Rebase 2026/02/23

Update Dockerfile for vllm wheel version and enhance input processing in Omni models. Added decoding for byte messages in async requests, included new metrics in benchmarks, and improved pause state handling in the scheduler. Refined input and output processing methods for better multimodal support and error handling.

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

docker/Dockerfile.ci

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ RUN apt-get update && \
 # Note: --prerelease=allow is required because nightly/commit wheels use
 # pre-release version numbers (e.g. 2.10.0.dev...) which uv ignores by default,
 # causing it to fall back to the older stable release from PyPI.
-RUN uv pip install --system --upgrade --force-reinstall --prerelease=allow vllm --extra-index-url https://wheels.vllm.ai/16f24e87975ef4cd2c12879425062913ef62f6fd
+RUN uv pip install --system --upgrade --force-reinstall --prerelease=allow vllm --extra-index-url https://wheels.vllm.ai/944ffb59680c0210ec54ddb43a3c7ef015e1f842
 
 
 RUN uv pip uninstall --system nvidia-cublas-cu12