diff --git a/tests/config/test_config_factory.py b/tests/config/test_config_factory.py
index 5f7359ddc..bcb5064f1 100644
--- a/tests/config/test_config_factory.py
+++ b/tests/config/test_config_factory.py
@@ -15,7 +15,11 @@ from transformers import PretrainedConfig, Qwen3OmniMoeConfig
 
 from tests.helpers.stage_config import get_deploy_config_path, get_deploy_config_stage
 from vllm_omni.config import config_factory as config_factory_module
-from vllm_omni.config.config_factory import StageConfigFactory, _materialize_object_storage_configs
+from vllm_omni.config.config_factory import (
+    StageConfigFactory,
+    _materialize_object_storage_configs,
+    _name_match_candidate,
+)
 from vllm_omni.config.endpoint_policy import EndpointRestriction, OmniServingCapability
 from vllm_omni.config.omni_config import VllmOmniConfig
 from vllm_omni.config.pipeline_registry import OMNI_PIPELINES, register_pipeline, resolve_pipeline_config
@@ -2932,3 +2936,44 @@ class TestObjectStorageConfigResolution:
 
         matching = "s3://any-bucket/my-cosyvoice3-model"
         assert StageConfigFactory.try_infer_model_type(model=matching, trust_remote_code=False) == "cosyvoice3"
+
+
+class TestNameMatchCandidateSnapshotPaths:
+    """Name-based matching must survive resolved HF cache snapshot paths."""
+
+    _SNAPSHOT_REV = "29e01c4e8d000f4bcd70751be16fa94bf3d85a18"
+
+    def test_candidate_recovers_repo_name_from_hf_cache_layout(self):
+        path = f"/data/hub/models--FunAudioLLM--Fun-CosyVoice3-0.5B-2512/snapshots/{self._SNAPSHOT_REV}"
+        assert _name_match_candidate(path) == "Fun-CosyVoice3-0.5B-2512"
+        assert _name_match_candidate(path + "/") == "Fun-CosyVoice3-0.5B-2512"
+
+    def test_candidate_keeps_basename_for_non_cache_paths(self):
+        assert _name_match_candidate("org/My-Model") == "My-Model"
+        assert _name_match_candidate("/data/snapshots-of/My-Model") == "My-Model"
+        # A ``snapshots`` parent without the ``models--<org>--<name>`` encoding
+        # falls back to the basename, same as before.
+        assert _name_match_candidate(f"/data/notcache/snapshots/{self._SNAPSHOT_REV}") == self._SNAPSHOT_REV
+
+    def test_candidate_recovers_bare_repo_name_from_hf_cache_layout(self):
+        # Legacy un-namespaced repos (e.g. ``gpt2``) cache as ``models--<name>``.
+        path = f"/data/hub/models--my-cosyvoice3-model/snapshots/{self._SNAPSHOT_REV}"
+        assert _name_match_candidate(path) == "my-cosyvoice3-model"
+
+    def test_candidate_ignores_malformed_cache_repo_dirs(self):
+        # Hub validation rejects ``--`` inside repo ids, so more than three
+        # ``--``-separated segments cannot be a real cache dir; keep basename.
+        assert _name_match_candidate("/hub/models--a--b--c/snapshots/abc123") == "abc123"
+        assert _name_match_candidate("/hub/models--/snapshots/abc123") == "abc123"
+
+    def test_try_infer_model_type_matches_cosyvoice3_snapshot_dir(self, tmp_path):
+        """Regression for the HF-cache path shape: CosyVoice3 ships an empty
+        config.json and relies on name matching, but a resolved snapshot dir
+        basename is a bare revision hash, so basename-only matching (#5036)
+        misclassified it as a diffusion pipeline and stage init crashed with
+        "Diffusers pipeline index not found"."""
+        snapshot = tmp_path / "hub" / "models--FunAudioLLM--Fun-CosyVoice3-0.5B-2512" / "snapshots" / self._SNAPSHOT_REV
+        snapshot.mkdir(parents=True)
+        (snapshot / "config.json").write_text("{}")
+
+        assert StageConfigFactory.try_infer_model_type(model=str(snapshot), trust_remote_code=False) == "cosyvoice3"
diff --git a/vllm_omni/config/config_factory.py b/vllm_omni/config/config_factory.py
index 48bd0b476..c2a8d7759 100644
--- a/vllm_omni/config/config_factory.py
+++ b/vllm_omni/config/config_factory.py
@@ -69,14 +69,31 @@ def _materialize_object_storage_configs(model: str) -> str:
 
 
 def _name_match_candidate(model: str) -> str:
-    """Last path component of a model reference, used for name-based matching.
+    """Model-name component of a model reference, used for name-based matching.
 
     Object-storage URIs and HF repo ids carry non-model segments (bucket name,
     organization) that must not participate in substring matching; e.g. a
     bucket named ``qwen3-tts-models`` holding a ``Qwen3-Omni`` checkpoint must
-    not resolve to the ``qwen3_tts`` pipeline.
+    not resolve to the ``qwen3_tts`` pipeline. Usually that means the last
+    path component.
+
+    A resolved HF hub cache snapshot path is the exception: it ends in
+    ``models--<org>--<name>/snapshots/<revision>`` (or ``models--<name>`` for
+    legacy un-namespaced repos such as ``gpt2``), so its basename is a bare
+    revision hash with no model identity (models with an empty ``config.json``
+    such as CosyVoice3 then lose their only detection route). Recover ``name``
+    from the repo segment; the organization still stays out of the match. The
+    two forms are exhaustive because hub validation rejects ``--`` inside repo
+    ids; anything else keeps the plain basename.
     """
-    return model.rstrip("/").rsplit("/", 1)[-1]
+    parts = [part for part in str(model).rstrip("/").split("/") if part]
+    if not parts:
+        return ""
+    if len(parts) >= 3 and parts[-2] == "snapshots":
+        repo_dir = parts[-3].split("--")
+        if repo_dir[0] == "models" and len(repo_dir) in (2, 3) and all(repo_dir):
+            return repo_dir[-1]
+    return parts[-1]
 
 
 def with_trust_remote_code_override(