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WalkthroughTensorRT-LLM Triton requests now support optional ChangesMultimodal request handling
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Image-enabled requests may expose internal resources through supplied paths or URLs, while startup and cancellation edge cases can affect service reliability. The test module also has an outstanding lint violation, so these issues should be addressed before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant TritonRequest
participant TritonModel
participant ImageLoader
participant ChatTemplate
participant PlaceholderHelper
TritonRequest->>TritonModel: text_input and image_url
TritonModel->>ImageLoader: load image values
TritonModel->>ChatTemplate: use async or worker-thread sync templating
ChatTemplate-->>TritonModel: formatted prompt
TritonModel->>PlaceholderHelper: generate compatible placeholders
PlaceholderHelper-->>TritonModel: multimodal prompt inputs
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triton_backend/all_models/llmapi/tensorrt_llm/1/model.py (2)
589-604: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd annotations to the new helper.
_get_multimodal_contexthas no return annotation and its docstring has noReturnssection. Add the precise cached tuple type and a Google-style return description.As per coding guidelines: “Annotate every function” and use Google-style docstrings.
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645-659: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy liftCache the
AutoProcessorused bydefault_multimodal_input_loader.
default_multimodal_input_loadercallsAutoProcessor.from_pretrainedon every invocation, and_convert_requestinvokes the loader for each media request. This repeats processor construction and model-directory loading work. Reuse a per-model processor when it is safe for concurrent requests.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@triton_backend/all_models/llmapi/tensorrt_llm/1/model.py`:
- Around line 641-649: Restrict local values processed in the image_url handling
block before passing them to default_multimodal_input_loader: validate
filesystem paths against the configured media root, or resolve only approved
opaque asset identifiers, while preserving the existing public-address
validation for HTTP(S) URLs. Reject any local path outside the approved boundary
rather than allowing load_image to open it.
- Around line 652-659: Update the image-processing path in _convert_request so
the synchronous default_multimodal_input_loader runs through a bounded worker
mechanism instead of the event-loop thread. Keep the existing fetch timeout,
redirect behavior, response-size limits, and resulting prompt semantics
unchanged, and ensure _execute_single_request continues to support cancellation
while awaiting preprocessing.
In `@triton_backend/all_models/llmapi/tensorrt_llm/config.pbtxt`:
- Around line 54-62: Update the NVIDIA copyright year in the file header from
2025 to 2026 to reflect this meaningful modification.
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In `@triton_backend/all_models/llmapi/tensorrt_llm/1/model.py`:
- Around line 589-604: The _get_multimodal_context method lacks the required
type annotation and Google-style return documentation. Add a precise annotation
for its cached tuple return value and document that returned tuple in a Returns
section, preserving the existing tokenizer, model-directory, and model_type
contents.
- Around line 645-659: Update the multimodal conversion flow around
_convert_request and default_multimodal_input_loader to cache and reuse a
per-model AutoProcessor instead of constructing it on every media request.
Initialize the processor once for the model, ensure concurrent requests can
safely share it, and pass the cached processor through the loader while
preserving the existing tokenizer, model directory, modality, media, and output
behavior.
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The llmapi Triton backend accepts text only: `_convert_request` decodes `text_input` into a plain str, and a str is all that reaches `generate_async`. There is no way to attach an image, so multimodal models cannot be served through Triton even though the PyTorch backend supports them. Multimodal used to work on Triton via the TensorRT-engine backend (all_models/multimodal, which exposed image_url_input), but that tree was removed in NVIDIA#15907 and was never carried over to the llmapi backend. Add an optional `image_url` input. When present, the text and media are passed to default_multimodal_input_loader, which applies the chat template, inserts the per-architecture image placeholders and loads the images, producing the PromptInputs dict the LLM API expects: {"prompt": ..., "multi_modal_data": {"image": [...]}} Entries may be a URL, a local path or a base64 data URI, since load_image() already dispatches on the URL scheme. Multiple images per request are supported. Requests without `image_url` are unaffected. The loader inputs are resolved on the first request carrying media and cached, so text-only deployments pay nothing. The loader is imported at point of use to preserve the deferred tensorrt_llm import that multi-instance deployments rely on. Testing: the equivalent change on the v1.2.1 backend files was verified on 8xB200 with Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct served through Triton -- single image, multiple images, local paths and text-only requests. This commit is that change ported to main, where deferred-import handling differs; the port has not been re-run on hardware. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Faradawn Yang <73060648+faradawn@users.noreply.github.com>
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587-595: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd a precise return annotation to
_get_multimodal_context.This new Python function has no return annotation. Annotate the cached tokenizer, checkpoint directory, and model type tuple with precise project types.
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In `@triton_backend/all_models/llmapi/tensorrt_llm/1/model.py`:
- Around line 587-595: Add a precise return annotation to
_get_multimodal_context describing the three-element tuple: the project
tokenizer type, the checkpoint directory as str, and model_type as str. Use
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…i backend Replace default_multimodal_input_loader, which reloads AutoProcessor on every request, with the primitives trtllm-serve uses for v1/chat/completions: MultimodalDataTracker, add_multimodal_placeholders and async_apply_chat_template. The tokenizer, HF processor and pretrained config are resolved once at model load instead of per forward pass. Make _convert_request async so image fetches no longer run on the engine event loop, where a slow remote host would stall every request in flight. Consume the image_url input only when triton_config.multimodal is set, so a deployment that already declares an input with that name keeps its current behavior after an upgrade. Resolve model_type from the config class rather than the instance: composite configs such as Qwen2_5_VLConfig delegate the instance attribute to text_config and report qwen2_5_vl_text instead of the qwen2_5_vl key used by the multimodal placeholder registry. Add unit tests covering the opt-in gate and the prompt construction. Signed-off-by: Faradawn Yang <73060648+faradawn@users.noreply.github.com>
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triton_backend/all_models/llmapi/tensorrt_llm/1/model.py (1)
618-619: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winResolve the checkpoint directory defensively.
self._llm_engine._hf_model_diris a private attribute. If a futureLLMversion renames or removes it,initializeraises a rawAttributeErrorinstead of theTritonModelExceptionthat the surrounding code raises for unresolvable configuration. The access is also outside thetryblock below.♻️ Proposed change
- hf_model_dir = self._llm_engine._hf_model_dir or getattr( - getattr(tokenizer, "tokenizer", None), "name_or_path", None) + hf_model_dir = getattr(self._llm_engine, "_hf_model_dir", + None) or getattr( + getattr(tokenizer, "tokenizer", None), + "name_or_path", None)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@triton_backend/all_models/llmapi/tensorrt_llm/1/model.py`:
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initialize by accessing _hf_model_dir without raising when the private attribute
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…M 1.2.1 triton_backend/ is not shipped in the tensorrt_llm wheel, so operators copy this template out of a git checkout into their model repository. The TRT-LLM it runs against is therefore not necessarily the one it was written for. async_apply_chat_template, MultimodalDataTracker.item_order() and the fourth argument of add_multimodal_placeholders all post-date v1.2.1, which is what the current tritonserver container ships. Fall back to the older equivalents instead of failing at the first image request, and add a test that exercises the fallback path. Also trim the explanatory comments added in the previous commit. Signed-off-by: Faradawn Yang <73060648+faradawn@users.noreply.github.com>
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745-745: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winTrack cancellation before multimodal preprocessing.
Line 745 awaits image loading before lines 514-525 register the request. During this interval,
cancellation_loopandhandle_stop_requestcannot find or abort the request. A cancelled request can continue remote image fetching and decoding until preprocessing completes.Register the conversion task before this await. Cancel and remove it through both cancellation paths.
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500-500: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd annotations to the new test helpers.
Add parameter and return annotations to
test_build_multimodal_prompt_falls_back_on_older_trtllm,OldTrackermethods, and the fake helper functions.As per coding guidelines,
**/*.pyrequires annotations on every function.Also applies to: 510-510, 513-513, 516-516, 519-519, 522-522, 525-525, 529-529
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In `@triton_backend/all_models/llmapi/tensorrt_llm/1/model.py`:
- Line 745: Update the request flow around _build_multimodal_prompt so the
conversion task is registered before awaiting multimodal image loading. Ensure
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registered task during preprocessing, while preserving the existing cleanup
behavior after preprocessing completes.
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The test module pulls the backend in with `from model import *`, so every symbol it uses from there is reported as possibly-undefined. Import the two names the new tests need, and `json`, explicitly. Signed-off-by: Faradawn Yang <73060648+faradawn@users.noreply.github.com>
The previous commit imported the symbols the tests use from `model`
explicitly, which left `from model import *` unused; autoflake removes it and
pre-commit then fails on the modified file. Remove it here instead. Nothing
else in the module resolves through it -- ruff reports no undefined names --
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`_execute_single_request` inferred cancellation from the request's absence in `req_id_to_request_data`, but the entry is only added after preprocessing and `generate_async` succeed. A failure before that point -- an unreachable image URL, a decode error, a template error -- therefore looked like a cancellation, so no response was sent and the client waited forever. Track registration explicitly and only treat absence as cancellation once the request has been registered. Add tests for both halves: an error before registration is reported with COMPLETE_FINAL, and a failure after the cancellation loop removed the entry stays silent. Signed-off-by: Faradawn Yang <73060648+faradawn@users.noreply.github.com>
…erve The Triton backend rebuilt the multimodal prompt itself and had already diverged: it inserted string placeholders unconditionally, while the serve path only does so for ContentFormat.STRING. For models whose registry entry is ContentFormat.OPENAI -- llava_next, gemma4, gemma4_unified, step3p7vl -- apply_chat_template() rebuilds the content from content_parts and adds its own image part, so one image produced two markers. Extract that per-message logic into `apply_mm_placeholders` in tensorrt_llm/inputs/utils.py and call it from parse_chat_messages_coroutines, so there is one implementation. Add `async_build_multimodal_prompt` alongside it for callers whose request format is a prompt plus a list of media references rather than OpenAI chat messages, and use it from the backend. The backend now holds the tokenizer, processor and model type as plain attributes and delegates the whole path in one call, dropping its local placeholder handling, its MultimodalContext dataclass and the version shim that guarded APIs this helper now owns. Signed-off-by: Faradawn Yang <73060648+faradawn@users.noreply.github.com>
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Nitpick: no tests for error catching of loading images.
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`image_url` is client-controlled and the media loaders open local paths and `file://` with the server process's permissions, so a request could make the server read any image file it can reach. Restrict the input to http, https and data URLs. Inline `data:` payloads are kept because they carry their own bytes and never touch the filesystem, which is the exposure being closed. This is deliberately narrower than `trtllm-serve`, whose media loading is unrestricted, and is meant to hold until the allowed scope is agreed with the deployment owner; a configured allowlist root would be the natural way to widen it later. Signed-off-by: Faradawn Yang <73060648+faradawn@users.noreply.github.com>
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Enable Triton multimodal feature with TRT-LLM's new PyTorch backend. Fixing the text-only issue with llmapi.
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triton-inference-server/tutorials#169 (draft) — documentation for using this in Triton with Qwen 2.5 VL
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