[artem-spector]

Summary

• Add built-in support for Granite 4.1 Vision (granite4_vision), a multimodal model with deepstack vision-to-LLM feature injection and window Q-Former downsampling
• Model uses SigLip2 vision encoder, injects features at multiple LLM layers via masked addition (deepstack), with optional spatial offset sampling
• Includes _CONFIG_REGISTRY entry so vLLM can load the model without upstream HF transformers support
• Model ships with a same-repo LoRA adapter; tests use default_mm_loras for automatic adapter activation

Files added/modified

File	Purpose
vllm/model_executor/models/granite4_vision.py	Model implementation (deepstack injection, multimodal interface)
vllm/model_executor/models/registry.py	Register in _MULTIMODAL_MODELS
vllm/transformers_utils/configs/granite4_vision.py	Config class for _CONFIG_REGISTRY
vllm/transformers_utils/configs/__init__.py	Config import
vllm/transformers_utils/config.py	_CONFIG_REGISTRY entry
vllm/transformers_utils/processors/granite4_vision.py	Processor class
vllm/transformers_utils/processors/__init__.py	Processor import
docs/models/supported_models.md	Add to supported models list
tests/models/registry.py	Registry test entry
tests/models/multimodal/generation/test_common.py	VLM correctness test (HF vs vLLM)

Test plan

• pytest tests/models/test_registry.py -k "Granite4Vision" — model loading (1 passed)
• pytest tests/models/multimodal/generation/test_common.py -k "granite4_vision" — HF vs vLLM output comparison with LoRA adapter (1 passed)
• pytest tests/models/multimodal/processing/test_common.py -k "ibm-granite/granite-vision-4.1-4b" — multi-modal processing correctness (3 passed)

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Documentation preview: https://vllm--40282.org.readthedocs.build/en/40282/

[gemini-code-assist]

Code Review

This pull request adds support for the Granite 4 Vision model, implementing its architecture which utilizes a SigLIP vision encoder and WindowQFormer projectors for deepstack feature injection into a Granite language backbone. The changes include the model implementation, custom configuration, and a specialized processor. Feedback indicates that storing request-specific state on the model instance is not thread-safe and could lead to race conditions. Additionally, the use of tensor cloning in the layer loop was identified as a performance bottleneck, and the manual LoRA merging logic was flagged as fragile and potentially incompatible with quantization schemes.

[gemini-code-assist]

The manual LoRA merging logic in _merge_lora_deltas is fragile and incompatible with quantization. It directly manipulates param.data assuming it is a standard floating-point tensor, which will fail or produce incorrect results for models using AWQ, GPTQ, FP8, or other quantization schemes where weights are packed or scaled. Additionally, this logic duplicates complex Tensor Parallelism (TP) sharding and fused-weight mapping (QKV, gate-up) that is already robustly handled by vLLM's core infrastructure. This custom implementation bypasses vLLM's native LoRA support and creates a significant maintenance burden. It is strongly recommended to remove this logic and rely on vLLM's existing LoRA features or provide pre-merged checkpoints.

[artem-spector]

Resolved in bb6a963 — dropped the entire merge-on-load flow. Native vLLM LoRA serving (--enable-lora --default-mm-loras) is the supported path for LoRA adapters.

[DarkLight1337]

Thanks, some initial comments

[DarkLight1337]

Please keep in alphabetical order

[artem-spector]

Done in a92e14d.

[DarkLight1337]

You can use the Blip2QFormerModel from vLLM

[artem-spector]

Done in b3ac386 — switched WindowQFormerDownsampler to use vLLM's Blip2QFormerModel from blip2.py

[DarkLight1337]

/gemini review

[gemini-code-assist]

Code Review

This pull request adds support for the Granite 4 Vision model, including its SigLIP vision encoder and deepstack feature injection architecture. The changes encompass model implementation, configuration, and processor integration. Review feedback highlighted critical issues: the deepstack injection is incompatible with Pipeline Parallelism, the embedding logic is memory-inefficient and potentially problematic for CUDA graphs, the manual LoRA merging lacks quantization awareness, and a logic error was found in the test post-processor.

[gemini-code-assist]

The current implementation of Pipeline Parallelism (PP) for Deepstack injection is broken. The deepstack_input_embeds are only created on the first PP rank and are not passed to subsequent ranks. Consequently, layers on ranks other than the first will not receive the required feature injections. To fix this, the deepstack tensors should be included in the IntermediateTensors passed between PP stages, and each rank should extract the tensors corresponding to its assigned layers.

[artem-spector]

Fixed in commit 453479a.

The fix has three parts:

1. make_empty_intermediate_tensors on the right class — overridden on Granite4VisionLLMForCausalLM (not on Granite4VisionLLMModel), which is the class vLLM actually calls. It adds a ds_{layer} key for each deepstack target layer so the
   PP receive buffer is pre-allocated with the right shape.
2. _ds_layer_indices accessible to the override — the inner LLM model only sees text_config (no deepstack_layer_map), so the outer model sets self.language_model._ds_layer_indices after construction.
3. Full-size buffers sent between ranks — sync_and_slice_intermediate_tensors copies copy_len = num_tokens_padded rows (CUDA graph bucket size), which can exceed actual token count. Sending the full pre-allocated buffer (max_tokens × hidden_size) ensures the copy always succeeds.

[gemini-code-assist]

This loop creates a new large zero tensor (buf_data) on every call to embed_input_ids for each deepstack level. This is highly inefficient and can lead to memory pressure or OOM when N (batch size) is large. Since self._ds_buffers are already pre-allocated persistent buffers, you should scatter the multimodal features directly into a slice of the persistent buffer after zeroing it. Additionally, initializing these buffers on CPU (line 549) and moving them to GPU on the first request can cause a crash during CUDA graph capture if the first requests are text-only, as the graph will capture operations on CPU tensors. It is recommended to register these as buffers using self.register_buffer in __init__ to ensure they are correctly moved to the GPU with the model.

Suggested change

	buf_data = torch.zeros(N, lm_h, dtype=inputs_embeds.dtype, device=inputs_embeds.device)
	buf_data[is_multimodal] = level_features[level_idx]
	self._ds_buffers[level_idx][:N].copy_(buf_data)
	for level_idx in range(len(self._ds_layer_indices)):
	target_buf = self._ds_buffers[level_idx][:N]
	target_buf.zero_()
	target_buf[is_multimodal] = level_features[level_idx]

[artem-spector]

Fixed in 53c0b8c. Eliminated the per-call torch.zeros allocation — now zeroing the persistent buffer slice directly and scattering features into it:

target = self._ds_buffers[level_idx][:N]
target.zero_()
target[is_multimodal] = level_features[level_idx]

On the register_buffer suggestion: since _ds_buffers is a list of tensors rather than named attributes, register_buffer doesn't apply directly. The lazy device migration on first use is safe because text-only requests never reach embed_input_ids (they skip embed_multimodal entirely), so CUDA graph capture won't encounter CPU tensors.

[gemini-code-assist]

The manual LoRA merging logic is not quantization-aware. It attempts to cast shard.data to float, add a delta, and cast back to the original dtype. If the model is quantized (e.g., AWQ or FP8), shard.dtype will be a quantized type (like torch.int32 for packed AWQ weights), and this operation will produce incorrect results or fail. This 'Full-merge' feature should either check if the model is quantized and skip merging with a warning, or use a quantization-aware merging mechanism. Users should be encouraged to use vLLM's native LoRA support (--enable-lora) which handles quantized models correctly.

[artem-spector]

Resolved in bb6a963 — dropped the entire merge-on-load flow. Native vLLM LoRA serving (--enable-lora --default-mm-loras) is the supported path for LoRA adapters.

[gemini-code-assist]

There is a logic error in the list comprehension when idx == 0. The condition output_ids[idx - 1] will check the last token of the sequence (output_ids[-1]) when processing the first token. If the sequence starts and ends with mm_token_id, the first token will be incorrectly skipped. The condition should explicitly handle the first index to ensure it is always kept if it matches the criteria.

Suggested change

	if token_id != mm_token_id or output_ids[idx - 1] != mm_token_id
	if token_id != mm_token_id or idx == 0 or output_ids[idx - 1] != mm_token_id

[artem-spector]

Fixed in 53c0b8c. Added the explicit idx == 0 guard:
if token_id != mm_token_id or idx == 0 or output_ids[idx - 1] != mm_token_id

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[DarkLight1337]

Thanks for your patience!

[artem-spector]

CI tests fail because the model ibm-granite/granite-vision-4.1-4b is not public yet.
We could give an access for your CI user to the model, would that be acceptable?

[DarkLight1337]

Let's just set is_available_online=False until it's released