diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9d1e6fd48..2aebde92e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ classifiers = [
 dependencies = [
     # Core runtime dependencies (required for actual usage)
     "omegaconf>=2.3.0",
-    # "decord>=0.6.0", # install manually
     "librosa>=0.11.0",
     "resampy>=0.4.3",
     "diffusers>=0.36.0",
diff --git a/tests/diffusion/cache/test_cache_backends.py b/tests/diffusion/cache/test_cache_backends.py
index 5713c6ba7..501a4c38c 100644
--- a/tests/diffusion/cache/test_cache_backends.py
+++ b/tests/diffusion/cache/test_cache_backends.py
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ class TestCacheDiTBackend:
         assert backend.config.Fn_compute_blocks == 4
         assert backend.enabled is False
 
-    @patch("vllm_omni.diffusion.cache.cache_dit_backend.CACHE_DIT_AVAILABLE", True)
     @patch("vllm_omni.diffusion.cache.cache_dit_backend.cache_dit")
     def test_enable_single_transformer(self, mock_cache_dit):
         """Test enabling cache-dit on single-transformer pipeline."""
@@ -63,7 +62,6 @@ class TestCacheDiTBackend:
         assert backend._refresh_func is not None
         mock_cache_dit.enable_cache.assert_called_once()
 
-    @patch("vllm_omni.diffusion.cache.cache_dit_backend.CACHE_DIT_AVAILABLE", True)
     @patch("vllm_omni.diffusion.cache.cache_dit_backend.cache_dit")
     def test_refresh(self, mock_cache_dit):
         """Test refreshing cache context with SCM mask policy updates when num_inference_steps changes."""
diff --git a/vllm_omni/diffusion/cache/cache_dit_backend.py b/vllm_omni/diffusion/cache/cache_dit_backend.py
index 5365466ad..2e1423b7d 100644
--- a/vllm_omni/diffusion/cache/cache_dit_backend.py
+++ b/vllm_omni/diffusion/cache/cache_dit_backend.py
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ pipelines in vllm-omni, supporting both single and dual-transformer architecture
 from collections.abc import Callable
 from typing import Any, Optional
 
+import cache_dit
+from cache_dit import BlockAdapter, DBCacheConfig, ForwardPattern, ParamsModifier, TaylorSeerCalibratorConfig
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
 
 from vllm_omni.diffusion.cache.base import CacheBackend
@@ -17,15 +19,6 @@ from vllm_omni.diffusion.data import DiffusionCacheConfig, OmniDiffusionConfig
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)
 
-try:
-    import cache_dit
-    from cache_dit import BlockAdapter, DBCacheConfig, ForwardPattern, ParamsModifier, TaylorSeerCalibratorConfig
-
-    CACHE_DIT_AVAILABLE = True
-except ImportError:
-    CACHE_DIT_AVAILABLE = False
-    logger.warning("cache-dit is not installed. Cache-dit acceleration will not be available.")
-
 
 # Registry of custom cache-dit enablers for specific models
 # Maps pipeline names to their cache-dit enablement functions
@@ -325,9 +318,6 @@ class CacheDiTBackend(CacheBackend):
         Args:
             pipeline: The diffusion pipeline instance.
         """
-        if not CACHE_DIT_AVAILABLE:
-            logger.warning("cache-dit is not available, skipping cache-dit setup.")
-            return
 
         # Extract pipeline name from pipeline
         pipeline_name = pipeline.__class__.__name__