-        freeable: List of tuples (mm_hash, num_tokens) representing entries
+        freeable: List of tuples (mm_hash, num_encoder_embeds) representing entries
             whose no current running request is needed and that can be freed to
             make space when needed.
         freed: List of mm_hash strings that were actually evicted since the
@@ -67,7 +73,7 @@ class EncoderCacheManager:
         # mm_hash of mm_data => ids of requests that reference the mm_data
         self.cached: dict[str, set[str]] = {}
 
-        # mm_hash of mm_data => num_encoder_tokens of the mm_data
+        # mm_hash of mm_data => num_encoder_embeds of the mm_data
         self.freeable: OrderedDict[str, int] = OrderedDict()
         self.freed: list[str] = []
 
@@ -93,8 +99,8 @@ class EncoderCacheManager:
 
         # Cached but currently not referenced by any request
         if not self.cached[mm_hash]:
-            num_tokens = self.freeable.pop(mm_hash)
-            self.num_freeable_slots -= num_tokens
+            num_encoder_embeds = self.freeable.pop(mm_hash)
+            self.num_freeable_slots -= num_encoder_embeds
 
         self.cached[mm_hash].add(request.request_id)
         return True
@@ -104,7 +110,7 @@ class EncoderCacheManager:
         request: Request,
         input_id: int,
         encoder_compute_budget: int,
-        num_tokens_to_schedule: int,
+        num_embeds_to_schedule: int,
     ) -> bool:
         """Check if there's sufficient cache space for a multimodal input.
         If there is, return True and update EncoderCacheManager state.
@@ -121,9 +127,9 @@ class EncoderCacheManager:
         Args:
             request: The request containing the multimodal input.
             input_id: Index of the multimodal input within the request.
-            encoder_compute_budget: Number of encoder tokens allowed to be
+            encoder_compute_budget: Number of encoder embeddings allowed to be
                 computed when this method is invoked.
-            num_tokens_to_schedule: Number of tokens already scheduled to be
+            num_embeds_to_schedule: Number of encoder embeddings already scheduled to be
                 allocated with cache space when this method is invoked.
 
         Returns:
@@ -134,30 +140,30 @@ class EncoderCacheManager:
         Note: This method does not allocate physical memory for the encoder
         output but only the state of EncoderCacheManager.
         """
-        num_tokens = request.get_num_encoder_tokens(input_id)
+        num_embeds = request.get_num_encoder_embeds(input_id)
 
         # Not enough compute budget
-        if num_tokens > encoder_compute_budget:
+        if num_embeds > encoder_compute_budget:
             return False
 
-        num_tokens += num_tokens_to_schedule
+        num_embeds += num_embeds_to_schedule
 
         # Enough free slots
-        if num_tokens <= self.num_free_slots:
+        if num_embeds <= self.num_free_slots:
             return True
 
         # Not enough reclaimable slots
-        if num_tokens > self.num_freeable_slots:
+        if num_embeds > self.num_freeable_slots:
             return False
 
         # Not enough free slots but enough reclaimable slots
         # NOTE: Eviction takes place here, but physical memory is not freed
         # until model runner is notified by the scheduler output.
-        while num_tokens > self.num_free_slots:
-            mm_hash, num_free_token = self.freeable.popitem(last=False)
+        while num_embeds > self.num_free_slots:
+            mm_hash, num_free_embeds = self.freeable.popitem(last=False)
             del self.cached[mm_hash]
             self.freed.append(mm_hash)
-            self.num_free_slots += num_free_token
+            self.num_free_slots += num_free_embeds
         return True
 
     def allocate(self, request: Request, input_id: int) -> None:
@@ -176,16 +182,16 @@ class EncoderCacheManager:
         if mm_hash not in self.cached:
             self.cached[mm_hash] = set()
 
-        num_encoder_tokens = request.get_num_encoder_tokens(input_id)
+        num_encoder_embeds = request.get_num_encoder_embeds(input_id)
 
         # NOTE: Encoder cache should always have enough space for encoder inputs
         # that are scheduled since eviction takes place at can_allocate().
-        assert self.num_free_slots >= num_encoder_tokens
-        assert self.num_freeable_slots >= num_encoder_tokens
+        assert self.num_free_slots >= num_encoder_embeds
+        assert self.num_freeable_slots >= num_encoder_embeds
 
         self.cached[mm_hash].add(request_id)
-        self.num_free_slots -= num_encoder_tokens
-        self.num_freeable_slots -= num_encoder_tokens
+        self.num_free_slots -= num_encoder_embeds
+        self.num_freeable_slots -= num_encoder_embeds
 
     def get_cached_input_ids(self, request: Request) -> set[int]:
         """Get all cached multimodal input IDs for a request.
@@ -206,7 +212,7 @@ class EncoderCacheManager:
 
         When the reference set for the corresponding `mm_hash` becomes empty,
         the entry is appended to `freeable` and `num_freeable_slots` is
-        increased by the number of encoder tokens for that input.
+        increased by the number of encoder embeddings for that input.
 
         The entry is NOT physically freed until capacity is needed (e.g., by
         `can_allocate`).
@@ -218,9 +224,9 @@ class EncoderCacheManager:
             return
         self.cached[mm_hash].discard(req_id)
         if not self.cached[mm_hash]:
-            num_tokens = request.get_num_encoder_tokens(input_id)
-            self.freeable[mm_hash] = num_tokens
-            self.num_freeable_slots += num_tokens
+            num_encoder_embeds = request.get_num_encoder_embeds(input_id)
+            self.freeable[mm_hash] = num_encoder_embeds
+            self.num_freeable_slots += num_encoder_embeds
 
     def free(self, request: Request) -> None:
         """Free all encoder input cache reference held by *request*.
@@ -361,20 +367,20 @@ class EncoderDecoderCacheManager(EncoderCacheManager):
         request: Request,
         input_id: int,
         encoder_compute_budget: int,
-        num_tokens_to_schedule: int,
+        num_embeds_to_schedule: int,
     ) -> bool:
-        num_tokens = request.get_num_encoder_tokens(input_id)
+        num_encoder_embeds = request.get_num_encoder_embeds(input_id)
         # Not enough compute budget
-        if num_tokens > encoder_compute_budget:
+        if num_encoder_embeds > encoder_compute_budget:
             return False
 
-        num_tokens += num_tokens_to_schedule
+        num_encoder_embeds += num_embeds_to_schedule
         # Enough free slots
-        return num_tokens <= self.num_free_slots
+        return num_encoder_embeds <= self.num_free_slots
 
     def allocate(self, request: Request, input_id: int) -> None:
-        num_encoder_tokens = request.get_num_encoder_tokens(input_id)
-        self.num_free_slots -= num_encoder_tokens
+        num_encoder_embeds = request.get_num_encoder_embeds(input_id)
+        self.num_free_slots -= num_encoder_embeds
 
         mm_hash = request.mm_features[input_id].identifier
         self.freed.append(mm_hash)
@@ -392,5 +398,5 @@ class EncoderDecoderCacheManager(EncoderCacheManager):
         return freed
 
     def free_encoder_input(self, request: Request, input_id: int) -> None:
-        num_tokens = request.get_num_encoder_tokens(input_id)
-        self.num_free_slots += num_tokens
+        num_encoder_embeds = request.get_num_encoder_embeds(input_id)
+        self.num_free_slots += num_encoder_embeds

vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py

@@ -355,11 +355,11 @@ class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):
                             if preempted_encoder_inputs:
                                 # Restore encoder compute budget if the preempted
                                 # request had encoder inputs scheduled in this step.
-                                num_tokens_to_restore = sum(
-                                    preempted_req.get_num_encoder_tokens(i)
+                                num_embeds_to_restore = sum(
+                                    preempted_req.get_num_encoder_embeds(i)
                                     for i in preempted_encoder_inputs
                                 )
-                                encoder_compute_budget += num_tokens_to_restore
+                                encoder_compute_budget += num_embeds_to_restore
                             req_index -= 1
                     else:
                         preempted_req = self.running.pop()
@@ -911,10 +911,11 @@ class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):
         # multiple encoder inputs per request), we need to create temporary
         # trackers for accounting at the encoder input level.
         mm_hashes_to_schedule = set()
-        num_tokens_to_schedule = 0
+        num_embeds_to_schedule = 0
         for i, mm_feature in enumerate(mm_features):
             start_pos = mm_feature.mm_position.offset
             num_encoder_tokens = mm_feature.mm_position.length
+            num_encoder_embeds = mm_feature.mm_position.get_num_embeds
 
             # The encoder output is needed if the two ranges overlap:
             # [num_computed_tokens, num_computed_tokens + num_new_tokens) and
@@ -970,9 +971,8 @@ class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):
             ):
                 num_new_tokens = start_pos - num_computed_tokens
                 break
-
             if not self.encoder_cache_manager.can_allocate(
-                request, i, encoder_compute_budget, num_tokens_to_schedule
+                request, i, encoder_compute_budget, num_embeds_to_schedule
             ):
                 # The encoder cache is full or the encoder budget is exhausted.
                 # NOTE(woosuk): We assume that the encoder input tokens should
@@ -992,14 +992,31 @@ class Scheduler(SchedulerInterface):
                     num_new_tokens = 0
                 break
 
+            # Calculate the number of embeddings to schedule in the current range
+            # of scheduled encoder placholder tokens.
+            start_idx_rel = max(0, num_computed_tokens - start_pos)
+            end_idx_rel = min(
+                num_encoder_tokens, num_computed_tokens + num_new_tokens - start_pos
+            )
+            curr_embeds_start, curr_embeds_end = (
+                mm_feature.mm_position.get_embeds_indices_in_range(
+                    start_idx_rel,
+                    end_idx_rel,
+                )
+            )
+            # There's no embeddings in the current range of encoder placeholder tokens
+            # so we can skip the encoder input.
+            if curr_embeds_end - curr_embeds_start == 0:
+                continue
+
             if self.ec_connector is not None and remote_cache_has_item[i]:
                 mm_hashes_to_schedule.add(request.mm_features[i].identifier)
                 external_load_encoder_input.append(i)
-                num_tokens_to_schedule += num_encoder_tokens
+                num_embeds_to_schedule += num_encoder_embeds
                 continue
 
-            num_tokens_to_schedule += num_encoder_tokens
-            encoder_compute_budget -= num_encoder_tokens
+            num_embeds_to_schedule += num_encoder_embeds
+            encoder_compute_budget -= num_encoder_embeds
             mm_hashes_to_schedule.add(request.mm_features[i].identifier)
             encoder_inputs_to_schedule.append(i)
 

vllm/v1/request.py

@@ -209,10 +209,10 @@ class Request:
     def get_finished_reason(self) -> FinishReason | None:
         return RequestStatus.get_finished_reason(self.status)
 
-    def get_num_encoder_tokens(self, input_id: int) -> int:
+    def get_num_encoder_embeds(self, input_id: int) -> int:
         assert input_id < len(self.mm_features)
-        num_tokens = self.mm_features[input_id].mm_position.length
-        return num_tokens
+        num_embeds = self.mm_features[input_id].mm_position.get_num_embeds
+        return num_embeds
 
     def record_event(
         self,

vllm/v1/worker/gpu_model_runner.py

@@ -169,9 +169,7 @@ from .utils import (
     MultiModalBudget,
     add_kv_sharing_layers_to_kv_cache_groups,
     bind_kv_cache,
-    gather_mm_placeholders,
     sanity_check_mm_encoder_outputs,
-    scatter_mm_placeholders,
 )
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
@@ -2209,10 +2207,7 @@ class GPUModelRunner(
 
         # Cache the encoder outputs by mm_hash
         for (mm_hash, pos_info), output in zip(mm_hashes_pos, encoder_outputs):
-            self.encoder_cache[mm_hash] = scatter_mm_placeholders(
-                output,
-                is_embed=pos_info.is_embed,
-            )
+            self.encoder_cache[mm_hash] = output
             logger.debug("Finish execute for mm hash %s", mm_hash)
             self.maybe_save_ec_to_connector(self.encoder_cache, mm_hash)
 
@@ -2263,6 +2258,13 @@ class GPUModelRunner(
                     num_encoder_tokens,
                 )
                 assert start_idx < end_idx
+                curr_embeds_start, curr_embeds_end = (
+                    pos_info.get_embeds_indices_in_range(start_idx, end_idx)
+                )
+                # If there are no embeddings in the current range, we skip
+                # gathering the embeddings.
+                if curr_embeds_start == curr_embeds_end:
+                    continue
 
                 mm_hash = mm_feature.identifier
                 encoder_output = self.encoder_cache.get(mm_hash, None)
@@ -2270,16 +2272,14 @@ class GPUModelRunner(
 
                 if (is_embed := pos_info.is_embed) is not None:
                     is_embed = is_embed[start_idx:end_idx]
+                    mm_embeds_item = encoder_output[curr_embeds_start:curr_embeds_end]
+                else:
+                    mm_embeds_item = encoder_output[start_idx:end_idx]
 
                 req_start_pos = req_start_idx + start_pos - num_computed_tokens
                 is_mm_embed[req_start_pos + start_idx : req_start_pos + end_idx] = (
                     True if is_embed is None else is_embed
                 )
-
-                mm_embeds_item = gather_mm_placeholders(
-                    encoder_output[start_idx:end_idx],
-                    is_embed=is_embed,
-                )
                 mm_embeds_req.append(mm_embeds_item)
 
             if self.is_multimodal_pruning_enabled and self.uses_mrope:
@@ -4508,31 +4508,8 @@ class GPUModelRunner(
                         dummy_encoder_outputs,
                         expected_num_items=max_mm_items_per_batch,
                     )
-
-                    # NOTE: This happens when encoder cache needs to store
-                    # the embeddings that encoder outputs are scattered onto.
-                    # In this case we create dummy embeddings of size
-                    # (max_tokens_for_modality, hidden_size) and scatter
-                    # encoder output into it.
-                    encoder_output_shape = dummy_encoder_outputs[0].shape
-                    max_mm_tokens_per_item = mm_budget.max_tokens_by_modality[
-                        dummy_modality
-                    ]
-                    if encoder_output_shape[0] < max_mm_tokens_per_item:
-                        encoder_hidden_size = encoder_output_shape[-1]
-                        expanded_outputs = []
-                        for output in dummy_encoder_outputs:
-                            expanded = output.new_zeros(
-                                (max_mm_tokens_per_item, encoder_hidden_size)
-                            )
-                            num_tokens = output.shape[0]
-                            expanded[:num_tokens].copy_(output)
-                            expanded_outputs.append(expanded)
-
-                        dummy_encoder_outputs = expanded_outputs
-
-                    # Cache the dummy encoder outputs.
-                    self.encoder_cache["tmp"] = dict(enumerate(dummy_encoder_outputs))
+                    for i, output in enumerate(dummy_encoder_outputs):
+                        self.encoder_cache[f"tmp_{i}"] = output
 
         # Add `is_profile` here to pre-allocate communication buffers
         hidden_states, last_hidden_states = self._dummy_run(

vllm/v1/worker/utils.py

@@ -4,10 +4,12 @@ from collections import defaultdict
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 
 import torch
+from typing_extensions import deprecated
 
 from vllm.attention.backends.abstract import AttentionBackend
 from vllm.attention.layer import Attention
 from vllm.config import ModelConfig, SchedulerConfig, VllmConfig
+from vllm.logger import init_logger
 from vllm.model_executor.models.interfaces import MultiModalEmbeddings
 from vllm.model_executor.models.utils import extract_layer_index
 from vllm.multimodal.cache import processor_only_cache_from_config
@@ -17,6 +19,8 @@ from vllm.v1.attention.backends.utils import AttentionMetadataBuilder
 from vllm.v1.core.encoder_cache_manager import compute_mm_encoder_budget
 from vllm.v1.kv_cache_interface import KVCacheGroupSpec, KVCacheSpec
 
+logger = init_logger(__name__)
+
 
 class MultiModalBudget:
     """Helper class to calculate budget information for multi-modal models."""
@@ -198,6 +202,7 @@ def sanity_check_mm_encoder_outputs(
     )
 
 
+@deprecated("`scatter_mm_placeholders` is deprecated and will be removed in v0.15.0.")
 def scatter_mm_placeholders(
     embeds: torch.Tensor,
     is_embed: torch.Tensor | None,
@@ -226,6 +231,7 @@ def scatter_mm_placeholders(
     return placeholders
 
 
+@deprecated("`gather_mm_placeholders` is deprecated and will be removed in v0.15.0.")
 def gather_mm_placeholders(
     placeholders: torch.Tensor,
     is_embed: torch.Tensor | None,