[BugFix] Restore vllm_c IR op priority and torch.nn.RMSNorm for Qwen-Image (Same As #5009 ) (#5017 )

Signed-off-by: NumberWan <wantszkin2003@gmail.com>
[Bugfix] Fix tokenizer config for higgs-audio-v3 test error (#4918 )
2026-07-11 01:00:39 +08:00 · 2026-07-06 10:53:24 +00:00 · 2026-07-06 15:08:05 +08:00 · 2026-07-06 15:07:01 +08:00 · 2026-07-05 17:26:09 +00:00 · 2026-07-05 17:06:30 +00:00
1617 changed files with 253164 additions and 35758 deletions
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-steps:
-  - label: "Build and upload wheel"
-    key: "build-wheel"
-    agents:
-      queue: cpu_queue_release
-    commands:
-      - "curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh"
-      - 'export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"'
-      - "uv venv --python=3.12 && source .venv/bin/activate"
-      - "uv pip install --upgrade build"
-      - "python3 -m build"
-      - "bash .buildkite/scripts/upload-nightly-wheels.sh"
-
-  - label: "Generate and upload wheel indices"
-    depends_on: "build-wheel"
-    allow_dependency_failure: true
-    agents:
-      queue: small_cpu_queue_release
-    commands:
-      - "bash .buildkite/scripts/generate-and-upload-nightly-index.sh"
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ steps:
          DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
          # Buildkite will automatically replace this with the actual commit hash
          VLLM_IMAGE_TAG: "${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}"
-          VLLM_VERSION: "v0.20.0"
+          VLLM_VERSION: "v0.24.0"
        priority: 100
        timeout_in_minutes: 60
        soft_fail: false
@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
-# Document 1: Buildkite loads only this block on first parse. The next step resolves docs-only skip-ci
-# from git diff, then uploads document 2. When docs-only skip applies, image-build still runs for the nightly
-# exception in upload_pipeline_with_skip_ci.sh (nightly-test label or main NIGHTLY=1); otherwise upload-nightly
-# can be skipped together with test-ready/test-merge. Weekly uploads also depend on image-build.
+# Document 1: Buildkite loads only this block on first parse. The next step resolves docs-only,
+# pytest skip-mark-only, or combined skip-ci from git diff, then uploads document 2. When skip-ci
+# applies, image-build still runs for the nightly exception in upload_pipeline.py (nightly-test
+# label or main NIGHTLY=1); otherwise upload-nightly can be skipped together with test-ready/test-merge.
+# Weekly uploads also depend on image-build.

-# Document 2: appended after `---`; same file, read by upload_pipeline_with_skip_ci.sh (not evaluated as a second pipeline by Buildkite). Child uploads include test-ready.yml, test-merge.yml, test-nightly.yml, and test-weekly.yml.
+# Document 2: appended after `---`; same file, read by upload_pipeline.py (not evaluated as a second pipeline by Buildkite). Child uploads include test-ready.yml, test-merge.yml, test-nightly.yml, and test-weekly.yml.
 steps:
-  - label: ":github: Resolve skip-ci & upload pipeline"
+  - label: ":github: Resolve skip-ci (docs / skip marks) & upload pipeline"
    key: upload-ci-pipeline
    commands:
-      - "bash .buildkite/scripts/upload_pipeline_with_skip_ci.sh"
+      - "python3 .buildkite/scripts/upload_pipeline.py --upload .buildkite/pipeline.yml"
    agents:
      queue: "cpu_queue_premerge"

@@ -25,23 +26,33 @@ steps:
    agents:
      queue: "cpu_queue_premerge"

-  # L2 Test
+  # L2 Test — PR ready label (diff-aware) or main+NIGHTLY=1 (--e2e, full E2E group)
  - label: "Upload Ready Pipeline"
    depends_on: image-build
    key: upload-ready-pipeline
    if: __UPLOAD_READY_IF__
    commands:
-      - buildkite-agent pipeline upload .buildkite/test-ready.yml
+      - |
+        EXTRA=""
+        if [ "${NIGHTLY:-}" = "1" ] && [ "${BUILDKITE_BRANCH}" = "main" ]; then
+          EXTRA="--e2e"
+        fi
+        python3 .buildkite/scripts/upload_pipeline.py --upload $$EXTRA .buildkite/test-ready.yml
    agents:
      queue: "cpu_queue_premerge"

-  # L3 Test
+  # L3 Test — PR merge-test label (diff-aware) or main+NIGHTLY=1 (--e2e, full E2E group)
  - label: "Upload Merge Pipeline"
    depends_on: image-build
    key: upload-merge-pipeline
    if: __UPLOAD_MERGE_IF__
    commands:
-      - buildkite-agent pipeline upload .buildkite/test-merge.yml
+      - |
+        EXTRA=""
+        if [ "${NIGHTLY:-}" = "1" ] && [ "${BUILDKITE_BRANCH}" = "main" ]; then
+          EXTRA="--e2e"
+        fi
+        python3 .buildkite/scripts/upload_pipeline.py --upload $$EXTRA .buildkite/test-merge.yml
    agents:
      queue: "cpu_queue_premerge"

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+steps:
+  - label: ":docker: Build image"
+    key: image-build
+    commands:
+      - "aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+      - "docker build --progress=plain --file docker/Dockerfile.ci -t vllm-omni-ci ."
+      - "docker tag vllm-omni-ci public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"
+      - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"
+    agents:
+      queue: "cpu_queue_premerge"
+
+  # L2 Test
+  - label: "Upload Ready Pipeline"
+    depends_on: image-build
+    key: upload-ready-pipeline
+    commands:
+      - python3 .buildkite/scripts/upload_pipeline.py --upload --all .buildkite/test-ready.yml
+    agents:
+      queue: "cpu_queue_premerge"
+
+  # L3 Test
+  - label: "Upload Merge Pipeline"
+    depends_on: image-build
+    key: upload-merge-pipeline
+    commands:
+      - python3 .buildkite/scripts/upload_pipeline.py --upload --all .buildkite/test-merge.yml
+    agents:
+      queue: "cpu_queue_premerge"
+
+  # L4 Test
+  - label: "Upload Nightly Pipeline"
+    depends_on: image-build
+    key: upload-nightly-pipeline
+    if: build.env("NIGHTLY") == "1"
+    commands:
+      - python3 .buildkite/scripts/upload_pipeline.py --upload --all .buildkite/test-nightly.yml
+    agents:
+      queue: "cpu_queue_premerge"
@@ -1,38 +1,110 @@
 steps:
-  - label: ":docker: Build image"
-    key: image-build
-    commands:
-      - "aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
-      - "docker build --progress=plain --file docker/Dockerfile.ci -t vllm-omni-ci ."
-      - "docker tag vllm-omni-ci public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"
-      - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"
-    agents:
-      queue: "cpu_queue_premerge"
+  - input: "Provide Release version here"
+    id: input-release-version
+    fields:
+      - text: "What is the release version?"
+        key: release-version

-  # L2 Test
-  - label: "Upload Ready Pipeline"
-    depends_on: image-build
-    key: upload-ready-pipeline
-    commands:
-      - buildkite-agent pipeline upload .buildkite/test-ready.yml
+  - label: "Build and upload wheel"
+    depends_on: ~
+    key: "build-wheel"
    agents:
-      queue: "cpu_queue_premerge"
+      queue: cpu_queue_release
+    commands:
+      - "curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh"
+      - 'export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"'
+      - "uv venv --python=3.12 && source .venv/bin/activate"
+      - "uv pip install --upgrade build"
+      - "python3 -m build"
+      - "bash .buildkite/scripts/upload-nightly-wheels.sh"

-  # L3 Test
-  - label: "Upload Merge Pipeline"
-    depends_on: image-build
-    key: upload-merge-pipeline
-    commands:
-      - buildkite-agent pipeline upload .buildkite/test-merge.yml
+  - label: "Generate and upload wheel indices"
+    depends_on: "build-wheel"
+    allow_dependency_failure: true
    agents:
-      queue: "cpu_queue_premerge"
+      queue: small_cpu_queue_release
+    commands:
+      - "bash .buildkite/scripts/generate-and-upload-nightly-index.sh"

-  # L4 Test
-  - label: "Upload Nightly Pipeline"
-    depends_on: image-build
-    key: upload-nightly-pipeline
-    if: build.env("NIGHTLY") == "1"
-    commands:
-      - buildkite-agent pipeline upload .buildkite/test-nightly.yml
+  - block: "Upload release wheels to PyPI"
+    depends_on: "build-wheel"
+    key: block-upload-release-wheels
+
+  - label: "Upload release wheels to PyPI"
+    depends_on:
+      - block-upload-release-wheels
+      - input-release-version
+    key: upload-release-wheels
    agents:
-      queue: "cpu_queue_premerge"
+      queue: small_cpu_queue_release
+    commands:
+      - "bash .buildkite/scripts/publish-release-wheels-pypi.sh"
+
+  - block: "Unblock to build release Docker images"
+    depends_on: ~
+    key: block-build-release-images
+
+  - group: "Build release Docker images"
+    key: "build-release-images"
+    depends_on: block-build-release-images
+    allow_dependency_failure: true
+    steps:
+      - label: "Build release image - x86_64"
+        key: build-release-image-x86
+        depends_on: ~
+        agents:
+          queue: cpu_queue_release
+        commands:
+          - "aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+          - |
+            DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build \
+              --build-arg max_jobs=16 \
+              --tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-omni-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m) \
+              --progress plain \
+              -f docker/Dockerfile.cuda .
+          - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-omni-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)"
+          # re-tag to default image tag and push, just in case arm64 build fails
+          - "docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-omni-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m) public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-omni-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"
+          - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-omni-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"
+        env:
+          DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
+
+      - label: "Build release image - aarch64"
+        key: build-release-image-arm64
+        depends_on: ~
+        agents:
+          queue: arm64_cpu_queue_release
+        commands:
+          - "aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7"
+          - |
+            DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build \
+              --build-arg max_jobs=16 \
+              --tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-omni-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m) \
+              --progress plain \
+              -f docker/Dockerfile.cuda .
+          - "docker push public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-omni-release-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-$(uname -m)"
+        env:
+          DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
+
+  - block: "Publish release images to DockerHub"
+    key: block-publish-release-images
+    depends_on:
+      - build-release-image-x86
+      - build-release-image-arm64
+      - input-release-version
+
+  - label: "Publish release images to DockerHub"
+    depends_on:
+      - block-publish-release-images
+    key: publish-release-images-dockerhub
+    agents:
+      queue: small_cpu_queue_release
+    commands:
+      - "bash .buildkite/scripts/publish-release-images.sh"
+    plugins:
+      - docker-login#v3.0.0:
+          username: vllmbot
+          password-env: DOCKERHUB_TOKEN
+    env:
+      DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
+      DOCKERHUB_USERNAME: "vllmbot"
@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ container_name="rocm_${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}_$(tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 < /dev/urandom | hea
 docker pull "${image_name}"

 remove_docker_container() {
-   docker rm -f "${container_name}" || docker image rm -f "${image_name}" || true
+   docker ps -aq --filter "name=${container_name}" | xargs -r docker rm -f || true
+   docker image rm -f "${image_name}" || true
 }
 trap remove_docker_container EXIT

@@ -107,7 +108,6 @@ if [[ $commands == *"--shard-id="* ]]; then
        --network=host \
        --shm-size=16gb \
        --group-add "$render_gid" \
-        --rm \
        -e MIOPEN_DEBUG_CONV_DIRECT=0 \
        -e MIOPEN_DEBUG_CONV_GEMM=0 \
        -e VLLM_ROCM_USE_AITER=0 \
@@ -140,7 +140,6 @@ else
          --network=host \
          --shm-size=16gb \
          --group-add "$render_gid" \
-          --rm \
          -e MIOPEN_DEBUG_CONV_DIRECT=0 \
          -e MIOPEN_DEBUG_CONV_GEMM=0 \
          -e VLLM_ROCM_USE_AITER=0 \
@@ -52,5 +52,7 @@ time timeout -k 30 30m docker run \
    pip install tblib==3.1.0
    cd /workspace/vllm-omni
    pytest -v -s -m "core_model and xpu and B60"
+    pytest -v -s tests/diffusion/quantization/test_mxfp8_config.py
+    export VLLM_XPU_USE_SAMPLER_KERNEL=0    # NOTE: Remove this after vLLM v0.21.1 is merged. Fixes Qwen2-5 omni-expansion tests.
    pytest -v -s -m "advanced_model and xpu and B60"
 '
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+# Publish release Docker images from ECR to DockerHub.
+# Pulls per-arch images, tags with `latest` and versioned tags, pushes them,
+# then creates and pushes a multi-arch manifest.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+RELEASE_VERSION=$(buildkite-agent meta-data get release-version --default "" | sed 's/^v//')
+if [ -z "${RELEASE_VERSION}" ]; then
+  echo "ERROR: release-version metadata not set"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+COMMIT="$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"
+DOCKERHUB_REPO="vllm/vllm-omni"
+ECR_REPO="public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-omni-release-repo"
+
+echo "========================================"
+echo "Publishing release images v${RELEASE_VERSION}"
+echo "  Commit: ${COMMIT}"
+echo "========================================"
+
+# Login to ECR to pull staging images
+aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | \
+  docker login --username AWS --password-stdin public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7
+
+docker pull "${ECR_REPO}:${COMMIT}-x86_64"
+docker pull "${ECR_REPO}:${COMMIT}-aarch64"
+
+docker tag "${ECR_REPO}:${COMMIT}-x86_64" "${DOCKERHUB_REPO}:latest-x86_64"
+docker tag "${ECR_REPO}:${COMMIT}-x86_64" "${DOCKERHUB_REPO}:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64"
+docker push "${DOCKERHUB_REPO}:latest-x86_64"
+docker push "${DOCKERHUB_REPO}:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64"
+
+docker tag "${ECR_REPO}:${COMMIT}-aarch64" "${DOCKERHUB_REPO}:latest-aarch64"
+docker tag "${ECR_REPO}:${COMMIT}-aarch64" "${DOCKERHUB_REPO}:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-aarch64"
+docker push "${DOCKERHUB_REPO}:latest-aarch64"
+docker push "${DOCKERHUB_REPO}:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-aarch64"
+
+docker manifest rm "${DOCKERHUB_REPO}:latest" || true
+docker manifest rm "${DOCKERHUB_REPO}:v${RELEASE_VERSION}" || true
+docker manifest create "${DOCKERHUB_REPO}:latest" "${DOCKERHUB_REPO}:latest-x86_64" "${DOCKERHUB_REPO}:latest-aarch64"
+docker manifest create "${DOCKERHUB_REPO}:v${RELEASE_VERSION}" "${DOCKERHUB_REPO}:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-x86_64" "${DOCKERHUB_REPO}:v${RELEASE_VERSION}-aarch64"
+docker manifest push "${DOCKERHUB_REPO}:latest"
+docker manifest push "${DOCKERHUB_REPO}:v${RELEASE_VERSION}"
+
+echo ""
+echo "Successfully published release images for v${RELEASE_VERSION}"
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+set -e
+
+BUCKET="vllm-wheels"
+SUBPATH="omni/$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"
+S3_COMMIT_PREFIX="s3://$BUCKET/$SUBPATH/"
+
+RELEASE_VERSION=$(buildkite-agent meta-data get release-version | sed 's/^v//')
+if [[ -z "$RELEASE_VERSION" ]]; then
+  echo "[FATAL] release-version metadata not set."
+  exit 1
+fi
+echo "Release version: $RELEASE_VERSION"
+
+if [[ -z "$PYPI_TOKEN" ]]; then
+  echo "[FATAL] PYPI_TOKEN is not set."
+  exit 1
+else
+  export TWINE_USERNAME="__token__"
+  export TWINE_PASSWORD="$PYPI_TOKEN"
+fi
+
+set -x
+
+if ! command -v uv &> /dev/null; then
+  curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
+  export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
+fi
+
+uv venv --python 3.12 /tmp/vllm-omni-release-env
+source /tmp/vllm-omni-release-env/bin/activate
+uv pip install twine
+
+DIST_DIR=/tmp/vllm-omni-release-dist
+mkdir -p "$DIST_DIR"
+
+echo "Downloading wheels from S3:"
+aws s3 ls "$S3_COMMIT_PREFIX"
+aws s3 cp --recursive --exclude "*" --include "vllm_omni-${RELEASE_VERSION}*.whl" --exclude "*dev*" "$S3_COMMIT_PREFIX" "$DIST_DIR"
+ls -la "$DIST_DIR"
+
+PYPI_WHEEL_FILES=$(find "$DIST_DIR" -name "vllm_omni-${RELEASE_VERSION}*.whl" -not -name "*+*")
+if [[ -z "$PYPI_WHEEL_FILES" ]]; then
+  echo "[FATAL] No wheels found for version ${RELEASE_VERSION}"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+python3 -m twine check $PYPI_WHEEL_FILES
+python3 -m twine upload --non-interactive --verbose $PYPI_WHEEL_FILES
+echo "Wheels uploaded to PyPI"
@@ -0,0 +1,547 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+"""Render and optionally upload Buildkite pipeline YAML with diff-aware logic.
+
+Bootstrap mode (pipeline.yml with __IMAGE_BUILD_IF__ placeholders):
+  - Detect docs-only, pytest skip-mark-only, or combined docs+skip-mark PR/main changes and
+    substitute skip-ci ``if`` expressions.
+
+Test pipeline mode (e.g. test-merge.yml):
+  - Drop steps or groups whose ``source_file_dependencies`` do not match changed files.
+  - ``source_file_dependencies`` may be set on a leaf step or on a group step.
+  - Always strip ``source_file_dependencies`` from uploaded YAML (Buildkite does not
+    recognize this uploader-only key).
+
+Usage:
+  python3 upload_pipeline.py [--upload] [--all | --e2e] <pipeline.yml>
+
+  # Bootstrap (replaces upload_pipeline_with_skip_ci.sh):
+  python3 upload_pipeline.py --upload .buildkite/pipeline.yml
+
+  # Test pipeline (replaces upload_test_pipeline_with_diff_skip.py):
+  python3 upload_pipeline.py --upload .buildkite/test-merge.yml
+
+  # Full suite (rebase pipeline): keep all steps, still strip the uploader-only key:
+  python3 upload_pipeline.py --upload --all .buildkite/test-merge.yml
+
+  # Nightly L2 E2E only: keep the E2E Test group, ignore source_file_dependencies:
+  python3 upload_pipeline.py --upload --e2e .buildkite/test-ready.yml
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import os
+import re
+import subprocess
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any
+
+try:
+    import yaml
+except ImportError:
+    subprocess.check_call(
+        [sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", "-q", "pyyaml"],
+    )
+    import yaml
+
+LOG = "upload_pipeline"
+ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent.parent
+DOC_SEP = "\n---\n"
+BOOTSTRAP_MARKER = "__IMAGE_BUILD_IF__"
+E2E_GROUP_MARKER = "E2E Test"
+
+
+def _log(message: str) -> None:
+    print(f"{LOG}: {message}", file=sys.stderr)
+
+
+def _git(*args: str) -> subprocess.CompletedProcess[str]:
+    return subprocess.run(
+        ["git", *args],
+        check=False,
+        capture_output=True,
+        text=True,
+    )
+
+
+def resolve_diff_range() -> str | None:
+    """Return a git diff range for PR or main builds, or None when unavailable."""
+    is_pr = os.environ.get("BUILDKITE_PULL_REQUEST", "false") != "false" and os.environ.get(
+        "BUILDKITE_PULL_REQUEST", ""
+    )
+    commit = os.environ.get("BUILDKITE_COMMIT", "")
+
+    if is_pr:
+        base_branch = os.environ.get("BUILDKITE_PULL_REQUEST_BASE_BRANCH", "main")
+        base_ref = f"origin/{base_branch}"
+        if _git("rev-parse", "--verify", base_ref).returncode != 0:
+            _log(f"origin/{base_branch} not found locally; trying fetch")
+            _git("fetch", "--depth=200", "origin", base_branch)
+        if _git("rev-parse", "--verify", base_ref).returncode != 0:
+            if _git("rev-parse", "--verify", base_branch).returncode == 0:
+                base_ref = base_branch
+            else:
+                _log(f"cannot resolve PR base {base_branch}; using safe defaults")
+                return None
+        return f"{base_ref}...{commit}"
+
+    if os.environ.get("BUILDKITE_BRANCH", "") == "main":
+        if _git("rev-parse", "--verify", f"{commit}^").returncode != 0:
+            _log("main commit has no parent; using safe defaults")
+            return None
+        return f"{commit}^..{commit}"
+
+    _log("not PR/main build; using safe defaults")
+    return None
+
+
+def resolve_changed_files() -> list[str] | None:
+    """Return changed file paths, or None when diff cannot be resolved."""
+    diff_range = resolve_diff_range()
+    if diff_range is None:
+        return None
+
+    result = _git("diff", "--name-only", diff_range)
+    if result.returncode != 0:
+        _log(f"git diff failed ({diff_range}); using safe defaults")
+        return None
+
+    files = [line for line in result.stdout.splitlines() if line.strip()]
+    _log(f"{len(files)} changed file(s)")
+    return files
+
+
+def _is_doc_file(file_path: str) -> bool:
+    if not file_path:
+        return False
+    if file_path.startswith("docs/"):
+        return True
+    if file_path.endswith(".md"):
+        return True
+    return file_path == "mkdocs.yml"
+
+
+def is_docs_only_change(changed_files: list[str]) -> bool:
+    has_any = False
+    for file_path in changed_files:
+        if not file_path:
+            continue
+        has_any = True
+        if not _is_doc_file(file_path):
+            return False
+    return has_any
+
+
+def _is_test_python_file(file_path: str) -> bool:
+    path = Path(file_path)
+    return path.suffix == ".py" and bool(path.parts) and path.parts[0] == "tests"
+
+
+_SKIP_MARK_RE = re.compile(r"pytest\.mark\.skip(?:if)?\b|pytest\.skip\s*\(")
+_PYTESTMARK_SKIP_RE = re.compile(r"pytest\.mark\.skip\b")
+_PYTEST_MARK_ONLY_RE = re.compile(r"pytest\.mark\.\w+")
+
+
+def _paren_balance(line: str) -> int:
+    return line.count("(") - line.count(")")
+
+
+def _is_skip_mark_related_content(line: str) -> bool:
+    stripped = line.strip()
+    if not stripped:
+        return True
+    if stripped.startswith("#"):
+        return True
+    return _SKIP_MARK_RE.search(stripped) is not None
+
+
+def _is_pytestmark_adjacent_content(line: str) -> bool:
+    """Allow pytestmark list refactors that only add skip/skipif alongside existing marks."""
+    stripped = line.strip().rstrip(",")
+    if not stripped:
+        return True
+    if stripped in {"[", "]"}:
+        return True
+    if stripped.startswith("#"):
+        return True
+    if stripped.startswith("pytestmark"):
+        return True
+    return _PYTEST_MARK_ONLY_RE.search(stripped) is not None
+
+
+def diff_only_contains_skip_mark_changes(diff_text: str) -> bool:
+    """True when diff only edits skip marks or reformats pytestmark to add them."""
+    pending_depth = 0
+    saw_change = False
+    has_skip_mark_edit = False
+    for raw_line in diff_text.splitlines():
+        if raw_line.startswith("@@"):
+            pending_depth = 0
+            continue
+        if not (raw_line.startswith("+") or raw_line.startswith("-")):
+            continue
+        if raw_line.startswith("+++") or raw_line.startswith("---"):
+            continue
+
+        saw_change = True
+        content = raw_line[1:]
+
+        if pending_depth > 0:
+            pending_depth += _paren_balance(content)
+            if pending_depth < 0:
+                pending_depth = 0
+            continue
+
+        if _is_skip_mark_related_content(content):
+            has_skip_mark_edit = True
+            pending_depth = max(0, _paren_balance(content))
+            continue
+
+        if _is_pytestmark_adjacent_content(content):
+            continue
+
+        return False
+
+    return saw_change and has_skip_mark_edit
+
+
+def _git_file_diff(file_path: str, diff_range: str) -> str | None:
+    result = _git("diff", diff_range, "--", file_path)
+    if result.returncode != 0:
+        _log(f"skip-mark-only: git diff failed for {file_path}")
+        return None
+    return result.stdout
+
+
+def _is_new_file_diff(diff_text: str) -> bool:
+    return "new file mode" in diff_text or "--- /dev/null" in diff_text
+
+
+def _file_has_module_level_pytest_skip(content: str) -> bool:
+    """True when ``pytestmark`` applies unconditional ``pytest.mark.skip`` to the module."""
+    match = re.search(r"^pytestmark\s*=\s*\[(.*?)^\s*\]", content, re.MULTILINE | re.DOTALL)
+    if match is not None:
+        return _PYTESTMARK_SKIP_RE.search(match.group(1)) is not None
+    match = re.search(r"^pytestmark\s*=\s*pytest\.mark\.skip\b", content, re.MULTILINE)
+    return match is not None
+
+
+def _file_content_at_commit(file_path: str, commit: str) -> str | None:
+    result = _git("show", f"{commit}:{file_path}")
+    if result.returncode != 0:
+        _log(f"skip-mark-only: cannot read {file_path} at {commit}")
+        return None
+    return result.stdout
+
+
+def _qualifies_as_skip_mark_test_change(file_path: str, diff_range: str) -> bool:
+    diff_text = _git_file_diff(file_path, diff_range)
+    if diff_text is None:
+        return False
+    if not diff_text.strip():
+        _log(f"skip-mark-only: empty diff for {file_path}")
+        return False
+
+    if diff_only_contains_skip_mark_changes(diff_text):
+        return True
+
+    if not _is_new_file_diff(diff_text):
+        _log(f"skip-mark-only: non-skip changes in {file_path}")
+        return False
+
+    commit = os.environ.get("BUILDKITE_COMMIT", "")
+    if not commit:
+        return False
+    content = _file_content_at_commit(file_path, commit)
+    if content is None:
+        return False
+    if _file_has_module_level_pytest_skip(content):
+        _log(f"skip-mark-only: new test file with module-level pytest.mark.skip: {file_path}")
+        return True
+
+    _log(f"skip-mark-only: new test file without module-level pytest.mark.skip: {file_path}")
+    return False
+
+
+def is_skip_mark_only_change(changed_files: list[str], *, diff_range: str) -> bool:
+    """True when every changed file is a tests/ module with only skip-mark edits."""
+    has_any = False
+    for file_path in changed_files:
+        if not file_path:
+            continue
+        has_any = True
+        if not _is_test_python_file(file_path):
+            return False
+        if not _qualifies_as_skip_mark_test_change(file_path, diff_range):
+            return False
+    return has_any
+
+
+def is_docs_or_skip_mark_only_change(changed_files: list[str], *, diff_range: str) -> bool:
+    """True when each changed file is a doc path or a qualifying skip-mark test change."""
+    has_any = False
+    for file_path in changed_files:
+        if not file_path:
+            continue
+        has_any = True
+        if _is_doc_file(file_path):
+            continue
+        if _is_test_python_file(file_path) and _qualifies_as_skip_mark_test_change(file_path, diff_range):
+            continue
+        _log(f"docs/skip-mark-only: rejecting {file_path}")
+        return False
+    return has_any
+
+
+def resolve_skip_ci(changed_files: list[str] | None, *, diff_range: str | None = None) -> bool:
+    if changed_files is None:
+        _log("skip-ci=0 (could not resolve changed files)")
+        return False
+
+    if diff_range is not None and is_docs_or_skip_mark_only_change(changed_files, diff_range=diff_range):
+        if is_docs_only_change(changed_files):
+            _log("docs-only change detected; skip-ci=1")
+        elif is_skip_mark_only_change(changed_files, diff_range=diff_range):
+            _log("pytest skip-mark-only change detected; skip-ci=1")
+        else:
+            _log("docs + pytest skip-mark-only change detected; skip-ci=1")
+        return True
+
+    if diff_range is None and is_docs_only_change(changed_files):
+        _log("docs-only change detected; skip-ci=1")
+        return True
+
+    _log("non-doc/non-skip-mark changes detected; skip-ci=0")
+    return False
+
+
+def render_bootstrap_pipeline(text: str, *, skip_ci: bool) -> str:
+    if DOC_SEP in text:
+        _, continuation = text.split(DOC_SEP, 1)
+    else:
+        continuation = text
+
+    nightly_only = (
+        '(build.pull_request.labels includes "nightly-test") || (build.branch == "main" && build.env("NIGHTLY") == "1")'
+    )
+    nightly_main = 'build.branch == "main" && build.env("NIGHTLY") == "1"'
+    ready_pr = 'build.branch != "main" && build.pull_request.labels includes "ready"'
+    merge_main = 'build.branch == "main" && build.env("NIGHTLY") != "1" && build.env("WEEKLY") != "1"'
+    merge_pr = 'build.branch != "main" && build.pull_request.labels includes "merge-test"'
+    if skip_ci:
+        image_if = f"'{nightly_only}'"
+        ready_if = f"'({nightly_main})'"
+        merge_if = f"'({nightly_main})'"
+    else:
+        image_if = "'true'"
+        ready_if = f"'(({nightly_main}) || ({ready_pr}))'"
+        merge_if = f"'(({nightly_main}) || (({merge_main}) || ({merge_pr})))'"
+
+    return (
+        continuation.replace("__IMAGE_BUILD_IF__", image_if)
+        .replace("__UPLOAD_READY_IF__", ready_if)
+        .replace("__UPLOAD_MERGE_IF__", merge_if)
+    )
+
+
+def _matches_dependencies(changed_files: list[str], prefixes: list[str]) -> bool:
+    for path in changed_files:
+        for prefix in prefixes:
+            normalized = prefix.rstrip("/")
+            if path == normalized or path.startswith(f"{normalized}/"):
+                return True
+    return False
+
+
+def _strip_source_file_dependencies(step: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    return {key: value for key, value in step.items() if key != "source_file_dependencies"}
+
+
+def _step_label(step: dict[str, Any]) -> str:
+    return str(step.get("group") or step.get("label") or "<step>")
+
+
+def _filter_steps(steps: list[Any], changed_files: list[str]) -> list[Any]:
+    filtered: list[Any] = []
+    for step in steps:
+        if not isinstance(step, dict):
+            filtered.append(step)
+            continue
+
+        deps = step.get("source_file_dependencies")
+        if deps is not None and not isinstance(deps, list):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"source_file_dependencies must be a list in step {_step_label(step)!r}",
+            )
+        if deps is not None and not _matches_dependencies(changed_files, deps):
+            _log(
+                f"skip {_step_label(step)!r} (no changes under {deps})",
+            )
+            continue
+
+        nested = step.get("steps")
+        if nested is not None:
+            kept_nested = _filter_steps(nested, changed_files)
+            if not kept_nested:
+                _log(f"omit empty group {_step_label(step)!r}")
+                continue
+            new_step = _strip_source_file_dependencies(step)
+            new_step["steps"] = kept_nested
+            filtered.append(new_step)
+            continue
+
+        if deps is not None:
+            filtered.append(_strip_source_file_dependencies(step))
+        else:
+            filtered.append(step)
+
+    return filtered
+
+
+def _is_e2e_group(step: dict[str, Any]) -> bool:
+    group = step.get("group")
+    return isinstance(group, str) and E2E_GROUP_MARKER in group
+
+
+def _select_e2e_group_steps(steps: list[Any]) -> list[Any]:
+    selected = [step for step in steps if isinstance(step, dict) and _is_e2e_group(step)]
+    if not selected:
+        _log(f"no group matching {E2E_GROUP_MARKER!r} found")
+    else:
+        _log(f"keep {len(selected)} group(s) matching {E2E_GROUP_MARKER!r}")
+    return selected
+
+
+def _strip_uploader_metadata_from_steps(steps: list[Any]) -> list[Any]:
+    """Remove uploader-only keys while keeping all steps (no diff filtering)."""
+    stripped: list[Any] = []
+    for step in steps:
+        if not isinstance(step, dict):
+            stripped.append(step)
+            continue
+
+        deps = step.get("source_file_dependencies")
+        if deps is not None and not isinstance(deps, list):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"source_file_dependencies must be a list in step {_step_label(step)!r}",
+            )
+
+        nested = step.get("steps")
+        new_step = _strip_source_file_dependencies(step)
+        if nested is not None:
+            new_step["steps"] = _strip_uploader_metadata_from_steps(nested)
+        stripped.append(new_step)
+
+    return stripped
+
+
+def render_test_pipeline(
+    doc: dict[str, Any],
+    changed_files: list[str] | None,
+    *,
+    e2e_only: bool = False,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    steps = doc.get("steps")
+    if not isinstance(steps, list):
+        return doc
+    if e2e_only:
+        steps = _select_e2e_group_steps(steps)
+        steps = _strip_uploader_metadata_from_steps(steps)
+    elif changed_files is not None:
+        steps = _filter_steps(steps, changed_files)
+    else:
+        steps = _strip_uploader_metadata_from_steps(steps)
+    return {**doc, "steps": steps}
+
+
+def resolve_pipeline_path(arg: str) -> Path:
+    path = Path(arg)
+    if path.is_absolute():
+        return path
+    return ROOT / path
+
+
+def render_pipeline(
+    path: Path,
+    *,
+    force_all: bool = False,
+    e2e_only: bool = False,
+) -> str:
+    text = path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+    diff_range = resolve_diff_range()
+    changed_files = resolve_changed_files()
+
+    # ``--all`` forces the keep-all-steps path (no diff-aware skipping) while still
+    # stripping ``source_file_dependencies``. Used by the rebase pipeline so main builds
+    # run the full e2e suite (see .buildkite/rebase-pipeline.yaml).
+    if force_all or e2e_only:
+        changed_files = None
+
+    if BOOTSTRAP_MARKER in text:
+        rendered = render_bootstrap_pipeline(
+            text,
+            skip_ci=resolve_skip_ci(changed_files, diff_range=diff_range),
+        )
+        return rendered
+
+    doc = yaml.safe_load(text)
+    if not isinstance(doc, dict):
+        raise ValueError(f"invalid pipeline YAML: {path}")
+
+    doc = render_test_pipeline(doc, changed_files, e2e_only=e2e_only)
+
+    return yaml.safe_dump(doc, sort_keys=False)
+
+
+def upload_to_buildkite(content: str) -> None:
+    subprocess.run(
+        ["buildkite-agent", "pipeline", "upload"],
+        input=content,
+        text=True,
+        check=True,
+    )
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "pipeline",
+        nargs="?",
+        default=".buildkite/pipeline.yml",
+        help="Pipeline YAML path (default: .buildkite/pipeline.yml)",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--upload",
+        action="store_true",
+        help="Pipe rendered YAML to buildkite-agent pipeline upload",
+    )
+    mode = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
+    mode.add_argument(
+        "--all",
+        action="store_true",
+        help="Keep all steps (disable diff-aware skipping); still strips source_file_dependencies",
+    )
+    mode.add_argument(
+        "--e2e",
+        action="store_true",
+        help="Keep only the E2E Test group; disable diff-aware skipping for those steps",
+    )
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    path = resolve_pipeline_path(args.pipeline)
+    if not path.is_file():
+        _log(f"missing pipeline file: {path}")
+        return 1
+
+    rendered = render_pipeline(path, force_all=args.all, e2e_only=args.e2e)
+    if args.upload:
+        upload_to_buildkite(rendered)
+    else:
+        sys.stdout.write(rendered)
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
@@ -1,146 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Evaluate docs-only skip-ci and upload continuation steps from the given pipeline YAML
-# (YAML document after the first `---`). Buildkite `if` is evaluated at upload time.
-#
-# Usage: upload_pipeline_with_skip_ci.sh [pipeline_yaml]
-#   pipeline_yaml: path relative to repo root or absolute (default: .buildkite/pipeline.yml)
-set -euo pipefail
-
-ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/../.." && pwd)"
-PIPELINE_ARG="${1:-.buildkite/pipeline.yml}"
-if [[ "${PIPELINE_ARG}" = /* ]]; then
-  PIPELINE_YML="${PIPELINE_ARG}"
-else
-  PIPELINE_YML="${ROOT}/${PIPELINE_ARG}"
-fi
-
-# Prints a single digit to stdout: 1 = skip image CI, 0 = run. Logs go to stderr.
-is_docs_only_change() {
-  local file_path
-  local has_any=0
-
-  while IFS= read -r file_path; do
-    [[ -z "${file_path}" ]] && continue
-    has_any=1
-
-    if [[ "${file_path}" == docs/* ]]; then
-      continue
-    fi
-    if [[ "${file_path}" == *.md ]]; then
-      continue
-    fi
-    if [[ "${file_path}" == "mkdocs.yml" ]]; then
-      continue
-    fi
-    return 1
-  done
-
-  [[ "${has_any}" -eq 1 ]]
-}
-
-resolve_skip_ci() {
-  local is_pr_build=0
-  local files
-  local base_branch base_ref
-
-  if [[ "${BUILDKITE_PULL_REQUEST:-false}" != "false" && -n "${BUILDKITE_PULL_REQUEST:-}" ]]; then
-    is_pr_build=1
-  fi
-
-  if [[ "${is_pr_build}" -eq 1 ]]; then
-    base_branch="${BUILDKITE_PULL_REQUEST_BASE_BRANCH:-main}"
-    if ! git rev-parse --verify "origin/${base_branch}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-      echo "resolve_skip_ci: origin/${base_branch} not found locally; trying fetch" >&2
-      git fetch --depth=200 origin "${base_branch}" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
-    fi
-
-    base_ref=""
-    if git rev-parse --verify "origin/${base_branch}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-      base_ref="origin/${base_branch}"
-    elif git rev-parse --verify "${base_branch}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-      base_ref="${base_branch}"
-    else
-      echo "resolve_skip_ci: cannot resolve PR base ${base_branch}; skip-ci=0" >&2
-      echo -n 0
-      return 0
-    fi
-
-    if ! files="$(git diff --name-only "${base_ref}...${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}" 2>/dev/null)"; then
-      echo "resolve_skip_ci: failed to compute PR changed files; skip-ci=0" >&2
-      echo -n 0
-      return 0
-    fi
-  elif [[ "${BUILDKITE_BRANCH:-}" == "main" ]]; then
-    if ! git rev-parse --verify "${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}^" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-      echo "resolve_skip_ci: commit has no parent on main; skip-ci=0" >&2
-      echo -n 0
-      return 0
-    fi
-    if ! files="$(git diff --name-only "${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}^..${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}" 2>/dev/null)"; then
-      echo "resolve_skip_ci: failed to compute main changed files; skip-ci=0" >&2
-      echo -n 0
-      return 0
-    fi
-  else
-    echo "resolve_skip_ci: not PR/main build; skip-ci=0" >&2
-    echo -n 0
-    return 0
-  fi
-
-  if is_docs_only_change <<< "${files}"; then
-    echo "resolve_skip_ci: docs-only change detected; skip-ci=1" >&2
-    echo -n 1
-    return 0
-  fi
-
-  echo "resolve_skip_ci: non-doc changes detected; skip-ci=0" >&2
-  echo -n 0
-}
-
-SKIP_CI="$(resolve_skip_ci)"
-
-if [[ ! -f "${PIPELINE_YML}" ]]; then
-  echo "upload_pipeline_with_skip_ci: missing ${PIPELINE_YML}" >&2
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-export ROOT SKIP_CI PIPELINE_YML
-python3 <<'PY' | buildkite-agent pipeline upload
-import os
-import pathlib
-
-path = pathlib.Path(os.environ["PIPELINE_YML"])
-text = path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
-sep = "\n---\n"
-# Two supported layouts:
-#   - multi-doc: doc 1 = bootstrap (loaded by Buildkite), doc 2 (after `---`) = uploaded steps.
-#   - single-doc: whole file is the uploaded steps; caller (UI init step) is the bootstrap.
-if sep in text:
-    _, continuation = text.split(sep, 1)
-else:
-    continuation = text
-
-skip = os.environ.get("SKIP_CI") == "1"
-# When docs-only skip-ci: skip default CI image, but still build for L4 nightly (PR label nightly-test or
-# main NIGHTLY=1), otherwise upload-nightly (depends_on image-build) would be skipped too.
-nightly_only = (
-    '(build.pull_request.labels includes "nightly-test") '
-    '|| (build.branch == "main" && build.env("NIGHTLY") == "1")'
-)
-# Placeholder in pipeline.yml is `if: __IMAGE_BUILD_IF__` (valid YAML); replace value only.
-if skip:
-    rep = f"'{nightly_only}'"
-    ready_rep = "'false'"
-    merge_rep = "'false'"
-else:
-    rep = "'true'"
-    ready_rep = "'build.branch != \"main\" && build.pull_request.labels includes \"ready\"'"
-    merge_rep = "'(build.branch == \"main\" && build.env(\"NIGHTLY\") != \"1\" && build.env(\"WEEKLY\") != \"1\") || (build.branch != \"main\" && build.pull_request.labels includes \"merge-test\")'"
-rendered = (
-    continuation
-    .replace("__IMAGE_BUILD_IF__", rep)
-    .replace("__UPLOAD_READY_IF__", ready_rep)
-    .replace("__UPLOAD_MERGE_IF__", merge_rep)
-)
-print(rendered, end="")
-PY
@@ -1,41 +1,123 @@
+env:
+  VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD: spawn
+  HF_HUB_DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT: 300
+  HF_HUB_ETAG_TIMEOUT: 60
+
 steps:

- label: "Simple Unit Test"
-  agent_pool: mi325_1
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  grade: Blocking
-  commands:
-    - export VLLM_ROCM_USE_AITER=0
-    # ignore test_teacache_extractors.py because it use rocm gemm kernel from vLLM
-    # that is not supported on CPU
-    - "timeout 60m pytest -v -s -m 'core_model and cpu' --ignore=tests/diffusion/cache/test_teacache_extractors.py --cov=vllm_omni --cov-report=term-missing:skip-covered --cov-report=xml"
+- group: ":card_index_dividers: Simple Test"
+  steps:
+    - label: "Simple · Diffusion & Model Executor Test (1/2)"
+      agent_pool: mi325_1
+      depends_on: amd-build
+      timeout_in_minutes: 70
+      mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
+      grade: Blocking
+      commands:
+        - export VLLM_ROCM_USE_AITER=0
+        # ignore test_teacache_extractors.py because it use rocm gemm kernel from vLLM
+        # that is not supported on CPU
+        # CPU tests on ROCm gpu machines are very slow, so we give them more time.
+        - "timeout 60m pytest -sv tests/diffusion -m 'core_model and cpu' --ignore=tests/diffusion/cache/test_teacache_extractors.py --cov=vllm_omni --cov-report=term-missing:skip-covered --cov-report=xml"

- label: "Diffusion Images API LoRA E2E"
-  agent_pool: mi325_1
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  grade: Blocking
-  commands:
-    - timeout 20m pytest -s -v tests/diffusion/lora/test_images_generations_lora.py
+    - label: "Simple · Diffusion & Model Executor Test (2/2)"
+      agent_pool: mi325_1
+      depends_on: amd-build
+      timeout_in_minutes: 70
+      mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
+      grade: Blocking
+      commands:
+        - export VLLM_ROCM_USE_AITER=0
+        # CPU tests on ROCm gpu machines are very slow, so we give them more time.
+        - "timeout 60m pytest -sv tests/model_executor -m 'core_model and cpu' --cov=vllm_omni --cov-report=term-missing:skip-covered --cov-report=xml"

- label: "Diffusion Model CPU offloading Test"
-  agent_pool: mi325_1
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  grade: Blocking
-  commands:
-    - export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
-    - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
-    - |
-      timeout 20m bash -c '
-        set +e
-        pytest -s -v tests/diffusion/offloader/test_diffusion_cpu_offload.py
-        EXIT1=\$?
-        pytest -s -v tests/diffusion/offloader/test_diffusion_layerwise_offload.py
-        EXIT2=\$?
-        exit \$((EXIT1 | EXIT2))
-      '
+    - label: "Simple · Other Test"
+      agent_pool: mi325_1
+      depends_on: amd-build
+      timeout_in_minutes: 50
+      mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
+      grade: Blocking
+      commands:
+        - export VLLM_ROCM_USE_AITER=0
+        # ignore test_teacache_extractors.py because it use rocm gemm kernel from vLLM
+        # that is not supported on CPU
+        - "timeout 40m pytest -sv tests/diffusion tests/model_executor -m 'core_model and cpu' --ignore=tests/diffusion/cache/test_teacache_extractors.py --cov=vllm_omni --cov-report=term-missing:skip-covered --cov-report=xml"
+
+- group: ":card_index_dividers: Diffusion Test"
+  steps:
+    - label: "Diffusion · LoRA Test"
+      agent_pool: mi325_1
+      depends_on: amd-build
+      mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
+      grade: Blocking
+      commands:
+        - timeout 20m pytest -s -v tests/diffusion/lora/test_images_generations_lora.py
+
+    - label: "Diffusion Model CPU offloading Test"
+      agent_pool: mi325_1
+      depends_on: amd-build
+      mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
+      grade: Blocking
+      commands:
+        - export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
+        - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
+        - |
+          timeout 20m bash -c '
+            set +e
+            pytest -s -v tests/diffusion/offloader/test_diffusion_cpu_offload.py
+            EXIT1=\$?
+            pytest -s -v tests/diffusion/offloader/test_diffusion_layerwise_offload.py
+            EXIT2=\$?
+            exit \$((EXIT1 | EXIT2))
+          '
+
+    - label: "Diffusion Sequence Parallelism Test (Need 4 GPUs)"
+      agent_pool: mi325_4
+      depends_on: amd-build
+      mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
+      grade: Blocking
+      commands:
+        - export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
+        - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
+        - timeout 20m pytest -s -v tests/diffusion/distributed/test_sequence_parallel.py
+        - timeout 20m pytest -s -v tests/diffusion/distributed/test_ulysses_uaa_perf.py
+
+    # merge-only tests
+    - label: "Diffusion Tensor Parallelism Test"
+      agent_pool: mi325_2
+      depends_on: amd-build
+      mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
+      grade: Blocking
+      commands:
+        - pytest -s -v tests/diffusion/distributed/test_zimage_parallelism.py
+
+    - label: "Diffusion Model Test"
+      agent_pool: mi325_1
+      depends_on: amd-build
+      mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
+      grade: Blocking
+      commands:
+        - timeout 30m pytest -s -v tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_z_image.py
+
+    - label: "Diffusion GPU Worker Test"
+      agent_pool: mi325_2
+      depends_on: amd-build
+      mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
+      grade: Blocking
+      commands:
+        - timeout 20m pytest -s -v tests/diffusion/test_diffusion_worker.py
+
+    - label: "Diffusion · Wan22 Test"
+      agent_pool: mi325_1
+      depends_on: amd-build
+      mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
+      grade: Blocking
+      commands:
+        - |
+          timeout 40m bash -c "
+            export VLLM_IMAGE_FETCH_TIMEOUT=60
+            pytest -s -v tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_wan22_t2v.py tests/e2e/online_serving/test_wan22_t2v.py -m 'advanced_model and cuda and diffusion' --run-level 'advanced_model'
+          "

 ## ISSUE depends on `diffusers` package: https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/issues/13274
 # - label: "Audio Generation Model Test"
@@ -49,52 +131,6 @@ steps:
 #     - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
 #     - timeout 20m pytest -s -v tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_stable_audio_expansion.py -m "advanced_model and diffusion and L4" --run-level advanced_model

- label: "Diffusion Cache Backend Test"
-  agent_pool: mi325_1
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  grade: Blocking
-  commands:
-    - export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
-    - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
-    - timeout 15m pytest -s -v -m "core_model and cache and diffusion and not distributed_cuda and L4"
-
- label: "Diffusion Sequence Parallelism Test (Need 4 GPUs)"
-  agent_pool: mi325_4
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  grade: Blocking
-  commands:
-    - export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
-    - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
-    - timeout 20m pytest -s -v tests/diffusion/distributed/test_sequence_parallel.py
-    - timeout 20m pytest -s -v tests/diffusion/distributed/test_ulysses_uaa_perf.py
-
-# merge-only tests
- label: "Diffusion Tensor Parallelism Test"
-  agent_pool: mi325_2
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  grade: Blocking
-  commands:
-    - pytest -s -v tests/diffusion/distributed/test_zimage_parallelism.py
-
- label: "Diffusion Model Test"
-  agent_pool: mi325_1
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  grade: Blocking
-  commands:
-    - timeout 30m pytest -s -v tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_z_image.py
-
- label: "Diffusion GPU Worker Test"
-  agent_pool: mi325_2
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  grade: Blocking
-  commands:
-    - timeout 20m pytest -s -v tests/diffusion/test_diffusion_worker.py
-
 - label: "Engine Test"
  agent_pool: mi325_1
  depends_on: amd-build
@@ -108,50 +144,53 @@ steps:
 # This model seems to be important, so I am trying to run it here.
 # Since this is from test-nightly.yml,
 # I keep this non-blocking.
- label: "Omni Model Test Qwen2-5-Omni"
-  agent_pool: mi325_4
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  commands:
-    - export VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN="1"
-    - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/*/test_qwen2_5_omni_expansion.py --run-level "core_model"
+- group: ":card_index_dividers: E2E Test"
+  steps:
+    - label: "Omni Model Test Qwen2-5-Omni"
+      agent_pool: mi325_4
+      depends_on: amd-build
+      mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
+      commands:
+        - export VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN="1"
+        - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/*/test_qwen2_5_omni_expansion.py --run-level "core_model"

- label: "Omni Model Test Qwen3-Omni"
-  agent_pool: mi325_2
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  grade: Blocking
-  commands:
-    - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
-    - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_qwen3_omni.py tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_omni.py tests/e2e/online_serving/test_mimo_audio.py -m "advanced_model" --run-level "advanced_model"
+    - label: "Omni Model Test Qwen3-Omni"
+      agent_pool: mi325_2
+      depends_on: amd-build
+      mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
+      grade: Blocking
+      commands:
+        - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
+        - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_qwen3_omni.py tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_omni.py -m 'advanced_model and cuda' --run-level 'advanced_model'

- label: "Qwen3-TTS CustomVoice E2E Test"
-  agent_pool: mi325_1
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  grade: Blocking
-  commands:
-    - |
-      timeout 20m bash -c '
-        export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
-        export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
-        export VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN="1"
-        pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_tts_customvoice.py tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_qwen3_tts_customvoice.py -m "advanced_model" --run-level "advanced_model"
-      '
+    - label: "Qwen3-TTS CustomVoice E2E Test"
+      agent_pool: mi325_1
+      depends_on: amd-build
+      mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
+      grade: Blocking
+      commands:
+        - |
+          timeout 50m bash -c '
+            export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
+            export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
+            export VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN="1"
+            pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_tts_customvoice.py tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_qwen3_tts_customvoice.py -m "advanced_model" --run-level "advanced_model"
+          '

- label: "Qwen3-TTS Base E2E Test"
-  agent_pool: mi325_1
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  grade: Blocking
-  commands:
-    - |
-      timeout 30m bash -c '
-        export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
-        export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
-        export VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN="1"
-        pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_tts_base.py tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_qwen3_tts_base.py -m "advanced_model" --run-level "advanced_model"
-      '
+    - label: "Qwen3-TTS Base E2E Test"
+      agent_pool: mi325_1
+      depends_on: amd-build
+      mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
+      grade: Blocking
+      timeout_in_minutes: 50
+      commands:
+        - |
+          timeout 40m bash -c '
+            export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
+            export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
+            export VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN="1"
+            pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_tts_base.py tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_qwen3_tts_base.py -m 'advanced_model and cuda' --run-level 'advanced_model'
+          '

 # TODO: Bagel test on ROCm is very unstable. @tjtanaa
 # Need to debug before reneable numerical changes across large PRs
@@ -192,28 +231,3 @@ steps:
 #     - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
 #     - export VLLM_ROCM_USE_AITER_RMSNORM=0
 #     - timeout 40m pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_bagel.py -m "advanced_model" --run-level "advanced_model" -k "rocm"
-
- label: "Diffusion · Wan22 Test"
-  agent_pool: mi325_1
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  grade: Blocking
-  commands:
-    - |
-      timeout 40m bash -c "
-        export VLLM_IMAGE_FETCH_TIMEOUT=60
-        pytest -s -v tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_wan22_t2v.py tests/e2e/online_serving/test_wan22_t2v.py -m 'advanced_model and cuda and diffusion' --run-level 'advanced_model'
-      "
-
- label: "Voxtral-TTS E2E Test"
-  agent_pool: mi325_1
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  grade: Blocking
-  commands:
-    - |
-      timeout 20m bash -c '
-        export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
-        export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
-        pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_voxtral_tts.py tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_voxtral_tts.py -m "advanced_model" --run-level "advanced_model"
-      '
@@ -1,31 +1,33 @@
+env:
+  VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD: spawn
+  HF_HUB_DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT: 300
+  HF_HUB_ETAG_TIMEOUT: 60
+
 steps:

- label: "Simple Unit Test"
-  agent_pool: mi325_1
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  grade: Blocking
-  commands:
-    - export VLLM_ROCM_USE_AITER=0
-    # ignore test_teacache_extractors.py because it use rocm gemm kernel from vLLM
-    # that is not supported on CPU
-    - "timeout 60m pytest -v -s -m 'core_model and cpu' --ignore=tests/diffusion/cache/test_teacache_extractors.py --cov=vllm_omni --cov-report=term-missing:skip-covered --cov-report=xml"
+- group: ":card_index_dividers: Simple Test"
+  steps:
+    - label: "Simple · Diffusion & Model Executor Test"
+      agent_pool: mi325_1
+      depends_on: amd-build
+      mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
+      grade: Blocking
+      commands:
+        - export VLLM_ROCM_USE_AITER=0
+        # ignore test_teacache_extractors.py because it use rocm gemm kernel from vLLM
+        # that is not supported on CPU
+        - "timeout 40m pytest -sv tests/diffusion tests/model_executor -m 'core_model and cpu' --ignore=tests/diffusion/cache/test_teacache_extractors.py --cov=vllm_omni --cov-report=term-missing:skip-covered --cov-report=xml"

- label: "Voxtral TTS CUDA Unit Test"
-  agent_pool: mi325_1
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  grade: Blocking
-  commands:
-    - timeout 10m pytest -s -v tests/model_executor/models/voxtral_tts/test_cuda_graph_acoustic_transformer.py
-
- label: "Diffusion Batching Test"
-  agent_pool: mi325_1
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  grade: Blocking
-  commands:
-    - timeout 20m pytest -s -v tests/diffusion/batching/test_diffusion_batching.py -m "core_model and diffusion" --run-level "core_model"
+    - label: "Simple · Other Test"
+      agent_pool: mi325_1
+      depends_on: amd-build
+      mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
+      grade: Blocking
+      commands:
+        - export VLLM_ROCM_USE_AITER=0
+        # ignore test_teacache_extractors.py because it use rocm gemm kernel from vLLM
+        # that is not supported on CPU
+        - "timeout 40m pytest -sv tests/diffusion tests/model_executor -m 'core_model and cpu' --ignore=tests/diffusion/cache/test_teacache_extractors.py --cov=vllm_omni --cov-report=term-missing:skip-covered --cov-report=xml"

 - label: "Custom Pipeline Test"
  agent_pool: mi325_1
@@ -35,23 +37,92 @@ steps:
  commands:
    - timeout 20m pytest -s -v tests/e2e/offline_inference/custom_pipeline/ -m "core_model"

- label: "Diffusion Model CPU offloading Test"
+
+- label: "Voxtral TTS CUDA Unit Test"
  agent_pool: mi325_1
  depends_on: amd-build
  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
  grade: Blocking
  commands:
-    - export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
-    - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
-    - |
-      timeout 20m bash -c '
-        set +e
-        pytest -s -v tests/diffusion/offloader/test_diffusion_cpu_offload.py
-        EXIT1=\$?
-        pytest -s -v tests/diffusion/offloader/test_diffusion_layerwise_offload.py
-        EXIT2=\$?
-        exit \$((EXIT1 | EXIT2))
-      '
+    - timeout 10m pytest -s -v tests/model_executor/models/voxtral_tts/test_cuda_graph_acoustic_transformer.py
+
+- group: ":card_index_dividers: Diffusion Test"
+  steps:
+    - label: "Diffusion · Batch Test"
+      agent_pool: mi325_1
+      depends_on: amd-build
+      mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
+      grade: Blocking
+      commands:
+        - timeout 20m pytest -sv tests/diffusion/batching -m 'core_model and cuda' --run-level "core_model"
+
+    - label: "Diffusion · Offloader Test"
+      agent_pool: mi325_1
+      depends_on: amd-build
+      mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
+      grade: Blocking
+      commands:
+        - export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
+        - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
+        - |
+          timeout 20m bash -c '
+            set +e
+            pytest -s -v tests/diffusion/offloader/test_diffusion_cpu_offload.py
+            EXIT1=\$?
+            pytest -s -v tests/diffusion/offloader/test_diffusion_layerwise_offload.py
+            EXIT2=\$?
+            exit \$((EXIT1 | EXIT2))
+          '
+
+    - label: "Diffusion · Cache Test"
+      agent_pool: mi325_1
+      depends_on: amd-build
+      mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
+      grade: Blocking
+      commands:
+        - export GPU_ARCHS=gfx942
+        - export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
+        - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
+        - timeout 15m pytest -s -v -m "core_model and cache and diffusion and not distributed_cuda and L4"
+
+    - label: "Diffusion Sequence Parallelism Test"
+      agent_pool: mi325_2
+      depends_on: amd-build
+      mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
+      grade: Blocking
+      commands:
+        - export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
+        - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
+        - timeout 20m pytest -s -v tests/diffusion/distributed/test_sequence_parallel.py -m core_model
+
+    - label: "Diffusion GPU Worker Test"
+      agent_pool: mi325_2
+      depends_on: amd-build
+      mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
+      grade: Blocking
+      commands:
+        - timeout 20m pytest -s -v tests/diffusion/test_diffusion_worker.py
+
+    - label: "Diffusion · Model Test"
+      agent_pool: mi325_1
+      depends_on: amd-build
+      mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
+      grade: Blocking
+      commands:
+        - timeout 15m pytest -sv tests/diffusion/models/ -m 'core_model and cuda' --run-level "core_model"
+
+    - label: "Diffusion · Wan22 Test"
+      agent_pool: mi325_1
+      depends_on: amd-build
+      mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
+      grade: Blocking
+      commands:
+        - |
+          timeout 40m bash -c "
+            export VLLM_TEST_CLEAN_GPU_MEMORY=1
+            export VLLM_IMAGE_FETCH_TIMEOUT=60
+            pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_wan22_t2v.py -m 'core_model' --run-level 'core_model'
+          "

 ## ISSUE depends on `diffusers` package: https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/issues/13274
 # - label: "Audio Generation Model Test"
@@ -65,56 +136,6 @@ steps:
 #     - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
 #     - timeout 20m pytest -s -v tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_stable_audio_expansion.py -m "advanced_model and diffusion and L4" --run-level advanced_model

- label: "Diffusion Cache Backend Test"
-  agent_pool: mi325_1
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  grade: Blocking
-  commands:
-    - export GPU_ARCHS=gfx942
-    - export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
-    - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
-    - timeout 15m pytest -s -v -m "core_model and cache and diffusion and not distributed_cuda and L4"
-
- label: "Diffusion Sequence Parallelism Test"
-  agent_pool: mi325_2
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  grade: Blocking
-  commands:
-    - export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
-    - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
-    - timeout 20m pytest -s -v tests/diffusion/distributed/test_sequence_parallel.py -m core_model
-
- label: "Diffusion GPU Worker Test"
-  agent_pool: mi325_2
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  grade: Blocking
-  commands:
-    - timeout 20m pytest -s -v tests/diffusion/test_diffusion_worker.py
-
- label: "Diffusion · Model Test"
-  agent_pool: mi325_1
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  grade: Blocking
-  commands:
-    - timeout 15m pytest -sv tests/diffusion/models/ -m 'core_model and cuda' --run-level "core_model"
-
- label: "Diffusion · Wan22 Test"
-  agent_pool: mi325_1
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  grade: Blocking
-  commands:
-    - |
-      timeout 40m bash -c "
-        export VLLM_TEST_CLEAN_GPU_MEMORY=1
-        export VLLM_IMAGE_FETCH_TIMEOUT=60
-        pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_wan22_t2v.py -m 'core_model' --run-level 'core_model'
-      "
-
 - label: "Engine Test"
  agent_pool: mi325_1
  depends_on: amd-build
@@ -138,43 +159,29 @@ steps:
 #     - timeout 10m pytest -s -v tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_qwen3_omni.py
 #     - timeout 20m pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_omni.py -m "core_model" --run-level "core_model"

- label: "MiMo-Audio E2E Test with H100"
-  agent_pool: mi325_1
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  grade: Blocking
-  commands:
-    - |
-      timeout 30m bash -c '
-        export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
-        export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
-        pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_mimo_audio.py -m "core_model" --run-level "core_model"
-      '
+- group: ":card_index_dividers: E2E Test"
+  steps:
+    - label: "Qwen3-TTS E2E Test"
+      agent_pool: mi325_1
+      depends_on: amd-build
+      mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
+      grade: Blocking
+      commands:
+        - export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
+        - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
+        - export VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN="1"
+        - timeout 30m pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_tts_customvoice.py -m "core_model" --run-level "core_model"

- label: "Qwen3-TTS E2E Test"
-  agent_pool: mi325_1
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  grade: Blocking
-  commands:
-    - export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
-    - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
-    - export VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN="1"
-    - timeout 30m pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_tts_customvoice.py -m "core_model" --run-level "core_model"
-
- label: "Voxtral-TTS E2E Test"
-  agent_pool: mi325_1
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  grade: Blocking
-  commands:
-    - |
-      timeout 20m bash -c '
-        export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
-        export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
-        pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_voxtral_tts.py -m "advanced_model" --run-level "advanced_model"
-        pytest -s -v tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_voxtral_tts.py -m "advanced_model" --run-level "advanced_model"
-      '
+    - label: "CosyVoice3-TTS E2E Test"
+      agent_pool: mi325_1
+      depends_on: amd-build
+      mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
+      grade: Blocking
+      commands:
+        - |
+          timeout 20m bash -c '
+            pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_cosyvoice3_tts_expansion.py -m "slow" --run-level "core_model"
+          '

 # TODO: Bagel test on ROCm is very unstable. @tjtanaa
 # Need to debug before reneable numerical changes across large PRs
@@ -214,14 +221,3 @@ steps:
 #     - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
 #     - export VLLM_ROCM_USE_AITER_RMSNORM=0
 #     - timeout 40m pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_bagel.py -m "core_model" --run-level "core_model" -k "rocm"
-
- label: "CosyVoice3-TTS E2E Test"
-  agent_pool: mi325_1
-  depends_on: amd-build
-  mirror_hardwares: [amdproduction]
-  grade: Blocking
-  commands:
-    - |
-      timeout 20m bash -c '
-        pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_cosyvoice3_tts_expansion.py -m "full_model" --run-level "core_model"
-      '
@@ -61,13 +61,14 @@ steps:
                - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"

  - label: "Distributed Test"
+    depends_on: upload-merge-pipeline
    timeout_in_minutes: 60
    commands:
      - |
        timeout 55m bash -c "
          set -e
          export VLLM_IMAGE_FETCH_TIMEOUT=60
-          pytest -s -v tests/distributed -m 'advanced_model and cuda' --run-level 'advanced_model'
+          pytest -s -v tests/distributed -m 'advanced_model and cuda and H100' --run-level 'advanced_model'
        "
    agents:
      queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
@@ -107,7 +108,7 @@ steps:
    depends_on: upload-merge-pipeline
    steps:
      - label: "Entrypoint Test with H100"
-        timeout_in_minutes: 35
+        timeout_in_minutes: 60
        commands:
          - pytest -s -v tests/entrypoints/ -m "advanced_model and cuda and H100" --run-level "advanced_model"
        agents:
@@ -149,7 +150,7 @@ steps:
        commands:
          - pytest -s -v tests/entrypoints/ -m "advanced_model and cuda and L4" --run-level "advanced_model"
        agents:
-          queue: "gpu_4_queue" # g6.4xlarge instance on AWS, has 1 L4 GPU
+          queue: "gpu_4_queue" # g6.12xlarge instance on AWS, has 4 L4 GPU
        plugins:
          - docker#v5.2.0:
              image: public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
@@ -165,15 +166,21 @@ steps:
    depends_on: upload-merge-pipeline
    steps:
      - label: "TTS · Qwen3-TTS CustomVoice Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_tts_customvoice.py
+          - tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_qwen3_tts_customvoice.py
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/models/qwen3_tts/
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/stage_input_processors/qwen3_tts.py
+          - vllm_omni/deploy/qwen3_tts.yaml
        commands:
          - |
-            timeout 20m bash -c "
+            timeout 40m bash -c "
              export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
              export VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN=1
              pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_tts_customvoice.py tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_qwen3_tts_customvoice.py -m 'advanced_model and cuda' --run-level 'advanced_model'
            "
        agents:
-          queue: "gpu_4_queue"
+          queue: "gpu_1_queue" # g6.4xlarge instance on AWS, has 1 L4 GPU
        plugins:
          - docker#v5.2.0:
              image: public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
@@ -186,15 +193,21 @@ steps:
                - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"

      - label: "TTS · Qwen3-TTS Base Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_tts_base.py
+          - tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_qwen3_tts_base.py
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/models/qwen3_tts/
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/stage_input_processors/qwen3_tts.py
+          - vllm_omni/deploy/qwen3_tts.yaml
        commands:
          - |
-            timeout 20m bash -c "
+            timeout 40m bash -c "
              export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
              export VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN=1
              pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_tts_base.py tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_qwen3_tts_base.py -m 'advanced_model and cuda' --run-level 'advanced_model'
            "
        agents:
-          queue: "gpu_4_queue"
+          queue: "gpu_1_queue" # g6.4xlarge instance on AWS, has 1 L4 GPU
        plugins:
          - docker#v5.2.0:
              image: public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
@@ -206,51 +219,78 @@ steps:
              volumes:
                - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"

-      - label: "TTS · Voxtral-TTS Test"
-        timeout_in_minutes: 20
+      - label: "TTS · Higgs-Audio-V3 Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_higgs_audio_v3.py
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/models/higgs_audio_v3/
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/stage_input_processors/higgs_audio_v3.py
+          - vllm_omni/deploy/higgs_multimodal_qwen3.yaml
        commands:
          - |
            timeout 20m bash -c "
-              export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
-              pytest -s -v tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_voxtral_tts.py tests/e2e/online_serving/test_voxtral_tts.py -m 'advanced_model and cuda' --run-level 'advanced_model'
+              export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
+              export VLLM_USE_DEEP_GEMM=0
+              export VLLM_MOE_USE_DEEP_GEMM=0
+              pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_higgs_audio_v3.py -m 'advanced_model' --run-level 'advanced_model'
            "
        agents:
-          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
+          queue: "gpu_1_queue"
        plugins:
-          - kubernetes:
-              podSpec:
-                containers:
-                  - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
-                    resources:
-                      limits:
-                        nvidia.com/gpu: 1
-                    volumeMounts:
-                      - name: devshm
-                        mountPath: /dev/shm
-                      - name: hf-cache
-                        mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
-                    env:
-                      - name: HF_HOME
-                        value: /root/.cache/huggingface
-                      - name: HF_TOKEN
-                        valueFrom:
-                          secretKeyRef:
-                            name: hf-token-secret
-                            key: token
-                nodeSelector:
-                  node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
-                volumes:
-                  - name: devshm
-                    emptyDir:
-                      medium: Memory
-                  - name: hf-cache
-                    hostPath:
-                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
-                      type: DirectoryOrCreate
+          - docker#v5.2.0:
+              image: public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+              always-pull: true
+              propagate-environment: true
+              shm-size: "8gb"
+              environment:
+                - "HF_HOME=/fsx/hf_cache"
+                - "HF_TOKEN"
+              volumes:
+                - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"

+      - label: "TTS · IndexTTS2 Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_indextts2.py
+          - tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_indextts2.py
+          - tests/model_executor/models/indextts2/
+          - tests/model_executor/stage_input_processors/test_indextts2.py
+          - tests/assets/indextts2/
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/models/indextts2/
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/stage_input_processors/indextts2.py
+          - vllm_omni/deploy/indextts2.yaml
+          - vllm_omni/deploy/indextts2_low_latency.yaml
+          - vllm_omni/entrypoints/openai/serving_speech.py
+          - vllm_omni/entrypoints/openai/tts_adapters/indextts2.py
+          - vllm_omni/config/pipeline_registry.py
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/models/registry.py
+        timeout_in_minutes: 60
+        commands:
+          - |
+            timeout 45m bash -c "
+              export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
+              pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_indextts2.py tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_indextts2.py -m 'advanced_model and cuda' --run-level 'advanced_model'
+            "
+        agents:
+          queue: "gpu_4_queue"
+        plugins:
+          - docker#v5.2.0:
+              image: public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+              always-pull: true
+              propagate-environment: true
+              environment:
+                - "HF_HOME=/fsx/hf_cache"
+                - "HF_TOKEN"
+              gpus: all
+              volumes:
+                - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"

      - label: "Omni · Qwen3-Omni Test"
-        timeout_in_minutes: 30
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_qwen3_omni.py
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_omni.py
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/models/qwen3_omni/
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/stage_input_processors/qwen3_omni.py
+          - vllm_omni/deploy/qwen3_omni_moe.yaml
+        timeout_in_minutes: 50
        commands:
          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_qwen3_omni.py tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_omni.py -m 'advanced_model and cuda' --run-level 'advanced_model'
        agents:
@@ -287,52 +327,47 @@ steps:
                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
                      type: DirectoryOrCreate

-      - label: "Omni · Mimo Audio Test"
+      - label: "TTS · VoxCPM2 Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_voxcpm2_tts.py
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_voxcpm2_tts.py
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/models/voxcpm2/
+          - vllm_omni/deploy/voxcpm2.yaml
        timeout_in_minutes: 30
-        commands:
-          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_mimo_audio.py -m 'advanced_model and cuda' --run-level 'advanced_model'
-        agents:
-          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
-        plugins:
-          - kubernetes:
-              podSpec:
-                containers:
-                  - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
-                    resources:
-                      limits:
-                        nvidia.com/gpu: 2
-                    volumeMounts:
-                      - name: devshm
-                        mountPath: /dev/shm
-                      - name: hf-cache
-                        mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
-                    env:
-                      - name: HF_HOME
-                        value: /root/.cache/huggingface
-                      - name: HF_TOKEN
-                        valueFrom:
-                          secretKeyRef:
-                            name: hf-token-secret
-                            key: token
-                nodeSelector:
-                  node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
-                volumes:
-                  - name: devshm
-                    emptyDir:
-                      medium: Memory
-                  - name: hf-cache
-                    hostPath:
-                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
-                      type: DirectoryOrCreate
-
-      - label: "Omni · VoxCPM2 Test"
-        timeout_in_minutes: 20
        commands:
          - |
-            timeout 20m bash -c "
+            timeout 30m bash -c "
              export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
              export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
-              pytest -s -v tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_voxcpm2.py -m 'advanced_model and cuda' --run-level 'advanced_model'
+              pytest -s -v tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_voxcpm2_tts.py tests/e2e/online_serving/test_voxcpm2_tts.py -m 'advanced_model and cuda' --run-level 'advanced_model'
+            "
+        agents:
+          queue: "gpu_1_queue"
+        plugins:
+          - docker#v5.2.0:
+              image: public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+              always-pull: true
+              propagate-environment: true
+              shm-size: "8gb"
+              environment:
+                - "HF_HOME=/fsx/hf_cache"
+                - "HF_TOKEN"
+              volumes:
+                - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"
+
+      - label: "TTS · SoulX-Singer Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_soulxsinger.py
+          - vllm_omni/diffusion/models/soulx_singer/
+          - vllm_omni/deploy/soulxsinger_svc.yaml
+          - vllm_omni/deploy/soulxsinger_svs.yaml
+        timeout_in_minutes: 30
+        commands:
+          - |
+            timeout 30m bash -c "
+              export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
+              export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
+              pytest -s -v tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_soulxsinger.py -k 'svc or precomputed' -m 'advanced_model and cuda' --run-level 'advanced_model'
            "
        agents:
          queue: "gpu_1_queue"
@@ -349,6 +384,9 @@ steps:
                - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"

      - label: "Diffusion · Qwen Image Edit Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen_image_edit.py
+          - vllm_omni/diffusion/models/qwen_image/
        timeout_in_minutes: 20
        commands:
          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen_image_edit.py -m 'advanced_model and cuda' --run-level 'advanced_model'
@@ -386,83 +424,14 @@ steps:
                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
                      type: DirectoryOrCreate

-      - label: "Diffusion · Longcat Image Edit Test"
-        timeout_in_minutes: 20
-        commands:
-          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_longcat_image_edit.py -m 'advanced_model and cuda' --run-level 'advanced_model'
-        agents:
-          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
-        plugins:
-          - kubernetes:
-              podSpec:
-                containers:
-                  - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
-                    resources:
-                      limits:
-                        nvidia.com/gpu: 1
-                    volumeMounts:
-                      - name: devshm
-                        mountPath: /dev/shm
-                      - name: hf-cache
-                        mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
-                    env:
-                      - name: HF_HOME
-                        value: /root/.cache/huggingface
-                      - name: HF_TOKEN
-                        valueFrom:
-                          secretKeyRef:
-                            name: hf-token-secret
-                            key: token
-                nodeSelector:
-                  node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
-                volumes:
-                  - name: devshm
-                    emptyDir:
-                      medium: Memory
-                  - name: hf-cache
-                    hostPath:
-                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
-                      type: DirectoryOrCreate
-
-      - label: "Diffusion · Longcat Image Test"
-        timeout_in_minutes: 20
-        commands:
-          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_longcat_image.py -m 'advanced_model and cuda' --run-level 'advanced_model'
-        agents:
-          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
-        plugins:
-          - kubernetes:
-              podSpec:
-                containers:
-                  - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
-                    resources:
-                      limits:
-                        nvidia.com/gpu: 1
-                    volumeMounts:
-                      - name: devshm
-                        mountPath: /dev/shm
-                      - name: hf-cache
-                        mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
-                    env:
-                      - name: HF_HOME
-                        value: /root/.cache/huggingface
-                      - name: HF_TOKEN
-                        valueFrom:
-                          secretKeyRef:
-                            name: hf-token-secret
-                            key: token
-                nodeSelector:
-                  node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
-                volumes:
-                  - name: devshm
-                    emptyDir:
-                      medium: Memory
-                  - name: hf-cache
-                    hostPath:
-                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
-                      type: DirectoryOrCreate
-
      - label: "Diffusion · Bagel Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_bagel.py
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_bagel.py
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/models/bagel/
+          - vllm_omni/diffusion/models/bagel/
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/stage_input_processors/bagel.py
+          - vllm_omni/deploy/bagel.yaml
        timeout_in_minutes: 20
        commands:
          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_bagel.py tests/e2e/online_serving/test_bagel.py -m 'advanced_model and cuda' --run-level 'advanced_model'
@@ -502,6 +471,9 @@ steps:


      - label: "Diffusion · Qwen Image Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen_image.py
+          - vllm_omni/diffusion/models/qwen_image/
        commands:
          - |
            timeout 40m bash -c '
@@ -543,6 +515,9 @@ steps:
                      type: DirectoryOrCreate

      - label: "Diffusion · Qwen Image Layered Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen_image_layered.py
+          - vllm_omni/diffusion/models/qwen_image/
        commands:
          - |
            timeout 40m bash -c "
@@ -584,6 +559,10 @@ steps:
                      type: DirectoryOrCreate

      - label: "Diffusion · Wan22 Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_wan22_t2v.py
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_wan22_t2v.py
+          - vllm_omni/diffusion/models/wan2_2/
        commands:
          - |
            timeout 40m bash -c "
@@ -624,48 +603,11 @@ steps:
                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
                      type: DirectoryOrCreate

-      - label: "Diffusion · HunyuanVideo 1.5 Test"
-        timeout_in_minutes: 40
-        commands:
-          - |
-            timeout 40m bash -c "
-              pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_hunyuan_video_15.py -m 'advanced_model and cuda and diffusion' --run-level 'advanced_model'
-            "
-        agents:
-          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
-        plugins:
-          - kubernetes:
-              podSpec:
-                containers:
-                  - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
-                    resources:
-                      limits:
-                        nvidia.com/gpu: 1
-                    volumeMounts:
-                      - name: devshm
-                        mountPath: /dev/shm
-                      - name: hf-cache
-                        mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
-                    env:
-                      - name: HF_HOME
-                        value: /root/.cache/huggingface
-                      - name: HF_TOKEN
-                        valueFrom:
-                          secretKeyRef:
-                            name: hf-token-secret
-                            key: token
-                nodeSelector:
-                  node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
-                volumes:
-                  - name: devshm
-                    emptyDir:
-                      medium: Memory
-                  - name: hf-cache
-                    hostPath:
-                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
-                      type: DirectoryOrCreate
-
      - label: "Diffusion · Z Image Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_z_image.py
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_z_image.py
+          - vllm_omni/diffusion/models/z_image/
        timeout_in_minutes: 30
        commands:
          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_z_image.py tests/e2e/online_serving/test_z_image.py -m 'advanced_model and cuda and diffusion' --run-level 'advanced_model'
@@ -683,6 +625,10 @@ steps:
                - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"

      - label: "Diffusion · FLUX.2 Klein Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_flux2_klein.py
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_flux2_klein.py
+          - vllm_omni/diffusion/models/flux2_klein/
        timeout_in_minutes: 30
        commands:
          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_flux2_klein.py tests/e2e/online_serving/test_flux2_klein.py -m 'advanced_model and cuda and diffusion' --run-level 'advanced_model'
@@ -698,45 +644,3 @@ steps:
                - "HF_TOKEN"
              volumes:
                - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"
-
-      - label: "Diffusion · SD3 Test"
-        timeout_in_minutes: 45
-        commands:
-          - |
-            timeout 45m bash -c "
-              export VLLM_IMAGE_FETCH_TIMEOUT=60
-              pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_sd3.py -m 'advanced_model and cuda and diffusion' --run-level 'advanced_model'
-            "
-        agents:
-          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
-        plugins:
-          - kubernetes:
-              podSpec:
-                containers:
-                  - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
-                    resources:
-                      limits:
-                        nvidia.com/gpu: 4
-                    volumeMounts:
-                      - name: devshm
-                        mountPath: /dev/shm
-                      - name: hf-cache
-                        mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
-                    env:
-                      - name: HF_HOME
-                        value: /root/.cache/huggingface
-                      - name: HF_TOKEN
-                        valueFrom:
-                          secretKeyRef:
-                            name: hf-token-secret
-                            key: token
-                nodeSelector:
-                  node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
-                volumes:
-                  - name: devshm
-                    emptyDir:
-                      medium: Memory
-                  - name: hf-cache
-                    hostPath:
-                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
-                      type: DirectoryOrCreate
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ steps:
    if: build.env("NIGHTLY") == "1" || build.pull_request.labels includes "nightly-test" || build.pull_request.labels includes "omni-test"
    steps:
      - label: ":full_moon: Omni · Function Test with H100"
-        timeout_in_minutes: 90
+        timeout_in_minutes: 120
        commands:
          - pytest -sv tests/e2e --run-level "full_model" -m "full_model and H100 and omni" --ignore=tests/e2e/accuracy --ignore=tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_omni_multi_replicas.py
        agents:
@@ -49,25 +49,6 @@ steps:
                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
                      type: DirectoryOrCreate

-      - label: ":full_moon: Omni · Function Test with L4"
-        timeout_in_minutes: 90
-        commands:
-          - export VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN="1"
-          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/*/test_qwen2_5_omni_expansion.py --run-level "core_model"
-        agents:
-          queue: "gpu_4_queue" # g6.12xlarge instance on AWS, has 4 L4 GPU
-        plugins:
-          - docker#v5.2.0:
-              image: public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
-              always-pull: true
-              propagate-environment: true
-              shm-size: "8gb"
-              environment:
-                - "HF_HOME=/fsx/hf_cache"
-                - "HF_TOKEN"
-              volumes:
-                - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"
-
      - label: ":full_moon: Omni · Doc Test with L4"
        timeout_in_minutes: 90
        commands:
@@ -172,7 +153,7 @@ steps:

      - label: ":full_moon: Omni · Perf Test · No Async Chunk"
        key: nightly-omni-performance-no-async-chunk
-        timeout_in_minutes: 180
+        timeout_in_minutes: 300
        commands:
          - export BENCHMARK_DIR=tests/dfx/perf/results
          - |
@@ -305,6 +286,51 @@ steps:
                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
                      type: DirectoryOrCreate

+      - label: ":full_moon: Omni · Perf Test · Multi-Replica"
+        key: nightly-omni-performance-multi-replicas
+        timeout_in_minutes: 180
+        commands:
+          - export BENCHMARK_DIR=tests/dfx/perf/results
+          - |
+            set +e
+            pytest -s -v tests/dfx/perf/scripts/run_benchmark.py --test-config-file tests/dfx/perf/tests/test_qwen3_omni_multi_replicas.json
+            EXIT=$$?
+            buildkite-agent artifact upload "tests/dfx/perf/results/*.json"
+            exit $$EXIT
+        agents:
+          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
+        plugins:
+          - kubernetes:
+              podSpec:
+                containers:
+                  - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+                    resources:
+                      limits:
+                        nvidia.com/gpu: 3
+                    volumeMounts:
+                      - name: devshm
+                        mountPath: /dev/shm
+                      - name: hf-cache
+                        mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                    env:
+                      - name: HF_HOME
+                        value: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                      - name: HF_TOKEN
+                        valueFrom:
+                          secretKeyRef:
+                            name: hf-token-secret
+                            key: token
+                nodeSelector:
+                  node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
+                volumes:
+                  - name: devshm
+                    emptyDir:
+                      medium: Memory
+                  - name: hf-cache
+                    hostPath:
+                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
+                      type: DirectoryOrCreate
+

      - label: ":full_moon: Omni · Multi-Replica Startup Test with 4x H100"
        timeout_in_minutes: 45
@@ -349,11 +375,13 @@ steps:
    depends_on: upload-nightly-pipeline
    if: build.env("NIGHTLY") == "1" || build.pull_request.labels includes "nightly-test" || build.pull_request.labels includes "tts-test"
    steps:
-      - label: ":full_moon: TTS · Function Test"
-        timeout_in_minutes: 90
+      - label: ":full_moon: TTS · Function Test with L4"
+        timeout_in_minutes: 120
        commands:
          - export VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN="1"
-          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/ -m "full_model and L4 and tts" --run-level "full_model" --ignore=tests/e2e/accuracy
+          - export VLLM_USE_DEEP_GEMM="0"
+          - export VLLM_MOE_USE_DEEP_GEMM="0"
+          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/ -m "full_model and L4 and tts" --run-level "full_model" --ignore=tests/e2e/accuracy --ignore=tests/e2e/online_serving/test_voxcpm2_tts_expansion.py
        agents:
          queue: "gpu_1_queue" # g6.12xlarge instance on AWS, has 4 L4 GPU
        plugins:
@@ -368,6 +396,69 @@ steps:
              volumes:
                - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"

+      # - label: ":full_moon: TTS · Function Test with H100"
+      #   timeout_in_minutes: 90
+      #   commands:
+      #     - export VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN="1"
+      #     - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/ -m "full_model and H100 and tts" --run-level "full_model" --ignore=tests/e2e/accuracy
+      #   agents:
+      #     queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
+      #   plugins:
+      #     - kubernetes:
+      #         podSpec:
+      #           containers:
+      #             - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+      #               resources:
+      #                 limits:
+      #                   nvidia.com/gpu: 1
+      #               volumeMounts:
+      #                 - name: devshm
+      #                   mountPath: /dev/shm
+      #                 - name: hf-cache
+      #                   mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
+      #               env:
+      #                 - name: HF_HOME
+      #                   value: /root/.cache/huggingface
+      #                 - name: HF_TOKEN
+      #                   valueFrom:
+      #                     secretKeyRef:
+      #                       name: hf-token-secret
+      #                       key: token
+      #           nodeSelector:
+      #             node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
+      #           volumes:
+      #             - name: devshm
+      #               emptyDir:
+      #                 medium: Memory
+      #             - name: hf-cache
+      #               hostPath:
+      #                 path: /mnt/hf-cache
+      #                 type: DirectoryOrCreate
+
+      - label: ":full_moon: TTS · Accuracy Test · VoxCPM2"
+        timeout_in_minutes: 30
+        commands:
+          - |
+            timeout 30m bash -c "
+              export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
+              export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
+              export VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN=1
+              pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_voxcpm2_tts_expansion.py -m 'full_model and cuda and tts' --run-level 'full_model'
+            "
+        agents:
+          queue: "gpu_1_queue"
+        plugins:
+          - docker#v5.2.0:
+              image: public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+              always-pull: true
+              propagate-environment: true
+              shm-size: "8gb"
+              environment:
+                - "HF_HOME=/fsx/hf_cache"
+                - "HF_TOKEN"
+              volumes:
+                - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"
+
      - label: ":full_moon: TTS · Perf Test"
        key: nightly-tts-performance
        timeout_in_minutes: 180
@@ -414,6 +505,99 @@ steps:
                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
                      type: DirectoryOrCreate

+      - label: ":full_moon: TTS · VoxCPM2 · Perf Test"
+        key: nightly-tts-performance-voxcpm2
+        timeout_in_minutes: 180
+        commands:
+          - export BENCHMARK_DIR=tests/dfx/perf/results
+          - export VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN="1"
+          - |
+            set +e
+            pytest -s -v tests/dfx/perf/scripts/run_benchmark.py --test-config-file tests/dfx/perf/tests/test_voxcpm2.json
+            EXIT=$$?
+            buildkite-agent artifact upload "tests/dfx/perf/results/*.json"
+            exit $$EXIT
+        agents:
+          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
+        plugins:
+          - kubernetes:
+              podSpec:
+                containers:
+                  - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+                    resources:
+                      limits:
+                        nvidia.com/gpu: 1
+                    volumeMounts:
+                      - name: devshm
+                        mountPath: /dev/shm
+                      - name: hf-cache
+                        mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                    env:
+                      - name: HF_HOME
+                        value: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                      - name: HF_TOKEN
+                        valueFrom:
+                          secretKeyRef:
+                            name: hf-token-secret
+                            key: token
+                nodeSelector:
+                  node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
+                volumes:
+                  - name: devshm
+                    emptyDir:
+                      medium: Memory
+                  - name: hf-cache
+                    hostPath:
+                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
+                      type: DirectoryOrCreate
+
+      - label: ":full_moon: TTS · Higgs-Audio-V3 · Perf Test"
+        key: nightly-tts-performance-higgs-audio-v3
+        timeout_in_minutes: 180
+        commands:
+          - export BENCHMARK_DIR=tests/dfx/perf/results
+          - export VLLM_USE_DEEP_GEMM="0"
+          - export VLLM_MOE_USE_DEEP_GEMM="0"
+          - |
+            set +e
+            pytest -s -v tests/dfx/perf/scripts/run_benchmark.py --test-config-file tests/dfx/perf/tests/test_higgs_audio_v3.json
+            EXIT=$$?
+            buildkite-agent artifact upload "tests/dfx/perf/results/*.json"
+            exit $$EXIT
+        agents:
+          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
+        plugins:
+          - kubernetes:
+              podSpec:
+                containers:
+                  - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+                    resources:
+                      limits:
+                        nvidia.com/gpu: 1
+                    volumeMounts:
+                      - name: devshm
+                        mountPath: /dev/shm
+                      - name: hf-cache
+                        mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                    env:
+                      - name: HF_HOME
+                        value: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                      - name: HF_TOKEN
+                        valueFrom:
+                          secretKeyRef:
+                            name: hf-token-secret
+                            key: token
+                nodeSelector:
+                  node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
+                volumes:
+                  - name: devshm
+                    emptyDir:
+                      medium: Memory
+                  - name: hf-cache
+                    hostPath:
+                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
+                      type: DirectoryOrCreate
+
  # Diffusion X2I suite: x2i / x2a / x2t and related non-video paths; x2v is only in "Diffusion X2V Model Test" below.
  - group: ":card_index_dividers: Diffusion X2I(&A&T) Model Test"
    key: nightly-diffusion-x2iat-group
@@ -433,9 +617,6 @@ steps:
            tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen_image_expansion.py
            tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen_image_edit_expansion.py
            tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen_image_layered_expansion.py
-            tests/e2e/online_serving/test_longcat_image_expansion.py
-            tests/e2e/online_serving/test_longcat_image_edit_expansion.py
-            tests/e2e/online_serving/test_flux_2_dev_expansion.py
            tests/e2e/online_serving/test_bagel_expansion.py
            -m "full_model and diffusion and H100 and not distributed_cuda"
            --run-level "full_model"
@@ -522,9 +703,6 @@ steps:
          - >-
            pytest -sv
            tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen_image_layered_expansion.py
-            tests/e2e/online_serving/test_longcat_image_expansion.py
-            tests/e2e/online_serving/test_longcat_image_edit_expansion.py
-            tests/e2e/online_serving/test_flux_2_dev_expansion.py
            -m "full_model and diffusion and H100 and distributed_cuda"
            --run-level "full_model"
        agents:
@@ -578,7 +756,50 @@ steps:
                  - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
                    resources:
                      limits:
-                        nvidia.com/gpu: 3
+                        nvidia.com/gpu: 2
+                    volumeMounts:
+                      - name: devshm
+                        mountPath: /dev/shm
+                      - name: hf-cache
+                        mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                    env:
+                      - name: HF_HOME
+                        value: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                      - name: HF_TOKEN
+                        valueFrom:
+                          secretKeyRef:
+                            name: hf-token-secret
+                            key: token
+                nodeSelector:
+                  node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
+                volumes:
+                  - name: devshm
+                    emptyDir:
+                      medium: Memory
+                  - name: hf-cache
+                    hostPath:
+                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
+                      type: DirectoryOrCreate
+
+      - label: ":full_moon: Diffusion X2I(&A&T) · GLM-Image Function Test with H100"
+        timeout_in_minutes: 120
+        commands:
+          - >-
+            pytest -sv
+            tests/e2e/online_serving/test_glm_image_expansion.py
+            tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_glm_image_autoround_w4a16_expansion.py
+            -m "full_model and diffusion and H100"
+            --run-level "full_model"
+        agents:
+          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
+        plugins:
+          - kubernetes:
+              podSpec:
+                containers:
+                  - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+                    resources:
+                      limits:
+                        nvidia.com/gpu: 2
                    volumeMounts:
                      - name: devshm
                        mountPath: /dev/shm
@@ -605,7 +826,7 @@ steps:


      - label: ":full_moon: Diffusion X2I(&A&T) · Function Test with L4"
-        timeout_in_minutes: 60
+        timeout_in_minutes: 120
        commands:
          - pytest -sv tests/e2e/ -k "not test_wan and not test_bagel_expansion and not hunyuan" -m "full_model and diffusion and L4" --run-level "full_model" --ignore=tests/e2e/accuracy
        agents:
@@ -660,87 +881,6 @@ steps:
                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
                      type: DirectoryOrCreate

-      - label: ":full_moon: Diffusion X2I(&A&T) · GEBench Accuracy Test"
-        timeout_in_minutes: 60
-        commands:
-          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/accuracy/test_gebench_h100_smoke.py --run-level full_model --gebench-model Qwen/Qwen-Image-2512 --accuracy-judge-model QuantTrio/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct-AWQ --accuracy-gpu 0 --gebench-port 8093 --accuracy-workers 1
-          - buildkite-agent artifact upload "tests/e2e/accuracy/artifacts/gebench_qwen-image-2512/summary*.json"
-        agents:
-          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
-        plugins:
-          - kubernetes:
-              podSpec:
-                containers:
-                  - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
-                    resources:
-                      limits:
-                        nvidia.com/gpu: 1
-                    volumeMounts:
-                      - name: devshm
-                        mountPath: /dev/shm
-                      - name: hf-cache
-                        mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
-                    env:
-                      - name: HF_HOME
-                        value: /root/.cache/huggingface
-                      - name: HF_TOKEN
-                        valueFrom:
-                          secretKeyRef:
-                            name: hf-token-secret
-                            key: token
-                nodeSelector:
-                  node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
-                volumes:
-                  - name: devshm
-                    emptyDir:
-                      medium: Memory
-                  - name: hf-cache
-                    hostPath:
-                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
-                      type: DirectoryOrCreate
-
-      - label: ":full_moon: Diffusion X2I(&A&T) · GEdit-Bench Accuracy Test"
-        timeout_in_minutes: 60
-        commands:
-          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/accuracy/test_gedit_bench_h100_smoke.py --run-level full_model --gedit-model Qwen/Qwen-Image-Edit --accuracy-judge-model QuantTrio/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct-AWQ --accuracy-gpu 0 --gedit-port 8093 --gedit-samples-per-group 20 --accuracy-workers 1
-          - buildkite-agent artifact upload "tests/e2e/accuracy/artifacts/gedit_scores_qwen-image-edit/qwen-image-edit_all_all_vie_score_*.csv"
-          - buildkite-agent artifact upload "tests/e2e/accuracy/artifacts/gedit_scores_qwen-image-edit/qwen-image-edit_all_all_summary_*.json"
-        agents:
-          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
-        plugins:
-          - kubernetes:
-              podSpec:
-                containers:
-                  - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
-                    resources:
-                      limits:
-                        nvidia.com/gpu: 1
-                    volumeMounts:
-                      - name: devshm
-                        mountPath: /dev/shm
-                      - name: hf-cache
-                        mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
-                    env:
-                      - name: HF_HOME
-                        value: /root/.cache/huggingface
-                      - name: VLLM_HTTP_TIMEOUT_KEEP_ALIVE
-                        value: "120"
-                      - name: HF_TOKEN
-                        valueFrom:
-                          secretKeyRef:
-                            name: hf-token-secret
-                            key: token
-                nodeSelector:
-                  node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
-                volumes:
-                  - name: devshm
-                    emptyDir:
-                      medium: Memory
-                  - name: hf-cache
-                    hostPath:
-                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
-                      type: DirectoryOrCreate
-
      - label: ":full_moon: Diffusion X2I(&A&T) · Accuracy Test"
        timeout_in_minutes: 180
        commands:
@@ -782,6 +922,46 @@ steps:
                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
                      type: DirectoryOrCreate

+      - label: ":full_moon: HunyuanImage3-DIT · Accuracy Test"
+        timeout_in_minutes: 180
+        commands:
+          - export HUNYUAN_IMAGE3_MODEL="tencent/HunyuanImage-3.0-Instruct"
+          - export HUNYUAN_IMAGE3_DEVICES="0,1,2,3"
+          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/accuracy/test_hunyuan_image3_pixel_accuracy.py -m full_model --run-level full_model
+        agents:
+          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
+        plugins:
+          - kubernetes:
+              podSpec:
+                containers:
+                  - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+                    resources:
+                      limits:
+                        nvidia.com/gpu: 4
+                    volumeMounts:
+                      - name: devshm
+                        mountPath: /dev/shm
+                      - name: hf-cache
+                        mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                    env:
+                      - name: HF_HOME
+                        value: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                      - name: HF_TOKEN
+                        valueFrom:
+                          secretKeyRef:
+                            name: hf-token-secret
+                            key: token
+                nodeSelector:
+                  node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
+                volumes:
+                  - name: devshm
+                    emptyDir:
+                      medium: Memory
+                  - name: hf-cache
+                    hostPath:
+                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
+                      type: DirectoryOrCreate
+
      - label: ":full_moon: Diffusion X2I(&A&T) · Perf Test · Qwen-Image"
        key: nightly-diffusion-x2iat-performance-qwen-image
        timeout_in_minutes: 180
@@ -878,8 +1058,8 @@ steps:
                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
                      type: DirectoryOrCreate

-      - label: ":full_moon: Diffusion X2I(&A&T) · Perf Test · Qwen-Image-Edit-2509"
-        key: nightly-diffusion-x2iat-performance-qwen-image-edit-2509
+      - label: ":full_moon: Diffusion X2I(&A&T) · Perf Test · Qwen-Image-Edit-2511"
+        key: nightly-diffusion-x2iat-performance-qwen-image-edit-2511
        timeout_in_minutes: 180
        commands:
          - export DIFFUSION_BENCHMARK_DIR=tests/dfx/perf/results
@@ -887,7 +1067,7 @@ steps:
          - export CACHE_DIT_VERSION=1.3.0
          - |
            set +e
-            pytest -s -v tests/dfx/perf/scripts/run_diffusion_benchmark.py --test-config-file tests/dfx/perf/tests/test_qwen_image_edit_2509_vllm_omni.json
+            pytest -s -v tests/dfx/perf/scripts/run_diffusion_benchmark.py --test-config-file tests/dfx/perf/tests/test_qwen_image_edit_2511_vllm_omni.json
            EXIT=$$?
            buildkite-agent artifact upload "tests/dfx/perf/results/diffusion_result_*.json"
            buildkite-agent artifact upload "tests/dfx/perf/results/logs/*.log"
@@ -974,26 +1154,20 @@ steps:
                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
                      type: DirectoryOrCreate

-      - label: ":full_moon: Diffusion X2I(&A&T) · HunyuanImage3 · DiT Perf Test"
-        key: nightly-hunyuan-image3-performance
-        soft_fail: true
-        timeout_in_minutes: 120
-        if: build.env("RUN_HUNYUAN_IMAGE3_PERF") == "1"
+      - label: ":full_moon: Diffusion X2I(&A&T) · Perf Test · BAGEL"
+        key: nightly-diffusion-x2iat-performance-bagel
+        timeout_in_minutes: 180
        commands:
          - export DIFFUSION_BENCHMARK_DIR=tests/dfx/perf/results
          - export DIFFUSION_ATTENTION_BACKEND=FLASH_ATTN
          - export CACHE_DIT_VERSION=1.3.0
          - |
            set +e
-            pytest -s -v tests/dfx/perf/scripts/run_diffusion_benchmark.py --test-config-file tests/dfx/perf/tests/test_hunyuan_image_tp4_fp8.json
-            EXIT1=$$?
-            pytest -s -v tests/dfx/perf/scripts/run_diffusion_benchmark.py --test-config-file tests/dfx/perf/tests/test_hunyuan_image_tp2_fp8_sp2.json
-            EXIT2=$$?
-            pytest -s -v tests/dfx/perf/scripts/run_diffusion_benchmark.py --test-config-file tests/dfx/perf/tests/test_hunyuan_image_tp2_fp8_cfgp2.json
-            EXIT3=$$?
+            pytest -s -v tests/dfx/perf/scripts/run_diffusion_benchmark.py --test-config-file tests/dfx/perf/tests/test_bagel_vllm_omni.json
+            EXIT=$$?
            buildkite-agent artifact upload "tests/dfx/perf/results/diffusion_result_*.json"
            buildkite-agent artifact upload "tests/dfx/perf/results/logs/*.log"
-            exit $$((EXIT1 | EXIT2 | EXIT3))
+            exit $$EXIT
        agents:
          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
        plugins:
@@ -1003,7 +1177,7 @@ steps:
                  - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
                    resources:
                      limits:
-                        nvidia.com/gpu: 4
+                        nvidia.com/gpu: 1
                    volumeMounts:
                      - name: devshm
                        mountPath: /dev/shm
@@ -1037,10 +1211,10 @@ steps:
      build.pull_request.labels includes "nightly-test" ||
      build.pull_request.labels includes "diffusion-x2v-test"
    steps:
-      - label: ":full_moon: Diffusion X2V · Function Test"
+      - label: ":full_moon: Diffusion X2V · Wan2.2 T2V Function Test"
        timeout_in_minutes: 90
        commands:
-          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_wan22_expansion.py tests/e2e/online_serving/test_wan_2_1_vace_expansion.py tests/e2e/online_serving/test_hunyuan_video_15_expansion.py  -m "full_model and cuda" --run-level "full_model"
+          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_wan22_expansion.py -k "t2v" -m "full_model and cuda" --run-level "full_model"
        agents:
          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
        plugins:
@@ -1075,11 +1249,87 @@ steps:
                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
                      type: DirectoryOrCreate

-      - label: ":full_moon: Diffusion X2V · Accuracy Test"
+      - label: ":full_moon: Diffusion X2V · Wan2.2 I2V/TI2V Function Test"
+        timeout_in_minutes: 90
+        commands:
+          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_wan22_expansion.py -k "i2v" -m "full_model and cuda" --run-level "full_model"
+        agents:
+          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
+        plugins:
+          - kubernetes:
+              podSpec:
+                containers:
+                  - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+                    resources:
+                      limits:
+                        nvidia.com/gpu: 2
+                    volumeMounts:
+                      - name: devshm
+                        mountPath: /dev/shm
+                      - name: hf-cache
+                        mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                    env:
+                      - name: HF_HOME
+                        value: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                      - name: HF_TOKEN
+                        valueFrom:
+                          secretKeyRef:
+                            name: hf-token-secret
+                            key: token
+                nodeSelector:
+                  node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
+                volumes:
+                  - name: devshm
+                    emptyDir:
+                      medium: Memory
+                  - name: hf-cache
+                    hostPath:
+                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
+                      type: DirectoryOrCreate
+
+      - label: ":full_moon: Diffusion X2V · Other Function Test"
+        timeout_in_minutes: 90
+        commands:
+          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_wan22_autoround_w4a16_expansion.py -m "full_model and cuda" --run-level "full_model"
+          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_wan_2_1_vace_expansion.py tests/e2e/online_serving/test_ltx2_expansion.py -m "full_model and cuda" --run-level "full_model"
+        agents:
+          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
+        plugins:
+          - kubernetes:
+              podSpec:
+                containers:
+                  - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+                    resources:
+                      limits:
+                        nvidia.com/gpu: 2
+                    volumeMounts:
+                      - name: devshm
+                        mountPath: /dev/shm
+                      - name: hf-cache
+                        mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                    env:
+                      - name: HF_HOME
+                        value: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                      - name: HF_TOKEN
+                        valueFrom:
+                          secretKeyRef:
+                            name: hf-token-secret
+                            key: token
+                nodeSelector:
+                  node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
+                volumes:
+                  - name: devshm
+                    emptyDir:
+                      medium: Memory
+                  - name: hf-cache
+                    hostPath:
+                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
+                      type: DirectoryOrCreate
+
+      - label: ":full_moon: Diffusion X2V · Wan2.2 Accuracy Test"
        timeout_in_minutes: 180
        commands:
          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/accuracy/wan22_i2v/test_wan22_i2v_video_similarity.py -m full_model --run-level full_model
-          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/accuracy/test_ltx2_3_video_similarity.py -m full_model --run-level full_model
          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/accuracy/test_diffusers_backend_similarity.py -k '2v_matches_diffusers' -m full_model --run-level full_model
        agents:
          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
@@ -1115,6 +1365,47 @@ steps:
                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
                      type: DirectoryOrCreate

+      - label: ":full_moon: Diffusion X2V · Other Accuracy Test"
+        timeout_in_minutes: 180
+        commands:
+          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/accuracy/hunyuanvideo15_t2v/test_hunyuanvideo15_t2v_video_similarity.py -m full_model --run-level full_model
+          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/accuracy/hunyuanvideo15_i2v/test_hunyuanvideo15_i2v_video_similarity.py -m full_model --run-level full_model
+          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/accuracy/test_ltx2_3_video_similarity.py -m full_model --run-level full_model
+          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/accuracy/test_video_streaming_output_similarity.py -m full_model --run-level full_model
+        agents:
+          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
+        plugins:
+          - kubernetes:
+              podSpec:
+                containers:
+                  - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+                    resources:
+                      limits:
+                        nvidia.com/gpu: 2
+                    volumeMounts:
+                      - name: devshm
+                        mountPath: /dev/shm
+                      - name: hf-cache
+                        mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                    env:
+                      - name: HF_HOME
+                        value: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                      - name: HF_TOKEN
+                        valueFrom:
+                          secretKeyRef:
+                            name: hf-token-secret
+                            key: token
+                nodeSelector:
+                  node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
+                volumes:
+                  - name: devshm
+                    emptyDir:
+                      medium: Memory
+                  - name: hf-cache
+                    hostPath:
+                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
+                      type: DirectoryOrCreate
+
      - label: ":full_moon: Diffusion X2V · Perf Test"
        key: nightly-diffusion-x2v-performance
        timeout_in_minutes: 180
@@ -1167,9 +1458,8 @@ steps:
    if: build.env("NIGHTLY") == "1" || build.pull_request.labels includes "nightly-test" || build.pull_request.labels includes "diffusion-x2iat-test"
    steps:
      - label: ":full_moon: Quantization Test with H100"
-        timeout_in_minutes: 90
        commands:
-          - timeout 30m pytest -sv tests/diffusion/quantization -m 'full_model and cuda and H100' --run-level "full_model"
+          - timeout 60m pytest -sv tests/diffusion/quantization -m 'full_model and cuda and H100' --run-level "full_model"
        agents:
          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
        plugins:
@@ -1225,7 +1515,7 @@ steps:
    key: nightly-testcase-statistics
    timeout_in_minutes: 120
    depends_on: upload-nightly-pipeline
-    if: build.env("NIGHTLY") == "1" || build.pull_request.labels includes "nightly-test"
+    if: build.env("NIGHTLY") == "1"
    commands:
      - python tools/nightly/buildkite_testcase_statistics.py -o tests/dfx/perf/results/buildkite_testcase_statistics.html
      - buildkite-agent artifact upload "tests/dfx/perf/results/*.html"
@@ -1270,26 +1560,32 @@ steps:
      - nightly-omni-performance-no-async-chunk
      - nightly-omni-performance-async-chunk
      - nightly-omni-performance-vllm-text
+      - nightly-omni-performance-multi-replicas
      - nightly-tts-performance
+      - nightly-tts-performance-higgs-audio-v3
      - nightly-diffusion-x2iat-performance-qwen-image
      - nightly-diffusion-x2iat-performance-qwen-image-edit
-      - nightly-diffusion-x2iat-performance-qwen-image-edit-2509
+      - nightly-diffusion-x2iat-performance-qwen-image-edit-2511
      - nightly-diffusion-x2iat-performance-qwen-image-layered
+      - nightly-diffusion-x2iat-performance-bagel
      - nightly-diffusion-x2v-performance
      - nightly-testcase-statistics
-    if: build.env("NIGHTLY") == "1"
+    if: build.env("NIGHTLY") == "1" && build.env("EMAIL_DISTRIBUTION") == "1"
    commands:
      - pip install openpyxl
      - export DEFAULT_INPUT_DIR=tests/dfx/perf/results
      - export DEFAULT_OUTPUT_DIR=tests/dfx/perf/results
      - buildkite-agent artifact download "tests/dfx/perf/results/*.json" . --step nightly-tts-performance
+      - buildkite-agent artifact download "tests/dfx/perf/results/*.json" . --step nightly-tts-performance-higgs-audio-v3
      - buildkite-agent artifact download "tests/dfx/perf/results/*.json" . --step nightly-omni-performance-no-async-chunk
      - buildkite-agent artifact download "tests/dfx/perf/results/*.json" . --step nightly-omni-performance-async-chunk
      - buildkite-agent artifact download "tests/dfx/perf/results/*.json" . --step nightly-omni-performance-vllm-text
+      - buildkite-agent artifact download "tests/dfx/perf/results/*.json" . --step nightly-omni-performance-multi-replicas
      - buildkite-agent artifact download "tests/dfx/perf/results/*.json" . --step nightly-diffusion-x2iat-performance-qwen-image
      - buildkite-agent artifact download "tests/dfx/perf/results/*.json" . --step nightly-diffusion-x2iat-performance-qwen-image-edit
-      - buildkite-agent artifact download "tests/dfx/perf/results/*.json" . --step nightly-diffusion-x2iat-performance-qwen-image-edit-2509
+      - buildkite-agent artifact download "tests/dfx/perf/results/*.json" . --step nightly-diffusion-x2iat-performance-qwen-image-edit-2511
      - buildkite-agent artifact download "tests/dfx/perf/results/*.json" . --step nightly-diffusion-x2iat-performance-qwen-image-layered
+      - buildkite-agent artifact download "tests/dfx/perf/results/*.json" . --step nightly-diffusion-x2iat-performance-bagel
      - buildkite-agent artifact download "tests/dfx/perf/results/*.json" . --step nightly-diffusion-x2v-performance
      - buildkite-agent artifact download "tests/dfx/perf/results/*.html" . --step nightly-testcase-statistics
      - python tools/nightly/generate_nightly_perf_excel.py
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ steps:
    steps:
      - label: "Diffusion · Offloader Test"
        commands:
-          - timeout 10m pytest -s -v tests/diffusion/offloader -m "core_model and cuda" --run-level "core_model"
+          - timeout 40m pytest -s -v tests/diffusion/offloader -m "core_model and cuda" --run-level "core_model"
        agents:
          queue: "gpu_1_queue" # g6.4xlarge instance on AWS, has 1 L4 GPU
        plugins:
@@ -183,42 +183,57 @@ steps:
    depends_on: upload-ready-pipeline
    commands:
      - |
-        timeout 15m bash -c "
-                  pytest -sv tests/distributed/ -m 'core_model and cuda' --run-level 'core_model'
+        timeout 20m bash -c "
+          pytest -sv tests/distributed/ -m 'core_model and cuda and L4' --run-level 'core_model'
        "
    agents:
-      queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
+      queue: "gpu_1_queue" # g6.4xlarge instance on AWS, has 1 L4 GPU
    plugins:
-      - kubernetes:
-          podSpec:
-            containers:
-              - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
-                resources:
-                  limits:
-                    nvidia.com/gpu: 1
-                volumeMounts:
-                  - name: devshm
-                    mountPath: /dev/shm
-                  - name: hf-cache
-                    mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
-                env:
-                  - name: HF_HOME
-                    value: /root/.cache/huggingface
-            nodeSelector:
-              node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
-            volumes:
-              - name: devshm
-                emptyDir:
-                  medium: Memory
-              - name: hf-cache
-                hostPath:
-                  path: /mnt/hf-cache
-                  type: DirectoryOrCreate
+      - docker#v5.2.0:
+          image: public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+          always-pull: true
+          propagate-environment: true
+          shm-size: "8gb"
+          environment:
+            - "HF_HOME=/fsx/hf_cache"
+            - "HF_TOKEN"
+          volumes:
+            - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"
+
+  - label: "Entrypoints Test"
+    depends_on: upload-ready-pipeline
+    commands:
+      - |
+        timeout 30m bash -c "
+          export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
+          pytest -sv tests/entrypoints/ -m 'core_model and cuda' --run-level 'core_model'
+        "
+    agents:
+      queue: "gpu_1_queue"
+    plugins:
+      - docker#v5.2.0:
+          image: public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+          always-pull: true
+          propagate-environment: true
+          shm-size: "8gb"
+          environment:
+            - "HF_HOME=/fsx/hf_cache"
+            - "HF_TOKEN"
+          volumes:
+            - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"

  - group: ":card_index_dividers: E2E Test"
    depends_on: upload-ready-pipeline
    steps:
      - label: "RLHF · VeRL-Omni E2E Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/offline_inference/rlhf_test/test_verl_omni_e2e.py
+          - tests/e2e/offline_inference/custom_pipeline/
+          - vllm_omni/diffusion/
+          - vllm_omni/engine/
+          - vllm_omni/entrypoints/
+          - vllm_omni/inputs/
+          - vllm_omni/outputs/
        commands:
          - |
            timeout 20m bash -c "
@@ -239,6 +254,11 @@ steps:
                - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"

      - label: "Omni · Qwen3-Omni Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_omni.py
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/models/qwen3_omni/
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/stage_input_processors/qwen3_omni.py
+          - vllm_omni/deploy/qwen3_omni_moe.yaml
        commands:
          - |
            timeout 20m bash -c "
@@ -273,14 +293,18 @@ steps:
                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
                      type: DirectoryOrCreate

-      - label: "Omni · VoxCPM2 Test"
-        timeout_in_minutes: 20
+      - label: "TTS · VoxCPM2 Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_voxcpm2_tts.py
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/models/voxcpm2/
+          - vllm_omni/deploy/voxcpm2.yaml
+        timeout_in_minutes: 30
        commands:
          - |
-            timeout 20m bash -c "
+            timeout 30m bash -c "
              export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
              export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
-              pytest -s -v tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_voxcpm2.py -m 'core_model' --run-level 'core_model'
+              pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_voxcpm2_tts.py -m 'core_model' --run-level 'core_model'
            "
        agents:
          queue: "gpu_1_queue"
@@ -297,6 +321,11 @@ steps:
                - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"

      - label: "TTS · Qwen3-TTS CustomVoice Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_tts_customvoice.py
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/models/qwen3_tts/
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/stage_input_processors/qwen3_tts.py
+          - vllm_omni/deploy/qwen3_tts.yaml
        commands:
          - |
            timeout 20m bash -c "
@@ -304,7 +333,7 @@ steps:
              pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_tts_customvoice.py -m 'core_model' --run-level 'core_model'
            "
        agents:
-          queue: "gpu_4_queue"
+          queue: "gpu_1_queue"
        plugins:
          - docker#v5.2.0:
              image: public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
@@ -318,6 +347,11 @@ steps:
                - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"

      - label: "TTS · Qwen3-TTS Base Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_tts_base.py
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/models/qwen3_tts/
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/stage_input_processors/qwen3_tts.py
+          - vllm_omni/deploy/qwen3_tts.yaml
        commands:
          - |
            timeout 20m bash -c "
@@ -327,7 +361,35 @@ steps:
              pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_tts_base.py -m 'core_model' --run-level 'core_model'
            "
        agents:
-          queue: "gpu_4_queue"
+          queue: "gpu_1_queue"
+        plugins:
+          - docker#v5.2.0:
+              image: public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+              always-pull: true
+              propagate-environment: true
+              shm-size: "8gb"
+              environment:
+                - "HF_HOME=/fsx/hf_cache"
+                - "HF_TOKEN"
+              volumes:
+                - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"
+
+      - label: "TTS · Higgs-Audio-V3 Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_higgs_audio_v3.py
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/models/higgs_audio_v3/
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/stage_input_processors/higgs_audio_v3.py
+          - vllm_omni/deploy/higgs_multimodal_qwen3.yaml
+        commands:
+          - |
+            timeout 20m bash -c "
+              export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
+              export VLLM_USE_DEEP_GEMM=0
+              export VLLM_MOE_USE_DEEP_GEMM=0
+              pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_higgs_audio_v3.py -m 'core_model' --run-level 'core_model'
+            "
+        agents:
+          queue: "gpu_1_queue"
        plugins:
          - docker#v5.2.0:
              image: public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
@@ -341,6 +403,9 @@ steps:
                - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"

      - label: "Diffusion · Qwen Image Edit Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen_image_edit.py
+          - vllm_omni/diffusion/models/qwen_image/
        commands:
          - |
            timeout 20m bash -c "
@@ -376,6 +441,12 @@ steps:
                      type: DirectoryOrCreate

      - label: "Diffusion · Bagel Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_bagel.py
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/models/bagel/
+          - vllm_omni/diffusion/models/bagel/
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/stage_input_processors/bagel.py
+          - vllm_omni/deploy/bagel.yaml
        commands:
          - |
            timeout 40m bash -c "
@@ -417,6 +488,9 @@ steps:
                      type: DirectoryOrCreate

      - label: "Diffusion · Wan22 Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_wan22_t2v.py
+          - vllm_omni/diffusion/models/wan2_2/
        commands:
          - |
            timeout 40m bash -c "
@@ -457,8 +531,55 @@ steps:
                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
                      type: DirectoryOrCreate

+      - label: "Diffusion · Cosmos3 Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_cosmos3.py
+          - vllm_omni/diffusion/models/cosmos3/
+        commands:
+          - |
+            timeout 40m bash -c "
+              export VLLM_IMAGE_FETCH_TIMEOUT=60
+              pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_cosmos3.py -m 'core_model' --run-level 'core_model'
+            "
+        agents:
+          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
+        plugins:
+          - kubernetes:
+              podSpec:
+                containers:
+                  - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+                    resources:
+                      limits:
+                        nvidia.com/gpu: 1
+                    volumeMounts:
+                      - name: devshm
+                        mountPath: /dev/shm
+                      - name: hf-cache
+                        mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                    env:
+                      - name: HF_HOME
+                        value: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                      - name: HF_TOKEN
+                        valueFrom:
+                          secretKeyRef:
+                            name: hf-token-secret
+                            key: token
+                nodeSelector:
+                  node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
+                volumes:
+                  - name: devshm
+                    emptyDir:
+                      medium: Memory
+                  - name: hf-cache
+                    hostPath:
+                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
+                      type: DirectoryOrCreate
+

      - label: "Diffusion · Qwen Image Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen_image.py
+          - vllm_omni/diffusion/models/qwen_image/
        commands:
          - |
            timeout 40m bash -c "
@@ -500,6 +621,9 @@ steps:
                      type: DirectoryOrCreate

      - label: "Diffusion · Qwen Image Layered Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen_image_layered.py
+          - vllm_omni/diffusion/models/qwen_image/
        commands:
          - |
            timeout 40m bash -c "
@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@
 {% set docker_image_amd = "rocm/vllm-omni:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT" %}
 {% set default_working_dir = "/app/vllm-omni" %}

+{% if env %}
+env:
+{% for name in env %}
+  {{ name }}: "{{ env[name] }}"
+{% endfor %}
+{% endif %}
+steps:
  - group: "AMD Tests"
    depends_on: ~
    steps:
@@ -31,8 +38,15 @@
        agents:
          queue: amd-cpu

-    {% for step in steps %}
-    {% if step.mirror_hardwares and mirror_hw in step.mirror_hardwares %}
+{% for step_group in steps %}
+{% if step_group.group %}
+  - group: "{{ step_group.group }}"
+{% if step_group.depends_on %}
+    depends_on: {{ step_group.depends_on }}
+{% endif %}
+    steps:
+{% for step in step_group.steps %}
+{% if step.mirror_hardwares and mirror_hw in step.mirror_hardwares %}
      - label: "{{ step.agent_pool }}: {{ step.label }}"
        depends_on: amd-build
        agents:
@@ -46,17 +60,82 @@
        command: bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-amd-test.sh
        env:
          DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
+{% if step.env %}
+{% for name in step.env %}
+          {{ name }}: "{{ step.env[name] }}"
+{% endfor %}
+{% endif %}
          TEST_COMMAND: |-
            (command rocm-smi || true) && cd {{ (step.working_dir or default_working_dir) | safe }}
+{% if env %}
+{% for name in env %}
+            export {{ name }}="{{ env[name] }}"
+{% endfor %}
+{% endif %}
+{% if step.env %}
+{% for name in step.env %}
+            export {{ name }}="{{ step.env[name] }}"
+{% endfor %}
+{% endif %}
 {% if "mi250" in step.agent_pool %}
            python3 -m pip uninstall -y amd-aiter
 {% endif %}
            {{ indented_cmd | safe }}
        priority: 100
+        {% if step.timeout_in_minutes %}
+        timeout_in_minutes: {{ step.timeout_in_minutes }}
+        {% endif %}
        {% if step.grade and step.grade == "Blocking" %}
        soft_fail: false
        {% else %}
        soft_fail: true
        {% endif%}
+{% endif %}
+{% endfor %}
+{% elif step_group.mirror_hardwares and mirror_hw in step_group.mirror_hardwares %}
+{% set step = step_group %}
+  - label: "{{ step.agent_pool }}: {{ step.label }}"
+    depends_on: amd-build
+    agents:
+      {% if step.agent_pool %}
+      queue: amd_{{ step.agent_pool }}
+      {% else %}
+      queue: amd_mi325_1
+      {% endif %}
+{% set cmd_body = (step.command or (step.commands | join("\n"))) | trim %}
+{% set indented_cmd = cmd_body | replace("\n", "\n        ") %}
+    command: bash .buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-amd-test.sh
+    env:
+      DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
+{% if step.env %}
+{% for name in step.env %}
+      {{ name }}: "{{ step.env[name] }}"
+{% endfor %}
+{% endif %}
+      TEST_COMMAND: |-
+        (command rocm-smi || true) && cd {{ (step.working_dir or default_working_dir) | safe }}
+{% if env %}
+{% for name in env %}
+        export {{ name }}="{{ env[name] }}"
+{% endfor %}
+{% endif %}
+{% if step.env %}
+{% for name in step.env %}
+        export {{ name }}="{{ step.env[name] }}"
+{% endfor %}
+{% endif %}
+{% if "mi250" in step.agent_pool %}
+        python3 -m pip uninstall -y amd-aiter
+{% endif %}
+        {{ indented_cmd | safe }}
+    priority: 100
+    {% if step.timeout_in_minutes %}
+    timeout_in_minutes: {{ step.timeout_in_minutes }}
    {% endif %}
-    {% endfor %}
+    {% if step.grade and step.grade == "Blocking" %}
+    soft_fail: false
+    {% else %}
+    soft_fail: true
+    {% endif%}
+{% endif %}
+{% endfor %}
@@ -84,3 +84,368 @@ steps:
                hostPath:
                  path: /mnt/hf-cache
                  type: DirectoryOrCreate
+
+  - label: "Reliability Test - hunyuan-image"
+    timeout_in_minutes: 180
+    depends_on: upload-weekly-pipeline
+    if: build.env("WEEKLY") == "1" || build.pull_request.labels includes "weekly-test"
+    commands:
+      - pytest -s -v tests/dfx/reliability/test_reliability_hunyuan_image.py -m "slow"
+    agents:
+      queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
+    plugins:
+      - kubernetes:
+          podSpec:
+            containers:
+              - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+                resources:
+                  limits:
+                    nvidia.com/gpu: 4
+                volumeMounts:
+                  - name: devshm
+                    mountPath: /dev/shm
+                  - name: hf-cache
+                    mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                env:
+                  - name: HF_HOME
+                    value: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                  - name: HF_TOKEN
+                    valueFrom:
+                      secretKeyRef:
+                        name: hf-token-secret
+                        key: token
+            nodeSelector:
+              node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
+            volumes:
+              - name: devshm
+                emptyDir:
+                  medium: Memory
+              - name: hf-cache
+                hostPath:
+                  path: /mnt/hf-cache
+                  type: DirectoryOrCreate
+
+  - label: "Reliability Test - voxcpm2"
+    timeout_in_minutes: 180
+    depends_on: upload-weekly-pipeline
+    if: build.env("WEEKLY") == "1" || build.pull_request.labels includes "weekly-test"
+    commands:
+      - pytest -s -v tests/dfx/reliability/test_reliability_voxcpm2.py -m "slow"
+    agents:
+      queue: "gpu_1_queue"
+    plugins:
+      - docker#v5.2.0:
+          image: public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+          always-pull: true
+          propagate-environment: true
+          shm-size: "8gb"
+          environment:
+            - "HF_HOME=/fsx/hf_cache"
+            - "HF_TOKEN"
+          volumes:
+            - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"
+
+  # Invalid HTTP / WS payloads vs live Omni servers (Issue #3649 tracks known skips).
+  - group: "Reliability Test - Invalid parameters Test"
+    depends_on: upload-weekly-pipeline
+    if: build.env("WEEKLY") == "1" || build.pull_request.labels includes "weekly-test"
+    steps:
+      - label: "Invalid parameters Test · H100"
+        timeout_in_minutes: 120
+        commands:
+          - pytest -s -v tests/dfx/reliability/invalid_param_test/ -m "slow and H100"
+        agents:
+          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
+        plugins:
+          - kubernetes:
+              podSpec:
+                containers:
+                  - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+                    resources:
+                      limits:
+                        nvidia.com/gpu: 2
+                    volumeMounts:
+                      - name: devshm
+                        mountPath: /dev/shm
+                      - name: hf-cache
+                        mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                    env:
+                      - name: HF_HOME
+                        value: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                      - name: HF_TOKEN
+                        valueFrom:
+                          secretKeyRef:
+                            name: hf-token-secret
+                            key: token
+                nodeSelector:
+                  node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
+                volumes:
+                  - name: devshm
+                    emptyDir:
+                      medium: Memory
+                  - name: hf-cache
+                    hostPath:
+                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
+                      type: DirectoryOrCreate
+
+      # Stable Audio Open, Qwen3-TTS speech/batch/voices paths marked ``L4``.
+      - label: "Invalid parameters Test · L4"
+        timeout_in_minutes: 120
+        commands:
+          - pytest -s -v tests/dfx/reliability/invalid_param_test/ -m "slow and L4"
+        agents:
+          queue: "gpu_1_queue"
+        plugins:
+          - docker#v5.2.0:
+              image: public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+              always-pull: true
+              propagate-environment: true
+              shm-size: "8gb"
+              environment:
+                - "HF_HOME=/fsx/hf_cache"
+                - "HF_TOKEN"
+              volumes:
+                - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"
+
+  - group: ":card_index_dividers: E2E Tests"
+    depends_on: upload-weekly-pipeline
+    if: build.env("WEEKLY") == "1" || build.pull_request.labels includes "weekly-test"
+    steps:
+      - label: "Omni · L4"
+        timeout_in_minutes: 90
+        commands:
+          - export VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN="1"
+          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/*/test_qwen2_5_omni_expansion.py --run-level "core_model"
+          - >-
+            pytest -s -v tests/e2e/
+            --ignore=tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen2_5_omni_expansion.py
+            --ignore=tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_qwen2_5_omni_expansion.py
+            -m "slow and L4 and omni"
+            --run-level "full_model"
+        agents:
+          queue: "gpu_4_queue"
+        plugins:
+          - docker#v5.2.0:
+              image: public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+              always-pull: true
+              propagate-environment: true
+              shm-size: "8gb"
+              environment:
+                - "HF_HOME=/fsx/hf_cache"
+                - "HF_TOKEN"
+              volumes:
+                - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"
+
+      - label: "Omni · H100"
+        timeout_in_minutes: 90
+        commands:
+          - >-
+            pytest -sv
+            tests/e2e/ -m "slow and H100 and omni"
+            --run-level "full_model"
+        agents:
+          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
+        plugins:
+          - kubernetes:
+              podSpec:
+                containers:
+                  - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+                    resources:
+                      limits:
+                        nvidia.com/gpu: 2
+                    volumeMounts:
+                      - name: devshm
+                        mountPath: /dev/shm
+                      - name: hf-cache
+                        mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                    env:
+                      - name: HF_HOME
+                        value: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                      - name: HF_TOKEN
+                        valueFrom:
+                          secretKeyRef:
+                            name: hf-token-secret
+                            key: token
+                nodeSelector:
+                  node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
+                volumes:
+                  - name: devshm
+                    emptyDir:
+                      medium: Memory
+                  - name: hf-cache
+                    hostPath:
+                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
+                      type: DirectoryOrCreate
+
+      - label: "TTS · L4"
+        timeout_in_minutes: 90
+        commands:
+          - export VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN="1"
+          - export VLLM_USE_DEEP_GEMM="0"
+          - export VLLM_MOE_USE_DEEP_GEMM="0"
+          - |
+            failed=0
+            for f in $(pytest --collect-only -q tests/e2e/ -m "slow and L4 and tts" --run-level "full_model" | grep '\.py::' | sed -E 's|::.*||' | sort -u); do
+              pytest -s -v "$$f" -m "slow and L4 and tts" --run-level "full_model" || failed=1
+            done
+            exit $$failed
+        agents:
+          queue: "gpu_1_queue"
+        plugins:
+          - docker#v5.2.0:
+              image: public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+              always-pull: true
+              propagate-environment: true
+              shm-size: "8gb"
+              environment:
+                - "HF_HOME=/fsx/hf_cache"
+                - "HF_TOKEN"
+              volumes:
+                - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"
+
+      - label: "TTS · H100"
+        timeout_in_minutes: 90
+        commands:
+          - export VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN="1"
+          - export VLLM_USE_DEEP_GEMM="0"
+          - export VLLM_MOE_USE_DEEP_GEMM="0"
+          - >-
+            pytest -sv
+            tests/e2e/ -m "slow and H100 and tts"
+            --run-level "full_model"
+        agents:
+          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
+        plugins:
+          - kubernetes:
+              podSpec:
+                containers:
+                  - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+                    resources:
+                      limits:
+                        nvidia.com/gpu: 1
+                    volumeMounts:
+                      - name: devshm
+                        mountPath: /dev/shm
+                      - name: hf-cache
+                        mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                    env:
+                      - name: HF_HOME
+                        value: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                      - name: HF_TOKEN
+                        valueFrom:
+                          secretKeyRef:
+                            name: hf-token-secret
+                            key: token
+                nodeSelector:
+                  node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
+                volumes:
+                  - name: devshm
+                    emptyDir:
+                      medium: Memory
+                  - name: hf-cache
+                    hostPath:
+                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
+                      type: DirectoryOrCreate
+
+      - label: "Diffusion · L4"
+        timeout_in_minutes: 60
+        commands:
+          - >-
+            pytest -sv
+            tests/e2e/ -m "slow and diffusion and L4"
+            --run-level "full_model"
+        agents:
+          queue: "gpu_4_queue"
+        plugins:
+          - docker#v5.2.0:
+              image: public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+              always-pull: true
+              propagate-environment: true
+              shm-size: "8gb"
+              environment:
+                - "HF_HOME=/fsx/hf_cache"
+                - "HF_TOKEN"
+              volumes:
+                - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"
+
+      - label: "Diffusion · H100 · Single-GPU"
+        timeout_in_minutes: 120
+        commands:
+          - >-
+            pytest -sv
+            tests/e2e/ -m "slow and diffusion and H100 and not distributed_cuda"
+            --run-level "full_model"
+        agents:
+          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
+        plugins:
+          - kubernetes:
+              podSpec:
+                containers:
+                  - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+                    resources:
+                      limits:
+                        nvidia.com/gpu: 1
+                    volumeMounts:
+                      - name: devshm
+                        mountPath: /dev/shm
+                      - name: hf-cache
+                        mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                    env:
+                      - name: HF_HOME
+                        value: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                      - name: HF_TOKEN
+                        valueFrom:
+                          secretKeyRef:
+                            name: hf-token-secret
+                            key: token
+                nodeSelector:
+                  node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
+                volumes:
+                  - name: devshm
+                    emptyDir:
+                      medium: Memory
+                  - name: hf-cache
+                    hostPath:
+                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
+                      type: DirectoryOrCreate
+
+      - label: "Diffusion · H100 · Multi-GPU"
+        timeout_in_minutes: 90
+        commands:
+          - >-
+            pytest -sv
+            tests/e2e/ -m "slow and diffusion and H100 and distributed_cuda"
+            --run-level "full_model"
+        agents:
+          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
+        plugins:
+          - kubernetes:
+              podSpec:
+                containers:
+                  - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+                    resources:
+                      limits:
+                        nvidia.com/gpu: 2
+                    volumeMounts:
+                      - name: devshm
+                        mountPath: /dev/shm
+                      - name: hf-cache
+                        mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                    env:
+                      - name: HF_HOME
+                        value: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                      - name: HF_TOKEN
+                        valueFrom:
+                          secretKeyRef:
+                            name: hf-token-secret
+                            key: token
+                nodeSelector:
+                  node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
+                volumes:
+                  - name: devshm
+                    emptyDir:
+                      medium: Memory
+                  - name: hf-cache
+                    hostPath:
+                      path: /mnt/hf-cache
+                      type: DirectoryOrCreate
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Check the model's HF repo for `model_index.json`. This determines your path:

 | Scenario | How to identify | Migration path |
 |----------|----------------|----------------|
-| **Already supported** | `_class_name` in `model_index.json` matches a key in `_DIFFUSION_MODELS` in `registry.py` | Skip to Step 5 (test) and Step 7 (docs) |
+| **Already supported** | `_class_name` in `model_index.json` matches a key in `_DIFFUSION_MODELS` in `registry.py` | Skip implementation, then validate model-specific examples, tests, and docs as needed |
 | **Diffusers-based** | Has standard `model_index.json` with `_diffusers_version`, subfolders for `transformer/`, `vae/`, etc. | Follow **Path A** below |
 | **Custom/private repo** | No diffusers `model_index.json`, weights in non-standard format, custom model code in a separate git repo | Follow **Path B** below |
 | **Hybrid** | Has some diffusers components (VAE) but custom transformer/fusion | Mix of Path A and Path B |
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ vllm_omni/diffusion/models/your_model_name/
 2. Replace attention with `vllm_omni.diffusion.attention.layer.Attention` (QKV shape: `[B, seq, heads, head_dim]`).
 3. Add `od_config: OmniDiffusionConfig | None = None` to `__init__`.
 4. Add `load_weights()` method mapping diffusers weight names to vllm-omni names.
-5. Add class attributes: `_repeated_blocks`, `_layerwise_offload_blocks_attr`.
+5. Add class attributes for acceleration features such as `_repeated_blocks` and `_layerwise_offload_blocks_attrs` (see [references/transformer-adaptation.md](references/transformer-adaptation.md) for examples).

 ### A4. Adapt pipeline

@@ -78,13 +78,34 @@ class YourPipeline(nn.Module):

 Add post/pre-process functions in the same pipeline file. Register them in `registry.py`.

+### A4.1 Add progress bar support (recommended)
+
+For pipelines with a standard denoising loop, prefer the existing progress bar pattern instead of hand-rolled logging.
+
+```python
+from vllm_omni.diffusion.models.progress_bar import ProgressBarMixin
+
+class YourPipeline(nn.Module, ProgressBarMixin):
+    def forward(self, req: OmniDiffusionRequest) -> DiffusionOutput:
+        # ... prepare timesteps / latents ...
+        with self.progress_bar(total=len(timesteps)) as progress_bar:
+            for i, t in enumerate(timesteps):
+                # predict noise / scheduler step
+                latents = ...
+                progress_bar.update()
+
+        return DiffusionOutput(output=output)
+```
+
+For custom loop structures, follow `vllm_omni/diffusion/models/progress_bar.py` and existing pipelines using `ProgressBarMixin`.
+
 ### A5. Register, test, docs → continue at Step 4 below.

 ---

 ## Path B: Custom/Private Repo Model

-For models without a diffusers pipeline — weights in custom format, model code in a private repo. Real examples: DreamID-Omni, BAGEL, HunyuanImage3.
+For models without a diffusers pipeline — weights in custom format, model code in a private repo. Real examples: DreamID-Omni, BAGEL, HunyuanImage3. See [references/custom-model-patterns.md](references/custom-model-patterns.md) for concrete custom-model integration patterns.

 ### B1. Understand the reference repo

@@ -134,7 +155,7 @@ Copy the essential model files into `vllm_omni/diffusion/models/<name>/` and ada

 ### B4. Handle custom weight loading

-Custom models have two patterns for weight loading:
+Custom models have two common patterns for weight loading:

 **Pattern 1: Bypass standard loader** (DreamID-Omni style)

@@ -149,8 +170,10 @@ class CustomPipeline(nn.Module):
        self.vae = custom_init_vae(model, device=self.device)
        self.text_encoder = custom_init_text_encoder(model, device=self.device)
        self.transformer = CustomFusionModel(CONFIG)
-        load_custom_checkpoint(self.transformer,
-            checkpoint_path=os.path.join(model, "model.safetensors"))
+        load_custom_checkpoint(
+            self.transformer,
+            checkpoint_path=os.path.join(model, "model.safetensors"),
+        )
        # NO weights_sources defined — bypasses standard loader

    def load_weights(self, weights):
@@ -162,6 +185,8 @@ class CustomPipeline(nn.Module):
 When weights are in safetensors format but need name remapping:

 ```python
+from vllm.model_executor.model_loader.weight_utils import default_weight_loader
+
 class CustomPipeline(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, *, od_config, prefix=""):
        super().__init__()
@@ -187,7 +212,9 @@ class CustomPipeline(nn.Module):
            # Remap original weight names to vllm-omni module names
            name = self._remap_weight_name(name)
            if name in params:
-                default_weight_loader(params[name], tensor)
+                param = params[name]
+                weight_loader = getattr(param, "weight_loader", default_weight_loader)
+                weight_loader(param, tensor)
                loaded.add(name)
        return loaded
 ```
@@ -281,16 +308,43 @@ For Omni or custom models, create:
 ### Step 7: Update Documentation

 Required updates:
-1. `docs/user_guide/diffusion/parallelism_acceleration.md` — parallelism support table
+1. `docs/user_guide/diffusion/parallelism/overview.md` — parallelism support overview/table
 2. `docs/user_guide/diffusion/cpu_offload_diffusion.md` — if CPU offload supported (add to supported models table)
-3. `docs/user_guide/diffusion/teacache.md` — if TeaCache supported
-4. `docs/user_guide/diffusion/cache_dit_acceleration.md` — if Cache-DiT supported
-5. `examples/offline_inference/xxx/README.md` — offline example docs
-6. `examples/online_serve/xxx/README.md` — online serve docs
+3. `docs/user_guide/diffusion/cache_acceleration/teacache.md` — if TeaCache supported
+4. `docs/user_guide/diffusion/cache_acceleration/cache_dit.md` — if Cache-DiT supported
+5. Offline example docs under `examples/offline_inference/<name>/` (`README.md` or category-specific `.md`)
+6. `examples/online_serving/<name>/README.md` — online serving docs

-### Step 8: Add E2E Tests (Recommended)
+### Step 8: Add E2E Tests

-Create `tests/e2e/online_serving/test_your_model_expansion.py`.
+**Follow the [vllm-omni-test skill](../vllm-omni-test/SKILL.md)** for markers, file naming, Buildkite wiring, and run commands. Also read [l4_functionality_tests.inc.md](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/blob/main/docs/contributing/ci/test_examples/l4_functionality_tests.inc.md) and [CI_5levels.md](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/blob/main/docs/contributing/ci/CI_5levels.md).
+
+Classify the model's **CI priority** first:
+
+| Priority | Required test levels | Files & markers |
+|----------|---------------------|-----------------|
+| **High** (listed in [#1832](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/issues/1832) or on the diffusion hot path) | **L1** · **L2** online · **L3** online + offline · **L4** feature + performance | See table below |
+| **Medium** (*normal priority* in L4 docs) | **L3** online + offline · **L4** feature only | Fewer L4 parametrized rows |
+| **Low** | **L4** feature only | One or two `*_expansion.py` cases |
+
+**Per-level deliverables (diffusion / `pytest.mark.diffusion`):**
+
+| Level | Location | Marker | CI pipeline | Notes |
+|-------|----------|--------|-------------|-------|
+| **L1** | `tests/diffusion/models/{slug}/`, `tests/diffusion/cache/`, transformer unit tests | `core_model` + `cpu` | `test-ready.yml` | Weight remap, `_sp_plan`, cache enabler registration, shape contracts |
+| **L2** | `tests/e2e/online_serving/test_{slug}.py` (and offline if the category is offline-first) | **`core_model` + `advanced_model`** (both on baseline smoke) + `diffusion` + `@hardware_test` / `hardware_marks` | `test-ready.yml` | Default deploy smoke — minimal `num_inference_steps`, single prompt |
+| **L3** | `tests/e2e/online_serving/test_{slug}.py` **and** `tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_{slug}.py` when offline matters | Baseline smoke: **`core_model` + `advanced_model`**; heavier cases: `advanced_model` only (+ `diffusion`) | `test-merge.yml` **or** merged into nightly diffusion function job | Real weights, streaming/API paths, LoRA/offload smoke |
+| **L4** | `tests/e2e/online_serving/test_{slug}_expansion.py` (+ offline expansion if needed) | `full_model` + `diffusion` | `test-nightly.yml` (X2I / X2V / X2A function groups) | Feature combos per [#1832](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/issues/1832); perf → `tests/dfx/perf/tests/test_{model}_vllm_omni.json` |
+
+**L2 & L3 online — same file, dual marks on the baseline smoke:** The **first / simplest** case in `test_{slug}.py` (default deploy, minimal steps, single prompt) should carry **both** `@pytest.mark.core_model` and `@pytest.mark.advanced_model` on the **same** function so L2 (`test-ready.yml`) and L3 (`test-merge.yml`) share one smoke test. Heavier deploy variants or API paths in the same file use **`advanced_model` only**. When L3 moves to nightly, migrate those heavier cases into `test_{slug}_expansion.py` with `full_model` and remove the dedicated `test-merge.yml` job (see `test_longcat_image_expansion.py`, `test_qwen_image_expansion.py`).
+
+**L4 design (high priority):** Combine multiple supported features (Cache-DiT, TP, USP, CFG, HSDP, CPU offload, quantization) into **few parametrized** `OmniServerParams` rows so each feature appears in at least one case without exploding GPU jobs. Shard single-GPU vs multi-GPU cases across the nightly X2I/X2V function steps (1-GPU vs `distributed_cuda`).
+
+**L4 design (medium / low):** One or two parametrized rows covering the best quality/perf trade-off; skip perf JSON unless the model is high priority.
+
+**Reference implementations:** `tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen_image_edit_expansion.py`, `tests/e2e/online_serving/test_longcat_image_expansion.py`, `tests/e2e/online_serving/test_hunyuan_video_15_expansion.py`.
+
+**Keep model-specific code inside test modules — not `tests/helpers/{slug}.py`:** deploy constants, prompts, sampling dicts, and inline `request_config` / `form_data` belong in each `test_{slug}.py` and `test_{slug}_expansion.py`. Do not add per-model files under `tests/helpers/`; reuse only repo-wide harness (`mark`, `media`, `runtime`, `stage_config`, `assertions`). **L2+ online/offline e2e:** reuse or add `send_*_request` in `tests/helpers/runtime.py` — tests call the handler, not raw `omni.generate` / HTTP. See [vllm-omni-test skill](../vllm-omni-test/SKILL.md) § **Runtime send helpers**.

 ### Step 9: Add Cache-DiT Acceleration

@@ -510,7 +564,7 @@ class YourTransformer(nn.Module):
 #### 10e. Update parallelism documentation

 After adding parallelism support, update:
-1. `docs/user_guide/diffusion/parallelism_acceleration.md` — add your model to the support table
+1. `docs/user_guide/diffusion/parallelism/overview.md` — add your model to the support overview/table
 2. Record which parallelism methods are supported (USP, Ring, CFG, TP, HSDP, VAE-Patch)

 ### Step 11: Add CPU Offload Support
@@ -568,6 +622,7 @@ See the [Profiling Single-Stage Diffusion](../../../docs/contributing/profiling.

 ## Reference Files

+- [vllm-omni-test skill](../vllm-omni-test/SKILL.md) — L1–L4 markers, naming, Buildkite wiring, run commands
 - [Transformer Adaptation](references/transformer-adaptation.md) — porting transformers from diffusers
 - [Custom Model Patterns](references/custom-model-patterns.md) — patterns for non-diffusers models
 - [Parallelism Patterns](references/parallelism-patterns.md) — TP, SP/USP, CFG parallel, HSDP implementation details
@@ -569,4 +569,4 @@ Check which parallelism methods a model supports:
 | **TP** | Uses `ColumnParallelLinear` / `QKVParallelLinear`. Search: `grep -r 'ParallelLinear\|QKVParallel' vllm_omni/diffusion/models/<model>/` |
 | **HSDP** | Transformer defines `_hsdp_shard_conditions`. Search: `grep -r '_hsdp_shard_conditions' vllm_omni/diffusion/models/` |

-The canonical per-model support table is in `docs/user_guide/diffusion/parallelism_acceleration.md`.
+The canonical per-model support overview/table is in `docs/user_guide/diffusion/parallelism/overview.md`.
@@ -219,13 +219,14 @@ def load_weights(self, weights):

 ### Class-Level Attributes for Features

+
 ```python
 class MyTransformer(nn.Module):
    # torch.compile: list block class names that repeat and can be compiled
    _repeated_blocks = ["MyTransformerBlock"]

    # CPU offload: attribute name of the nn.ModuleList containing blocks
-    _layerwise_offload_blocks_attr = "blocks"
+    _layerwise_offload_blocks_attrs = ["blocks"]

    # LoRA: mapping of fused param names to original param names
    packed_modules_mapping = {"to_qkv": ["to_q", "to_k", "to_v"]}
@@ -305,13 +305,72 @@ def build_voice_clone_prompt(ref_audio_path: str, text: str, codec) -> list:
    ]
 ```

+### Test Case Writing (CI Levels)
+
+**Follow the [vllm-omni-test skill](../vllm-omni-test/SKILL.md)** for markers, file naming (`test_{slug}.py` / `test_{slug}_expansion.py`), Buildkite wiring, and copy-paste run commands. Also read [CI_5levels.md](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/blob/main/docs/contributing/ci/CI_5levels.md) and [tests_style.md](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/blob/main/docs/contributing/ci/tests_style.md).
+
+Classify the model's **CI priority** first (high / medium / low). High-priority TTS models are typically those on the integration hot path or listed in tracking issues such as [#1832](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/issues/1832); medium and low tiers cover the long tail. When unsure, ask the reviewer which tier applies.
+
+| Priority | Required test levels | Files & markers |
+|----------|---------------------|-----------------|
+| **High** | **L1** unit/logic · **L2** online smoke · **L3** online + offline integration · **L4** feature + performance | See table below |
+| **Medium** | **L3** online + offline · **L4** feature only | Skip dedicated L1/L2 unless fixing a logic bug |
+| **Low** | **L4** feature only | One or two `*_expansion.py` parametrized cases |
+
+**Per-level deliverables (TTS / `pytest.mark.tts`):**
+
+| Level | Location | Marker | CI pipeline | Notes |
+|-------|----------|--------|-------------|-------|
+| **L1** | `tests/model_executor/…`, `tests/entrypoints/openai_api/…`, stage-processor tests | `core_model` + `cpu` | `test-ready.yml` | Prompt assembly, async_chunk helpers, `serving_speech` validation — no GPU |
+| **L2** | `tests/e2e/online_serving/test_{slug}.py` | **`core_model` + `advanced_model`** (both on baseline smoke) + `tts` + `@hardware_test(...)` | `test-ready.yml` (`ready` label) | Default deploy smoke: single `/v1/audio/speech` or offline `OmniRunner` path |
+| **L3** | `tests/e2e/online_serving/test_{slug}.py` **and** `tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_{slug}.py` | Baseline smoke: **`core_model` + `advanced_model`**; heavier cases: `advanced_model` only (+ `tts`) | `test-merge.yml` **or** merged into nightly TTS function job | Streaming, voice clone, batch/queue, async_chunk |
+| **L4** | `tests/e2e/online_serving/test_{slug}_expansion.py`, optional offline expansion | `full_model` + `tts` | `test-nightly.yml` (`:full_moon: TTS · Function Test with L4`) | Feature matrix; perf → `tests/dfx/perf/tests/test_tts.json` |
+
+**L2 & L3 online — same file, dual marks on the baseline smoke:** The **first / simplest** case in `test_{slug}.py` (default deploy, single non-streaming `/v1/audio/speech` or equivalent offline path) should carry **both** `@pytest.mark.core_model` **and** `@pytest.mark.advanced_model` on the **same** function so it runs in L2 (`test-ready.yml`, `--run-level core_model`, basic validation) and L3 (`test-merge.yml`, `--run-level advanced_model`, deeper validation) without duplicating the test. In-tree examples: `test_voxcpm2_tts.py::test_text_to_audio_001`, `test_qwen3_tts_customvoice.py::test_text_to_audio_001`.
+
+Heavier scenarios in the same file use **`advanced_model` only** (streaming, extra languages, concurrency, async_chunk, batch). Example: `test_voice_clone_en_streaming_001` → `advanced_model` only. When migrating L3 to nightly, move those heavier cases into `test_{slug}_expansion.py` with `full_model` and drop the dedicated merge job (see `test_ming_tts_expansion.py`, `test_glm_tts_expansion.py`).
+
+```python
+@pytest.mark.core_model
+@pytest.mark.advanced_model
+@pytest.mark.tts
+@hardware_test(res={"cuda": "L4"}, num_cards=1)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("omni_server", tts_server_params, indirect=True)
+def test_voice_clone_en_non_streaming_001(omni_server, openai_client) -> None:
+    openai_client.send_audio_speech_request({...})
+```
+
+**L4 consolidation:** Prefer parametrized `OmniServerParams` rows (`default`, `async_chunk`, feature flags) in one expansion module rather than many merge-only files ([#1832](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/issues/1832)).
+
+**L4 performance (high-priority models):** Add latency / throughput / stress rows in `tests/dfx/perf/tests/test_tts.json`, or a dedicated `tests/dfx/perf/tests/test_{slug}.json` when the model must not join the shared nightly server matrix before integration lands (see VoxCPM2 / Coqui XTTS pattern). Register the model in `benchmarks/tts/model_configs.yaml` for local `bench_tts.py`. Wire a **separate** `test-nightly.yml` Perf Test step when the JSON is not merged into `test_tts.json` yet.
+
+**Keep model-specific code inside test modules — not `tests/helpers/{slug}.py`:**
+
+- Put `MODEL`, deploy path, vendored `REF_AUDIO_URL`, `get_prompt()`, and inline `request_config` dicts **in each** `test_{slug}.py`, `test_{slug}_expansion.py`, offline `test_{slug}.py`, and L1 `test_{slug}_*.py` as needed.
+- **Do not** add `tests/helpers/{slug}.py` (or `tests/helpers/{model_name}.py`) to deduplicate constants or request builders across those files. A little duplication is intentional; follow in-tree references such as `tests/e2e/online_serving/test_glm_tts.py` and `tests/e2e/online_serving/test_cosyvoice3_tts_expansion.py`.
+- `tests/helpers/` is for **repo-wide** harness code only (`mark.py`, `media.py`, `runtime.py`, `stage_config.py`, `assertions.py`, `fixtures/`). Import those; do not extend the tree with per-model modules.
+
+**Runtime send helpers (`tests/helpers/runtime.py`) — online and offline e2e:**
+
+| Path | Fixture | Call |
+|------|---------|------|
+| Online `/v1/*` | `openai_client` | `openai_client.send_*_request(request_config)` |
+| Offline inference | `omni_runner_handler` | `omni_runner_handler.send_*_request(request_config)` |
+
+1. **Grep `runtime.py` first** — reuse `send_omni_request`, `send_diffusion_request`, `send_audio_speech_request` (online + offline Qwen-style TTS), `send_single_stage_tts_request` (Coqui XTTS / MOSS-TTS-Nano offline), etc.
+2. **No matching helper** → add `send_<feature>_request` (or `send_<route>_http_request` for negative/dfx) in **`runtime.py`** with general `assert_*` bundled inside, **then** call it from the test.
+3. **Test file** holds `request_config` dicts only — not `omni.generate`, not `_collect_audio()`, not raw HTTP/SDK.
+4. Wire `tests/helpers/runtime.py` into Buildkite `source_file_dependencies` when you add helpers.
+
+See [vllm-omni-test skill](../vllm-omni-test/SKILL.md) § **Runtime send helpers** for full tables and exceptions.
+
 ### Deliverables

 - Updated `serving_speech.py` with all 5 integration points (single commit)
 - Client scripts and server launcher under `examples/online_serving/text_to_speech/<model>/`
 - Gradio demo with streaming and voice cloning UI in the same dir
- E2E online serving test (`tests/e2e/online_serving/test_<model>.py`)
- Buildkite CI entry in `.buildkite/test-merge.yml`
+- E2E tests per **Test Case Writing (CI Levels)** above (priority tier determines L1–L4 scope)
+- Buildkite wired per level: `test-ready.yml` (L1/L2), `test-merge.yml` or nightly function job (L3), `test-nightly.yml` (L4) — see [vllm-omni-test skill](../vllm-omni-test/SKILL.md)
 - New section in `examples/online_serving/text_to_speech/README.md` (table row + per-model section). Do **not** create a top-level `examples/online_serving/<model>/` dir or a per-model `README.md` inside `text_to_speech/<model>/`.

 ### E2E test pitfalls to avoid
@@ -326,9 +385,9 @@ def build_voice_clone_prompt(ref_audio_path: str, text: str, codec) -> list:
 - **Use the harness readiness gate.** The fixture waits for HTTP 200 on
  `/health`; don't add `time.sleep` in tests. If warmup is incomplete, make
  `/health` return non-200 until you're actually ready.
- **Mark with `@pytest.mark.core_model` + `hardware_test(res={"cuda": "H100"})`**
-  so the test lands in `test-ready.yml` (triggered by the `ready` label) rather
-  than only nightly.
+- **Mark tests per the CI Levels table** — baseline smoke: `core_model` + `advanced_model`; heavier cases: `advanced_model` only; L4 expansion: `full_model`
+- **No per-model helper modules** — do not create `tests/helpers/{slug}.py`; keep constants and `request_config` payloads in the test file
+- **Online and offline e2e go through `runtime.py`** — `openai_client.send_audio_speech_request` (online); `omni_runner_handler.send_audio_speech_request` (Qwen-style offline) or `send_single_stage_tts_request` (single-stage offline). Add a new `send_*_request` in `runtime.py` when none fits; do not embed `omni.generate` or HTTP in tests

 ## Phase 4: Async Chunk (Streaming)

@@ -461,8 +520,8 @@ Use this checklist when integrating a new TTS model:
 - [ ] Voice cloning works (if supported)
 - [ ] All response formats work (wav, mp3, flac, pcm)
 - [ ] Client scripts and server launcher created
- [ ] E2E online serving test written (`tests/e2e/online_serving/test_<model>.py`)
- [ ] Buildkite CI entry added to `.buildkite/test-merge.yml`
+- [ ] E2E tests added per model priority tier (see **Test Case Writing (CI Levels)**)
+- [ ] Buildkite entries match level: `test-ready.yml` / `test-merge.yml` or nightly TTS job / `test-nightly.yml`
 - [ ] Gradio demo working
 - [ ] Documentation added (offline + online docs, nav, supported models)

@@ -500,5 +559,6 @@ Project docs and adjacent skills:
 - [TTS audio skill](../vllm-omni-audio-tts/SKILL.md) — supported models and usage
 - [Fish Speech integration](../vllm-omni-audio-tts/references/fish-speech.md) — complete example of Phases 1–3
 - [Qwen3-TTS reference](../vllm-omni-audio-tts/references/qwen-tts.md) — complete example of all 5 phases
+- [vllm-omni-test skill](../vllm-omni-test/SKILL.md) — L1–L4 markers, naming, Buildkite wiring, run commands
 - [Adding a TTS model (developer guide)](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/blob/main/docs/contributing/model/adding_tts_model.md)
 - `plan/voxcpm2_native_ar_design.md` — VoxCPM2's vLLM-native AR + side-computation pattern (distinct from the generator-based single-stage described above)
@@ -0,0 +1,510 @@
+---
+name: diffusion-perf-opt
+description: Diagnose and optimize vLLM Omni diffusion workloads, especially Wan/Qwen/Flux-style image and video generation. Use when Codex is asked to analyze profiling traces, choose parallel strategies, inspect torch profiler trace.json or trace.json.gz timelines, estimate optimization ROI, investigate GPU idle/free bubbles, compare USP/CFG/HSDP/VAE parallelism, or design operator/host/quantization optimizations for vLLM Omni.
+---
+
+# vLLM Omni Performance Optimization
+
+Use this skill to run a disciplined optimization loop for vLLM Omni diffusion workloads. Keep two ideas separate: real performance baselines are collected with low overhead, while torch profiler traces are diagnostic artifacts and may distort latency.
+
+## First Questions
+
+Before proposing changes, ask for the optimization scene if it is not already known:
+
+- GPU model, card count, topology, and whether NVLink is present.
+- Model and pipeline, for example Wan2.2 I2V A14B.
+- User workload: resolution, frames, steps, batch/concurrency, CFG scales, prompt/image inputs.
+- Three runnable commands for each model/workload, or scripts that generate them:
+  - **Server startup command**: exact `vllm serve` command, environment variables, model path, port, parallelism flags, profiler flags, and precision/compile settings.
+  - **User request command**: exact single-request client command (for example curl or Python client) with fixed prompt/media/seed/size/steps. Use this to validate correctness and collect per-request stage timings.
+  - **User benchmark command**: exact repeatable benchmark command or script with warmup count, measured iteration count, concurrency/batch policy, output directory, and summary format.
+- Current enabled strategies: USP/SP, CFG parallel, HSDP/FSDP, VAE patch parallel, torch.compile, profiler options.
+- Optimization target: latency, throughput, memory, cost, or quality-preserving speed.
+- Precision/quality tolerance: bf16/fp8/quantization/sparsity/approximate attention allowed or not.
+- Quality validation method: exact-output comparison when feasible, or metrics
+  such as SSIM, PSNR, LPIPS, cosine similarity, MAE, MSE, temporal flicker
+  checks, baseline self-run variance, and reviewable output artifacts.
+
+## Workflow
+
+1. **Freeze the measurement protocol and commands.**
+   - Before analyzing parallel strategies or traces, establish the three commands for the target model/workload: server startup, single user request, and user benchmark.
+   - Prefer checked-in scripts or one-off shell scripts over free-form commands in chat. The scripts should make workload variables explicit, including model path, port/base URL, prompt/media inputs, resolution, frames, steps, seed, warmup, measured iterations, concurrency, and output path.
+   - Measurement reports must preserve the concrete process, not just the final numbers. For each tested configuration, write down the server startup command, the user request command, the user benchmark command or polling loop, the final server response metrics, and the client-side timing/HTTP result.
+   - Present all duration and latency values in **milliseconds (ms)** in tables and summaries. If an API returns seconds, convert to ms before reporting. Keep raw units only inside quoted raw logs or source snippets.
+   - Keep profiler modes separate in the command set:
+     - Baseline/benchmark commands should avoid torch profiler and stack collection.
+     - Diagnostic commands may enable torch profiler after a baseline identifies a bottleneck.
+   - If any of the three commands is missing, ask for it or create a proposed script before proceeding.
+   - Make clear which command is authoritative for correctness validation and which command is authoritative for performance numbers.
+
+2. **Collect a real baseline.**
+   - Disable PyTorch profiler and stack collection.
+   - Disable or fix torch.compile state so A/B is fair.
+   - Avoid `--enforce-eager` for production-speed baselines unless eager is the target.
+   - Prefer `--log-stats` and `--enable-diffusion-pipeline-profiler` for low-overhead stage timing. PR 3069 has the relevant metrics/log-stats changes; if local code does not include them, fetch or cherry-pick the minimal metrics changes rather than merging unrelated PR drift.
+   - Run warmup requests and exclude first-request lazy init.
+
+3. **Model the parallel strategy before testing.**
+   - Estimate compute and communication for self-attention, cross-attention, FFN, CFG, VAE encode/decode, and HSDP.
+   - Select a small candidate matrix rather than exhaustively testing everything.
+   - Typical 2-card candidates: `USP=2`, `CFG=2`, `USP=1/HSDP on-off`, VAE parallel on-off if memory allows.
+   - Typical 4-card candidates: `USP=4`, `CFG=2 x USP=2`, `USP=2 x HSDP`, VAE parallel on-off.
+   - Typical 8-card candidates for official CFG-enabled video diffusion models:
+     - Primary candidate: `CFG=2 x USP=4` with VAE patch parallel across all 8 ranks.
+     - Compare against: `CFG=1 x USP=8` to test whether larger sequence parallel groups beat CFG branch parallelism.
+     - Isolate VAE parallelism: keep the DiT strategy fixed and compare VAE patch parallel on/off or different VAE patch sizes.
+     - If long-video `diffuse` remains dominant and Ulysses all-to-all is suspected, test a hybrid sequence strategy such as `CFG=2 x USP=2 x Ring=2`.
+     - Test HSDP off only if the model fits without it; treat HSDP primarily as a memory strategy until A/B proves otherwise.
+   - Prefer USP/SP for long video token sequences; prefer CFG parallel when CFG doubles transformer forwards and sequence length is modest.
+   - Convert workload shape to latent/patch token counts before choosing candidates. For video models, record frames, latent frames, latent HxW, patch size, approximate token count, and which stages should scale with the token count.
+
+4. **Search for the best parallel configuration.**
+   - Start with a small matrix that answers one question per comparison:
+     - `CFG parallel vs larger USP`: compare `CFG=2 x USP=world/2` against `CFG=1 x USP=world` for CFG-enabled workloads.
+     - `VAE patch parallel value`: compare the best DiT strategy with VAE patch parallel enabled and disabled.
+     - `HSDP cost`: compare HSDP on/off only when both configurations fit memory.
+     - `Ulysses vs Ring`: test a Ring/Ulysses hybrid only after long-sequence `diffuse` is confirmed dominant.
+   - For each configuration, create or record a stable config id, for example `A_cfg2_usp4_vaepp8_hsdp_tiling`.
+   - For each config id, capture:
+     - exact server command and environment variables,
+     - observed distributed setup from logs, such as SP groups, CFG groups, HSDP shard/replicate sizes, VAE patch size,
+     - exact request command for every scenario,
+     - final server response metrics and client-side elapsed time,
+     - output artifact paths and any failed/empty responses.
+   - Use one warmup request per scenario, then at least three measured repeats for the shortlisted config. For exploratory matrix pruning, one measured request is acceptable only if the margin is large; label it as one-shot.
+   - Compare configurations by stage, not only end-to-end latency. A configuration can improve `diffuse` while hurting `vae.decode`; record both effects.
+   - Select the best config only after checking the target metric, dominant stages, memory headroom, and output correctness.
+
+5. **Run targeted A/B tests.**
+   - Change one variable per test.
+   - Keep model, input, seed, request parameters, GPU placement, and warmup policy fixed.
+   - Record latency, stage timings, memory, output quality, and logs.
+   - Report comparison tables in ms. Include at least end-to-end client time, server `inference_time`, server stage generation time if available, `vae.encode`, `diffuse`, `vae.decode`, and peak memory.
+
+6. **Enforce the quality and precision gate for every optimization.**
+   - Do not mark an optimization ready until quality is checked on the same
+     workload: model, prompt/media, seed, shape, steps, scheduler, dtype,
+     backend, parallelism, and output encoding.
+   - For math-preserving changes, require exact/near-exact agreement or show
+     that differences are within baseline self-run variance.
+   - For precision, quantization, approximate attention, sparse/custom kernels,
+     or backend changes, include reviewable artifacts and metrics such as SSIM,
+     PSNR, LPIPS, cosine similarity, MAE, MSE, and temporal flicker checks.
+   - If quality tolerance is not stated, default to quality-preserving behavior.
+     Failed or inconclusive quality validation blocks a ready-to-merge claim.
+
+7. **Collect diagnostic trace only after narrowing hypotheses.**
+   - Use torch profiler for a small number of requests.
+   - Run two separate diagnostic traces instead of mixing concerns:
+     - **Operator/shape trace**: enable `torch_profiler_record_shapes=True` and keep stack collection disabled. Use this to rank CUDA kernels, NCCL collectives, attention/MLP/norm/RoPE work, and shape-specific hot operators.
+     - **Host-stack trace**: enable `torch_profiler_with_stack=True` and normally keep shape collection disabled. Use this to map CPU/Python host gaps, synchronization points, scheduler paths, and request handling overhead.
+   - Keep both trace commands and reports separate from baseline/benchmark commands. Torch profiler latency is diagnostic only and must not be used as the final latency claim.
+   - Prefer profiling only the narrowed dominant scenario, for example the highest-resolution/video-length case where `diffuse` dominates.
+   - If profiler endpoints are available, run one warmup request first, then call `/start_profile`, run one profiled request, and call `/stop_profile`. This keeps model initialization and warmup out of the diagnostic trace.
+   - Start by analyzing rank 0 only. Expand to more ranks only if rank 0 suggests imbalance, unclear GPU idle/free bubbles, high NCCL wait, server timing mismatch, CFG branch imbalance, or USP group stragglers.
+   - Diagnostic reports must be written to disk and preserve: server command, profiler config, warmup/request/polling commands, trace artifact paths, rank analyzed, analyzer output or summary, and the decision about whether additional ranks are necessary.
+   - Analyze both rank-level balance and device-level free bubbles when additional ranks are opened.
+
+8. **Analyze host, communication, and operators.**
+   - Find GPU idle/free intervals and map each large gap to the enclosing CPU/Python code.
+   - Separate real GPU idle from profiler overhead such as CUPTI `Command Buffer Full`.
+   - Compare NCCL kernel time to user annotations; annotations can overcount nested intervals.
+   - Rank operator work by total CUDA time and by repeated small-kernel launch count.
+
+9. **Produce an optimization plan.**
+   - Classify candidates as P0/P1/P2.
+   - For each candidate, state necessity, expected benefit, implementation path, validation plan, and quality risk.
+   - Include a concrete quality/precision validation gate for each candidate.
+   - Do not implement high-risk operator rewrites before proving the operator is a bottleneck for the target shapes.
+   - End the plan with a user-facing candidate selection table. The assistant
+     should not automatically choose a risky optimization just because it is
+     technically possible. Present the options clearly and let the user decide
+     which item is worth implementing based on latency target, engineering
+     budget, memory headroom, and quality tolerance.
+   - Organize the plan by optimization layer, not by a flat list of ideas:
+     - host/runtime optimization,
+     - measurement/benchmark reliability,
+     - parallelism and communication,
+     - VAE encode/decode and media pre/post processing,
+     - operator fusion and layout cleanup,
+     - attention main-path optimization,
+     - algorithmic, precision, or approximation changes.
+   - For each layer, tie every candidate back to evidence from baseline
+     metrics, diagnostic trace, source code, or output quality requirements.
+     Do not list generic optimizations without a trace or workload reason.
+
+## Priority Rules
+
+- **P0:** low risk, likely useful, or required for trustworthy measurement. Examples: real baseline, warmup, targeted parallel A/B, disabling avoidable `empty_cache`, scheduler coefficient caching.
+- **P1:** meaningful code changes with contained risk. Examples: cross-attention KV caching, VAE gather/broadcast reduction, AdaLayerNorm/RMSNorm/RoPE fusion after trace evidence.
+- **P2:** high implementation or quality risk. Examples: FA to LA replacement, custom Triton/CUDA fused kernels, FP8/quantization, sparsity/Rainfusion-style acceleration.
+
+Every implemented optimization needs A/B validation and a passing
+quality/precision gate, including math-preserving changes such as padding trim,
+layout cleanup, cache reuse, or host/runtime cleanup. Use objective metrics
+when available, keep reviewable artifacts, and compare against baseline
+self-run variance for precision, quantization, approximate kernels, or backend
+changes. If quality validation fails or is inconclusive, do not present the
+optimization as ready to merge.
+
+## Optimization Layers
+
+After baseline, parallel-search, and diagnostic traces, summarize optimization
+opportunities by layer. This is the core of the performance analysis: the goal
+is to connect evidence to a scoped implementation and a validation plan.
+
+### Host and Runtime Optimization
+
+Purpose: remove CPU/Python stalls, synchronization points, allocator overhead,
+and request-path overhead that leave GPU lanes empty.
+
+Evidence to look for:
+
+- High `idle_pct` or large `GAP` blocks in `trace_analyzer.py`.
+- Host-stack trace lines such as `torch.cuda.empty_cache`,
+  `cudaStreamSynchronize`, `cudaDeviceSynchronize`, Python locks, scheduler
+  waits, image/video preprocessing, or repeated small allocation paths.
+- Difference between client wall-clock time and server `inference_time_s`.
+
+Typical candidates:
+
+- Make avoidable `torch.cuda.empty_cache()` optional or guard it by memory
+  headroom.
+- Cache scheduler coefficients, timesteps, masks, or other tiny repeated CPU
+  computations when the request shape/steps are fixed.
+- Remove avoidable host-device synchronizations and blocking logging/stat calls.
+- Move expensive preprocessing out of the critical path or cache fixed prompt,
+  image, and transform work for benchmark scenarios.
+- Ensure benchmark scripts record client-side elapsed time, HTTP status, output
+  path, and server response metrics.
+
+Priority guidance:
+
+- Usually P0 when the change is measurement reliability or an obvious removable
+  synchronization.
+- Usually P1 when it changes scheduling, memory lifetime, or request execution
+  order.
+
+Validation:
+
+- Re-run non-profiler baseline with same workload and seed.
+- Confirm peak memory headroom if disabling cache cleanup.
+- Confirm generated output exists and quality/seed behavior is unchanged.
+
+### Parallelism and Communication Optimization
+
+Purpose: choose the right decomposition for CFG branches, sequence tokens, model
+weights, VAE tiles, and rank topology.
+
+Evidence to look for:
+
+- Baseline A/B across `CFG`, `USP/SP`, `Ring`, `HSDP/FSDP`, and VAE patch
+  parallelism.
+- Stage timing shifts: `diffuse`, `vae.encode`, `vae.decode`, and server
+  end-to-end.
+- NCCL kernel time from trace, not only `user_annotation` time.
+- Rank imbalance across SP group ranks or CFG branch ranks.
+- Memory headroom and OOM risk.
+
+Typical candidates:
+
+- `CFG=2 x USP=world/2` versus `CFG=1 x USP=world` for CFG-enabled models.
+- VAE patch parallel on/off or patch size tuning.
+- HSDP/FSDP on/off only if both configurations fit memory.
+- Ulysses versus Ulysses+Ring only after long-sequence `diffuse` is confirmed
+  dominant and all-to-all is suspected.
+- Rank mapping/topology changes if all-rank traces show stragglers or NCCL wait.
+- Buffer reuse or preallocation for FSDP/HSDP all-gather paths.
+
+Priority guidance:
+
+- P0/P1 for configuration-only changes with strong measured wins.
+- P1 for buffer reuse or rank mapping changes.
+- P2 for invasive distributed algorithm changes.
+
+Validation:
+
+- Measure by stage and memory, not only end-to-end.
+- Use one-variable A/B with identical prompt/media/seed/shape/steps.
+- When communication is suspected, compare rank0-3 in one USP group and rank0
+  versus rank4 across CFG branches for `CFG=2 x USP=4`.
+
+### VAE and Media Pipeline Optimization
+
+Purpose: reduce encode/decode, tiling, split/gather, and media conversion time.
+
+Evidence to look for:
+
+- Large `vae.encode` or `vae.decode` in low-overhead stage timings.
+- Host-stack gaps in VAE tile split, gather, merge, broadcast, or image/video
+  transforms.
+- VAE kernels or cuDNN convolution in operator trace.
+- Whether every rank needs the final decoded tensor.
+
+Typical candidates:
+
+- Keep VAE patch parallel enabled when it has clear measured benefit.
+- Reduce VAE gather/broadcast to only ranks that need the final media output.
+- Reuse tile metadata, split buffers, or gather buffers.
+- Evaluate bf16/autocast behavior for VAE only with visual quality checks.
+- Avoid redundant image conversion, resize, or tensor construction in repeated
+  benchmark runs.
+
+Priority guidance:
+
+- P0/P1 if VAE is a large share of the target workload or if a host gap is
+  obvious and low risk.
+- Lower priority when `diffuse` dominates and VAE is already patch-parallelized.
+
+Validation:
+
+- Compare `vae.encode`, `vae.decode`, server end-to-end, and peak memory.
+- Check output video integrity, artifacts, flicker, and seed stability.
+
+### Operator Fusion and Layout Cleanup
+
+Purpose: reduce high-frequency small kernels, memory bandwidth pressure, layout
+conversions, and launch overhead in transformer and VAE blocks.
+
+Evidence to look for:
+
+- Top operator tables showing many `aten::copy_`, `aten::cat`,
+  `split_with_sizes_copy`, `aten::add`, `aten::mul`, `aten::div`, norm,
+  activation, RoPE, or reshape/layout kernels.
+- `ops_rankN.xlsx` `by_shape` sheet showing repeated small shapes inside the
+  same block path.
+- Trace lanes showing many short kernels between larger GEMM/attention kernels.
+- Source code patterns with repeated elementwise chains or layout conversions.
+
+Typical fusion targets:
+
+- AdaLayerNorm / RMSNorm / LayerNorm plus scale/shift fusion.
+- RoPE fusion with Q/K layout preparation when shapes are stable.
+- Residual add, scale, gate, and elementwise chains.
+- MLP gate/up/down cleanup, such as fusing activation and multiply around
+  GEMM outputs when feasible.
+- QKV projection and reshape/split/cat path cleanup.
+- Attention pre/post layout cleanup to avoid unnecessary copies, cats, and
+  splits around sequence parallel all-to-all.
+
+Priority guidance:
+
+- P1 when implemented with existing PyTorch/Triton/local helper patterns and
+  validated against exact outputs or tolerances.
+- P2 when it requires custom CUDA/Triton kernels, changes numerics, or touches
+  attention math directly.
+
+Validation:
+
+- First prove the operator family is material for the target shape.
+- Use non-profiler A/B for latency and stage timing.
+- Use quality regression checks for generated video stability.
+- Check compile behavior and graph breaks if using `torch.compile`.
+
+### Attention Main-Path Optimization
+
+Purpose: address the dominant self-attention cost when FlashAttention or other
+attention kernels dominate CUDA time.
+
+Evidence to look for:
+
+- Operator trace where FlashAttention/SDPA kernels dominate total CUDA time.
+- Attention shape from `ops_rankN.xlsx` `by_shape`, model code, or trace
+  metadata.
+- Whether attention cost scales with latent frames, latent H/W, patch size, or
+  CFG duplication.
+- Layout/copy/all-to-all work around attention.
+
+Typical candidates:
+
+- Verify the attention backend and shape are on the intended fast kernel path.
+- Compare supported attention backends only with identical workload and quality
+  settings.
+- Reduce attention input size by safe model/config choices when allowed:
+  latent resolution, frame count, patching, boundary ratio, or windowing.
+- Remove avoidable layout conversions before/after attention.
+- Reuse condition-side KV or other static inputs if the model structure allows.
+- Consider custom kernels, sparse/window/linear attention, or approximation only
+  after quality risk is accepted.
+
+Priority guidance:
+
+- P1 for backend/config/layout changes with preserved math.
+- P2 for approximate attention, sparsity, custom kernels, or any change that can
+  alter quality/temporal consistency.
+
+Validation:
+
+- Always include output quality and seed behavior checks.
+- Compare `diffuse`, server end-to-end, peak memory, and attention kernel time
+  in diagnostic traces if needed.
+
+### Algorithmic, Precision, and Approximation Optimization
+
+Purpose: reduce mathematical work or precision cost beyond local code cleanup.
+
+Evidence to look for:
+
+- A single operator family dominates even after low-risk runtime, parallel, and
+  fusion work.
+- Memory bandwidth or compute utilization suggests precision or quantization
+  could matter.
+- The user explicitly allows quality-preserving or approximate methods.
+
+Typical candidates:
+
+- FP8/quantization for transformer or selected projections.
+- Sparsity or Rainfusion-style acceleration.
+- Reduced steps, scheduler changes, distillation, or caching across frames.
+- Approximate attention or linear attention.
+
+Priority guidance:
+
+- Usually P2 because quality, numerics, and implementation risk are high.
+
+Validation:
+
+- Requires strict A/B, visual quality review, temporal flicker checks, seed
+  stability, and possibly human evaluation.
+
+### Interpolation, Super-Resolution, and E2E Pipeline Optimization
+
+Purpose: optimize the whole user-visible video product, not only the base
+diffusion invocation. Some deployments trade base-model latency against
+post-processing, interpolation, or super-resolution stages.
+
+Evidence to look for:
+
+- E2E latency breakdown across base generation, interpolation, super-resolution,
+  encoding, storage, and response streaming.
+- Fast/slow GPU or fast/slow stage analysis across multiple cards and pipeline
+  stages.
+- User quality target: resolution, FPS, temporal smoothness, and acceptable
+  post-processing artifacts.
+
+Typical candidates:
+
+- Add or optimize a frame interpolation stage when it reduces required base
+  model frames for the same perceived FPS.
+- Add or optimize a super-resolution model when generating lower base
+  resolution plus SR is faster for the target quality.
+- Analyze E2E2 pipeline behavior: client request, service scheduling, diffusion,
+  VAE/media, post-process, file write, and response.
+- Identify fast/slow cards or stages and rebalance pipeline placement.
+
+Priority guidance:
+
+- P1 when using proven interpolation/SR components without changing diffusion
+  math.
+- P2 when quality risk is high or the pipeline adds significant operational
+  complexity.
+
+Validation:
+
+- Measure E2E wall-clock, per-stage server timings, output FPS/resolution,
+  artifacts, flicker, and user-visible quality.
+
+### Optimization Candidate Library
+
+Use this table as a compact menu, not as automatic recommendations. Pick items
+only when baseline metrics, trace evidence, source inspection, or quality
+tolerance supports them.
+
+| Layer | Candidate | Evidence | Priority | Validation focus |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Measurement | Freeze server/request/benchmark commands | Missing or drifting commands | P0 | Repeatable non-profiler A/B |
+| Measurement | Separate baseline and diagnostic profiler runs | Profiler used for latency claims | P0 | Low-overhead stage timings |
+| Host/runtime | Guard or remove avoidable `empty_cache` | Host-stack gaps or sync stalls | P0/P1 | Latency, peak memory, OOM safety |
+| Host/runtime | Cache scheduler coefficients/timesteps | Repeated tiny CPU/GPU work | P0/P1 | Same seed/output, stage timing |
+| Host/runtime | Reduce framework scheduling overhead | Client time exceeds server time | P1 | E2E latency, throughput |
+| Parallel | `CFG=2 x USP=world/2` vs `USP=world` | CFG doubles forward work | P0/P1 | `diffuse`, NCCL, memory |
+| Parallel | Tune VAE patch parallelism | VAE encode/decode is material | P0/P1 | VAE time, output correctness |
+| Parallel | HSDP on/off or buffer reuse | HSDP affects memory/all-gather | P1 | Memory, latency, OOM risk |
+| Parallel | Ulysses vs Ulysses+Ring | Long sequence all-to-all suspected | P1/P2 | Rank balance, NCCL kernels |
+| Cross-attn | Disable SP for short condition tokens | Cross-attn comm exceeds compute | P1 | `diffuse`, correctness |
+| VAE/media | Reduce VAE gather/broadcast | Rank traces show VAE wait | P1 | Rank balance, output file |
+| VAE/media | Reuse tile metadata/buffers | Tile split/merge host gaps | P1 | `vae.encode/decode`, memory |
+| VAE/media | VAE bf16/autocast | VAE float kernels are slow | P1/P2 | Artifacts, flicker, seed stability |
+| Operator fusion | AdaLayerNorm/LayerNorm fusion | Norm plus scale/shift kernels | P1 | Numeric tolerance, latency |
+| Operator fusion | RMSNorm fusion | Many small RMSNorm kernels | P1 | Numeric tolerance, latency |
+| Operator fusion | RoPE cache/fuse/layout cleanup | RoPE copy/reshape kernels | P1/P2 | Kernel count, correctness |
+| Operator layout | QKV or attention layout cleanup | Copy/cat/split around attention | P1 | Copy kernels, compile behavior |
+| Attention | Verify backend fast path | FA/SDPA dominates trace | P1 | `diffuse`, attention kernels |
+| Attention | FA to LA or selected-head LA | Attention remains dominant | P2 | Quality, temporal stability |
+| Precision | Transformer FP8/quantization | Compute/bandwidth bound and allowed | P2 | Quality, speed, stability |
+| Sparsity | Rainfusion-style acceleration | DiT compute remains dominant | P2 | Prompt diversity, quality |
+| Pipeline | Frame interpolation | Fewer base frames can meet FPS | P1/P2 | E2E latency, motion artifacts |
+| Pipeline | Super-resolution | Lower base res plus SR may win | P1/P2 | Detail quality, artifacts |
+| E2E | Fast/slow-card analysis | Multi-card stragglers | P0/P1 | Per-rank/stage wall-clock |
+
+### Optimization Plan Template
+
+Use this table shape when reporting the next work items:
+
+| Priority | Layer | Candidate | Evidence | Expected benefit | Implementation path | Validation | Quality risk |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| P0 | Host/runtime | Guard `empty_cache` | Host-stack gap points to `torch.cuda.empty_cache` | Small latency reduction, less idle | Add config/env guard | Non-profiler A/B, memory check | Low |
+| P1 | Operator fusion | RMSNorm/AdaLayerNorm fusion | High-frequency norm/elementwise kernels | Lower launch/bandwidth overhead | Use existing fusion helper or targeted Triton | A/B + output check | Medium |
+| P1/P2 | Attention | Attention layout/backend investigation | FA kernel dominates CUDA time | Potentially large | Inspect shapes/backend and remove layout copies | A/B + trace + quality | Medium/high |
+
+Then present a short selection prompt using the same rows:
+
+```text
+Which candidate should we implement next?
+
+1. P0 Host/runtime: guard empty_cache
+   - Expected benefit: small but low-risk latency reduction.
+   - Risk: possible memory increase/OOM if memory headroom is insufficient.
+
+2. P1 Operator fusion: inspect by_shape and implement first norm/RoPE/layout fusion
+   - Expected benefit: medium if high-frequency small kernels are confirmed.
+   - Risk: numerical/compile/quality validation needed.
+
+3. P1/P2 Attention: FA/LA/backend/layout investigation
+   - Expected benefit: potentially large.
+   - Risk: high quality and implementation risk.
+```
+
+If the user has not chosen an item, default to explaining tradeoffs and asking
+which candidate to execute. Only proceed autonomously on low-risk P0 measurement
+or instrumentation fixes.
+
+## Analysis Helpers
+
+PyTorch profiler traces are Chrome/Perfetto-compatible JSON files, usually
+`trace_rankN.json` or `trace_rankN.json.gz`. They normally contain a top-level
+`traceEvents` list, though some exporters emit the raw event list directly.
+
+Use the checked-in analyzer from the repository root:
+
+```bash
+python3 .claude/skills/diffusion-perf-opt/scripts/trace_analyzer.py \
+  vllm_profile/.../trace_rank0.json.gz \
+  --min-gap-ms 5 \
+  --topn 20
+```
+
+For rank imbalance or communication questions, pass all relevant rank traces in
+one command. For host gaps, lower `--min-gap-ms` to `1` and use a host-stack
+trace. Read `gpu_span_s`, `busy_union_s`, `idle_union_s`, `idle_pct`, `GAP`
+blocks, `Top GPU/operator events by total duration`, and `Top NCCL-like events
+by category`. Treat `cat=user_annotation` NCCL ranges as enclosing annotations;
+prefer `cat=kernel` or `cat=gpu_user_annotation` for real device work.
+
+The analyzer summarizes timing only. It does not parse tensor shapes, attribute
+overlap to individual streams, prove quality, or provide final latency claims.
+Use `ops_rankN.xlsx` or PyTorch key averages for shape analysis, and re-test any
+optimization with non-profiler baseline commands.
+
+Read `references/optimization-playbook.md` when drafting the optimization table or comparing candidate techniques.
+
+## vLLM Omni Heuristics
+
+- Cross-attention usually should not use USP/SP when text/image condition token count is much smaller than latent video tokens. Confirm via trace; in Wan2.2 I2V, self-attention dominates cross-attention.
+- VAE bf16/autocast is often worthwhile but requires visual quality checks.
+- VAE patch parallel can help decode/encode but may add gather/merge/broadcast overhead. Check whether all ranks need the final decoded tensor.
+- HSDP/FSDP is primarily a memory strategy. If the model fits without it, run an on/off latency comparison.
+- Scheduler work can create small host/device gaps; cache tiny solve coefficients when timesteps/order are known.
+- `torch.cuda.empty_cache()` can prevent OOM but creates synchronization/idle. Make it optional if memory headroom is sufficient.
+- `Command Buffer Full` in profiler output is profiler overhead, not a model optimization target.
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+interface:
+  display_name: "vLLM Omni Perf Opt"
+  short_description: "Profile and optimize vLLM Omni diffusion performance."
+  default_prompt: "Analyze and optimize a vLLM Omni diffusion workload using baselines, traces, parallel strategy modeling, and prioritized optimization plans."
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+# Optimization Playbook
+
+Use this reference when turning trace evidence into prioritized vLLM Omni optimizations.
+
+## Parallel Strategy
+
+Start from workload shape:
+
+- Long video tokens, high resolution, many frames: self-attention and FFN dominate. USP/SP is usually valuable.
+- CFG enabled with positive and negative prompts: transformer forward count doubles. CFG parallel may beat USP on small/moderate sequence lengths.
+- Cross-attention: skip SP/USP when condition tokens are much smaller than latent tokens; extra all-to-all can exceed compute saved.
+- HSDP/FSDP: use to fit memory first. If memory allows, compare without HSDP because all-gathers and lazy init add overhead.
+- VAE parallel: useful when encode/decode is material. Check gather/merge/broadcast and whether every rank needs final decoded output.
+
+Candidate matrices:
+
+- 2 cards: `USP=2`, `CFG=2`, HSDP on/off, VAE PP on/off.
+- 4 cards: `USP=4`, `CFG=2 x USP=2`, `USP=2 x HSDP`, VAE PP on/off.
+- 8 cards: add pipeline/stage parallel only after measuring orchestration and inter-stage transfer overhead.
+
+## Host And Free Bubble Analysis
+
+Look for device intervals where no kernel, memcpy, or memset is active.
+
+Common causes:
+
+- First request FSDP/HSDP lazy init.
+- Python preprocessing: image load, resize, `to_tensor`, tokenizer, request marshaling.
+- `torch.cuda.empty_cache()` or explicit synchronizations.
+- Scheduler small linear algebra such as tiny `torch.linalg.solve`.
+- VAE tile split/merge Python loops.
+- Profiler overhead such as CUPTI command buffer flush/full.
+
+Also inspect trace-external time:
+
+- API request parsing and multipart upload.
+- Engine/orchestrator dispatch.
+- Worker RPC and queue wait.
+- Output serialization, video write, base64, HTTP response.
+
+## Operator Optimization Candidates
+
+Evaluate necessity before implementation:
+
+- **FA to LA / LA for head:** high potential only if attention is the main CUDA hotspot and target shapes fit LA well.
+- **Cross-attention BSND/no transpose:** do only if transpose/copy around cross-attn is measurable.
+- **AdaLayerNorm fusion:** fuse norm, scale/shift, gate, residual, and dtype conversion if repeated elementwise kernels are significant.
+- **RMSNorm fusion:** useful for Q/K norms and VAE norms when small-kernel launch count is high.
+- **FP32 LayerNorm to bf16:** quality-sensitive; run visual regression.
+- **LA preprocess:** integrate only if preprocess overhead is cached or amortized.
+- **RoPE move/cache/fuse:** useful when RoPE small kernels are visible around every self-attn block.
+- **VAE RMSNorm replacement:** only after VAE internal trace shows norm as a real component of decode/encode.
+- **Scheduler fusion/cache:** cache coefficient solves and fuse CFG combine with scheduler arithmetic when possible.
+
+Before writing a custom kernel, check:
+
+- Local vLLM Omni implementations.
+- Upstream vLLM kernels and attention backends.
+- SGLang, FlashInfer, FlashAttention, and Triton examples.
+- Shape constraints and layout expectations.
+
+## Quantization And Sparsity
+
+Treat these as high-risk optimizations:
+
+- Rainfusion/sparse diffusion can be high reward but needs model-specific quality validation.
+- VAE decode quantization can reduce decode time but usually has smaller end-to-end upside than transformer attention/FFN work.
+- FP8 or approximate kernels require seed-stable visual regression, temporal flicker checks, and prompt diversity.
+
+## Output Format For Recommendations
+
+Return a table with:
+
+- Priority: P0/P1/P2.
+- Optimization.
+- Evidence from trace or code.
+- Expected benefit.
+- Risk/quality impact.
+- Implementation path.
+- Validation command or A/B test.
+
+State clearly when a recommendation is a hypothesis requiring new trace with shapes.
@@ -0,0 +1,144 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Summarize torch profiler Chrome traces for vLLM Omni diffusion optimization."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import collections
+import gzip
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any
+
+GPU_CATS = {"kernel", "gpu_memcpy", "gpu_memset"}
+CPU_CATS = {"python_function", "user_annotation", "cpu_op", "cuda_runtime", "cuda_driver"}
+
+
+def open_trace(path: Path):
+    if path.suffix == ".gz":
+        return gzip.open(path, "rt")
+    return path.open("rt")
+
+
+def event_name(event: dict[str, Any]) -> str:
+    return str(event.get("name", ""))
+
+
+def summarize_trace(path: Path, min_gap_us: float, topn: int) -> None:
+    with open_trace(path) as f:
+        data = json.load(f)
+
+    events = data if isinstance(data, list) else data.get("traceEvents", [])
+    gpu: list[tuple[float, float, float, str, str, Any, Any]] = []
+    cpu: list[tuple[float, float, float, str, str, Any, Any]] = []
+    by_gpu_name: dict[str, list[float]] = collections.defaultdict(lambda: [0, 0.0, 0.0])
+    by_name: dict[str, list[float]] = collections.defaultdict(lambda: [0, 0.0, 0.0])
+    nccl: dict[tuple[str, str], list[float]] = collections.defaultdict(lambda: [0, 0.0, 0.0])
+
+    for event in events:
+        dur = event.get("dur")
+        ts = event.get("ts")
+        if dur is None or ts is None or dur <= 0:
+            continue
+        cat = str(event.get("cat", ""))
+        name = event_name(event)
+        row = (float(ts), float(ts + dur), float(dur), name, cat, event.get("pid"), event.get("tid"))
+        stat = by_name[name]
+        stat[0] += 1
+        stat[1] += dur
+        stat[2] = max(stat[2], dur)
+        if cat in GPU_CATS:
+            gpu.append(row)
+            gstat = by_gpu_name[name]
+            gstat[0] += 1
+            gstat[1] += dur
+            gstat[2] = max(gstat[2], dur)
+        elif cat in CPU_CATS:
+            cpu.append(row)
+        if "nccl" in name.lower():
+            nstat = nccl[(cat, name)]
+            nstat[0] += 1
+            nstat[1] += dur
+            nstat[2] = max(nstat[2], dur)
+
+    print(f"\n== {path}")
+    print(f"events={len(events)} gpu_events={len(gpu)} cpu_events={len(cpu)}")
+    if not gpu:
+        print("No GPU events found.")
+        return
+
+    gpu.sort()
+    merged: list[list[Any]] = []
+    for start, end, dur, name, cat, pid, tid in gpu:
+        if not merged or start > merged[-1][1]:
+            merged.append([start, end, [(start, end, dur, name, cat, pid, tid)]])
+        else:
+            merged[-1][1] = max(merged[-1][1], end)
+            merged[-1][2].append((start, end, dur, name, cat, pid, tid))
+
+    span = max(end for _, end, *_ in gpu) - min(start for start, *_ in gpu)
+    busy = sum(end - start for start, end, _ in merged)
+    idle = span - busy
+    print(
+        f"gpu_span_s={span / 1e6:.3f} "
+        f"busy_union_s={busy / 1e6:.3f} "
+        f"idle_union_s={idle / 1e6:.3f} "
+        f"idle_pct={idle / span * 100:.2f}"
+    )
+
+    interesting_cpu = [
+        row
+        for row in cpu
+        if row[2] >= 1000
+        and (
+            row[4] in {"python_function", "user_annotation"}
+            or "cudaStreamSynchronize" in row[3]
+            or "cudaDeviceSynchronize" in row[3]
+            or "cudaLaunch" in row[3]
+            or "cudaMemcpy" in row[3]
+        )
+    ]
+
+    gaps = []
+    for idx in range(1, len(merged)):
+        gap_start = merged[idx - 1][1]
+        gap_end = merged[idx][0]
+        gap_dur = gap_end - gap_start
+        if gap_dur >= min_gap_us:
+            prev_event = max(merged[idx - 1][2], key=lambda x: x[1])
+            next_event = min(merged[idx][2], key=lambda x: x[0])
+            mid = (gap_start + gap_end) / 2
+            containers = [row for row in interesting_cpu if row[0] <= mid <= row[1]]
+            containers = sorted(containers, key=lambda x: x[2])[:8]
+            gaps.append((gap_dur, gap_start, gap_end, prev_event, next_event, containers))
+
+    print(f"gaps_ge_{min_gap_us / 1000:.3f}ms count={len(gaps)} sum_s={sum(g[0] for g in gaps) / 1e6:.3f}")
+    for gap_dur, gap_start, gap_end, prev_event, next_event, containers in sorted(gaps, reverse=True)[:topn]:
+        print(f"\nGAP {gap_dur / 1000:.3f} ms ts={gap_start:.0f}->{gap_end:.0f}")
+        print(f"  prev {prev_event[4]} {prev_event[2] / 1000:.3f} ms {prev_event[3][:160]}")
+        print(f"  next {next_event[4]} {next_event[2] / 1000:.3f} ms {next_event[3][:160]}")
+        for row in containers:
+            print(f"  in   {row[4]} {row[2] / 1000:.3f} ms {row[3][:180]}")
+
+    print("\nTop GPU/operator events by total duration:")
+    for name, (count, total, max_dur) in sorted(by_gpu_name.items(), key=lambda kv: kv[1][1], reverse=True)[:topn]:
+        print(f"  {int(count):8d} total={total / 1e6:9.3f}s max={max_dur / 1000:9.3f}ms {name[:180]}")
+
+    print("\nTop NCCL-like events by category:")
+    for (cat, name), (count, total, max_dur) in sorted(nccl.items(), key=lambda kv: kv[1][1], reverse=True)[:topn]:
+        print(f"  {int(count):8d} total={total / 1e6:9.3f}s max={max_dur / 1000:9.3f}ms cat={cat} {name[:160]}")
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
+    parser.add_argument("traces", nargs="+", type=Path, help="trace.json or trace.json.gz files")
+    parser.add_argument("--min-gap-ms", type=float, default=5.0, help="minimum GPU idle gap to print")
+    parser.add_argument("--topn", type=int, default=20, help="number of gaps/hotspots to print")
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    for trace in args.traces:
+        summarize_trace(trace, args.min_gap_ms * 1000.0, args.topn)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+---
+name: precheck-pr
+description: Self-check your branch before creating a PR — catch dead code, verify accuracy/perf claims, validate PR title format, and confirm merge readiness. Use when the user says "precheck", "self review", "pre-submit check", or "check my PR before I open it." Never posts to GitHub.
+---
+
+# PR Pre-Check
+
+Self-review your branch before creating a PR against `vllm-project/vllm-omni`. Two modes: **quick** catches showstoppers, **full** does a thorough maintainer-grade review. Never posts to GitHub; the report is for the contributor's terminal only.
+
+## Mode Selection
+
+| Mode | When | Time |
+|------|------|------|
+| **Quick** | About to push, final sanity check | ~3 min |
+| **Full** | Ready for review, want maintainer-level scan | ~10 min |
+
+Default to quick if unsure. Run full before marking a PR "ready for review."
+
+## Workflow
+
+### Step 1: Detect Base Branch
+
+```bash
+BASE_SHA=$(git merge-base HEAD origin/main 2>/dev/null \
+         || git merge-base HEAD main 2>/dev/null \
+         || echo origin/main)
+echo "diffing against ${BASE_SHA}"
+git diff --name-only ${BASE_SHA}...HEAD
+```
+
+### Step 2: Validate PR Title
+
+Check the most recent commit message (or branch name if no commit yet) against the project convention. Valid prefixes:
+
+| Prefix | Applies to |
+|--------|-----------|
+| `[Bugfix]` | Bug fixes |
+| `[CI/Build]` | Build or CI improvements |
+| `[Doc]` | Documentation changes |
+| `[Model]` | New/improved models (include model name) |
+| `[Frontend]` | Frontend changes (API server, OmniLLM class, etc.) |
+| `[Kernel]` | CUDA/kernel changes |
+| `[Core]` | Core logic changes (OmniProcessor, OmniARScheduler, etc.) |
+| `[Hardware][Vendor]` | Hardware-specific (e.g., `[Hardware][Ascend]`) |
+| `[Misc]` | Other changes (use sparingly) |
+
+✗ if: missing prefix, wrong case (`[bugfix]`), or WIP/Draft in title.
+⚠ if: `[Model]` prefix without the model identifier (e.g., `[Model] Add new model` — should be `[Model] Add <ModelName> ...`).
+
+### Step 3: Categorize the PR
+
+| Diff contains | PR type |
+|---------------|---------|
+| New files under `vllm_omni/model_executor/models/<name>/` | **New Model** |
+| Changes to `vllm_omni/diffusion/` | **Diffusion Model** |
+| `[Bugfix]` prefix or single-file fix | **Bug Fix** |
+| Perf/benchmark/throughput claims in commit msg or diff | **Performance** |
+| Everything else | **General** |
+
+If multiple rows apply (e.g., a diffusion model is also a new model), union the checklists.
+
+### Step 4: Run Checklist
+
+Ask: "Quick mode or full mode?" Then walk the checklist for the detected PR type from [references/checklists.md](references/checklists.md). Each item produces ✓, ✗, or ⚠.
+
+**Also run the Code-Quality sweep on every PR**, regardless of type or mode: the five diff-scoped checks in [references/code-quality.md](references/code-quality.md) — kwargs fragility, broad-except swallow, `Any`/wrong type hints, hot-path `.clone()`/`deepcopy`, and event-loop blocking — plus the advisory conventions (log level, structured logging, synchronization, cleanup, dependencies, naming) in [checklists.md](references/checklists.md). These count only lines the PR *adds* — the pre-existing backlog across the repo is out of scope.
+
+### Step 5: Print Report
+
+```
+Pre-check report for <branch>
+
+  Mode: quick | full
+  Type: <new-model | diffusion-model | bug-fix | perf | general>
+
+  Dimension          Result
+  ─────────────────  ──────
+  PR title format    ✓
+  Code quality       ⚠ 1 broad except, 2 Any hints
+  PR desc integrity  ✓
+  Registry/config    ✓
+  Dead code          ⚠ 2 warnings
+  Accuracy           ✓
+  Benchmark          ✗ missing software versions
+
+  Verdict: 1 blocking | 2 warnings | recommend fixing ✗ before PR
+```
+
+**Severity:**
+
+| Mark | Meaning |
+|------|---------|
+| ✗ | Blocking — fix before opening PR |
+| ⚠ | Warning — consider fixing |
+| ✓ | Pass |
+| — | Skipped (not applicable) |
+
+### Stop Here
+
+Do not post comments, open PRs, or modify files. The report is for the contributor's terminal only.
@@ -0,0 +1,160 @@
+# Pre-Check Checklists
+
+Each item is a concrete check to run against the diff. ✗ = fix before PR. ⚠ = consider fixing.
+
+---
+
+## All PRs: Title Format (check first)
+
+PR title must follow the project convention documented in `docs/contributing/README.md`:
+
+| Prefix | Applies to |
+|--------|-----------|
+| `[Bugfix]` | Bug fixes |
+| `[CI/Build]` | Build or CI improvements |
+| `[Doc]` | Documentation changes |
+| `[Model]` | New/improved models (include model name) |
+| `[Frontend]` | Frontend changes (API server, OmniLLM class, etc.) |
+| `[Kernel]` | CUDA/kernel changes |
+| `[Core]` | Core logic changes (OmniProcessor, OmniARScheduler, etc.) |
+| `[Hardware][Vendor]` | Hardware-specific (e.g., `[Hardware][Ascend]`) |
+| `[Misc]` | Other changes (use sparingly) |
+
+**Examples:**
+```
+✓ [Model] Add MiniCPM-o 4.5 support
+✓ [Bugfix] Fix Ovis image text encoder dtype
+✓ [Core] Qwen3-Omni performance optimization
+✓ [Hardware][Ascend] Fix VoxCPM2 on Ascend
+✗ Fix Ovis image text encoder dtype              ← missing prefix
+✗ [bugfix] Fix Ovis image text encoder           ← wrong case
+✗ [WIP] Add model                                ← WIP in title
+```
+
+- [ ] **Title has valid prefix** — ✗ if missing prefix, wrong case, or WIP/Draft in title. For `[Model]` PRs, the title MUST also include the model identifier (e.g., `[Model] Add <ModelName> ...`). ⚠ if missing the model name.
+
+---
+
+## All PRs: Code Quality (run on every PR, quick & full)
+
+Diff-scoped sweep for five fragility patterns that are pervasive in the existing codebase — **only lines the PR adds count**, not the pre-existing backlog. Detection commands, codebase examples, and full severity rules live in [code-quality.md](code-quality.md).
+
+- [ ] **No new `**kwargs` string-lookup plumbing:** the diff adds no `**kwargs` + `kwargs["..."]` / `kwargs.get("...")` / `"..." in kwargs`. ⚠ any new instance; ✗ if a new string key is duplicated across ≥2 files without a shared constant, or unknown keys are silently dropped on a fail-fast path.
+- [ ] **No new broad exception swallow:** the diff adds no `except Exception:` / bare `except:`. ⚠ any new instance; ✗ for `except: pass` / `except Exception: return None` / `continue` on a fail-fast path (init, config validation, weight loading, request handling).
+- [ ] **No new `Any` / wrong type hints:** the diff adds no `: Any` / `-> Any` / untyped production signature, and no new `SimpleNamespace` in tests faking an object that already has a real typed stub. ⚠ any new instance; ✗ for a *wrong* (actively misleading) annotation or a `SimpleNamespace` test fake of a typed object.
+- [ ] **No new hot-path copy:** the diff adds no `.clone()` / `.copy_()` / `copy.deepcopy(...)` inside a per-step loop or per-request path. ⚠ any new instance; ✗ for `.clone()` of a full latent/activations tensor inside an AR or diffusion step loop without a comment, or `deepcopy` of a scheduler / sampling-config on the request path.
+- [ ] **No new event-loop blocking:** the diff adds no `time.sleep` / blocking HTTP (`requests`, `urllib`) / `await` inside a held lock in `async def` code. ⚠ any new instance; ✗ for blocking sleep or HTTP on the serving path (`engine/`, `entrypoints/`, async `connectors/`), or a lock held across an `await`. Blocking inside a dedicated worker thread is fine.
+
+Roll the ⚠/✗ counts into the report as a single **Code quality** dimension row.
+
+### Conventions (eyeball — no grep)
+
+Judgment calls that don't grep cleanly — apply them while reading the diff, not as a mechanical check:
+
+- **Right log level** — `info` is for end-user-visible events; routine internal events are `debug`; hot paths are `trace` or removed. Logging is not free.
+- **Structured fields over f-strings** — pass dynamic values as structured fields (`logger.info("msg", extra={...})`), not interpolated strings, so they stay greppable and parseable.
+- **No reflexive synchronization** — don't add `threading.Lock` / `asyncio.Lock` / `deepcopy` / re-wrap shared state unless there is real concurrent mutation; the GIL covers most Python code. Owners decide their own synchronization — don't pre-lock in a constructor.
+- **Context managers for cleanup** — use `with` / `contextlib` for files, locks, CUDA streams, and profilers; not raw `open()` + manual `.close()` or ad-hoc `finally`.
+- **No new dependencies without justification** — prefer the stdlib and existing vllm-omni deps; a new top-level dep needs a reason (check `pyproject.toml` / `requirements*.txt`).
+- **Naming / interface discipline** — don't rename or change interfaces just for taste in this PR, but do fix names that actively mislead (e.g. `serve` implying a long-running server, `Instance` where multiple instance kinds coexist).
+
+---
+
+## Bug Fix PRs
+
+### Quick
+
+- [ ] **PR body has 4 sections:** what broke (error message), repro steps, root cause, fix description
+- [ ] **Fix is minimal:** diff touches only files directly related to the bug. No unrelated refactors or style changes.
+- [ ] **Repro is runnable:** the PR body includes a copy-paste command that reproduces the bug
+- [ ] **Branch is rebased:** `git merge-base HEAD origin/main` is recent, no merge conflicts
+
+### Full (adds)
+
+- [ ] **Regression test exists:** `git diff --name-only` includes at least one `tests/` file
+- [ ] **Regression test reproduces the original error:** the test would fail on main, pass on this branch
+- [ ] **Fix matches root cause exactly:** no "fix the symptom + something else" — if the root cause is dtype, the fix is dtype, not dtype + reformatting
+- [ ] **No silent failure risk:** no bare `except: pass`, no `try: ... except: return None`, no empty fallback added. See the broad-except pattern in [code-quality.md](code-quality.md#2-broad-exception-swallow) for the full severity rule (⚠ any new broad catch; ✗ for a swallow on a fail-fast path).
+- [ ] **Upstream pattern match:** the fix follows the same pattern as existing code for similar cases (grep for analogous `from_pretrained` calls, etc.)
+- [ ] **Environment documented:** torch/transformers/vllm versions listed if the bug is version-dependent
+
+---
+
+## Performance PRs
+
+### Quick
+
+- [ ] **Before/after numbers in PR body:** at minimum, one metric (RTF, RPS, latency, VRAM) with main vs PR values
+- [ ] **Hardware specified:** GPU model, count, VRAM. "L4" or "H20" is sufficient. "tested on GPU" is not.
+- [ ] **Concurrency scaling:** if the optimization claims better throughput, numbers at 2+ concurrency levels
+- [ ] **No unexplained regressions:** if any metric goes down at any concurrency level, explain why
+- [ ] **Branch is rebased:** `git merge-base HEAD origin/main` is recent, no merge conflicts
+
+### Full (adds)
+
+- [ ] **Software versions:** torch, CUDA, vllm, vllm-omni versions in PR body
+- [ ] **Warmup stated:** "1 warmup + 3 measured" or equivalent
+- [ ] **Stddev or range:** not just a single best run. "average of 2 rounds" is minimum.
+- [ ] **VRAM measured:** peak GPU memory before and after
+- [ ] **Benchmark script checked in:** under `tests/` or `examples/`, runnable by reviewer
+- [ ] **Exact command line in PR:** not pseudocode, not "run the benchmark"
+- [ ] **Pytest summary included:** `36 passed, 3 skipped, 17 warnings in 2897.66s` — proves the whole suite passes
+- [ ] **Config changes documented:** if `max_num_seqs`, `gpu_memory_utilization`, or deploy YAML changed, old and new values stated with reasoning
+
+---
+
+## New Model PRs
+
+### Quick
+
+- [ ] **PR body file list matches `git diff --name-only`:** every file path in the description exists in the diff
+- [ ] **Registry entries match claimed count:** count `_OMNI_MODELS` or `_DIFFUSION_MODELS` entries added vs claimed in body
+- [ ] **Pipeline config `custom_process_input_func` paths resolve:** each referenced module.function exists
+- [ ] **`__init__.py` exports match registry:** each registered class appears in `__init__.py` and `__all__`
+- [ ] **Shell script modes match README:** `run_curl.sh` supports every mode the README documents
+- [ ] **Branch is rebased:** `git merge-base HEAD origin/main` is recent, no merge conflicts
+
+### Full (adds)
+
+- [ ] **Dead code scan (5 patterns):**
+  1. Dead `forward()` — defined but never called through the pipeline path
+  2. Dead factory/builder functions — instantiated nowhere
+  3. Dead wrappers — thin wrappers with no callers
+  4. Dead branch guards — `if version > X` where X is always satisfied
+  5. Unused parameters — `__init__` args never accessed
+- [ ] **Copy-paste detection:** no string constant defined in 3+ files, no cross-module validation duplication, no near-identical shape coercion fns
+- [ ] **Import hygiene:** no re-export-only imports, no module-level side effects without docs, no `import os` in function body when already at top. Function-body imports are acceptable when the import is only reachable from a closure or factory return value (i.e., `import` would otherwise execute at module load even though the user may never trigger that path). Either lift to top-of-file or annotate with `# noqa: PLC0415`.
+- [ ] **Accuracy:** at least one test compares output against reference; audio = valid WAV at correct sample rate; determinism verified if seed claimed. ⚠ if missing and not explicitly deferred to a follow-up PR or RFC section; — if explicitly deferred (the deferral target SHOULD be linked in the PR body).
+- [ ] **Performance:** hardware, software versions, warmup, and metrics (RTF, VRAM, RPS, latency) stated. ⚠ if missing and not explicitly deferred; — if explicitly deferred.
+- [ ] **Benchmark settings:** model config (TP, PP, max_model_len, enforce_eager, quant), runtime config (batch, input/output spec), environment versions
+- [ ] **Benchmark script checked in + exact command line + pytest summary**
+
+---
+
+## Diffusion Model PRs
+
+Diffusion models live under `vllm_omni/diffusion/`. In addition to the New Model checklist above, verify:
+
+- [ ] **Transformer adapter follows contract:** inherits from `nn.Module`, implements `load_weights()`, uses `vllm_omni.diffusion.attention.layer.Attention`
+- [ ] **Pipeline has both offline and online paths:** `forward()` for batch generation, streaming path for online serving
+- [ ] **Cache-DiT integration:** at least one acceleration (TeaCache, FBCache, etc.) is wired up. ✗ for new **top-level** pipelines. For **subclass** pipelines that inherit `__call__` from a parent where Cache-DiT is already absent, downgrade to ⚠ and recommend filing a follow-up issue against the parent pipeline family.
+- [ ] **Parallelism config:** TP/SP/USP/CFG-Parallel options exposed in pipeline config
+- [ ] **Docs table updated:** model added to `docs/models/supported_models.md` with correct metadata
+- [ ] **E2E test exists:** at least one test exercises the full generate path
+
+---
+
+## General PRs
+
+### Quick
+
+- [ ] **PR body matches diff:** description doesn't claim changes not in the diff
+- [ ] **Branch is rebased:** `git merge-base HEAD origin/main` is recent, no merge conflicts
+- [ ] **CI gates passing:** DCO, pre-commit, build — check `gh pr view --json statusCheckRollup` if a PR already exists
+
+### Full (adds)
+
+- [ ] **No new dead code in changed files:** scan for unreachable paths, unused imports
+- [ ] **Test coverage:** if core code changed (`engine/`, `stages/`, `connectors/`), tests are added or existing tests cover the path
+- [ ] **Import hygiene:** no redundant imports added
+- [ ] **No unrelated changes:** diff scope matches PR description
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+# Code-Quality Patterns
+
+Five fragility patterns to sweep on **every** PR, in both quick and full mode. These are pervasive in the existing codebase (hundreds of pre-existing sites) — so the checks are **diff-scoped**: only lines the PR *adds* count. Whole-repo greps light up every PR with the backlog and are useless.
+
+All commands assume:
+```bash
+BASE="$(git merge-base HEAD origin/main)"
+```
+
+**Severity:** ⚠ for any *new* instance introduced by the diff; ✗ for the acute sub-cases defined per pattern. Acute ✗ findings belong in the report's blocking count.
+
+---
+
+## 1. `**kwargs` string-lookup passthrough
+
+### Anti-pattern
+```python
+def forward(self, **kwargs):
+    # BLOCKER-prone: raw dict + string keys duplicated across files
+    if "runtime_additional_information" in kwargs and \
+       "model_intermediate_buffer" not in kwargs:
+        ...
+```
+Real instances of this exact guard are copy-pasted across `cosyvoice3.py`, `indextts2_talker.py` (×2), `indextts2_s2mel_decoder.py`, `qwen3_tts_talker.py`, `qwen3_omni.py`. A typo in any string key silently no-ops; there is no type check, no IDE completion, and unknown keys are silently dropped.
+
+### Why dangerous
+Raw `dict` + `**kwargs` + lists of param-name strings is **fragile by construction**: the compiler can't see a missing or misspelled key, so failures are silent. Each duplicated copy is a new place for the strings to drift.
+
+### Severity
+- ⚠ any *new* `**kwargs` signature whose body does `kwargs["..."]` / `kwargs.get("...")` / `"..." in kwargs`.
+- ✗ when the diff introduces a **new** string key that is duplicated across ≥2 files without a shared module constant, or when `**kwargs` plumbing **silently drops unknown keys** on a fail-fast path (init, config validation, weight loading).
+
+### Detect (diff-scoped)
+```bash
+git diff ${BASE}...HEAD -- "*.py" | grep "^+[^+]" \
+  | grep -E '\*\*kwargs|kwargs(\.get|\[)|"[a-z_]+"\s+in\s+kwargs'
+```
+
+### Fix
+Prefer explicit typed params. The repo already has the right primitive: `msgspec.Struct` with `forbid_unknown_fields=True` rejects unknown keys instead of silently dropping them — see `_StructBase` in `vllm_omni/data_entry_keys.py:105` and `MoriPullRequest` in `vllm_omni/distributed/omni_connectors/connectors/mori_transfer_engine_connector.py:81`. A `@dataclass` or `TypedDict` works too.
+
+If `**kwargs` is unavoidable (vLLM base-class compat), centralize the key strings as module-level constants behind **one** typed accessor, instead of repeating the literal across files.
+
+---
+
+## 2. Broad exception swallow
+
+### Anti-pattern
+```python
+# BLOCKER-prone: catches everything, returns None on any failure
+try:
+    evt = build_event(...)
+    return evt
+except Exception:
+    return None
+```
+Real clusters: `vllm_omni/metrics/stats.py:240,274,367,450` and `vllm_omni/metrics/{modality,utils}.py` — all `except Exception: return None`.
+
+### Why dangerous
+A generic `except Exception:` is **too flexible**. If we catch an exception type we don't expect, it is almost always an unhandled edge case that needs to be *fixed* — not swallowed into `None`/`pass`/`continue`. Broad catches turn fixable bugs into silent wrong behavior and make debugging impossible.
+
+The repo backs this with ruff `BLE001` (broad-exception catch); it is currently suppressed via `# noqa: BLE001` in `vllm_omni/patch.py:413`. Prefer fixing over suppressing.
+
+### Severity
+- ⚠ any *new* `except Exception:` / `except BaseException:` / bare `except:`.
+- ✗ for `except:` / `except Exception: pass|return None|continue` on a **fail-fast path** (init, config validation, weight loading, request handling, connector setup). This extends the Bug-Fix "No silent failure risk" ✗ in [checklists.md](checklists.md).
+
+### Detect (diff-scoped)
+```bash
+# Any new broad catch (⚠ baseline):
+git diff ${BASE}...HEAD -- "*.py" | grep "^+[^+]" \
+  | grep -E 'except\s*(Exception|BaseException)?\s*:'
+# Note: this matches only the immediate-colon swallow forms (`except :`,
+# `except Exception:`) — it deliberately excludes specific catches like
+# `except ValueError:` and the `except Exception as e:` variant. Eyeball
+# the latter; `as e` usually means it is logged, but still verify.
+```
+
+### Fix
+Catch the **specific** types you actually expect (`ValueError`, `KeyError`, `AttributeError`, `OSError`, `torch.cuda.OutOfMemoryError`, `msgspec.ValidationError`, …). At a genuine top-level / best-effort boundary (metrics, signal handlers), at minimum **log** the exception; never swallow into a bare `pass`/`return None` on a path that should fail loudly.
+
+---
+
+## 3. `Any` / wrong type annotations
+
+### Anti-pattern
+```python
+# ⚠ Any param + Any return — no contract, no narrowing
+def _extract_mm_output(engine_outputs: Any) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    ...
+```
+
+### Why dangerous (root cause)
+`Any` disables the type checker for that position, so typos and wrong shapes pass silently. The repo has 636 `: Any` params, 244 `-> Any` returns, and **1,173 `SimpleNamespace` in `tests/`**. The `Any` leak is largely test-driven: vibe-coded unit tests fake objects with `SimpleNamespace`, which forces the production code consuming them to be typed `Any`, and the `Any` then propagates outward into public signatures.
+
+### Severity
+- ⚠ any *new* `: Any` / `-> Any` / fully-untyped signature in production code.
+- ✗ for a **wrong** annotation (actively misleading — e.g. `-> bool` that returns `Optional[bool]`), or a *new* `SimpleNamespace` in a test that mimics an object which already has a real typed stub / `@dataclass` / `TypedDict` / `Protocol`.
+
+### Detect (diff-scoped)
+```bash
+# Any leaking into new signatures:
+git diff ${BASE}...HEAD -- "*.py" | grep "^+[^+]" \
+  | grep -E ':\s*Any\b|->\s*Any\b'
+# SimpleNamespace newly added in tests (the Any-leak source):
+git diff ${BASE}...HEAD -- "tests/" | grep "^+[^+]" | grep "SimpleNamespace"
+```
+
+### Fix
+Replace `Any` with the concrete type, a `Protocol`, or a `Union`. If a type is genuinely dynamic, prefer `object` + `isinstance` narrowing over `Any` — `object` keeps the checker engaged. In tests, replace `SimpleNamespace` with the real class, a small `@dataclass`/`TypedDict`, or a `Protocol` + fake, so the system under test stays fully typed.
+
+---
+
+## 4. Unnecessary copy — `.clone()` / `copy.deepcopy` in hot paths
+
+### Anti-pattern
+```python
+# Per-step in a diffusion/AR loop: clones the full latent every iteration
+for t in timesteps:
+    trajectory_latents.append(x_t.clone())   # O(N) GPU alloc + memcpy each step
+```
+Real clusters: `vllm_omni/diffusion/models/bagel/bagel_transformer.py` calls `x_t.clone()` ~9× across a trajectory loop (lines 1820–2186); the cache hooks `vllm_omni/diffusion/cache/teacache/hook.py:155` and `magcache/hook.py:182` clone `hidden_states` per step. Separately, `copy.deepcopy(self.scheduler)` / `copy.deepcopy(req.sampling_params)` is copy-pasted across diffusion pipelines — `pipeline_qwen_image.py:786`, `pipeline_hunyuan_image3.py:1904`, `pipeline_ltx2*.py` (×3), `pipeline_dreamzero.py:1085`, `diffusion_model_runner.py:398` — a full object-graph deepcopy on the request path. (Contrast `dreamzero/causal_wan_model.py:203`, which carries a `# No .clone() needed.` comment — the aware pattern.)
+
+### Why dangerous
+A `.clone()` of a GPU tensor or a `copy.deepcopy` of a config object inside a per-step / per-request path is a hidden allocator: it reads as one Python line but triggers a GPU memcpy or a deep object-graph walk every iteration. Across 50 diffusion steps or hundreds of AR steps it dominates latency and VRAM bandwidth. `deepcopy` additionally ignores any custom device / `__copy__` logic and can drag tensors through CPU.
+
+### Severity
+- ⚠ any *new* `.clone()` / `.copy_()` / `copy.deepcopy(...)` inside a per-step loop or per-request path.
+- ✗ for `.clone()` of a full latent/activations tensor inside an AR or diffusion step loop without an explanatory comment, or `copy.deepcopy` of a scheduler / sampling-config on the request hot path.
+
+### Detect (diff-scoped)
+```bash
+git diff ${BASE}...HEAD -- "*.py" | grep "^+[^+]" \
+  | grep -E '\.clone\(\)|\.copy_\(|copy\.deepcopy|deepcopy\('
+```
+
+### Fix
+Tensors: prefer a view (`x[..., :k]`, `torch.narrow`, `as_strided`) or write into a pre-allocated buffer with `dst.copy_(src)` instead of `.clone()`; if the caller no longer needs the original, `move`/`del` it rather than copy. Schedulers / configs: build a fresh lightweight instance per request, or split out the mutable per-request bits so the shared immutable part isn't deepcopied. If a copy is genuinely required (e.g. the source is mutated in place later), keep it and add a one-line comment saying why.
+
+---
+
+## 5. Blocking the asyncio event loop / lock held across `await`
+
+### Anti-pattern
+```python
+# BLOCKER-prone: blocking sleep / blocking HTTP / lock held across an await,
+# all inside an async (event-loop) function
+async def handle(self, req):
+    with self._lock:
+        resp = await self._client.call(req)   # lock held across await -> serializes all requests
+    time.sleep(0.1)                           # stalls the single loop for every concurrent request
+```
+
+### Why dangerous
+vLLM-Omni serves over a single asyncio event loop. Any synchronous blocking work on an `async def` path — `time.sleep`, blocking HTTP (`requests`/`urllib`), heavy CPU work, or a lock held across an `await` — stalls the loop for *every* concurrent request, not just the blocking one. A lock held across `await` silently serializes the whole pipeline; blocking I/O tanks throughput and inflates tail latency.
+
+### Severity
+- ⚠ any *new* `time.sleep(`, blocking HTTP call (`requests.get/post`, `urllib.request`, `urlopen`), or `await` inside a `with Lock` / `async with` critical section, in `async def` code.
+- ✗ for `time.sleep` or blocking HTTP on the serving path (`engine/`, `entrypoints/`, async `connectors/`), or a lock acquired and held across an `await` on the request path.
+
+### Detect (diff-scoped)
+```bash
+# New blocking primitives introduced by the diff — then eyeball whether each
+# sits in an async function on the loop vs a dedicated worker thread:
+git diff ${BASE}...HEAD -- "*.py" | grep "^+[^+]" \
+  | grep -E 'time\.sleep|requests\.(get|post|put|delete)|urllib\.request|urlopen'
+# Lock acquired with an await potentially inside the critical section (manual eyeball):
+git diff ${BASE}...HEAD -- "*.py" | grep "^+[^+]" | grep -E 'async with|\.acquire\(\)'
+```
+Note: blocking inside a **dedicated worker thread is correct** — the repo already does this (`diffusion/model_loader/hub_prefetch.py`, `distributed/omni_connectors/kv_transfer_manager.py`, the `mooncake`/`mori` connectors poll with `time.sleep` on their own threads). The check targets the *event-loop* path only.
+
+### Fix
+Move blocking work off the loop with `asyncio.to_thread(...)` / `run_in_executor`, or use a native async client (`httpx.AsyncClient` / `aiohttp`). Never `await` while holding a lock — drop the lock before the `await` and re-acquire after, or restructure so the critical section contains no `await`.
+
+---
+
+## Running the sweep
+
+Run all five detections against `${BASE}...HEAD`, then for each hit decide ⚠ vs ✗ using the severity rules above. Roll the results into the report as a single **Code quality** dimension row (count of ⚠ and ✗), alongside the type-specific checklist from [checklists.md](checklists.md).
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+---
+name: quantization
+description: Work on vLLM-Omni quantization for diffusion, autoregressive, omni, or multi-stage models. Use when choosing or adding methods such as fp8, int8, gguf, mxfp8, mxfp4, mxfp4_dualscale, ModelOpt, AutoRound, INC, msModelSlim, awq, or gptq; debugging quantized loading; or validating memory, speed, and output quality.
+---
+
+# vLLM-Omni Quantization
+
+Use this skill for quantization work in `vllm-omni`. Start from the local
+code and docs, then pick the smallest validated path for the model, method,
+hardware, and quality target.
+
+## First Checks
+
+Before changing code or recommending a command, identify:
+
+- Model and task: AR text, omni/TTS, text-to-image, text-to-video, or multi-stage diffusion.
+- Hardware backend: CUDA generation, Ascend NPU, Intel XPU, or another platform.
+- Quantization mode: online from BF16/FP16 weights, pre-quantized checkpoint, runtime KV/FA quantization, or per-component routing.
+- Scope: transformer/DiT, thinker language model, text encoder, VAE, audio/vision encoder, talker, or a specific stage.
+- Validation target: memory reduction, latency/throughput, output quality, or all three.
+
+Do not assume a method is supported just because the CLI accepts the string.
+Check `docs/user_guide/quantization/` and the closest implementation first.
+
+## Quick Decision
+
+| Task | Start With |
+|------|------------|
+| Choose a method or command | `references/methods.md` and `references/modality-compat.md` |
+| Use `build_quant_config()` or per-component routing | `references/methods.md` |
+| Work on diffusion quantization | `references/diffusion.md` |
+| Add quantization to a new model | `references/adding-models.md` |
+| Convert or load ModelOpt FP8 checkpoints | `references/modelopt-fp8.md` |
+| Debug ModelOpt, GGUF, AutoRound, MXFP, or serialized Int8 loading | `references/diffusion.md` and method docs under `docs/user_guide/quantization/` |
+
+## Current Runtime Shape
+
+The unified entrypoint is:
+
+```python
+from vllm_omni.quantization import build_quant_config
+```
+
+It supports method strings, flat method dictionaries, per-component
+dictionaries, existing `QuantizationConfig` objects, and `None`. The factory
+delegates generic methods to upstream `vllm` and keeps vLLM-Omni overrides for
+diffusion or omni-specific routing:
+
+- `gguf`
+- `int8`
+- `mxfp8`
+- `mxfp4`
+- `mxfp4_dualscale`
+- `inc`, `auto-round`, `auto_round`
+- ModelOpt auto-detected configs: `modelopt`, `modelopt_fp4`, `modelopt_mixed`
+
+Use `ComponentQuantizationConfig` when only one stage or component should be
+quantized. Pre-quantized ModelOpt-style checkpoints should not spill into
+vision/audio encoders that have no corresponding scale tensors.
+
+## Ownership Boundary
+
+- Upstream `vllm` owns generic quantization configs, kernels, loader semantics,
+  hardware capability rules, and generic AR quantization methods.
+- `vllm-omni` owns unified config routing, diffusion-specific wrappers,
+  component scoping, GGUF or ModelOpt checkpoint adapters, model-specific
+  prefix mapping, docs, examples, and validation.
+
+If a new method needs missing generic kernels or loader behavior, fix upstream
+`vllm` first. In `vllm-omni`, add thin integration and model wiring.
+
+## Working Loop
+
+1. Read the local method doc under `docs/user_guide/quantization/`.
+2. Inspect the active factory and config class in `vllm_omni/quantization/`.
+3. Inspect the target model pipeline and transformer for stable prefixes and
+   whether every relevant vLLM linear layer receives `quant_config`.
+4. For pre-quantized checkpoints, inspect `transformer/config.json` and the
+   checkpoint tensor names before running full generation.
+5. Validate with the same prompt, seed, size, scheduler, steps, dtype, eager or
+   non-eager mode, and parallelism as the BF16 baseline.
+6. Report quality, latency, and memory separately. Do not call a method
+   supported until quality is checked.
+
+## Common Mistakes
+
+| Symptom | Likely Cause | Fix |
+|---------|--------------|-----|
+| `--quantization` has no visible effect | Wrong scope or unsupported model path | Check component routing and method docs |
+| Some layers stay BF16 unexpectedly | `quant_config` was not threaded into all vLLM linear layers | Audit transformer constructors and prefixes |
+| Quality collapses but loading succeeds | Too many sensitive layers were quantized | Add model-specific `ignored_layers` and compare to BF16 |
+| ModelOpt checkpoint loads but output is corrupted | Prefixes, packed-module mapping, scale routing, or BF16 fallback is wrong | Use `references/modelopt-fp8.md` |
+| GGUF shape or tensor mismatch | Missing architecture-specific adapter | Add explicit adapter mapping; avoid generic fallback |
+| Online and offline MXFP4 disagree | Wrong `mxfp4` vs `mxfp4_dualscale` mode | Check `docs/user_guide/quantization/mxfp4.md` |
+| Quantized path is slower than BF16 | Kernel path, compile mode, dtype, or shape mismatch | Compare eager-to-eager and non-eager-to-non-eager |
+
+## References
+
+- General methods and config routing: [references/methods.md](references/methods.md)
+- Modality and model scope: [references/modality-compat.md](references/modality-compat.md)
+- Diffusion implementation patterns: [references/diffusion.md](references/diffusion.md)
+- Adding model support: [references/adding-models.md](references/adding-models.md)
+- ModelOpt FP8 conversion and loading: [references/modelopt-fp8.md](references/modelopt-fp8.md)
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+# Adding Quantization Support to a Model
+
+Use this checklist when extending quantization to a new architecture or stage.
+
+## Classify Ownership
+
+| Case | Owner |
+|------|-------|
+| New generic AR method, kernel, or loader semantics | upstream `vllm` first |
+| Existing upstream method needs diffusion wiring | `vllm-omni` model and config integration |
+| GGUF or ModelOpt tensor mapping for a diffusion architecture | `vllm-omni` adapter |
+| NPU MXFP or msModelSlim diffusion path | `vllm-omni` platform/method wrapper and docs |
+| Multi-stage omni checkpoint quantizes only the thinker LM | `vllm-omni` component scoping |
+
+Avoid building a private quantization stack in model code.
+
+## Model Wiring Checklist
+
+1. Find the closest supported model implementation.
+2. Confirm the model uses vLLM linear layers that accept `quant_config`.
+3. Add `quant_config` to the transformer constructor.
+4. Pass stable `prefix` values through every linear layer.
+5. Handle fused modules and packed mappings explicitly.
+6. Ensure `load_weights()` and any `WeightsMapper` remap `ignored_layers` or
+   `modules_to_not_convert`.
+7. Keep tokenizer, scheduler, VAE, text encoder, audio/vision encoders, and
+   talker BF16 unless method-specific docs validate them.
+8. Add or update a method doc under `docs/user_guide/quantization/`.
+
+## Checkpoint Adapter Checklist
+
+For pre-quantized checkpoints:
+
+- Inspect `transformer/config.json` first.
+- Check `quant_method`, `method`, `producer.name`, `quant_algo`, serialized
+  flags, `ignored_layers`, and any method-specific fields.
+- Verify tensor name mapping before generation.
+- Verify packed modules such as `to_qkv`, `add_kv_proj`, and `w13`.
+- Confirm scale tensor names and shapes.
+- Allow dequantization back to BF16 for intentionally skipped target layers.
+
+## Sensitive Layer Discovery
+
+Start conservative. Quantize the backbone first and keep output-side or routing
+layers BF16 until quality is proven.
+
+Frequently sensitive areas:
+
+- attention output projections such as `to_out`
+- FFN down projections such as `w2`
+- final projections such as `proj_out`, `final_layer`, and output heads
+- modulation, timestep, position, image, or text embedders
+- refiner blocks
+- MoE routers, experts selected by routing, and layernorm-adjacent modules
+- VAE, text/vision towers, audio encoders, and codec/talker stages
+
+Do not reuse one model family's ignore list blindly.
+
+## Tests and Evidence
+
+Minimum evidence for a PR:
+
+- loader/config test or smoke command
+- fixed-seed BF16 vs quantized output comparison
+- quality metrics and saved outputs for precision-changing work
+- memory and latency comparison under identical execution mode
+- failure behavior for unsupported models or missing checkpoint fields
+
+When the PR adds a method to a support table, include the exact model,
+hardware, command, quality threshold, and artifact path used for validation.
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+# Diffusion Quantization Reference
+
+Use this file for DiT quantization, config routing, checkpoint adapters, and
+quality or loader debugging.
+
+## Supported Method Families
+
+The current local diffusion quantization families are:
+
+- CUDA/GPU online or checkpoint: `fp8`, `int8`, `gguf`, ModelOpt
+- Ascend NPU: `int8`, `mxfp8`, `mxfp4`, `mxfp4_dualscale`, msModelSlim paths
+- Intel XPU: AutoRound/INC and online MXFP8 paths where documented
+
+Always cross-check the method doc before claiming model support. The CLI
+accepting a method string is not enough.
+
+## Implementation Starting Points
+
+| Area | Files |
+|------|-------|
+| Unified factory | `vllm_omni/quantization/factory.py` |
+| Per-component routing | `vllm_omni/quantization/component_config.py` |
+| GGUF diffusion method | `vllm_omni/quantization/gguf_config.py` |
+| Int8 diffusion method | `vllm_omni/quantization/int8_config.py` |
+| MXFP8 diffusion method | `vllm_omni/quantization/mxfp8_config.py` |
+| MXFP4 and dual-scale method | `vllm_omni/quantization/mxfp4_config.py` |
+| AutoRound/INC omni extension | `vllm_omni/quantization/inc_config.py` |
+| ModelOpt checkpoint adapters | `vllm_omni/diffusion/model_loader/checkpoint_adapters/modelopt.py` |
+| FP8 scaled-mm runtime patches | `vllm_omni/patch.py` |
+| Similarity tool | `vllm_omni/quantization/tools/compare_diffusion_trajectory_similarity.py` |
+
+## Threading `quant_config`
+
+For a diffusion transformer:
+
+1. Accept `quant_config: QuantizationConfig | None` in the transformer.
+2. Pass `quant_config` and stable `prefix` values to every vLLM linear layer.
+3. Preserve packed-module mappings for fused QKV, FFN, or model-specific fused
+   projections.
+4. Call `apply_vllm_mapper()` on configs that need HF-to-vLLM name remapping.
+5. For component configs, keep prefixes specific enough to avoid quantizing VAE
+   or encoders by accident.
+
+Common skipped areas are `proj_out`, output projections, modulation layers,
+embedders, refiner blocks, MoE routers, and layernorm-adjacent paths.
+
+## Online vs Offline
+
+Online quantization:
+
+- starts from BF16/FP16 checkpoint weights
+- computes or stores quantized weights at load time
+- typically uses `--quantization <method>` or `quantization="<method>"`
+
+Offline or pre-quantized checkpoints:
+
+- include quantized weights and scales on disk
+- usually carry `quantization_config` in `transformer/config.json`
+- should auto-detect when the config is complete
+- may require model-specific adapter logic for tensor names and packed modules
+
+Do not mix online flags with incompatible offline checkpoint configs. If the
+active config and disk config differ, `resolve_quant_config_from_disk()` should
+raise or rebuild rather than silently loading corrupted weights.
+
+## GGUF Rules
+
+- Require `quantization_config.gguf_model`.
+- Use the normal base model for tokenizer, scheduler, text encoder, and VAE.
+- Add explicit architecture adapters for tensor-name mapping.
+- Use `named_parameters()` and `named_buffers()`, not `state_dict()`, to
+  discover loadable names.
+- Guard fused QKV/KV rewrites so tensors are not rewritten twice.
+- Flatten N-D activations around the GGUF matmul and restore shape.
+
+Unsupported architectures should fail clearly instead of falling back to a fake
+generic mapper.
+
+## MXFP Rules
+
+- `mxfp8` is W8A8 microscaling, currently centered on NPU and documented XPU
+  behavior.
+- `mxfp4` is online single-scale W4A4 on NPU.
+- `mxfp4_dualscale` is online/offline dual-scale W4A4 with BF16 fallback; the
+  offline path is the production path when calibrated `mul_scale` exists.
+- Offline dual-scale checkpoints must inject per-transformer `ignored_layers`
+  into config because cascade transformers can have different BF16 fallback
+  sets.
+
+Do not load an offline dual-scale checkpoint with the online single-scale path.
+
+## Common Failures
+
+| Symptom | Likely Cause | Fix |
+|---------|--------------|-----|
+| `Unknown quantization method` | Factory override or upstream registration is missing | Add the right override or upstream method |
+| Missing scale tensors | Wrong scope, wrong adapter, or BF16 layer not allowed to dequantize | Check config scope and adapter scale routing |
+| Output rank collapses from 3-D to 2-D | FP8 scaled-mm kernel ignored output shape | Check the patch in `vllm_omni/patch.py` |
+| Quality degrades silently | Sensitive layers quantized | Add `ignored_layers`; compare to BF16 |
+| Only one cascade transformer works | Disk config differs per transformer but active config is reused | Rebuild from each transformer's config |
+| Quantized path slower than BF16 | Kernel, dtype, compile, or benchmark mode mismatch | Compare eager-to-eager and non-eager-to-non-eager |
+
+## Verification
+
+For a new or changed diffusion quantization path, run:
+
+1. Config and loader smoke test.
+2. One fixed-seed generation against BF16.
+3. Numeric comparison with the similarity tool or equivalent metrics.
+4. Serving test if the path is user-facing online.
+5. Memory and latency check under the same execution mode as the baseline.
+
+Keep output artifacts when precision changes are part of the PR.
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+# General Quantization Methods
+
+Use this file for method selection and unified `vllm-omni` config syntax. For
+diffusion-specific wiring, see `diffusion.md`. For ModelOpt checkpoint export
+and loading details, see `modelopt-fp8.md`.
+
+## Unified Entry Point
+
+`vllm_omni.quantization.build_quant_config()` accepts:
+
+- `None` or `"none"` to disable quantization
+- a method string such as `"fp8"`, `"int8"`, `"mxfp8"`, `"awq"`, or `"auto-round"`
+- a flat dict with `"method"` or `"quant_method"`
+- a per-component dict such as `{"transformer": {"method": "fp8"}, "vae": None}`
+- an already-built `QuantizationConfig`
+
+Per-component dicts are routed by `ComponentQuantizationConfig` using
+longest-prefix matching. Prefix stability matters: if a model remaps HF names
+to vLLM names, apply the mapper to `ignored_layers` or component prefixes.
+
+## Local Overrides
+
+The local factory delegates most methods to upstream `vllm`, but has vLLM-Omni
+overrides for methods that need diffusion, NPU, XPU, or component behavior:
+
+| Method | Local Config | Main Use |
+|--------|--------------|----------|
+| `gguf` | `DiffusionGGUFConfig` | Pre-quantized diffusion transformer weights |
+| `int8` | `DiffusionInt8Config` | Online or serialized W8A8 diffusion transformers |
+| `mxfp8` | `DiffusionMXFP8Config` | W8A8 MXFP8 diffusion on NPU and online XPU path |
+| `mxfp4` | `DiffusionMXFP4Config` | Online W4A4 MXFP4 diffusion on NPU |
+| `mxfp4_dualscale` | `DiffusionMXFP4DualScaleMixedConfig` | Online/offline W4A4 dual-scale plus BF16 fallback on NPU |
+| `inc`, `auto-round`, `auto_round` | `OmniINCConfig` | AutoRound/INC checkpoint loading, including MXFP8 checkpoint metadata |
+| ModelOpt config dicts | upstream ModelOpt configs through auto-detect | FP8, NVFP4, or mixed ModelOpt checkpoints |
+
+Check `SUPPORTED_QUANTIZATION_METHODS` in `vllm_omni/quantization/factory.py`
+before adding a new method name.
+
+## AR and Generic Quantization
+
+For AR-backed models, upstream `vllm` methods usually apply:
+
+- `awq` and `gptq`: 4-bit or 8-bit weight quantization with calibration,
+  commonly used for text and AR stages.
+- `fp8`: FP8 weight path or KV-cache FP8 depending on flags and hardware.
+- `inc` or `auto-round`: pre-quantized checkpoints with Intel Neural
+  Compressor / AutoRound metadata.
+
+Use these for the AR language model stage only when the checkpoint and model
+guide support it. Omni and TTS models often keep audio, vision, talker, and
+codec stages in BF16.
+
+## Diffusion and Offline Methods
+
+For diffusion transformers, prefer the method-specific docs:
+
+- `docs/user_guide/quantization/fp8.md`
+- `docs/user_guide/quantization/int8.md`
+- `docs/user_guide/quantization/gguf.md`
+- `docs/user_guide/quantization/modelopt.md`
+- `docs/user_guide/quantization/mxfp8.md`
+- `docs/user_guide/quantization/mxfp4.md`
+- `docs/user_guide/quantization/autoround.md`
+- `docs/user_guide/quantization/msmodelslim.md`
+
+Pre-quantized checkpoints should normally auto-detect from config. Runtime
+flags such as `--force-cutlass-fp8`, `--linear-backend cutlass`, and
+`--moe-backend cutlass` select kernels; they do not quantize a BF16 checkpoint.
+
+## Validation
+
+Use fixed-seed A/B comparisons and record:
+
+- model path and quantized checkpoint path
+- method config and `ignored_layers`
+- prompt, size, frame count, steps, scheduler, dtype, and seed
+- eager/non-eager mode, compile flags, and parallelism
+- output metrics such as PSNR, MAE, cosine similarity, SSIM, LPIPS, plus visual artifacts
+- latency and peak memory, reported separately from quality
+
+The helper `vllm_omni.quantization.tools.compare_diffusion_trajectory_similarity`
+is the default lightweight image/video comparison tool for diffusion paths.
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+# Quantization Compatibility by Modality
+
+Use this as a routing guide. The source of truth is the local method docs under
+`docs/user_guide/quantization/` and the current model implementation.
+
+## Summary
+
+- AR and omni language-model quantization mostly follows upstream `vllm`, with
+  vLLM-Omni scoping for multi-stage models.
+- Diffusion quantization is method-specific and model-specific. It usually
+  targets the diffusion transformer only.
+- Pre-quantized checkpoints should quantize only the component that has
+  quantized weights and scale tensors.
+
+## Model Type Matrix
+
+| Model Type | Typical Quantization Scope | Notes |
+|------------|----------------------------|-------|
+| AR text models | Language model | Upstream `vllm` methods usually apply |
+| Omni/TTS models | Thinker or AR language-model stage | Audio, vision, talker, and codec stages usually stay BF16 |
+| DiT image models | Diffusion transformer | Check FP8, Int8, GGUF, ModelOpt, AutoRound docs |
+| DiT video models | Diffusion transformer | HunyuanVideo FP8 and Wan2.2 MXFP paths are documented; validate other video paths |
+| Multi-stage diffusion | Selected stage only | Use per-component routing and per-stage validation |
+| Audio diffusion | Usually unsupported | Prefer dtype, offload, cache, or parallelism unless docs say otherwise |
+
+## Method Hints
+
+| Goal | Candidate |
+|------|-----------|
+| AR memory reduction | AWQ, GPTQ, AutoRound, ModelOpt where checkpoint supports it |
+| CUDA diffusion W8A8 | FP8 or Int8 |
+| Pre-quantized CUDA diffusion checkpoint | ModelOpt or GGUF |
+| Ascend NPU diffusion | Int8, MXFP8, MXFP4, MXFP4 DualScale, msModelSlim |
+| Intel XPU checkpoint | AutoRound/INC paths |
+| Conservative image quality | selective FP8/Int8 with `ignored_layers` |
+| Unsupported diffusion model | cache acceleration, CPU/layerwise offload, dtype, TP/SP/CFG parallelism |
+
+## Validation Rule
+
+Compatibility means more than successful loading. A method is compatible only
+after it has:
+
+- correct component scope
+- complete checkpoint/config metadata if offline
+- fixed-seed quality comparison against BF16
+- acceptable latency and memory behavior
+- docs or examples that state model, method, hardware, and caveats
@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+# ModelOpt FP8 Conversion and Loading
+
+Use this when exporting or loading ModelOpt FP8 checkpoints for diffusion
+transformers. This reference captures the practical conversion lessons from the
+2026-04-21 ModelOpt FP8 paste and aligns them with the current
+`vllm-omni` ModelOpt adapter.
+
+## Core Rule
+
+Treat ModelOpt FP8 as selective checkpoint quantization, not one-click
+whole-model FP8. Quantize the main transformer or DiT backbone, keep sensitive
+or peripheral modules BF16, serialize a complete ModelOpt checkpoint, and let
+vLLM-Omni auto-detect it from config.
+
+Do not pass `--quantization fp8` to force a ModelOpt checkpoint path. The
+checkpoint's `quantization_config` should select `modelopt`.
+
+## Conversion Strategy
+
+Prefer:
+
+- backbone attention Q/K/V and FFN expansion projections
+- conservative per-model ignore lists
+- MHA quantizers disabled until basic linear quantization is stable
+- full module-name prefixes in ignore/routing logic
+- BF16 fallback for output-side and routing-sensitive layers
+
+Avoid quantizing by default:
+
+- VAE
+- text, vision, or audio encoders
+- embedders and modulation layers
+- final heads and output projections
+- refiner modules
+- MoE routers and layernorm-sensitive blocks
+
+## Model-Specific Starting Points
+
+| Model Family | Quantize First | Keep BF16 First |
+|--------------|----------------|-----------------|
+| Z-Image | attention q/k/v, FFN w1/w3 | `to_out`, `w2`, `noise_refiner`, `context_refiner`, embedders, modulation, final/output |
+| Qwen-Image | transformer backbone linear layers | `proj_out`, `img_in`, `txt_in`, norms, modulation, position/time/embed layers |
+| FLUX2-dev / FLUX2-klein | backbone linear layers | `proj_out`, context/x embedders, `norm_out`, stream modulation, time embeddings |
+| HunyuanImage-3.0 | `model.model` backbone | VAE, vision tower, token/time/image embedders, final image head, LM head, routers, layernorm-sensitive blocks |
+
+These are starting points, not support claims. Validate with BF16 outputs.
+
+## Required Checkpoint Metadata
+
+`transformer/config.json` must include a complete `quantization_config`.
+At minimum it should identify ModelOpt and the algorithm:
+
+```json
+{
+  "quantization_config": {
+    "producer": {"name": "modelopt"},
+    "quant_method": "modelopt",
+    "quant_algo": "FP8"
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Current vLLM-Omni auto-detects:
+
+- `FP8` and `FP8_PER_CHANNEL_PER_TOKEN` -> `modelopt`
+- `NVFP4` -> `modelopt_fp4`
+- `MIXED_PRECISION` -> `modelopt_mixed`
+
+Packed modules and scales must map correctly:
+
+- `to_qkv` from `to_q`, `to_k`, `to_v`
+- `add_kv_proj` from `add_q_proj`, `add_k_proj`, `add_v_proj`
+- `w13` from `w1`, `w3`
+- `.input_scale`, `.weight_scale`, `.weight_scale_2`, `.weight_scale_inv`
+
+For selective FP8, target layers that remain BF16 must be allowed to
+dequantize from FP8 weights using the matching `weight_scale`, or the adapter
+must skip the quantized scale tensors for that BF16 target.
+
+## Runtime Signals
+
+Healthy loading should show ModelOpt auto-detection and a ModelOpt linear
+kernel path. Useful signals include:
+
+- auto-detected quantization from config
+- selected ModelOpt FP8 linear method
+- CUTLASS or FlashInfer FP8 scaled-mm backend when enabled and supported
+- non-eager path compiling the transformer when expected
+
+If online serving fails while offline inference works, inspect warmup and
+serving initialization before changing checkpoint conversion.
+
+## Validation Order
+
+1. Check config completeness.
+2. Run an export checker such as `examples/quantization/check_modelopt_fp8_export.py`.
+3. Confirm actual FP8 tensors and expected disk-size reduction.
+4. Run one offline generation with fixed prompt, seed, size, and steps.
+5. Run serving with `vllm serve --omni` and verify `/v1/images/generations`.
+6. Compare against BF16 using visual review plus metrics such as LPIPS, PSNR,
+   MAE, cosine similarity, and SSIM.
+7. Compare performance only under matched modes:
+   - BF16 eager vs FP8 eager
+   - BF16 non-eager vs FP8 non-eager
+
+FP8 is not automatically faster. Check whether execution reaches FP8 kernels,
+whether compile mode is comparable, and whether the workload shape fits the
+kernel path.
+
+## Triage
+
+| Symptom | First Check |
+|---------|-------------|
+| Startup failure | `config.json`, `model_index.json`, `quantization_config`, missing scales |
+| Loads but output is corrupted | Over-quantized sensitive layers or wrong full-name prefixes |
+| Offline works but online fails | Dummy warmup, serving init, compile path |
+| FP8 is not faster | Kernel selection, dtype, compile mode, workload shape |
+| BF16 fallback fails | Missing `weight_scale` for dequantization or wrong packed-module mapping |
+
+The success criterion is stable, correctly scoped checkpoint loading with
+quality preserved enough for the target use case, not maximizing the number of
+FP8 layers.
@@ -18,11 +18,27 @@ include:

 - `add-diffusion-model`: guides integration of a new diffusion model into
  `vllm-omni`
+- `diffusion-perf-opt`: guides diffusion model performance optimization,
+  including profiling traces, parallel strategies, stage timing analysis, and
+  benchmark-driven tuning
+- `quantization`: guides quantization method selection, model integration,
+  checkpoint loading, and quality/performance validation for vLLM-Omni
 - `add-omni-model`: covers addition of new omni-modality model support
 - `add-tts-model`: covers integration of new TTS models and related serving
  workflows
 - `generate-release-note`: helps prepare release notes for repository changes
+- `precheck-pr`: self-check a branch before creating a PR — validates PR title
+  format, catches dead code, verifies accuracy/perf claims, and confirms merge
+  readiness
+- `vllm-omni-test`: guides generation and execution of CI-aligned tests (L1–L4),
+  pytest marker selection (`core_model` / `advanced_model` / `full_model`,
+  `omni` / `tts` / `diffusion`), Buildkite wiring (`test-ready.yml`,
+  `test-merge.yml`, `test-nightly.yml`, `test-weekly.yml`), and copy-paste
+  local plus CI-like `pytest` commands; see `references/test-routing.md` for
+  level-to-command mapping
 - `review-pr`: provides a structured workflow for reviewing pull requests
+- `vllm-omni-npu-model-runner-upgrade`: upgrades NPU model runners to align with the
+  latest vllm-ascend NPUModelRunner

 ## Maintenance Guidelines

@@ -0,0 +1,890 @@
+---
+name: vllm-omni-test
+description: Generate and run tests for vllm-project/vllm-omni with CI-aligned levels and markers; wire new tests into Buildkite (test-ready.yml for L1/L2, test-merge.yml for L3, test-nightly.yml for L4). On completion, always provide copy-paste local and CI-like pytest commands plus prerequisites. Use when creating regression tests, adding L1-L4 coverage, selecting pytest markers, or validating fixes from issues/PRs.
+---
+
+# vLLM-Omni Test Generator & Runner
+
+## Purpose
+
+Use this skill to generate minimal, stable test cases and run them with the correct marker/level strategy for [vllm-project/vllm-omni](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni).
+
+**Link convention:** Paths such as `.buildkite/` and `docs/contributing/` live at the **vllm-omni repo root**. Markdown links use repo-relative paths from this skill file (e.g. `../../../.buildkite/test-ready.yml`, `../../../docs/contributing/ci/CI_5levels.md`).
+
+Default priorities:
+
+1. Reproducible regression coverage for bug fixes
+2. Correct test level and marker selection
+3. Low flake, low dependency tests first
+4. CI-compatible run commands
+5. **Actionable run commands for the human**: whenever you add or change tests, always finish with **copy-paste-ready** `pytest` lines (local: single file and/or single test; CI-like: markers + `--run-level`), plus short **prerequisites** (GPU tier, HF cache, optional `model_prefix`). Do not assume the reader will infer commands from `test-routing.md` alone.
+
+## Inputs
+
+- Issue/PR link and summary
+- Changed files or suspected code path
+- Whether the user wants local quick validation or CI-equivalent validation
+- Hardware constraints (CPU only / CUDA / ROCm / NPU)
+
+## Workflow
+
+### Step 1: Classify Test Goal
+
+- **Bugfix regression**: start from a minimal failing scenario and add assertions that prevent recurrence. Before writing tests, output **`required` / `recommended` / `not_needed`**: **`required`** — stable logic/contract bug that should have been caught; **`recommended`** — environment-sensitive but a small regression still helps; **`not_needed`** — one-off external/config failure or existing tests already cover the path. Prefer the narrowest stable L1 (CPU) case; escalate to L2/L3 only when the bug needs real weights or serving.
+- **Feature coverage**: verify new behavior and one negative/boundary case.
+- **Perf/benchmark claim**: require benchmark-oriented tests and explicit metrics.
+
+### Step 2: Select Test Level
+
+- **L1**: unit/logic, deterministic, CPU-friendly, fastest feedback.
+- **L2**: basic e2e/integration and platform-dependent checks.
+- **L3/L4**: advanced model/integration/perf validation.
+
+Use [references/test-routing.md](references/test-routing.md) for level-to-marker and command mapping.
+
+### Step 3: Pick Markers
+
+Always attach markers deliberately:
+
+- **Level**: `core_model` (L1/L2) and/or `advanced_model` (L3) and/or `full_model` (L4 nightly)
+- **Model type** (required on model-centric e2e — pick exactly one):
+  - `omni` — end-to-end multimodal LLM pipelines (thinker/talker/stages; Qwen-Omni family)
+  - `tts` — speech synthesis / TTS-only models (`/v1/audio/speech`, voice clone, etc.)
+  - `diffusion` — generative diffusion models (image / audio / text / video from noise)
+- **Cross-cutting area** (when relevant): `parallel`, `cache`, `example`, `benchmark`
+- **Hardware**: `cpu`, `gpu`, `cuda`, `rocm`, `npu`, `L4`, `H100`, `distributed_cuda`, …
+- Optional: `slow`, distributed markers when multi-card is required
+
+**Baseline smoke (L2 + L3):** The simplest e2e case per model — default deploy, minimal request — should usually carry **both** `@pytest.mark.core_model` and `@pytest.mark.advanced_model` on the **same** test function so `test-ready.yml` and `test-merge.yml` share one test. `send_*_request` picks validation depth from `--run-level`. References: `test_voxcpm2_tts.py::test_text_to_audio_001`, `test_qwen3_tts_customvoice.py::test_text_to_audio_001`. Heavier scenarios use **`advanced_model` only**; L4 expansion uses **`full_model`**.
+
+For hardware-aware tests, prefer `@hardware_test(...)` or `hardware_marks(...)` in `tests/helpers/mark.py`.
+
+**Diffusion nightly split** (`test-nightly.yml`): all diffusion tests use `pytest.mark.diffusion`, but CI groups them by **output modality**, not by separate pytest markers:
+
+| Nightly group | Scope | Typical models / paths |
+|---------------|--------|-------------------------|
+| **Diffusion X2I(&A&T) Model Test** | x2**i** (image), x2**a** (audio), x2**t** (text) and other **non-video** diffusion | Qwen-Image*, BAGEL, FLUX, SD3, Z-Image, LongCat, DreamZero, … — `test_*_expansion.py` under X2I shards; L4 sweep uses `-k "not test_wan and not test_bagel_expansion and not hunyuan"` for L4 |
+| **Diffusion X2V Model Test** | x2**v** (video) only | Wan2.2, HunyuanVideo 1.5, Wan VACE, … — e.g. `test_wan22_expansion.py`, `test_hunyuan_video_15_expansion.py` |
+
+Wire new **video** diffusion expansion tests into the **X2V** group; wire **image/audio/text** diffusion expansion tests into **X2I(&A&T)**. Do not place x2v modules in X2I shards (see comment in `test-nightly.yml` above the X2I group).
+
+### Naming: generated test module files (L2–L4, model-centric e2e)
+
+When adding **new** pytest modules whose primary scope is a **specific model** (typical under `tests/e2e/offline_inference/` or `tests/e2e/online_serving/`), use this filename pattern:
+
+| Level | Filename pattern | Example (model `Qwen/Qwen2.5-Omni-7B`) |
+|-------|------------------|----------------------------------------|
+| **L2**, **L3** | `test_{lowercase_model_slug}.py` | `test_qwen2_5_omni.py` |
+| **L4** | `test_{lowercase_model_slug}_expansion.py` | `test_qwen2_5_omni_expansion.py` |
+
+**Slug rules for `{lowercase_model_slug}`:**
+
+1. Start from the HuggingFace-style id (e.g. `Qwen/Qwen2.5-Omni-7B`), but **do not** put the org into the filename: use the **repo segment only** (`Qwen2.5-Omni-7B`), not `Qwen_...` / `qwen_qwen2_5_...`.
+2. **Lowercase**; replace `.`, `-`, and whitespace with a single `_` (e.g. `Qwen2.5-Omni-7B` → `qwen2_5_omni`). **Omit** trailing size tokens such as `7b` / `30b` in the basename when a single file covers that model line in the directory (matches `test_qwen2_5_omni.py` in-tree).
+3. If two checkpoints in the same folder need separate modules, add a **minimal** disambiguator (e.g. `_7b` vs `_3b`) only then.
+4. **L1** unit tests are **not** bound to this pattern; use `tests/<area>/test_<feature>.py` as today.
+
+Routing tables and commands: [references/test-routing.md](references/test-routing.md) § *Model-centric e2e filename convention*.
+
+Existing references: `tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_qwen2_5_omni.py` (L2-style omni), `tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_qwen3_5_9b.py` (L2-style omni, single-stage VL), `tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_omni_expansion.py` (L4-style omni), `tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen_image_edit_expansion.py` / `test_qwen_image_expansion.py` (L4-style diffusion).
+
+### Step 4: Generate Test Case Skeleton
+
+**1. Pick the functional scenario** (then choose directory, fixtures, and markers):
+
+| Scenario | Typical location | Fixtures / runner pattern | Baseline markers & level |
+|----------|------------------|---------------------------|---------------------------|
+| **Offline inference e2e** | `tests/e2e/offline_inference/` | **Module (default):** `omni_runner` + `omni_runner_handler`. **Function (isolation only):** `omni_runner_function` + `omni_runner_handler_function`. Diffusion/TTS may use `Omni(...).generate` directly | L2: `core_model` + **one of** `omni` / `tts` / `diffusion`; `@hardware_test(...)` when GPU/NPU is required |
+| **Online serving e2e** | `tests/e2e/online_serving/` | **Module (default):** `omni_server` + `openai_client`. **Function (isolation only):** `omni_server_function` + `openai_client_function`. Clients: `send_omni_request` (omni), `send_audio_speech_request` (tts), `send_diffusion_request` / `send_video_diffusion_request` / `send_images_generations_request` (diffusion) | Baseline smoke: **`core_model` + `advanced_model`**; heavier paths: `advanced_model` only; L4 expansion: `full_model` |
+| **Documentation / runnable examples** | `tests/examples/offline_inference/`, `tests/examples/online_serving/` | **Offline docs (preferred):** extract Python/Bash blocks from the doc README (e.g. `ReadmeSnippet.extract_readme_snippets`), `pytest.mark.parametrize` each snippet, run via `example_runner.run` with a stable `output_subfolder`. **Online docs:** copy client/request scripts into dedicated tests and keep them in sync with the doc page. | Usually **L4**: `advanced_model`, often `example` plus hardware marks matching the nightly docs-example job (see `.buildkite/test-nightly.yml`). Full conventions: [docs/contributing/ci/test_examples/l4_doc_example_tests.inc.md](../../../docs/contributing/ci/test_examples/l4_doc_example_tests.inc.md) (introduced in [PR #1910](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/pull/1910): naming, output directory layout, skip rules, avoid trimming `num_inference_steps` without a strong CI reason). |
+| **Performance / benchmark** | `tests/dfx/perf/tests/*.json` + `run_*_benchmark.py` | JSON or script-driven server + load config; assert explicit metrics / baselines | L4 Perf: `full_model` + `benchmark`; wire `test-nightly.yml` Perf steps |
+| **Invalid parameter / negative HTTP validation** | `tests/dfx/reliability/invalid_param_test/` | Live `omni_server` + low-level `send_*_http_request` with `err_code` / `err_message` | `pytest.mark.slow` + `omni` / `tts` / `diffusion` + `@hardware_marks` (`H100` or `L4`); CI in **`test-weekly.yml`** (not ready/merge/nightly) |
+
+**If the user’s test plan includes invalid parameter validation / invalid params / negative HTTP / 400 validation:** do **not** add those `test_*` functions to `tests/e2e/online_serving/test_*.py` or `*_expansion.py`. **Move or author them** under `tests/dfx/reliability/invalid_param_test/` in the **endpoint-matching script** (see **Invalid parameter validation** below). Success-path e2e and invalid-param dfx tests must stay in separate modules.
+
+**1b. Model type — `omni` vs `tts` vs `diffusion`**
+
+After choosing offline/online/docs/perf, classify the **product under test** and attach **exactly one** model-type marker. All three can live under the same `tests/e2e/` trees; conventions diverge:
+
+| Dimension | **Omni** (`pytest.mark.omni`) | **TTS** (`pytest.mark.tts`) | **Diffusion** (`pytest.mark.diffusion`) |
+|-----------|------------------------------|----------------------------|----------------------------------------|
+| **What it is** | Multimodal LLM pipeline (thinker/talker/stages; text + vision + audio I/O) | Speech synthesis / voice models | Generative diffusion (noise → image, audio, text, or video) |
+| **Examples** | Qwen2.5-Omni, Qwen3-Omni | Qwen3-TTS, VoxCPM2, Higgs-Audio, Step-Audio2 | Qwen-Image, BAGEL, Wan2.2, HunyuanVideo |
+| **Offline runner** | `omni_runner` + `omni_runner_handler`, `generate_multimodal` | `Omni(...).generate` or stage YAML + TTS params | `Omni(...).generate` + `OmniDiffusionSamplingParams` |
+| **Online client** | `openai_client.send_omni_request` (chat completions, modalities) | `openai_client.send_audio_speech_request` (`/v1/audio/speech`) | `send_diffusion_request` (chat/T2I), `send_video_diffusion_request` (`/v1/videos`, X2V), or `send_images_generations_http_request` / `send_images_edits_http_request` (DALL-E routes) |
+| **Typical assertions** | Stage outputs, text/audio keywords via `OmniRunnerHandler` / response handler | WAV bytes, stream chunks, speech endpoint contract | Image/video dimensions, `final_output_type`, `assert_diffusion_response` |
+| **Stage / deploy YAML** | Per-model omni stage configs (`ci/qwen3_omni_moe.yaml`, …) | `qwen3_tts.yaml`, `voxcpm2.yaml`, … | Often default serve; parallel/offload YAML for heavy DiT |
+| **Nightly group** (`test-nightly.yml`) | **Omni Model Test** — `-m "full_model and omni"` | **TTS Model Test** — `-m "full_model and tts"` | **Diffusion X2I(&A&T)** *or* **Diffusion X2V** (see Step 3 table; same `diffusion` marker, different YAML group / file shard) |
+| **L4 pressure** | Expansion per modality/model as needed | Expansion + accuracy/perf in TTS group | X2I: merge feature combos per [#1832](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/issues/1832); X2V: separate nightly group |
+
+Do **not** mix fixtures across types (e.g. do not use `omni_runner` layout for a pure diffusion or TTS model without mirroring an in-tree test in that family).
+
+**Diffusion only — X2I(&A&T) vs X2V (nightly routing, not extra markers):**
+
+- **X2I(&A&T)**: image / audio / text generation — Qwen-Image*, FLUX, SD3, Z-Image, BAGEL (expansion), LongCat, audio diffusion, etc.
+- **X2V**: video generation only — Wan2.2, HunyuanVideo 1.5, Wan VACE, LTX video similarity paths.
+
+When adding a new `test_*_expansion.py`, place it in the matching **nightly group** step (explicit file list in `test-nightly.yml`), not only by marker expression.
+
+**2. Use the narrowest deterministic skeleton for the scenario**
+
+*L1 unit / logic (CPU-first):*
+
+**Mocking rule (L1 only):** use **pytest** integration — **`mocker`** (`pytest-mock`) or **`monkeypatch`** (built-in). **Do not** import or call **`unittest.mock`** (`patch`, `MagicMock`, `@patch`, `with patch(...)`, etc.) in L1 tests; patches must auto-revert with the test lifecycle.
+
+```python
+import pytest
+
+pytestmark = [pytest.mark.core_model, pytest.mark.cpu]
+
+
+def test_<scenario_name>(mocker):
+    # Prefer mocker.patch / mocker.spy / mocker.Mock — not unittest.mock.patch
+    fake_fn = mocker.patch("vllm_omni.some.module.expensive_call", return_value=...)
+    # Act
+    # Assert
+    fake_fn.assert_called_once()
+
+
+def test_<env_or_attr>(monkeypatch):
+    # For simple env / attribute substitution without a Mock object
+    monkeypatch.setenv("SOME_FLAG", "1")
+    monkeypatch.setattr("vllm_omni.some.module.CONST", 42)
+    ...
+```
+
+**Avoid in L1:**
+
+```python
+# BAD — do not use in L1 unit tests
+from unittest.mock import patch, MagicMock
+
+@patch("vllm_omni.some.module.fn")
+def test_bad(mock_fn): ...
+
+def test_also_bad():
+    with patch("...") as m: ...
+```
+
+See **L1 unit test constraints (mocking)** below for the full do/don't list.
+
+*Offline multimodal e2e — **Omni** (representative):*
+
+```python
+@pytest.mark.core_model
+@pytest.mark.omni
+@hardware_test(...)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("omni_runner", test_params, indirect=True)
+def test_<scenario>(omni_runner, omni_runner_handler) -> None:
+    request_config = {"prompts": ..., "modalities": [...]}  # optional: images, videos, audios
+    omni_runner_handler.send_omni_request(request_config)
+```
+
+*Offline generative e2e — **Diffusion** (representative):*
+
+```python
+@pytest.mark.core_model
+@pytest.mark.diffusion
+@hardware_test(...)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("omni_runner", test_params, indirect=True)
+def test_text_to_image_001(omni_runner_handler) -> None:
+    omni_runner_handler.send_diffusion_request({"prompt": "...", "extra_body": {"num_inference_steps": 4, ...}})
+```
+
+*Offline TTS e2e — **Qwen3-TTS** (two-stage; representative):*
+
+```python
+@pytest.mark.advanced_model
+@pytest.mark.tts
+@hardware_test(...)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("omni_runner", tts_server_params, indirect=True)
+def test_text_to_audio_001(omni_runner, omni_runner_handler) -> None:
+    omni_runner_handler.send_audio_speech_request({
+        "input": "...",
+        "task_type": "Base",
+        "ref_audio": REF_AUDIO_URL,
+        "ref_text": REF_TEXT,
+    })
+```
+
+*Offline TTS e2e — **single-stage** (Coqui XTTS, MOSS-TTS-Nano; representative):*
+
+```python
+@pytest.mark.advanced_model
+@pytest.mark.tts
+@hardware_test(...)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("omni_runner", tts_server_params, indirect=True)
+def test_voice_clone_001(omni_runner_handler) -> None:
+    omni_runner_handler.send_single_stage_tts_request({
+        "input": "...",
+        "language": "en",
+        "prompt_audio_path": REF_AUDIO_PATH,
+        "response_format": "wav",
+        "run_level": "advanced_model",
+    })
+```
+
+*Online serving e2e — **Omni** (representative):*
+
+```python
+@pytest.mark.core_model
+@pytest.mark.omni
+@hardware_test(...)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("omni_server", test_params, indirect=True)
+def test_text_to_text_001(omni_server, openai_client) -> None:
+    request_config = {"model": omni_server.model, "messages": ..., "modalities": ["text"]}
+    openai_client.send_omni_request(request_config)
+```
+
+*Online serving e2e — **TTS** (representative):*
+
+```python
+@pytest.mark.core_model
+@pytest.mark.advanced_model
+@pytest.mark.tts
+@hardware_test(...)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("omni_server", tts_server_params, indirect=True)
+def test_text_to_audio_001(omni_server, openai_client) -> None:
+    request_config = {"model": omni_server.model, "input": "...", "response_format": "wav", ...}
+    openai_client.send_audio_speech_request(request_config)
+```
+
+*Online serving e2e — **Diffusion** X2I (representative):*
+
+```python
+@pytest.mark.core_model
+@pytest.mark.diffusion
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("omni_server", _get_default_case(MODEL), indirect=True)
+def test_text_to_image_001(omni_server, openai_client) -> None:
+    openai_client.send_diffusion_request({...})  # chat completions + extra_body
+```
+
+*Online serving e2e — **Diffusion** X2V (representative):*
+
+```python
+@pytest.mark.core_model
+@pytest.mark.diffusion
+def test_text_to_video_001(omni_server, openai_client) -> None:
+    openai_client.send_video_diffusion_request({"model": ..., "form_data": {...}})  # /v1/videos
+```
+
+*Documentation example tests:* follow the **Preferred Test Strategy** in [l4_doc_example_tests.inc.md](../../../docs/contributing/ci/test_examples/l4_doc_example_tests.inc.md): dynamic extraction for offline READMEs; explicit copied client code for online pages until extraction is justified; use the documented **naming**, **output directory** (page folder + case id), and **skipping** rules (e.g. Gradio-only scripts).
+
+*Performance tests:* add or extend entries under `tests/perf/` (and JSON configs where the project uses them), with **explicit baselines** and the same marker/run-level pairing as the CI step that will execute them.
+
+**3. Cross-cutting rules**
+
+- Reuse existing fixtures for the chosen scenario; do not mix “online client” assumptions into offline `OmniRunner` tests without a clear reason.
+- Avoid external network dependency in assertions unless the scenario is explicitly “online serving” or doc examples that require a model hub (then align with CI secrets/cache).
+- Keep **one test function = one intent** (one modality combo, one endpoint contract, or one acceleration combo).
+- **E2E test function layout**: **one case → one `test_<scenario>` function** with a name that states what is validated (endpoint, size/`n`, server flag, or route). **Do not** merge multiple cases into a single test that branches on `request.node.callspec.id`, `param.id`, or `if case_id == ...`. Use `@pytest.mark.parametrize("omni_server", [...], indirect=True)` per function (usually **one** `OmniServerParams` per test). A loop inside one test is OK only when it serves **that function’s single intent** (e.g. three standard sizes in `test_*_sizes_256_512_1024`).
+- **Runtime fixture scope** (`tests/helpers/fixtures/runtime.py`): default **`omni_server` / `omni_runner`** (module) + matching client/handler; use **`omni_server_function` / `omni_runner_function`** only when each `test_*` must start a fresh instance (see below).
+- **L1 mocks**: never `unittest.mock`; use `mocker` or `monkeypatch` only (see below).
+- **API calls (L2+ e2e, online and offline)**: **reuse** `send_*_request` in `tests/helpers/runtime.py` when it exists; **otherwise add** the helper in `runtime.py` first, then call it from the test. General `assert_*` inside `send_*_request`; special `assert_*` only in the test. See **Runtime send helpers** below — do not call `omni.generate`, raw HTTP, or SDK clients from `test_*.py`.
+- **Response assertions**: reusable checks on API bodies / decoded media belong in **`tests/helpers/assertions.py`** — not as private `_assert_*` helpers inside `test_*.py` (see below).
+- **Model-specific payloads stay in test modules** — per-model `MODEL`, deploy path, `REF_AUDIO_URL`, `get_prompt()`, `_build_request()`, and inline `request_config` dicts live in `test_{slug}.py` / `test_{slug}_expansion.py` (and offline/L1 siblings). **Do not** create `tests/helpers/{slug}.py` to deduplicate them; a little copy across files is preferred (see `test_glm_tts.py`, `test_cosyvoice3_tts_expansion.py`). `tests/helpers/` is repo-wide harness only (`mark`, `media`, `runtime`, `stage_config`, `assertions`, `fixtures/`).
+
+#### L1 unit test constraints (mocking)
+
+L1 tests (`core_model and cpu`, under `tests/diffusion/`, `tests/engine/`, `tests/model_executor/`, etc.) must follow the repo’s **pytest-mock** convention (`pytest-mock>=3.10.0` in `pyproject.toml` `[project.optional-dependencies] dev`).
+
+| Do | Don't |
+|----|-------|
+| `def test_foo(mocker):` + `mocker.patch(...)`, `mocker.spy(...)`, `mocker.Mock()`, `mocker.MagicMock()`, `mocker.AsyncMock()` | `from unittest.mock import patch, MagicMock, Mock, AsyncMock` |
+| `def test_bar(monkeypatch):` + `monkeypatch.setattr` / `setenv` / `delenv` / `setitem` | `@patch(...)` decorator |
+| Let `mocker` auto-stop patches after the test | `with patch(...):` / `patch.object(...)` context managers |
+| Mirror neighboring L1 tests in the same directory | `unittest.mock.create_autospec` unless an existing file already documents an exception |
+
+**Rationale:** `mocker` ties patch lifecycle to pytest fixtures (no leaked patches across tests). `unittest.mock` decorators/context managers are easy to compose incorrectly with parametrized or async tests and are inconsistent with in-tree L1 style.
+
+**Minimal patterns:**
+
+```python
+def test_returns_cached_config(mocker):
+    loader = mocker.patch(
+        "vllm_omni.foo.load_yaml",
+        return_value={"stages": []},
+    )
+    result = get_deploy_config("ci/foo.yaml")
+    assert result["stages"] == []
+    loader.assert_called_once_with("ci/foo.yaml")
+
+
+def test_skips_when_env_unset(monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.delenv("VLLM_OMNI_FEATURE", raising=False)
+    assert should_enable_feature() is False
+```
+
+E2E levels (L2+) generally **avoid mocks**; if a rare L2 stub is unavoidable, still prefer `mocker` over `unittest.mock` for consistency.
+
+#### Runtime fixtures — scope (`tests/helpers/fixtures/runtime.py`)
+
+vLLM-Omni e2e tests start a real **OmniServer** (online) or **OmniRunner** (offline). Pick scope by **how often the process must be recreated**, not by test level alone.
+
+| Scope | Online fixtures | Offline fixtures | When to use |
+|-------|-----------------|------------------|-------------|
+| **Module** (default) | `omni_server` → `openai_client` | `omni_runner` → `omni_runner_handler` | **Default for L2/L3/L4 expansion** — amortize model/server init across `test_*` in the same module. Same `OmniServerParams` / runner config can be reused by multiple tests. |
+| **Function** | `omni_server_function` → `openai_client_function` | `omni_runner_function` → `omni_runner_handler_function` | **Only when required** — each `test_*` must get a **clean** server/runner (no shared engine/GPU state). Typical: `tests/dfx/reliability/`, sleep/wakeup, crash/restart, tests that mutate global server state. |
+
+**Rules:**
+
+1. **Default to module scope** (`omni_server` / `omni_runner`) unless the scenario **explicitly** needs a fresh instance per test function.
+2. **Indirect parametrize name must match the fixture name**: `@pytest.mark.parametrize("omni_server", ...)` with `omni_server` + `openai_client`; `@pytest.mark.parametrize("omni_server_function", ...)` with `omni_server_function` + `openai_client_function`. Do not mix module fixture with function client (or vice versa).
+3. Different `OmniServerParams` per `test_*` (e.g. default vs `--enable-cpu-offload`) is still OK with **module** `omni_server` — pytest parametrizes per test node; only switch to `_function` when isolation between tests matters, not merely because `server_args` differ.
+4. One `test_*` with **many** server configs (expansion matrix) → single function + `@pytest.mark.parametrize("omni_server", [...], indirect=True)` + module `omni_server` (see in-tree `test_qwen_image_expansion.py`).
+
+```python
+# Default — module-scoped server (L4 expansion)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("omni_server", [pytest.param(OmniServerParams(model=MODEL), marks=H100)], indirect=True)
+def test_foo_images_generations_default_1024(omni_server, openai_client) -> None:
+    openai_client.send_images_generations_request({...})
+
+# Function-scoped — reliability / per-test clean state only
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "omni_server_function",
+    [pytest.param(OmniServerParams(model=MODEL), marks=H100)],
+    indirect=True,
+)
+def test_foo_sleep_wakeup_cycle(omni_server_function, openai_client_function) -> None:
+    openai_client_function.send_omni_sleep_http_request({...})
+    openai_client_function.send_omni_wakeup_http_request({...})
+```
+
+#### Runtime send helpers — online **and** offline (`tests/helpers/runtime.py`)
+
+**L2+ e2e (online serving and offline inference) must call APIs through `tests/helpers/runtime.py`.** Fixtures live in `tests/helpers/fixtures/runtime.py`; **send/assert implementation** lives in `tests/helpers/runtime.py` + `tests/helpers/assertions.py`.
+
+| Principle | Action |
+|-----------|--------|
+| **Reuse first** | Grep `runtime.py` for an existing **`send_*_request`** on `OpenAIClientHandler` (online) or `OmniRunnerHandler` (offline) that matches the endpoint / pipeline shape. |
+| **Extend when close** | If an existing `send_*_request` almost fits (e.g. missing one optional field), extend it in `runtime.py` — do not fork logic in the test file. |
+| **Add when missing** | No suitable helper → add **`send_<feature>_request`** (high-level: call + general `assert_*`) or **`send_<route>_<verb>_http_request`** (low-level HTTP for negative/dfx) in **`runtime.py` first**, then call it from tests. |
+| **Test module owns payload only** | In `test_*.py`: `MODEL`, deploy path, vendored media, `get_prompt()`, and inline **`request_config` dicts** only. **No** `omni.generate(...)`, raw `requests.post`, OpenAI SDK calls, or `_collect_audio()` / `_process_output()` in e2e tests. |
+
+**Online** (`openai_client` from `omni_server`): `OpenAIClientHandler.send_*_request`.
+
+**Offline** (`omni_runner_handler` from `omni_runner`): `OmniRunnerHandler.send_*_request`.
+
+| Do | Don't |
+|----|-------|
+| Online: `openai_client.send_omni_request`, `send_diffusion_request`, `send_audio_speech_request`, `send_video_diffusion_request`, `send_images_generations_request`, … | `requests.post(f"{base_url}/v1/...", json=…)` or `client.chat.completions.create(...)` inside a test |
+| Offline: `omni_runner_handler.send_omni_request`, `send_diffusion_request`, `send_audio_speech_request`, `send_single_stage_tts_request`, `send_single_stage_tts_batch_request`, … | `omni_runner.omni.generate(...)` + hand-rolled tensor/WAV extraction in `test_*.py` |
+| Add missing `send_*` to **`runtime.py`** first; bundle general `assert_*` inside the send helper | A one-off `def _post_*` / `def _collect_audio` at the bottom of a test module |
+| Mirror naming/style of neighboring `send_*` (docstring, `request_config` dict, optional `run_level`, `err_code` / `err_message` for negative cases) | Different parameter shapes per test file for the same endpoint |
+
+**Workflow when generating online/offline e2e tests:**
+
+1. Decide whether the needed check is **general** (every success call of this `send_*`) or **special** (one case / one parameter combo only). See **General vs special assert placement** below.
+2. **Search `runtime.py`** for a matching **`send_*_request`**; if missing, add it (with general `assert_*` inside) before writing the test body.
+3. In the test module: build `request_config` → call **`send_*_request` only** for the general contract; call **`assert_*` in the test file only** for special, case-specific checks (import from `assertions.py`).
+4. Reserve **low-level** `send_*_http_request` for negative/dfx tests (`err_code` / `err_message`) — not for ordinary L2+ success-path e2e.
+5. When wiring Buildkite `source_file_dependencies`, include **`tests/helpers/runtime.py`** and/or **`tests/helpers/assertions.py`** when new helpers were added.
+
+**Exceptions (document in the test docstring why):** models whose offline prompt path cannot go through existing handlers yet (e.g. `test_higgs_audio_v2.py`, `test_voxtral_tts.py` with custom tokenizer compose) may call `omni.generate` directly until a `send_*_request` is added to `runtime.py` — treat as **debt**, not the default for new TTS/diffusion/omni e2e.
+
+**General vs special assert placement:**
+
+| Kind | Definition | Where it lives | Test file calls |
+|------|------------|----------------|-----------------|
+| **General** | Default success contract for this endpoint/client method — e.g. HTTP 200, `data[]` shape, `n` count, `size` dimensions, decodable image/audio, bundled omni/diffusion fields | Implement in `assertions.py`, invoke **inside** `send_*_request` in `runtime.py` (after low-level send / SDK call, when `err_code` is not set) | **`send_*_request` only** — do **not** repeat the same `assert_*` |
+| **Special** | Extra check tied to **this test case only** — e.g. seed byte-identical replay, accuracy/CLIP threshold, perf ceiling, model-specific optional field | Add or reuse `assert_*` in `assertions.py` (never inline in test) | `send_*_request` **then** `assert_<special>(...)` **once** for that case |
+
+Changing `request_config` fields (`size`, `n`, `seed`, server flags) is **not** special validation — the general `assert_*` should read those from `request_config` inside `send_*`.
+
+**`send_*` ↔ `assert_*` pairing (online `OpenAIClientHandler`):**
+
+| High-level `send_*` (prefer in L2+ e2e) | Assert already invoked inside `runtime.py` | Low-level HTTP-only sibling |
+|----------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------|-----------------------------|
+| `send_omni_request` | `assert_omni_response` | `send_chat_completions_http_request` → `assert_http_error` only |
+| `send_diffusion_request` | `assert_diffusion_response` | — |
+| `send_audio_speech_request` | `assert_audio_speech_response` | `send_audio_speech_http_request` → `assert_http_error` only |
+| `send_video_diffusion_request` | `assert_diffusion_response` | `send_videos_*_http_request` → `assert_http_error` only |
+| `send_images_generations_request` *(add when needed)* | **`assert_images_generations_response`** *(general — inside send)* | `send_images_generations_http_request` → `assert_http_error` only |
+| `send_images_edits_request` *(add when needed)* | **`assert_images_edits_response`** *(general — inside send)* | `send_images_edits_http_request` → `assert_http_error` only |
+
+**Rule:** Tests call high-level `send_*_request` for the general contract. **Never** call the same bundled `assert_*` again. Call an extra `assert_*` in the test **only** for special, case-specific validation.
+
+**Common `OpenAIClientHandler` entry points** (non-exhaustive — grep `runtime.py` before adding):
+
+| Area | High-level (SDK + assert) | Low-level HTTP (`*_http_request`) |
+|------|---------------------------|-----------------------------------|
+| Omni chat | `send_omni_request` | `send_chat_completions_http_request` |
+| Diffusion T2I (chat route) | `send_diffusion_request` | — |
+| Diffusion X2V | `send_video_diffusion_request` | `send_videos_create_http_request`, `send_video_content_http_request`, … |
+| DALL-E T2I / edit | `send_images_generations_request`, `send_images_edits_request` | `send_images_generations_http_request`, `send_images_edits_http_request` |
+| TTS (online) | `send_audio_speech_request` | `send_audio_speech_http_request`, `send_audio_generate_http_request`, … |
+| Ops / meta | — | `send_health_http_request`, `send_models_http_request`, `send_omni_sleep_http_request`, … |
+
+**Common `OmniRunnerHandler` entry points** (offline — grep `runtime.py` before adding):
+
+| Area | High-level (`send_*_request` + assert) | Notes |
+|------|----------------------------------------|-------|
+| Omni multimodal | `send_omni_request` | `generate_multimodal` path |
+| Diffusion offline | `send_diffusion_request` | chat-route / `OmniTextPrompt` offline |
+| Qwen-style TTS | `send_audio_speech_request` | two-stage, `generate_multimodal` + `mm_processor_kwargs` |
+| Single-stage TTS (Coqui XTTS, MOSS-TTS-Nano, …) | `send_single_stage_tts_request`, `send_single_stage_tts_batch_request` | `prompt` + `additional_information` + `omni.generate` — **do not** duplicate in tests |
+| New model family | **Add** `send_<family>_request` here first | Then call from `tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_*.py` |
+
+L1 tests under `tests/entrypoints/` may use **FastAPI `TestClient`** or direct handler calls with mocks; they do **not** need `OpenAIClientHandler` / `OmniRunnerHandler`. **L2+ online and offline e2e** must use `runtime.py` `send_*` helpers.
+
+#### Invalid parameter validation (`tests/dfx/reliability/invalid_param_test/`)
+
+When the user asks for **invalid parameter validation**, **invalid request bodies**, **HTTP 4xx contract tests**, or any case that sends **malformed / out-of-range / mismatched** API payloads against a **live** server:
+
+1. **Do not** place these in `tests/e2e/online_serving/` or `*_expansion.py`. If already drafted there, **move** the `test_*` into the correct `invalid_param_test` script and delete the duplicate from e2e.
+2. **Pick the script by HTTP route** (extend an existing file; add a new `test_invalid_<area>.py` only when no in-tree script covers that route family):
+
+| API / area | Script |
+|------------|--------|
+| Omni chat completions, WebSocket video/realtime paths | `test_invalid_omni_chat.py` |
+| `POST /v1/audio/speech`, stream, batch, voices | `test_invalid_audio_speech.py` |
+| Audio diffusion endpoints | `test_invalid_audio_diffusion.py` |
+| `POST /v1/images/generations` | `test_invalid_image_generation.py` |
+| `POST /v1/images/edits` | `test_invalid_image_editing.py` |
+| `POST/GET/DELETE /v1/videos*` | `test_invalid_video_generation.py` |
+| Sleep / wakeup / server control | `test_invalid_server_control.py` |
+
+3. **Match in-tree style** in the chosen script:
+
+| Element | Convention |
+|---------|------------|
+| **Module markers** | `pytestmark = [pytest.mark.slow, pytest.mark.<omni or tts or diffusion>]` |
+| **Server fixture** | `_PARAMS` / `_QWEN3_TTS_SPEECH`-style list of `pytest.param(OmniServerParams(...), id="...", marks=hardware_marks(...))`; `@pytest.mark.parametrize("omni_server", _PARAMS, indirect=True)` |
+| **Hardware** | `hardware_marks(res={"cuda": "H100"})` for heavy diffusion/omni/video; `hardware_marks(res={"cuda": "L4"})` for smaller TTS models (must match weekly `-m "slow and L4"` step) |
+| **HTTP client** | **Low-level** `openai_client.send_*_http_request({..., "err_code": 400, "err_message": (...)} )` — **not** `send_*_request` (success path) |
+| **Case shape** | Prefer **one `test_*` per route family** + `@pytest.mark.parametrize("body_spec, err_message", [...])` with stable `id=` per case; or dedicated `test_<route>_malformed_json` when not parametrized |
+| **Body helpers** | `_minimal_<endpoint>_json(omni_server)` / `_minimal_*_form_data()`; merge overrides with `body.update(body_spec)` |
+| **Known gaps** | `pytest.mark.skip(reason="…#3649")` as `_SKIP_ISSUE_3649` when server validation is not yet strict (mirror neighboring cases) |
+| **Sections** | Route banner comments (`# ─── POST /v1/images/generations ───`) like existing files |
+| **Shared fixtures** | Reuse `tests/dfx/reliability/invalid_param_test/conftest.py` (`tiny_png_bytes`, env defaults) |
+
+4. **Adding a new model** to invalid-param coverage: append a `pytest.param(OmniServerParams(model="...", stage_config_path=..., server_args=...), ...)` entry to the script’s `_PARAMS` list — do **not** create `test_invalid_<model>.py` unless the route is new.
+
+5. **CI — `.buildkite/test-weekly.yml` only** (not `test-ready.yml` / `test-merge.yml` / `test-nightly.yml`):
+
+| Weekly step | Command | When your cases run |
+|-------------|---------|---------------------|
+| **Invalid parameters Test · H100** | `pytest -s -v tests/dfx/reliability/invalid_param_test/ -m "slow and H100"` | Diffusion / omni / video invalid-param tests with `H100` hardware mark |
+| **Invalid parameters Test · L4** | `pytest -s -v tests/dfx/reliability/invalid_param_test/ -m "slow and L4"` | TTS / lighter models marked `L4` |
+
+- **Trigger:** `build.env("WEEKLY") == "1"` or PR label `weekly-test`.
+- **Default:** extending an existing `invalid_param_test` script needs **no YAML edit** — the weekly steps already sweep the whole directory.
+- **Edit YAML only** when adding a **new hardware queue**, a **new top-level script** that must run in isolation, or a **model-specific weekly shard** (mirror neighboring reliability steps).
+- Weekly steps **do not** use `source_file_dependencies`.
+
+**Example — append to `test_invalid_image_generation.py`:**
+
+```python
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "body_spec, err_message",
+    [
+        pytest.param({"seed": -1}, ("seed", "greater_than_equal", "0"), id="seed_negative"),
+    ],
+)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("omni_server", _PARAMS, indirect=True)
+def test_images_generations_invalid_requests(
+    omni_server: OmniServer,
+    openai_client: OpenAIClientHandler,
+    body_spec: dict[str, object],
+    err_message: str | tuple[str, ...],
+) -> None:
+    body = _minimal_images_gen_json(omni_server)
+    body.update(body_spec)
+    openai_client.send_images_generations_http_request(
+        {"json": body, "timeout": 300, "err_code": 400, "err_message": err_message}
+    )
+```
+
+See [references/test-routing.md](references/test-routing.md) **Invalid parameter / weekly CI**.
+
+#### Assertion helpers (`tests/helpers/assertions.py`)
+
+**Do not** add module-local helpers such as `_assert_images_generations_payload` or `_send_and_assert_*` in e2e test files. Response/media validation belongs in **`tests/helpers/assertions.py`**, grouped by **category**:
+
+| Category | Existing anchors | When to extend vs add |
+|----------|------------------|------------------------|
+| **Image** (chat diffusion + DALL-E JSON) | `assert_image_diffusion_response`, `assert_image_valid` | DALL-E `/v1/images/generations` JSON → add **`assert_images_generations_response`** beside image helpers (reuses `assert_image_valid`); do not fork decode logic into tests |
+| **Video** | `assert_video_diffusion_response`, `assert_video_valid` | Extend these for new video contracts |
+| **Audio** | `assert_audio_diffusion_response`, `assert_audio_speech_response`, `assert_audio_valid` | Extend for new TTS/audio endpoints |
+| **Omni multimodal** | `assert_omni_response` | Extend for new modality combos |
+| **HTTP errors** | `assert_http_error`, `assert_err_message_in_text` | Used inside low-level `send_*_http_request` and negative tests |
+
+| Do | Don't |
+|----|-------|
+| Put **general** `assert_*` inside `send_*_request` in `runtime.py`; tests call `send_*_request` only | Call `assert_diffusion_response` after `send_diffusion_request` (general assert already bundled) |
+| Put **special** `assert_*` in `assertions.py` and call it **in the test** after `send_*_request` when that case needs extra checks | Put general decode/count/size logic in the test because “this case uses `n=4`” (that belongs in general assert reading `request_config`) |
+| Extend the matching category function, or add `assert_<endpoint>_response` next to its category | `_send_and_assert_*` or PIL/base64 loops in `test_*.py` |
+| Use low-level `send_*_http_request` in dfx/negative tests (`err_code`) | Use low-level HTTP send + manual general assert in every L2+ expansion file |
+
+**Workflow when generating tests:**
+
+1. Implement or reuse **general** `assert_*` in `assertions.py` (by category).
+2. Wire it into **`send_*_request`** in `runtime.py` if not already bundled.
+3. In the test: `request_config` → `send_*_request`. Add a separate `assert_*` import/call **only** for special case validation.
+4. Update `source_file_dependencies` when `runtime.py` or `assertions.py` changes.
+
+**Example — DALL-E `/v1/images/generations`:**
+
+```python
+# tests/helpers/assertions.py — general contract (image category)
+def assert_images_generations_response(resp_body: dict, request_config: dict, *, run_level: str | None = None) -> None:
+    ...  # data[], n, size → assert_image_valid
+
+# tests/helpers/runtime.py — general assert INSIDE send
+def send_images_generations_request(self, request_config: dict[str, Any], ...) -> list[HttpResponse]:
+    responses = self.send_images_generations_http_request(request_config, ...)
+    if request_config.get("err_code") is None:
+        body = responses[0].json_body
+        assert isinstance(body, dict)
+        assert_images_generations_response(body, request_config, run_level=self.run_level)
+    return responses
+
+# tests/e2e/.../test_foo_expansion.py — one case per test_* (no case_id branching)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("omni_server", [pytest.param(OmniServerParams(model=MODEL), marks=SINGLE_L4)], indirect=True)
+def test_foo_images_generations_default_1024(omni_server, openai_client) -> None:
+    openai_client.send_images_generations_request({"json": body, "timeout": 300})
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("omni_server", [pytest.param(OmniServerParams(model=MODEL), marks=SINGLE_L4)], indirect=True)
+def test_foo_images_generations_sizes_256_512_1024(omni_server, openai_client) -> None:
+    for size in ("256x256", "512x512", "1024x1024"):
+        openai_client.send_images_generations_request({"json": {**body, "size": size}, "timeout": 300})
+
+# chat diffusion — separate test; send_diffusion_request bundles assert_diffusion_response
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("omni_server", [pytest.param(OmniServerParams(model=MODEL), marks=SINGLE_L4)], indirect=True)
+def test_foo_chat_completions_t2i_fallback(omni_server, openai_client) -> None:
+    openai_client.send_diffusion_request({...})
+```
+
+L1 tests under `tests/entrypoints/` may keep **minimal** asserts next to the handler under test when validating a single branch; still prefer `assertions.py` when the same JSON/media check appears in more than one file or level (e.g. L1 protocol test + L4 e2e).
+
+#### Omni Test Writing Guidance (L1-L4 Layering)
+
+When the goal is a general Omni/multimodal test case, prioritize mapping the test to the correct purpose, directory, and resource assumptions aligned with the layers (see [CI_5levels.md](../../../docs/contributing/ci/CI_5levels.md)):
+
+- **L1**: Unit/logic validation on CPU (`core_model and cpu`). Cover input validation, branches, and exception paths (`tests/<component>/test_*.py`). **Mock with `mocker` / `monkeypatch` only — not `unittest.mock`.**
+- **L2**: Basic e2e (online/offline basic scenarios). Prefer dummy/lightweight models to validate the end-to-end request-to-output-structure/streaming chain (typically `tests/e2e/online_serving/` and `tests/e2e/offline_inference/`).
+- **L3/L4**: Important integration, performance, and accuracy validation. L4 emphasizes “full functional scenarios + performance/stress + runnable doc examples” (typically `*_expansion.py` plus related expansion cases).
+
+Also keep markers consistent with the run level: use `core_model` for L1/L2 and `advanced_model` for L3/L4, and pair with `--run-level` to select the intended CI strategy.
+
+#### Diffusion Test Writing Guidance (L4 Coverage Combinations)
+
+When the task involves diffusion models/features, organize L4 test cases following [`#1832`](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/issues/1832): combine multiple diffusion features into as few test cases as possible to fit limited CI GPU resources.
+
+Implementation strategy:
+
+1. If “full L4 is too heavy”: first provide a **reduced local validation case in L1/L2** (so the key assertion and the contract fix point are covered deterministically).
+2. Then provide **CI/nightly-ready L3/L4 high-marked cases** (e.g. `advanced_model`) to broaden coverage under resource constraints.
+
+#### L4 nightly sub-pillars — Function vs Accuracy vs Perf
+
+**L4 is not only `test_*_expansion.py`.** In `test-nightly.yml`, each model-type group typically runs **separate jobs**:
+
+| Sub-pillar | Nightly step label pattern | What you add | Typical paths |
+|------------|----------------------------|--------------|---------------|
+| **Function** | `· Function Test with …` | E2e expansion / feature matrix | `tests/e2e/online_serving/test_<model>_expansion.py` (or offline) |
+| **Accuracy** | `· Accuracy Test` | Quality / similarity vs baseline | `tests/e2e/accuracy/test_<model>*.py` |
+| **Perf** | `· Perf Test · <Model>` | Throughput / latency / memory benchmarks | `tests/dfx/perf/tests/test_<model>_vllm_omni.json` + runner script |
+| **Doc** (optional) | `· Doc Test` | Runnable doc examples | `tests/examples/*/test_text_to_image.py`, … |
+
+**Default when the user asks for “L4 functional cases”:** deliver **Function** pillar only (`*_expansion.py` + Function Test shard in `test-nightly.yml`). **Do not** silently add Perf or Accuracy unless the user also asks for **performance** / **benchmark** / **accuracy** / **full L4** / **full L4 coverage**.
+
+**When the user explicitly asks for L4 perf (or full L4 including perf):**
+
+1. **Do not** put throughput/latency assertions inside `test_*_expansion.py` — perf uses the **dfx benchmark harness**, not `omni_server` e2e fixtures.
+2. Add or extend a **JSON config** under `tests/dfx/perf/tests/` (mirror in-tree names: `test_qwen_image_vllm_omni.json`, `test_bagel_vllm_omni.json`).
+3. Each JSON entry: `test_name`, `server_params` (`model`, `serve_args`), `benchmark_params[]` with explicit **`baseline`** (`throughput_qps`, `latency_mean`, `peak_memory_mb_mean`, …).
+4. Run locally via the matching script (model type → runner):
+
+| Model type | Runner script | Example config |
+|------------|---------------|----------------|
+| **Diffusion X2I/X2V** | `tests/dfx/perf/scripts/run_diffusion_benchmark.py` | `tests/dfx/perf/tests/test_qwen_image_vllm_omni.json` |
+| **TTS** | `tests/dfx/perf/scripts/run_benchmark.py` | `tests/dfx/perf/tests/test_tts.json` (shared) or `test_{slug}.json` (dedicated; use when the model must not join the shared nightly matrix before integration — e.g. `test_voxcpm2.json`, `test_coqui_tts.json`) |
+| **Omni** | (see existing Omni Perf steps — `run_benchmark.py` / dedicated omni configs in-tree) | `tests/dfx/perf/tests/test_omni*.json` |
+
+5. Wire **`test-nightly.yml` · Perf Test** step for that model (separate from Function Test): export `DIFFUSION_BENCHMARK_DIR` / `BENCHMARK_DIR`, run pytest on the script with `--test-config-file`, **upload artifacts** (`buildkite-agent artifact upload`), often **multi-GPU H100** for diffusion perf.
+6. **One benchmark scenario → one `test_name` block** in JSON (same spirit as one `test_*` per function case). Combine server `serve_args` + workload in one entry; use multiple `benchmark_params` rows for size/step sweeps under the same server config.
+
+**Perf local command (diffusion example):**
+
+```bash
+cd tests
+export DIFFUSION_BENCHMARK_DIR=tests/dfx/perf/results
+export DIFFUSION_ATTENTION_BACKEND=FLASH_ATTN
+pytest -s -v dfx/perf/scripts/run_diffusion_benchmark.py \
+  --test-config-file dfx/perf/tests/test_<model>_vllm_omni.json
+```
+
+**Clarify in the test plan** which L4 pillars you deliver: `Function only` | `Function + Perf` | `Function + Accuracy + Perf`.
+
+See [references/test-routing.md](references/test-routing.md) **L4 nightly pillars** for Buildkite step patterns.
+
+### Step 5: Wire Buildkite (when CI must run the new test)
+
+If the test is not already collected by an existing pipeline command (for example, L1 tests marked `core_model and cpu` are already covered by the **Simple Unit Test** step in ready/merge), update the appropriate pipeline under `.buildkite/`:
+
+| Test level | Edit this file | Typical trigger / intent |
+|------------|----------------|---------------------------|
+| **L1** and **L2** | [`.buildkite/test-ready.yml`](../../../.buildkite/test-ready.yml) | PR **ready** label; L1 CPU + L2 GPU/basic e2e (steps labeled **Omni ·**, **TTS ·**, **Diffusion ·**) |
+| **L3** | [`.buildkite/test-merge.yml`](../../../.buildkite/test-merge.yml) | Post-merge; `advanced_model` integration per model type |
+| **L4** | [`.buildkite/test-nightly.yml`](../../../.buildkite/test-nightly.yml) | Nightly; grouped by model type (see below) |
+| **Invalid param / reliability (weekly)** | [`.buildkite/test-weekly.yml`](../../../.buildkite/test-weekly.yml) | Weekly; `tests/dfx/reliability/invalid_param_test/` — **not** L1–L4 e2e pipelines |
+
+**Level-specific Buildkite delivery (follow the user’s requested level):**
+
+| User asks for | Document / edit **only** | Do **not** add by default |
+|---------------|---------------------------|---------------------------|
+| **L4** (`*_expansion.py`, `full_model`) | `test-nightly.yml` — append file to the matching nightly shard (X2I / X2V / Omni / TTS) **or** note it is already collected by an existing `-m` / `-k` sweep | `test-merge.yml` (L3 / `advanced_model`) or `test-ready.yml` (L2) |
+| **L3** | `test-merge.yml` with `advanced_model` + `source_file_dependencies` | `test-nightly.yml` unless user also wants nightly |
+| **L2** | `test-ready.yml` with `core_model` + `source_file_dependencies` | merge / nightly pipelines |
+| **Invalid param** | `test-weekly.yml` — **Invalid parameters Test** group (`-m "slow and H100"` / `-m "slow and L4"`). Usually **no YAML edit** when appending cases to existing `invalid_param_test` scripts | `test-ready.yml`, `test-merge.yml`, `test-nightly.yml` |
+
+`test-nightly.yml` shards use **explicit pytest file paths** in `commands` (and PR labels like `diffusion-x2iat-test`); they generally **do not** use `source_file_dependencies`. Only suggest merge/ready YAML when the requested level is L3/L2 (or the user explicitly asks for multi-level CI).
+
+**`test-nightly.yml` top-level groups** (each uses `full_model` + type marker in pytest `-m`):
+
+| Group | Type marker | Notes |
+|-------|-------------|--------|
+| **Omni Model Test** | `omni` | Function / doc / accuracy / **perf** for Qwen-Omni family |
+| **TTS Model Test** | `tts` | `-m "full_model and L4 and tts"` (and H100 variants when enabled); **Perf Test** uses `run_benchmark.py` + `test_tts.json` |
+| **Diffusion X2I(&A&T) Model Test** | `diffusion` | Image/audio/text diffusion; explicit file shards for **Function**; **Perf Test · &lt;Model&gt;** uses `run_diffusion_benchmark.py` + JSON config |
+| **Diffusion X2V Model Test** | `diffusion` | Video-only (Wan, HunyuanVideo, …); PR label `diffusion-x2v-test`; separate **Perf** steps when in-tree |
+
+Guidelines when editing YAML:
+
+- **Match markers and `--run-level`** to the test: L1/L2 in `test-ready.yml` use `core_model` + `omni` / `tts` / `diffusion` as appropriate; L3 merge uses `advanced_model`; L4 nightly uses `full_model` with the same type marker.
+- **Diffusion L4**: add x2i/x2a/x2t expansion files to an **X2I(&A&T)** step; add x2v expansion files to **X2V** — never rely on a broad `tests/e2e/` sweep alone (shards exist to save GPU and avoid wrong queue).
+- **`source_file_dependencies` (required for new E2E jobs in `test-ready.yml` and `test-merge.yml`)**: every step under the **`:card_index_dividers: E2E Test`** group **must** declare `source_file_dependencies` so Buildkite only schedules the job when relevant paths change. Omitting it breaks path-based CI skipping for GPU e2e jobs.
+- **Reuse or extend an existing step** when the new test shares the same marker expression, queue, and timeout; otherwise add a new `steps:` entry with the correct `agents.queue`, `timeout_in_minutes`, and docker/kubernetes plugin blocks consistent with neighboring jobs.
+- **Job timeout — use `timeout_in_minutes` on the step, not `timeout` before pytest**: when adding or documenting a new E2E job in `test-ready.yml` / `test-merge.yml`, set `timeout_in_minutes` on the step and run `pytest` directly in `commands`. **Do not** wrap pytest in `timeout 40m bash -c "..."` / `timeout 20m bash -c "..."`; Buildkite already enforces the step deadline via `timeout_in_minutes`.
+- **Never omit `plugins` in skill examples or PR YAML snippets**: H100 E2E steps on `mithril-h100-pool` use the full `kubernetes` block (`resources`, `volumeMounts`, `env` with `HF_TOKEN` secret, `nodeSelector: gpu-h100-sxm`, `devshm` + `hf-cache` volumes). L4/docker steps on `gpu_1_queue` use the full `docker#v5.2.0` block (`shm-size`, `HF_HOME`, volumes). Do not write `# ... plugins unchanged` — paste the complete block from a sibling step.
+- **Platform forks** (e.g. AMD-ready / AMD-merge) live alongside these files; apply the same level → file mapping for those pipelines when the test is platform-specific.
+
+#### `source_file_dependencies` for E2E Test jobs (`test-ready.yml`, `test-merge.yml`)
+
+When adding or splitting a step inside the **E2E Test** group, **always** include `source_file_dependencies` on that step. List paths the job actually depends on — at minimum:
+
+1. **Test module(s)** — every `tests/e2e/...` file the `pytest` command runs (online and offline if both are in one step).
+2. **Model implementation** — `vllm_omni/model_executor/models/<family>/` and/or `vllm_omni/diffusion/models/<family>/` as applicable.
+3. **Stage / input plumbing** (omni & multi-stage TTS) — `vllm_omni/model_executor/stage_input_processors/<family>.py` when present.
+4. **Deploy / stage YAML** — `vllm_omni/deploy/<config>.yaml` or `vllm_omni/deploy/ci/<config>.yaml` referenced by the test’s `OmniServerParams` / `get_deploy_config_path(...)`.
+5. **Test helpers** (when changed in the same PR) — `tests/helpers/runtime.py` for new `send_*` client methods; `tests/helpers/assertions.py` for new shared `assert_*` helpers.
+
+Use **repo-relative paths** (no leading `./`). Prefer **directory** entries (`.../models/bagel/`) when the whole package matters; use **file** entries for single test modules and YAML configs. Mirror a neighboring step for the same model family (e.g. **Diffusion · Bagel Test** in `test-ready.yml`).
+
+**Example** (L2 ready — diffusion online smoke, H100 kubernetes):
+
+```yaml
+- label: "Diffusion · Bagel Test"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_bagel.py
+    - vllm_omni/model_executor/models/bagel/
+    - vllm_omni/diffusion/models/bagel/
+    - vllm_omni/model_executor/stage_input_processors/bagel.py
+    - vllm_omni/deploy/bagel.yaml
+  timeout_in_minutes: 40
+  commands:
+    - |
+      export VLLM_IMAGE_FETCH_TIMEOUT=60
+      pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_bagel.py -m 'core_model' --run-level 'core_model'
+  agents:
+    queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
+  plugins:
+    - kubernetes:
+        podSpec:
+          containers:
+            - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+              resources:
+                limits:
+                  nvidia.com/gpu: 1
+              volumeMounts:
+                - name: devshm
+                  mountPath: /dev/shm
+                - name: hf-cache
+                  mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
+              env:
+                - name: HF_HOME
+                  value: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                - name: HF_TOKEN
+                  valueFrom:
+                    secretKeyRef:
+                      name: hf-token-secret
+                      key: token
+          nodeSelector:
+            node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
+          volumes:
+            - name: devshm
+              emptyDir:
+                medium: Memory
+            - name: hf-cache
+              hostPath:
+                path: /mnt/hf-cache
+                type: DirectoryOrCreate
+```
+
+**Example** (L3 merge — TTS online + offline, L4 docker):
+
+```yaml
+- label: "TTS · Qwen3-TTS Base Test"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_tts_base.py
+    - tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_qwen3_tts_base.py
+    - vllm_omni/model_executor/models/qwen3_tts/
+    - vllm_omni/model_executor/stage_input_processors/qwen3_tts.py
+    - vllm_omni/deploy/qwen3_tts.yaml
+  timeout_in_minutes: 20
+  commands:
+    - |
+      export VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG
+      export VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN=1
+      pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_tts_base.py tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_qwen3_tts_base.py -m 'advanced_model and cuda' --run-level 'advanced_model'
+  agents:
+    queue: "gpu_1_queue" # g6.4xlarge instance on AWS, has 1 L4 GPU
+  plugins:
+    - docker#v5.2.0:
+        image: public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+        always-pull: true
+        propagate-environment: true
+        shm-size: "8gb"
+        environment:
+          - "HF_HOME=/fsx/hf_cache"
+        volumes:
+          - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"
+```
+
+**Example** (L3 merge — diffusion online + offline, H100 kubernetes):
+
+```yaml
+- label: "Diffusion · Qwen Image Test"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen_image.py
+    - tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_qwen_image.py
+    - vllm_omni/diffusion/models/qwen_image/
+  timeout_in_minutes: 40
+  commands:
+    - |
+      export VLLM_IMAGE_FETCH_TIMEOUT=60
+      pytest -s -v \
+        tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen_image.py \
+        tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_qwen_image.py \
+        -m 'advanced_model and cuda' --run-level 'advanced_model'
+  agents:
+    queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
+  plugins:
+    - kubernetes:
+        podSpec:
+          containers:
+            - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+              resources:
+                limits:
+                  nvidia.com/gpu: 1
+              volumeMounts:
+                - name: devshm
+                  mountPath: /dev/shm
+                - name: hf-cache
+                  mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
+              env:
+                - name: HF_HOME
+                  value: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                - name: HF_TOKEN
+                  valueFrom:
+                    secretKeyRef:
+                      name: hf-token-secret
+                      key: token
+          nodeSelector:
+            node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
+          volumes:
+            - name: devshm
+              emptyDir:
+                medium: Memory
+            - name: hf-cache
+              hostPath:
+                path: /mnt/hf-cache
+                type: DirectoryOrCreate
+```
+
+When extending an **existing** E2E step to run an additional test file, **append** that file (and any new model/deploy paths) to `source_file_dependencies` on the same step. When authoring a PR, mention the dependency list in the **Buildkite change** section of your test plan.
+
+#### L3 / L4: validating Buildkite from a feature branch (root `pipeline.yml`)
+
+Production behavior is driven by [`.buildkite/pipeline.yml`](../../../.buildkite/pipeline.yml): it builds the CI image, then uploads **L2** (`test-ready.yml` on non-`main`), **L3** (`test-merge.yml` when `build.branch == "main"`), and **L4** (`test-nightly.yml` when `build.env("NIGHTLY") == "1"`).
+
+When you add or debug **L3** or **L4** tests and need those child pipelines to run **off `main`** or **without** `NIGHTLY=1`, apply **temporary** edits (revert before merge):
+
+1. **Point the upload at the right file (optional shortcut)**  
+   In the **Upload Ready Pipeline** step, the command is `buildkite-agent pipeline upload .buildkite/test-ready.yml`. For a one-off run you may change that path to `.buildkite/test-merge.yml` (L3) or `.buildkite/test-nightly.yml` (L4), and adjust the step’s `if:` so it does not conflict with the other upload steps (avoid double-uploading unless intentional).
+
+2. **L3 — merge pipeline**  
+   The gate `if: build.branch == "main"` lives on the **Upload Merge Pipeline** step in `pipeline.yml` (not inside `test-merge.yml`). **Comment out that `if` line** so `test-merge.yml` is uploaded on your feature branch. Alternatively rely on step (1) instead of the dedicated merge upload step.
+
+3. **L4 — nightly pipeline**  
+   **Comment out** `if: build.env("NIGHTLY") == "1"` on the **Upload Nightly Pipeline** step in `pipeline.yml` so the nightly definition is uploaded without setting the env var.  
+   Child steps in [`test-nightly.yml`](../../../.buildkite/test-nightly.yml) often repeat `if: build.env("NIGHTLY") == "1"`; **comment out those lines on the steps you need to run**, otherwise they will still be skipped after upload.
+
+### Step 6: Run Tests
+
+Pick one command path:
+
+- **Quick local regression (preferred first)**: single file or `file.py::test_name`
+- **CI-like level run**: marker expression + `--run-level`
+
+Full templates live in [references/test-routing.md](references/test-routing.md). **After authoring tests, always emit concrete commands** (see **Output Format**).
+
+**Typical copy-paste examples** (run from repo `tests/` directory; requires matching vLLM/vllm-omni install and hardware):
+
+| Area | Example |
+|------|---------|
+| **Omni offline L2** | `pytest -s -v e2e/offline_inference/test_qwen2_5_omni.py -m "core_model and omni and not cpu" --run-level=core_model` |
+| **Omni online L2** | `pytest -s -v e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_omni.py -m "core_model and omni" --run-level=core_model` |
+| **TTS online L2** | `pytest -s -v e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_tts_base.py -m "core_model and tts" --run-level=core_model` |
+| **Diffusion X2I L2 online** | `pytest -s -v e2e/online_serving/test_qwen_image.py -m "core_model and diffusion" --run-level=core_model` |
+| **Diffusion X2V L2 online** | `pytest -s -v e2e/online_serving/test_wan22_t2v.py -m "core_model and diffusion" --run-level=core_model` |
+| **Diffusion X2I L4 nightly** | `pytest -s -v e2e/online_serving/test_qwen_image_expansion.py -m "full_model and diffusion and H100" --run-level=full_model` |
+| **Diffusion X2I L4 perf (nightly)** | `pytest -s -v dfx/perf/scripts/run_diffusion_benchmark.py --test-config-file dfx/perf/tests/test_qwen_image_vllm_omni.json` |
+| **Diffusion X2V L4 nightly** | `pytest -s -v e2e/online_serving/test_wan22_expansion.py -m "full_model and cuda" --run-level=full_model` |
+| **Invalid param (weekly H100)** | `pytest -s -v dfx/reliability/invalid_param_test/ -m "slow and H100"` |
+| **Invalid param (weekly L4)** | `pytest -s -v dfx/reliability/invalid_param_test/ -m "slow and L4"` |
+| **L1 CPU** | `pytest -s -v -m "core_model and cpu"` |
+
+**Prerequisites to mention when relevant**: GPU model (e.g. L4 vs H100), `HF_HOME` / token for hub weights, module-level `skipif` (NPU/XPU-only gaps), and whether CI already collects the path (e.g. `test_*_expansion.py` glob in `test-nightly.yml`).
+
+### Step 7: Validate Result Quality
+
+Before finishing:
+
+- Is the new assertion directly tied to the bug/feature contract?
+- Are API calls made via **`runtime.py` `send_*_request`** (not inline HTTP/SDK in the test file)?
+- Is the **general** `assert_*` bundled inside `send_*_request` (not duplicated in the test)?
+- Is each scenario a **separate `test_*` function** (no `case_id` / `if param.id` branching across cases)?
+- **Fixture scope**: default **`omni_server` / `omni_runner`** (module); **`_function`** variants only when each test must restart the instance?
+- Is the test deterministic (no fragile timing/network coupling)?
+- Is runtime appropriate for the selected level?
+- Are markers and `--run-level` consistent?
+- **Invalid-param cases** in `tests/dfx/reliability/invalid_param_test/` (not e2e), using `send_*_http_request` + `err_code`, with `pytest.mark.slow` and correct `H100` / `L4` hardware mark?
+
+## Output Format
+
+When completing a request, return:
+
+1. **Test plan** (level, markers, file target, **L4 pillar(s)** if applicable: Function / Accuracy / Perf / Doc; **or** **Invalid param** pillar with target `invalid_param_test/test_invalid_<area>.py`; module basename for e2e: `test_{slug}.py` / `test_{slug}_expansion.py`)
+2. **Generated/updated test file(s)** — model-specific constants and request payloads stay **inside** those test modules (**never** `tests/helpers/{slug}.py`). Extend **`tests/helpers/runtime.py`** / **`tests/helpers/assertions.py`** only when new **repo-wide** `send_*` or shared assert helpers are required (do not leave ad-hoc HTTP or `_assert_*` in test modules). **If L4 Perf was requested**, also list **`tests/dfx/perf/tests/*.json`**. **If invalid-param cases were requested**, list the **`invalid_param_test/` script** and parametrized `test_*` / new `id=` rows — **not** e2e paths.
+3. **Buildkite change** — **match the requested level and pillar**:
+   - **L4 Function**: `test-nightly.yml` **Function Test** shard (file list / note existing sweep). **No** `test-merge.yml` unless user also asked for L3.
+   - **L4 Perf**: `test-nightly.yml` **Perf Test · &lt;Model&gt;** step (new step or extend commands); include env exports + artifact upload pattern from a sibling perf job.
+   - **L4 Accuracy**: `test-nightly.yml` **Accuracy Test** step under the same model-type group.
+   - **L3**: `test-merge.yml` + full `source_file_dependencies` + `agents` + `plugins`.
+   - **L2**: `test-ready.yml` + same E2E block requirements.
+   - **Invalid param**: `test-weekly.yml` — note **Invalid parameters Test · H100/L4** group; usually **no YAML change** when only extending existing scripts.
+   If the user asked only for **L4 functional cases**, state explicitly that **Perf / Accuracy / Invalid param** were not included (offer to add if needed). If the plan mixes **success e2e** and **invalid param**, split deliverables across e2e vs `invalid_param_test/` and call out both CI files.
+4. **Run commands (required)** — always include, in fenced `bash` blocks:
+   - **Local — whole file**: `cd tests` then `pytest -s -v <path> …`
+   - **Local — single test** (optional but preferred when the change is one function): `pytest -s -v path::test_func …`
+   - **CI-like** (when not L1 CPU): the same **marker + `--run-level`** pairing the level uses (see [references/test-routing.md](references/test-routing.md) and **Step 6** table above)
+   - **Prerequisites** (one line): e.g. “Requires CUDA L4 + weights cached locally”; “Requires H100 + `HF_TOKEN`”; “Syntax-only validation when vllm is not installed locally”
+5. **Result summary** (pass/fail if you executed tests; if not executed, state that explicitly and what the user should run)
+
+## Additional Resources
+
+- Marker and command routing: [references/test-routing.md](references/test-routing.md)
+- CI pipelines (vllm-omni): [test-ready.yml](../../../.buildkite/test-ready.yml) (L1/L2), [test-merge.yml](../../../.buildkite/test-merge.yml) (L3), [test-nightly.yml](../../../.buildkite/test-nightly.yml) (L4), [test-weekly.yml](../../../.buildkite/test-weekly.yml) (invalid param / reliability)
+- L4 documentation example tests (naming, extraction vs copied scripts, output dirs, skips): [docs/contributing/ci/test_examples/l4_doc_example_tests.inc.md](../../../docs/contributing/ci/test_examples/l4_doc_example_tests.inc.md) — see also [PR #1910](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/pull/1910)
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+# Test Routing Reference
+
+Use this reference to map testing goals to levels, markers, and runnable commands.
+
+**Repo paths** (`.buildkite/`, `docs/contributing/…`): link with repo-relative paths from this file (e.g. `../../../../.buildkite/test-ready.yml`, `../../../../docs/contributing/ci/CI_5levels.md`).
+
+## Model-centric e2e filename convention (L2–L4)
+
+When generating a **new** test module tied to a **specific model** under `tests/e2e/offline_inference/` or `tests/e2e/online_serving/`:
+
+| Level | Pattern | Example (`Qwen/Qwen2.5-Omni-7B`) |
+|-------|---------|----------------------------------|
+| **L2**, **L3** | `test_{lowercase_model_slug}.py` | `test_qwen2_5_omni.py` |
+| **L4** | `test_{lowercase_model_slug}_expansion.py` | `test_qwen2_5_omni_expansion.py` |
+
+**Slug rules for `{lowercase_model_slug}`** (canonical: [SKILL.md](../SKILL.md) § *Naming: generated test module files*):
+
+1. Start from the HuggingFace-style id (e.g. `Qwen/Qwen2.5-Omni-7B`), but **do not** put the org into the filename: use the **repo segment only** (`Qwen2.5-Omni-7B`), not `Qwen_...` / `qwen_qwen2_5_...`.
+2. **Lowercase**; replace `.`, `-`, and whitespace with a single `_` (e.g. `Qwen2.5-Omni-7B` → `qwen2_5_omni`). **Omit** trailing size tokens such as `7b` / `30b` in the basename when a single file covers that model line in the directory (matches `test_qwen2_5_omni.py` in-tree).
+3. If two checkpoints in the same folder need separate modules, add a **minimal** disambiguator (e.g. `_7b` vs `_3b`) **only then**.
+4. **L1** unit tests are **not** bound to this pattern; use `tests/<area>/test_<feature>.py` as today.
+
+## Model type markers (`omni` / `tts` / `diffusion`)
+
+Every model-centric e2e test must declare **exactly one** type marker:
+
+| Marker | Model family | Typical APIs |
+|--------|--------------|--------------|
+| `pytest.mark.omni` | Multimodal LLM (Qwen-Omni, …) | `send_omni_request`, `omni_runner`, stage YAML |
+| `pytest.mark.tts` | TTS / speech synthesis | `send_audio_speech_request`, `/v1/audio/speech` |
+| `pytest.mark.diffusion` | Diffusion generative models | `send_diffusion_request`, `send_video_diffusion_request`, `send_images_generations_http_request`, `OmniDiffusionSamplingParams` |
+
+**Diffusion** uses one marker for all output modalities. Nightly CI splits diffusion by **group**, not by extra markers:
+
+| Nightly group (`test-nightly.yml`) | Diffusion scope | Examples |
+|-----------------------------------|-----------------|----------|
+| **Diffusion X2I(&A&T) Model Test** | x2**i** / x2**a** / x2**t** — image, audio, text (non-video) | Qwen-Image*, BAGEL, FLUX, SD3, Z-Image, LongCat, DreamZero |
+| **Diffusion X2V Model Test** | x2**v** — video only | Wan2.2, HunyuanVideo 1.5, Wan VACE |
+
+PR labels for selective nightly runs: `diffusion-x2iat-test`, `diffusion-x2v-test` (plus `nightly-test` / `NIGHTLY=1`).
+
+## Level and Marker Mapping
+
+| Goal | Suggested Level | Marker baseline | Typical location |
+|------|------------------|-----------------|------------------|
+| Unit logic, regression on pure code path | L1 | `core_model and cpu` | `tests/<component>/test_*.py` |
+
+### L1 unit tests — mocking (`mocker`, not `unittest.mock`)
+
+L1 modules run in **Simple Test** (`test-ready.yml` / `test-merge.yml`: `-m 'core_model and cpu'`). When isolation requires doubles:
+
+- **Use** the **`mocker`** fixture (`pytest-mock`): `mocker.patch`, `mocker.spy`, `mocker.Mock`, `mocker.MagicMock`, `mocker.AsyncMock`.
+- **Use** **`monkeypatch`** for env vars and simple `setattr` / `delattr` without mock objects.
+- **Do not use** `unittest.mock` — no `from unittest.mock import ...`, no `@patch`, no `with patch(...)`.
+
+```python
+# Good (L1)
+def test_handler(mocker):
+    mocker.patch("vllm_omni.pkg.fn", return_value=0)
+
+# Bad (L1)
+from unittest.mock import patch
+
+@patch("vllm_omni.pkg.fn")
+def test_handler(mock_fn): ...
+```
+
+E2E (L2+) should not rely on mocks unless documenting a rare exception; prefer real (or lightweight) execution paths.
+| Basic integration/e2e | L2 | `core_model` + **one of** `omni` / `tts` / `diffusion` | `tests/e2e/...` |
+| Advanced integration | L3 | `advanced_model` + type marker | `tests/e2e/...` |
+| Full function / nightly | L4 | `full_model` (nightly) + type marker | **Function:** `tests/e2e/*_expansion.py`; **Perf:** `tests/dfx/perf/tests/*.json`; **Accuracy:** `tests/e2e/accuracy/` |
+| Invalid HTTP / param validation | Weekly (dfx) | `pytest.mark.slow` + type marker + `H100` or `L4` | `tests/dfx/reliability/invalid_param_test/test_invalid_*.py` |
+
+## Marker Selection Rules
+
+1. **Level** (pick one):
+   - `core_model` — L1/L2 (`test-ready.yml`)
+   - `advanced_model` — L3 (`test-merge.yml`)
+   - `full_model` — L4 nightly (`test-nightly.yml`); some expansion tests still carry both `advanced_model` and `full_model` during migration
+2. **Model type** (pick one): `omni`, `tts`, or `diffusion`
+3. **Cross-cutting** when relevant: `parallel`, `cache`, `example`, `benchmark`
+4. **Hardware**: `cpu`, `cuda`, `rocm`, `npu`, `L4`, `H100`, `distributed_cuda`, …
+5. Multi-card: `@hardware_test(...)` in `tests/helpers/mark.py`
+
+## Command Templates
+
+### Quick local checks
+
+```bash
+cd tests
+pytest -s -v test_xxxx.py
+```
+
+### L1
+
+```bash
+cd tests
+pytest -s -v -m "core_model and cpu"
+```
+
+### L2
+
+```bash
+cd tests
+pytest -s -v -m "core_model and not cpu" --run-level=core_model
+```
+
+### L3 (merge)
+
+```bash
+cd tests
+pytest -s -v -m "advanced_model" --run-level=advanced_model
+```
+
+### L4 (nightly)
+
+**Function** (e2e expansion — default when user asks for “L4 functional cases”):
+
+```bash
+cd tests
+pytest -s -v e2e/online_serving/test_qwen_image_expansion.py -m "full_model and diffusion and H100" --run-level=full_model
+```
+
+**Perf** (dfx benchmark harness — separate pillar; not `omni_server` fixtures):
+
+```bash
+cd tests
+export DIFFUSION_BENCHMARK_DIR=tests/dfx/perf/results
+export DIFFUSION_ATTENTION_BACKEND=FLASH_ATTN
+pytest -s -v dfx/perf/scripts/run_diffusion_benchmark.py \
+  --test-config-file dfx/perf/tests/test_qwen_image_vllm_omni.json
+```
+
+Broad marker sweep (when no explicit file shard):
+
+```bash
+cd tests
+pytest -s -v -m "full_model" --run-level=full_model
+```
+
+## L4 nightly pillars (Function / Accuracy / Perf)
+
+Nightly **L4** for a model is often **multiple jobs** in `test-nightly.yml`, not a single pytest module:
+
+| Pillar | User says | Deliver | Nightly step |
+|--------|-----------|---------|--------------|
+| **Function** | “L4 functional cases” / “functional” / `*_expansion.py` | `tests/e2e/.../test_<model>_expansion.py` | `· Function Test with H100/L4` |
+| **Perf** | “performance” / “perf” / “benchmark” / “full L4” | `tests/dfx/perf/tests/test_<model>_vllm_omni.json` + runner | `· Perf Test · <Model>` |
+| **Accuracy** | “accuracy” / “similarity” | `tests/e2e/accuracy/test_<model>*.py` | `· Accuracy Test` |
+
+**Rule:** “L4 functional cases” → **Function only** by default. State that Perf/Accuracy are separate pillars; add them only when requested.
+
+**Diffusion perf JSON** (`tests/dfx/perf/tests/test_<slug>_vllm_omni.json`): array of objects with `test_name`, `server_params` (`model`, `serve_args`), `benchmark_params[]`, and per-workload **`baseline`** (`throughput_qps`, `latency_mean`, `peak_memory_mb_mean`). Copy structure from `test_qwen_image_vllm_omni.json` in-tree.
+
+**Diffusion perf nightly step** (under **Diffusion X2I(&A&T)**; copy full `kubernetes` plugins from `· Perf Test · Qwen-Image`):
+
+```yaml
+      - label: ":full_moon: Diffusion X2I(&A&T) · Perf Test · <Model-Display-Name>"
+        key: nightly-diffusion-x2iat-performance-<slug>
+        timeout_in_minutes: 180
+        commands:
+          - export DIFFUSION_BENCHMARK_DIR=tests/dfx/perf/results
+          - export DIFFUSION_ATTENTION_BACKEND=FLASH_ATTN
+          - export CACHE_DIT_VERSION=1.3.0
+          - |
+            set +e
+            pytest -s -v tests/dfx/perf/scripts/run_diffusion_benchmark.py --test-config-file tests/dfx/perf/tests/test_<slug>_vllm_omni.json
+            EXIT=$$?
+            buildkite-agent artifact upload "tests/dfx/perf/results/diffusion_result_*.json"
+            buildkite-agent artifact upload "tests/dfx/perf/results/logs/*.log"
+            exit $$EXIT
+        agents:
+          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
+        plugins:
+          # … full kubernetes block (often multi-GPU) — copy from Perf Test · Qwen-Image
+```
+
+| Model type | Perf runner | Config example |
+|------------|-------------|----------------|
+| Diffusion X2I/X2V | `dfx/perf/scripts/run_diffusion_benchmark.py` | `test_qwen_image_vllm_omni.json` |
+| TTS | `dfx/perf/scripts/run_benchmark.py` | `test_tts.json` (`BENCHMARK_DIR`) |
+| Omni | `run_benchmark.py` / omni configs in-tree | `test_omni*.json` |
+
+Do **not** put throughput/latency baselines inside `test_*_expansion.py` — that belongs in the dfx perf JSON + nightly Perf job.
+
+## Invalid parameter validation (weekly / dfx)
+
+When the user’s test plan includes **invalid parameter validation**, **invalid request bodies**, or **HTTP 4xx** validation against a live server:
+
+1. **Do not** author these in `tests/e2e/online_serving/test_*.py` or `*_expansion.py`. **Move** any drafted `test_*` into `tests/dfx/reliability/invalid_param_test/`.
+2. **Pick script by route** (extend in-tree file):
+
+| Route family | Script |
+|--------------|--------|
+| Omni chat / WS video·realtime | `test_invalid_omni_chat.py` |
+| `/v1/audio/speech` (+ stream / batch / voices) | `test_invalid_audio_speech.py` |
+| Audio diffusion | `test_invalid_audio_diffusion.py` |
+| `/v1/images/generations` | `test_invalid_image_generation.py` |
+| `/v1/images/edits` | `test_invalid_image_editing.py` |
+| `/v1/videos*` | `test_invalid_video_generation.py` |
+| Sleep / wakeup / server control | `test_invalid_server_control.py` |
+
+3. **Style:** `pytestmark = [pytest.mark.slow, pytest.mark.<type>]`; `_PARAMS` + `hardware_marks`; `send_*_http_request` with `err_code` + `err_message`; parametrized `body_spec` rows with `id=`; `_minimal_*_json()` helpers; `_SKIP_ISSUE_3649` when tracked in [#3649](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/issues/3649).
+4. **CI:** [`.buildkite/test-weekly.yml`](../../../../.buildkite/test-weekly.yml) group **Reliability Test - Invalid parameters Test** — **not** ready/merge/nightly.
+
+```bash
+# Weekly H100 (diffusion / omni / video invalid-param)
+cd tests
+pytest -s -v dfx/reliability/invalid_param_test/ -m "slow and H100"
+
+# Weekly L4 (e.g. Qwen3-TTS speech invalid-param)
+pytest -s -v dfx/reliability/invalid_param_test/ -m "slow and L4"
+
+# Single script / case
+pytest -s -v dfx/reliability/invalid_param_test/test_invalid_image_generation.py::test_images_generations_invalid_requests -m "slow and H100"
+```
+
+**Trigger:** `WEEKLY=1` or PR label `weekly-test`. Appending cases to existing scripts usually needs **no YAML edit** (directory sweep). No `source_file_dependencies` on weekly steps.
+
+### Platform-targeted examples
+
+```bash
+cd tests
+pytest -s -v -m "core_model and distributed_cuda and L4" --run-level=core_model
+```
+
+### Concrete e2e paths (common in-tree)
+
+Paths are relative to `tests/` after `cd tests`.
+
+| Scenario | Example command |
+|----------|------------------|
+| **Omni** offline L2 | `pytest -s -v e2e/offline_inference/test_qwen2_5_omni.py -m "core_model and omni and not cpu" --run-level=core_model` |
+| **Omni** offline L2 — one test | `pytest -s -v e2e/offline_inference/test_qwen2_5_omni.py::test_text_to_text -m "core_model and omni and not cpu" --run-level=core_model` |
+| **Omni** online L2 | `pytest -s -v e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_omni.py -m "core_model and omni" --run-level=core_model` |
+| **Omni** offline L2 (Qwen3.5-9B VL) | `pytest -s -v e2e/offline_inference/test_qwen3_5_9b.py -m "core_model and omni and not cpu" --run-level=core_model` |
+| **TTS** online L2 | `pytest -s -v e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_tts_base.py -m "core_model and tts" --run-level=core_model` |
+| **TTS** online L2 — one test | `pytest -s -v e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_tts_base.py::test_text_to_audio_001 -m "core_model and tts" --run-level=core_model` |
+| **Diffusion X2I** offline L2 | `pytest -s -v e2e/offline_inference/test_t2i_model.py -m "core_model and diffusion and not cpu" --run-level=core_model` |
+| **Diffusion X2I** L2 online smoke | `pytest -s -v e2e/online_serving/test_qwen_image.py e2e/online_serving/test_bagel.py -m "core_model and diffusion" --run-level=core_model` |
+| **Diffusion X2V** L2 online smoke | `pytest -s -v e2e/online_serving/test_wan22_t2v.py -m "core_model and diffusion" --run-level=core_model` |
+| **Diffusion X2I** L4 online expansion (H100) | `pytest -s -v e2e/online_serving/test_qwen_image_expansion.py -m "full_model and diffusion and H100" --run-level=full_model` |
+| **Diffusion X2I** L4 perf (nightly) | `pytest -s -v dfx/perf/scripts/run_diffusion_benchmark.py --test-config-file dfx/perf/tests/test_qwen_image_vllm_omni.json` |
+| **Diffusion X2I** L4 online expansion (Edit) | `pytest -s -v e2e/online_serving/test_qwen_image_edit_expansion.py -m "full_model and diffusion and H100" --run-level=full_model` |
+| **Diffusion X2V** L4 nightly | `pytest -s -v e2e/online_serving/test_wan22_expansion.py -m "full_model and cuda" --run-level=full_model` |
+| **Invalid param** weekly H100 | `pytest -s -v dfx/reliability/invalid_param_test/ -m "slow and H100"` |
+| **Invalid param** weekly L4 | `pytest -s -v dfx/reliability/invalid_param_test/ -m "slow and L4"` |
+
+### Agent / author completion checklist
+
+When adding or modifying tests, do not stop at “where the file lives” — also deliver:
+
+1. **Local**: `cd tests` + `pytest -s -v <path>` (and `path::test_func` when a single case is enough).
+2. **CI-like**: marker string + `--run-level` matching the pipeline (`core_model` / `advanced_model` / `full_model`).
+3. **L1 mocks**: `mocker` / `monkeypatch` only; no `unittest.mock`.
+4. **API client + assert placement**: **General** validation → implement in `assertions.py`, call **inside** `send_*_request` in `runtime.py`; tests call **`send_*_request` only**. **Special** case validation → `assert_*` in `assertions.py`, called **in the test** after `send_*_request`. Low-level `send_*_http_request` is for negative/dfx tests (`err_code`), not ordinary L2+ success e2e.
+5. **Shared assertions**: logic in **`tests/helpers/assertions.py`**; general checks inside `send_*_request`; special checks only in the test. No `_assert_*` in `test_*.py`.
+6. **One case → one `test_*`**: function name reflects what is validated; no `if case_id == ...` mega-test merging multiple scenarios.
+7. **Fixture scope**: default **`omni_server` + `openai_client`** / **`omni_runner` + `omni_runner_handler`** (module). Use **`omni_server_function` + `openai_client_function`** / **`omni_runner_function` + `omni_runner_handler_function`** only when each `test_*` must spawn a fresh instance. Parametrize name must match fixture (`omni_server` vs `omni_server_function`).
+8. **Type marker**: `omni`, `tts`, or `diffusion` on every model e2e module.
+9. **Diffusion L4 Function**: wire `*_expansion.py` into **X2I(&A&T)** or **X2V** **Function Test** in **`test-nightly.yml` only** — do not add `test-merge.yml` unless the user also requested L3.
+10. **Diffusion L4 Perf** (only when requested): add `tests/dfx/perf/tests/test_<slug>_vllm_omni.json` + **Perf Test · &lt;Model&gt;** step (artifact upload); not part of “L4 functional cases” by default.
+11. **E2E Buildkite (L2/L3 only)**: `test-ready.yml` / `test-merge.yml` steps need **`source_file_dependencies`** + full **`agents` + `plugins`**. **L4 nightly** uses explicit file lists or perf scripts in `test-nightly.yml` (no merge job).
+12. **Invalid param**: cases in **`tests/dfx/reliability/invalid_param_test/`** (route-matching script), `send_*_http_request` + `err_code`, `pytest.mark.slow` + `H100`/`L4`; CI = **`test-weekly.yml`** only — do not put in e2e or nightly.
+13. **Prerequisites**: GPU tier, HF cache/token, and any module `skipif` / platform-only YAML.
+
+## Buildkite pipeline mapping
+
+| Level | Repo file | Model-type grouping |
+|-------|-----------|---------------------|
+| L1, L2 | [`.buildkite/test-ready.yml`](../../../../.buildkite/test-ready.yml) | Steps prefixed **Omni ·**, **TTS ·**, **Diffusion ·** under **E2E Test** — **`source_file_dependencies` required** |
+| L3 | [`.buildkite/test-merge.yml`](../../../../.buildkite/test-merge.yml) | Per-model E2E steps; `-m "advanced_model and …"` — **`source_file_dependencies` required** |
+| L4 | [`.buildkite/test-nightly.yml`](../../../../.buildkite/test-nightly.yml) | **Omni / TTS / Diffusion X2I(&A&T) / X2V** — each group may have **Function**, **Accuracy**, **Perf**, **Doc** steps |
+| Invalid param (weekly) | [`.buildkite/test-weekly.yml`](../../../../.buildkite/test-weekly.yml) | **Invalid parameters Test · H100** / **· L4** — sweeps `tests/dfx/reliability/invalid_param_test/` |
+
+### `source_file_dependencies` (E2E Test only — ready & merge)
+
+Required on each step inside the **E2E Test** group in `test-ready.yml` and `test-merge.yml`. Typical entries:
+
+| Category | Path pattern |
+|----------|----------------|
+| Test module | `tests/e2e/online_serving/test_<slug>.py`, `tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_<slug>.py` |
+| API client helpers | `tests/helpers/runtime.py` (when the e2e job uses newly added `send_*` methods) |
+| Shared assert helpers | `tests/helpers/assertions.py` (when the e2e job uses newly added `assert_*` helpers) |
+| AR / omni model | `vllm_omni/model_executor/models/<family>/` |
+| Diffusion model | `vllm_omni/diffusion/models/<family>/` |
+| Stage processor | `vllm_omni/model_executor/stage_input_processors/<family>.py` |
+| Deploy config | `vllm_omni/deploy/<name>.yaml` or `vllm_omni/deploy/ci/<name>.yaml` |
+
+Copy the dependency block from the closest in-tree E2E step for the same model family. Update the list whenever the pytest command or server YAML changes.
+
+### E2E `agents` + `plugins` blocks (required — do not truncate)
+
+When generating or documenting E2E steps, **always include the complete `plugins` section**. Set **`timeout_in_minutes`** on the step for the job deadline; run **`pytest` directly** in `commands` (no `timeout 40m bash -c` wrapper around pytest).
+
+Common patterns in `test-ready.yml` / `test-merge.yml`:
+
+| Queue | Plugin | Required fields |
+|-------|--------|-----------------|
+| `mithril-h100-pool` | `kubernetes` | `resources.limits.nvidia.com/gpu`, `volumeMounts` (`devshm`, `hf-cache`), `env` (`HF_HOME`, `HF_TOKEN` via `secretKeyRef`), `nodeSelector: gpu-h100-sxm`, `volumes` (`devshm` emptyDir, `hf-cache` hostPath `/mnt/hf-cache`) |
+| `gpu_1_queue` / `gpu_4_queue` | `docker#v5.2.0` | `image`, `always-pull`, `propagate-environment`, `shm-size: "8gb"`, `environment: HF_HOME`, `volumes: /fsx/hf_cache` (add `HF_TOKEN` when the step needs hub access) |
+
+**H100 kubernetes template** (copy from **Diffusion · Bagel Test** / **Diffusion · Qwen Image Test** in-tree):
+
+```yaml
+  agents:
+    queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
+  plugins:
+    - kubernetes:
+        podSpec:
+          containers:
+            - image: 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vllm-ci-pull-through-cache/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+              resources:
+                limits:
+                  nvidia.com/gpu: 1
+              volumeMounts:
+                - name: devshm
+                  mountPath: /dev/shm
+                - name: hf-cache
+                  mountPath: /root/.cache/huggingface
+              env:
+                - name: HF_HOME
+                  value: /root/.cache/huggingface
+                - name: HF_TOKEN
+                  valueFrom:
+                    secretKeyRef:
+                      name: hf-token-secret
+                      key: token
+          nodeSelector:
+            node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: gpu-h100-sxm
+          volumes:
+            - name: devshm
+              emptyDir:
+                medium: Memory
+            - name: hf-cache
+              hostPath:
+                path: /mnt/hf-cache
+                type: DirectoryOrCreate
+```
+
+**L4 docker template** (copy from **TTS · Qwen3-TTS Base Test** in `test-merge.yml`):
+
+```yaml
+  agents:
+    queue: "gpu_1_queue"
+  plugins:
+    - docker#v5.2.0:
+        image: public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-test-repo:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+        always-pull: true
+        propagate-environment: true
+        shm-size: "8gb"
+        environment:
+          - "HF_HOME=/fsx/hf_cache"
+        volumes:
+          - "/fsx/hf_cache:/fsx/hf_cache"
+```
+
+When extending an existing step (e.g. add `tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_qwen_image.py` to **Diffusion · Qwen Image Test**), update `source_file_dependencies` and `commands` only; **keep the existing `agents` + `plugins` block unchanged** unless the hardware tier changes.
+
+The root [`.buildkite/pipeline.yml`](../../../../.buildkite/pipeline.yml) decides **which** child file is uploaded. To run **L3** on a feature branch, comment out `if: build.branch == "main"` on the merge upload step. To run **L4** without `NIGHTLY=1`, comment out the nightly upload step’s `if: build.env("NIGHTLY") == "1"` and the same `if` on relevant steps inside `test-nightly.yml`. Revert such edits before merging.
+
+Platform-specific pipelines (e.g. AMD) follow the same level → file pairing under `.buildkite/`.
+
+## Diffusion RFC (#1832) Alignment Tips
+
+For **X2I(&A&T)** coverage planning:
+
+- Prioritize high-value feature combinations with minimal case count.
+- Split into lightweight L1/L2 validation plus L4 `*_expansion.py` under the **X2I** nightly shards.
+- **X2V** models (Wan, HunyuanVideo) stay in the **X2V** group — do not merge into X2I sweeps.
+
+If hardware is insufficient, provide an executable reduced case plus a deferred full CI/nightly plan.
@@ -22,30 +22,30 @@
 /.buildkite/ @yenuo26 @congw729

 # Engine and model_executor
-/vllm_omni/core/ @tzhouam @yinpeiqi @fake0fan
-/vllm_omni/engine/ @tzhouam @yinpeiqi @fake0fan
-/vllm_omni/entrypoints/ @tzhouam @yinpeiqi @fake0fan
+/vllm_omni/core/ @tzhouam @yinpeiqi @fake0fan @Sy0307
+/vllm_omni/engine/ @tzhouam @yinpeiqi @fake0fan @Sy0307
+/vllm_omni/entrypoints/ @tzhouam @yinpeiqi @fake0fan @alex-jw-brooks
 /vllm_omni/model_executor/ @tzhouam @gcanlin
 /vllm_omni/worker/ @tzhouam @gcanlin

 # Diffusion
-/vllm_omni/diffusion/ @Isotr0py @princepride @SamitHuang @wtomin @ZJY0516 @RuixiangMa @david6666666
+/vllm_omni/diffusion/ @Isotr0py @princepride @SamitHuang @wtomin @ZJY0516 @RuixiangMa @david6666666 @xuechendi
 /vllm_omni/lora/ @princepride @SamitHuang @wtomin @ZJY0516 @RuixiangMa @yuanheng-zhao

 # Diffusion CPU offloading
-/vllm_omni/diffusion/offloader/ @Isotr0py @princepride @SamitHuang @wtomin @ZJY0516 @RuixiangMa @yuanheng-zhao
+/vllm_omni/diffusion/offloader/ @Isotr0py @princepride @SamitHuang @wtomin @ZJY0516 @RuixiangMa @yuanheng-zhao @xuechendi

 # Omni and TTS support
 /vllm_omni/transformers_utils/ @tzhouam @yuanheng-zhao
-/vllm_omni/model_executor/models/ @linyueqian @ZeldaHuang @princepride @yuanheng-zhao @amy-why-3459 @Bounty-hunter
+/vllm_omni/model_executor/models/ @linyueqian @ZeldaHuang @princepride @yuanheng-zhao @amy-why-3459 @Bounty-hunter @Sy0307 @gcanlin

 # Benchmarks
 /benchmarks/accuracy/ @david6666666
 /benchmarks/build_dataset/ @linyueqian @yuanheng-zhao
-/benchmarks/diffusion/ @Isotr0py @princepride @SamitHuang @wtomin @ZJY0516 @RuixiangMa
+/benchmarks/diffusion/ @Isotr0py @princepride @SamitHuang @wtomin @ZJY0516 @RuixiangMa @xuechendi
 /benchmarks/distributed/ @princepride
 /benchmarks/glm_image/ @princepride @JaredforReal
-/benchmarks/tts/ @linyueqian @ZeldaHuang @princepride
+/benchmarks/tts/ @linyueqian @ZeldaHuang @princepride @Sy0307 @gcanlin

 # Usability and Observability
 /vllm_omni/deploy/ @tzhouam @lishunyang12
@@ -53,13 +53,13 @@
 /vllm_omni/profiler/ @gcanlin

 # ComfyUI
-/apps/ @fhfuih
+/apps/ @fhfuih @alex-jw-brooks

 # Large Scale Serving
 /vllm_omni/distributed/ @princepride @yuanheng-zhao @xuechendi @natureofnature @fake0fan

 # Quantization and configuration
-/vllm_omni/config/ @lishunyang12
+/vllm_omni/config/ @lishunyang12 @alex-jw-brooks
 /vllm_omni/quantization/ @david6666666 @Isotr0py @lishunyang12

 # Hardware plugins and accelerators
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ body:

      Consider redacting or replacing sensitive values with placeholders like `<YOUR_TOKEN_HERE>` when sharing configuration or code examples.
 - type: textarea
+  id: current-environment
  attributes:
    label: Your current environment
    description: |
@@ -42,6 +43,7 @@ body:
    required: true

 - type: textarea
+  id: code-version
  attributes:
    label: Your code version
    description: |
@@ -66,6 +68,7 @@ body:
    required: true

 - type: textarea
+  id: bug-description
  attributes:
    label: 🐛 Describe the bug
    description: |
@@ -1,21 +1,15 @@
 <!-- markdownlint-disable -->
-PLEASE FILL IN THE PR DESCRIPTION HERE ENSURING ALL CHECKLIST ITEMS (AT THE BOTTOM) HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED.
+PLEASE FILL IN THE PR DESCRIPTION HERE.

 ## Purpose

 ## Test Plan

+**vLLM Version:**
+
+**vLLM-Omni Commit:**
+
 ## Test Result

---
-<details>
-<summary> Essential Elements of an Effective PR Description Checklist </summary>
-
- [ ] The purpose of the PR, such as "Fix some issue (link existing issues this PR will resolve)".
- [ ] The test plan. Please provide the test scripts & test commands. Please state the reasons if your codes don't require additional test scripts. For test file guidelines, please check the [test style doc](https://docs.vllm.ai/projects/vllm-omni/en/latest/contributing/ci/tests_style/)
- [ ] The test results. Please paste the results comparison before and after, or the e2e results.
- [ ] (Optional) The necessary documentation update, such as updating `supported_models.md` and `examples` for a new model. **Please run `mkdocs serve` to sync the documentation editions to `./docs`.**
- [ ] (Optional) Release notes update. If your change is user-facing, please update the release notes draft.
-</details>
-
-**BEFORE SUBMITTING, PLEASE READ <https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md>** (anything written below this line will be removed by GitHub Actions)
+**BEFORE SUBMITTING:** read [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) and run the [precheck-pr skill](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/blob/main/.claude/skills/precheck-pr/SKILL.md) with the code agent for a self-check against project conventions.
+(anything written below this line will be removed by GitHub Actions)
@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ cache/
 .cache/
 diffusion_cache/
 kv_cache/
+!vllm_omni/experimental/ar_diffusion/kv_cache/

 # Logs
 logs/
@@ -241,6 +242,7 @@ datasets/
 *.json
 !tests/dfx/perf/tests/*.json
 !apps/ComfyUI-vLLM-Omni/example_workflows/*.json
+!tests/assets/soulxsinger/*.json
 *.jsonl
 *.parquet

@@ -270,3 +272,6 @@ vllm_omni/_version.py
 .worktrees/
 # CI overlay yamls materialized from tests/utils.py:_CI_OVERLAYS at test time
 tests/.ci_generated/
+
+# Local Lance precision-matching dump scripts (not part of the repo)
+lance_compare/
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ build:
  jobs:
    post_checkout:
      - git fetch --unshallow || true
+    pre_install:
+      # Pre-install CPU torch so the subsequent `pip install .[docs]` does not
+      # pull ~2 GB of CUDA 13 libs (cuBLAS/cuDNN/NCCL/...) that exceed RTD's
+      # 1 GB memory cap and time out the mkdocs build.
+      - python -m pip install --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu torch

 mkdocs:
  configuration: mkdocs.yml
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 # Contributing to vLLM-Omni

 You may find information about contributing to vLLM-Omni on [Contributing](https://vllm-omni.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing/)
+
+Before submitting a PR, run the [precheck-pr skill](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/blob/main/.claude/skills/precheck-pr/SKILL.md) with the code agent for a self-check against project conventions.
@@ -9,13 +9,14 @@ Easy, fast, and cheap omni-modality model serving for everyone
 </h3>

 <p align="center">
-| <a href="https://vllm-omni.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"><b>Documentation</b></a> | <a href="https://discuss.vllm.ai"><b>User Forum</b></a> | <a href="https://slack.vllm.ai"><b>Developer Slack</b></a> | <a href="docs/assets/WeChat.jpg"><b>WeChat</b></a> | <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02204"><b>Paper</b></a> | <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/111-L8zF7A1j_YI_cR8JsblofdScdRr2f/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=110473603432222024453&rtpof=true&sd=true"><b>Slides</b></a> |
+| <a href="https://vllm-omni.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"><b>Documentation</b></a> | <a href="https://deepwiki.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni"><b>DeepWiki</b></a> | <a href="https://discuss.vllm.ai"><b>User Forum</b></a> | <a href="https://slack.vllm.ai"><b>Developer Slack</b></a> | <a href="docs/assets/WeChat.jpg"><b>WeChat</b></a> | <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02204"><b>Paper</b></a> | <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/111-L8zF7A1j_YI_cR8JsblofdScdRr2f/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=110473603432222024453&rtpof=true&sd=true"><b>Slides</b></a> |
 </p>


 ---

 *Latest News* 🔥
+- [2026/06] We released [0.22.0](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/releases/tag/v0.22.0) - an **omnimodal world-model** release aligned with vLLM 0.22, featuring [Nvidia Cosmos3](recipes/cosmos3/Cosmos3-Nano.md)/DreamZero world model support, expanded quantization coverage across Blackwell/NPU/XPU, TTS production improvements, new models including MiniCPM-o 4.5, MOSS-TTS, and Lance, plus RL integration with [VeRL-Omni](https://github.com/verl-project/verl-omni).
 - [2026/05] We released [0.20.0](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/releases/tag/v0.20.0) - refreshes the serving/runtime stack for large-scale omni workloads, and improves diffusion model performance, quantization, and hardware readiness across CUDA, ROCm, MUSA, NPU, and XPU backends.
 - [2026/03] We released [0.18.0](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/releases/tag/v0.18.0) - strengthens the core runtime through a large entrypoint refactor and scheduler/runtime cleanups, expands unified quantization and diffusion execution, broadens multimodal model coverage, and improves production readiness across audio, omni, image, video, RL, and multi-platform deployments.
 - [2026/03] Check out our first public [project deepdive](https://youtu.be/sgwNfsNnR9I) at the vLLM Hong Kong Meetup!
@@ -56,8 +57,9 @@ vLLM-Omni is flexible and easy to use with:

 vLLM-Omni seamlessly supports most popular open-source models on HuggingFace, including:

- Omni-modality models (e.g. Qwen-Omni)
- Multi-modality generation models (e.g. Qwen-Image)
+- **Omni-modality models** (e.g. Qwen3-Omni, Cosmos, HunyuanImage, BAGEL)
+- **TTS models** (e.g. Qwen3-TTS, VoxCPM2, Ming-Omni-TTS, CosyVoice3)
+- **Diffusion models** — image, video, and audio generation (e.g. Qwen-Image, Wan2.2, FLUX)

 ## Getting Started

@@ -66,6 +68,7 @@ Visit our [documentation](https://vllm-omni.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) to learn
 - [Installation](https://vllm-omni.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/installation/)
 - [Quickstart](https://vllm-omni.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/quickstart/)
 - [List of Supported Models](https://vllm-omni.readthedocs.io/en/latest/models/supported_models/)
+- [Deployment Recipes](https://recipes.vllm.ai) for vLLM-Omni model serving

 ## Contributing

@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+# LVSA Long-Video Showcase
+
+**Training-free block-sparse attention for long-video diffusion**, running on
+vLLM-Omni via the public plugin entry points (no core changes). LVSA speeds up
+extended-horizon generation and prevents the freeze/loop failure mode dense
+attention exhibits beyond a model's training length — with no fine-tuning and no
+weight changes.
+
+Upstream: **[LongVideoSparseAttention](https://github.com/JiusiServe/LongVideoSparseAttention)**
+(algorithm, all model adapters, full docs).
+
+## Results
+
+Wan 2.1 1.3B, single A100 80 GB, mean over 5 prompts (Dense vs LVSA-FlashInfer):
+
+| Horizon | 1× | 2× | 3× | 4× | 5× | 6× |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| **Speedup** | 0.9× | 1.4× | 1.9× | 2.5× | 3.0× | **3.5×** |
+| **VQeval composite** (Dense→LVSA) | 63→63 | 59→63 | 61→63 | 61→64 | 59→64 | 59→63 |
+
+The speedup **grows with length** (LVSA is the dense regime at 1× by design, so
+the win starts at 2×), and quality *improves* at extension — LVSA's rotating
+keyframes prevent the looping/static output dense produces beyond its horizon
+(VQeval loop-quality +27 to +34 at ≥3×). At long horizons dense **OOMs on 80 GB**
+(HunyuanVideo ≥2×, Wan2.1-14B and Cosmos at 6×) where LVSA still generates.
+
+→ Full sweep (5 models × 6 horizons, VQeval + VBench-Long) and the
+quality-metric methodology:
+**[benchmarks/](https://github.com/JiusiServe/LongVideoSparseAttention/tree/main/benchmarks)**.
+
+## Quickstart
+
+```bash
+# 1. vLLM-Omni 0.22.0 (stable) + matching vLLM
+pip install "vllm==0.22.0"
+pip install --no-build-isolation \
+  "vllm-omni @ git+https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni.git@v0.22.0"
+
+# 2. LVSA core + plugin
+git clone https://github.com/JiusiServe/LongVideoSparseAttention.git
+( cd LongVideoSparseAttention && pip install -e . && pip install -e lvsa-vllm-omni/ )
+
+# 3. this showcase's client dep
+pip install requests
+```
+
+FlashInfer (used by the default `flashinfer` backend) **ships with vLLM** — step 1
+already pulls the pinned `flashinfer-python` + `flashinfer-cubin`, so the fused
+backend works with no extra install. Two optional extras:
+
+```bash
+# (optional) faster startup — prebuilt JIT cache, matched to your CUDA + flashinfer
+CU=cu128   # match your CUDA: cu121 / cu124 / cu128 / …
+FIVER=$(python -c "import importlib.metadata as m; print(m.version('flashinfer-python'))")
+pip install --extra-index-url "https://flashinfer.ai/whl/${CU}" \
+  "flashinfer-jit-cache==${FIVER}+${CU}"
+
+# (fallback) no FlashInfer in your environment? run the SDPA backend instead:
+export LVSA_BACKEND=sdpa
+```
+
+```bash
+# Serve an LVSA-enabled endpoint (Wan 2.1 1.3B at 2× horizon):
+MODEL=/path/to/Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers MODEL_FAMILY=wan FRAMES=161 \
+  bash serve_lvsa.sh
+
+# In another shell — generate:
+python generate.py --frames 161 --height 480 --width 832 \
+  --prompt "A dog running through a sunlit forest." --out wan_lvsa.mp4
+```
+
+`serve_lvsa.sh` sets the LVSA env vars for the chosen `MODEL_FAMILY`
+(`wan` / `hunyuan`). Wan and HunyuanVideo run through the LVSA **attention
+backend** by default — it stays sparse even under sequence-parallel, unlike the
+monkey-patch hooks.
+
+## Configuration
+
+The one knob you must get right is the model's training horizon
+(`LVSA_REFERENCE_LATENT_FRAMES`: Wan = 21, HunyuanVideo = 33); `serve_lvsa.sh`
+sets it per family. For the full environment-variable reference, the multi-GPU
+support matrix, and tuning (`sparsity_scale`, rotating keyframes, non-standard
+resolutions), see the upstream docs:
+
+- **[lvsa-vllm-omni plugin reference](https://github.com/JiusiServe/LongVideoSparseAttention/blob/main/lvsa-vllm-omni/README.md)** — every `LVSA_*` env var
+- **[docs/parallelism.md](https://github.com/JiusiServe/LongVideoSparseAttention/blob/main/docs/parallelism.md)** — TP / Ulysses / HSDP support per model
+- **[docs/tuning.md](https://github.com/JiusiServe/LongVideoSparseAttention/blob/main/docs/tuning.md)** — picking knobs for your model and horizon
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""Generate a long video through an LVSA-enabled vLLM-Omni server.
+
+A thin client over the Omni video API — start the server first with
+``serve_lvsa.sh``. The sparse attention runs server-side; this just submits a
+job and saves the result.
+
+Uses the **asynchronous** endpoint (``POST /v1/videos`` → poll
+``GET /v1/videos/{id}`` → download ``GET /v1/videos/{id}/content``) rather than
+``POST /v1/videos/sync``. The sync endpoint is capped by a fixed server-side
+timeout (``VIDEO_SYNC_TIMEOUT_S``, 600 s) and is documented as
+"for benchmark and testing scenarios" — long videos (LVSA's use case) routinely
+exceed it. The async job has no such cap.
+
+  python generate.py --frames 481 --height 480 --width 832 \
+      --prompt "A golden retriever running through a sunlit forest." \
+      --out dog_forest_lvsa.mp4
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import os
+import time
+
+import requests
+
+
+def main():
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    ap.add_argument("--server", default=os.environ.get("OMNI_SERVER", "http://localhost:8000"))
+    ap.add_argument("--prompt", default="A dog running through a sunlit forest.")
+    ap.add_argument("--frames", type=int, default=161)  # Wan 2x horizon
+    ap.add_argument("--height", type=int, default=480)
+    ap.add_argument("--width", type=int, default=832)
+    ap.add_argument("--fps", type=int, default=16)
+    ap.add_argument("--steps", type=int, default=50)
+    ap.add_argument("--guidance", type=float, default=5.0)
+    ap.add_argument("--out", default="lvsa_long_video.mp4")
+    ap.add_argument("--poll-interval", type=float, default=5.0, help="Seconds between status polls.")
+    ap.add_argument(
+        "--max-wait", type=float, default=7200.0, help="Give up if the job hasn't finished after this many seconds."
+    )
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+
+    base = args.server.rstrip("/")
+    form = {
+        "prompt": args.prompt,
+        "size": f"{args.width}x{args.height}",
+        "num_frames": str(args.frames),
+        "fps": str(args.fps),
+        "num_inference_steps": str(args.steps),
+        "guidance_scale": str(args.guidance),
+    }
+
+    # ── 1. submit the async job ──────────────────────────────────────────────
+    print(f"[lvsa-app] POST {base}/v1/videos  {args.width}x{args.height} {args.frames}f steps={args.steps}")
+    resp = requests.post(f"{base}/v1/videos", data=form, timeout=120)
+    resp.raise_for_status()
+    job = resp.json()
+    vid = job["id"]
+    print(f"[lvsa-app] job {vid} ({job.get('status', '?')})")
+
+    # ── 2. poll until completed / failed ─────────────────────────────────────
+    deadline = time.time() + args.max_wait
+    last = None
+    while True:
+        if time.time() > deadline:
+            raise SystemExit(f"[lvsa-app] timed out after {args.max_wait:.0f}s (job {vid} still running)")
+        time.sleep(args.poll_interval)
+        r = requests.get(f"{base}/v1/videos/{vid}", timeout=60)
+        if r.status_code != 200:
+            # retrieve_video returns a non-200 JSON when the job has FAILED
+            raise SystemExit(f"[lvsa-app] job failed: {r.text}")
+        st = r.json()
+        status = st.get("status")
+        progress = st.get("progress", 0)
+        if (status, progress) != last:
+            print(f"[lvsa-app] {status}  {progress}%")
+            last = (status, progress)
+        if status == "completed":
+            break
+        if status == "failed":
+            raise SystemExit(f"[lvsa-app] job failed: {st.get('error')}")
+
+    # ── 3. download the rendered mp4 ─────────────────────────────────────────
+    c = requests.get(f"{base}/v1/videos/{vid}/content", timeout=600)
+    c.raise_for_status()
+    with open(args.out, "wb") as f:
+        f.write(c.content)
+    print(f"[lvsa-app] saved {args.out}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Start an LVSA-enabled vLLM-Omni server for Wan or HunyuanVideo.
+#
+# LVSA is selected as the attention backend via --diffusion-attention-config (see
+# below); the `LVSA_*` env vars only tune it. The `lvsa-vllm-omni` plugin registers
+# itself through vLLM-Omni's `general_plugins` entry points — nothing in vLLM-Omni
+# core is modified. Watch the log for "[LVSA] Geometry detected" to confirm sparse
+# attention is active for your request geometry.
+#
+#   MODEL=/path/to/Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers MODEL_FAMILY=wan     FRAMES=161 bash serve_lvsa.sh
+#   MODEL=/path/to/HunyuanVideo-1.5-...       MODEL_FAMILY=hunyuan FRAMES=193 bash serve_lvsa.sh
+set -euo pipefail
+
+MODEL=${MODEL:?set MODEL=/path/to/Wan-or-HunyuanVideo-Diffusers}
+MODEL_FAMILY=${MODEL_FAMILY:-wan}     # wan | hunyuan
+PORT=${PORT:-8000}
+FRAMES=${FRAMES:-161}                 # target horizon in frames
+VAE_T=${VAE_T:-4}                     # VAE temporal compression (Wan/Hunyuan = 4)
+BACKEND=${LVSA_BACKEND:-flashinfer}   # flashinfer (fused, fastest) | sdpa
+
+T_LAT=$(( (FRAMES - 1) / VAE_T + 1 ))
+
+# Per-family training reference horizon (Wan train ref = 21, Hunyuan = 33).
+case "$MODEL_FAMILY" in
+  wan)     REFERENCE=${REFERENCE:-21} ;;
+  hunyuan) REFERENCE=${REFERENCE:-33} ;;
+  *) echo "MODEL_FAMILY must be 'wan' or 'hunyuan'"; exit 1 ;;
+esac
+export LVSA_BACKEND="$BACKEND"
+export LVSA_TOTAL_LATENT_FRAMES="$T_LAT"
+export LVSA_REFERENCE_LATENT_FRAMES="$REFERENCE"
+export LVSA_ROTATE_KEYFRAMES=${LVSA_ROTATE_KEYFRAMES:-1}
+
+echo "[lvsa-app] serving $MODEL ($MODEL_FAMILY) on :$PORT"
+echo "[lvsa-app]   LVSA backend=$BACKEND  T_lat=$T_LAT (frames=$FRAMES)  reference=$REFERENCE"
+echo "[lvsa-app]   confirm activation by grep '\\[LVSA\\] Geometry detected' in this log"
+
+# vLLM-Omni 0.22 selects the LVSA attention backend per-role via
+# --diffusion-attention-config. The backend is what drives sparse attention
+# here; it engages under tensor-parallel too, unlike the LVSA_*_HOOK monkey-patch
+# path (which falls back to dense under sequence-parallel), so we deliberately do
+# NOT set a hook.
+exec vllm serve "$MODEL" --omni --host 0.0.0.0 --port "$PORT" \
+     --diffusion-attention-config '{"per_role": {"self": {"backend": "LVSA"}}}' \
+     --init-timeout 1800 ${EXTRA_ARGS:-}
@@ -1,44 +1,60 @@
-# Benchmarks Overview and Architecture
+# Benchmarks

-This document explains the benchmark architecture across all benchmark assets in this repo. It describes what we measure, and where to find or plug in new scenarios. Per-task details remain in subfolder READMEs (e.g., `benchmarks/<model>/README.md`).
+This directory contains benchmark suites for evaluating different model families and infrastructure components in vLLM-Omni. Each subfolder targets a different benchmark family with its own scripts, configs, and metrics. See the per-subfolder READMEs for detailed usage.

-## Scope and goals
- Establish repeatable latency/throughput measurements for multimodal LLM pipelines.
- Provide both HF Transformers (offline) and vLLM-Omni (multi-stage/pipeline) baselines.
- Make it easy to plug in new datasets and models with minimal changes to the runner scripts.
+## Benchmark families

-## Dataset and inputs
- Default example: SeedTTS top-100 prompts (`benchmarks/build_dataset/top100.txt`) via `benchmarks/build_dataset/`.
- Extensible: drop in new prompt files or modality-aligned payloads; keep the expected format for the consuming scripts (e.g., one prompt per line).
- If you add a new dataset, document it under `benchmarks/<model>/README.md` and point scripts to your data path.
+### [TTS](tts/README.md) — Text-to-Speech

-## Directory layout
- `benchmarks/build_dataset/` — dataset prep utilities (e.g., SeedTTS top100).
- `benchmarks/<model>/vllm_omni/` — vLLM-Omni pipeline benchmarks, logs, outputs.
- `benchmarks/accuracy/` — accuracy benchmark integrations that adapt external
-  benchmark suites to vLLM-Omni serving and evaluation flows.
- Add new tasks under `benchmarks/<model>/...` with the same pattern: `transformers/`, `vllm_omni/`, task-specific README, and (optionally) dataset prep notes.
+Model-agnostic serving benchmarks for TTS models, including Qwen3-TTS and VoxCPM2.

-## Reference workflows
- **HF Transformers (offline, single process)**  
-  Script (example): `benchmarks/<model>/transformers/eval_qwen3_moe_omni_transformers.sh`  
-  Outputs: `benchmark_results/perf_stats.json`, `benchmark_results/results.json`, `benchmark_results/audio/` (if audio is produced).
+- **Layout**: `tts/bench_tts.py` (serving benchmark driver), `tts/model_configs.yaml` (model registry), `tts/plot_results.py` (result plotting)
+- **Dataset**: Seed-TTS full or text-only datasets, plus bundled smoke/design prompts under `build_dataset/`
+- **Key metrics**: TTFP (time to first audio packet), E2E latency, RTF (real-time factor), throughput (audio seconds / wall-clock second)

- **vLLM-Omni end-to-end pipeline**  
-  Script (example): `benchmarks/<model>/vllm_omni/eval_qwen3_moe_omni.sh`  
-  Outputs: `vllm_omni/logs/*.stats.jsonl` (per-stage/overall latency & TPS), `vllm_omni/logs/stage*.log`, `vllm_omni/outputs/` (text/audio artifacts).
+### [Diffusion](diffusion/README.md) — Image and Video Generation

- **Adding a new task/model**  
-  1) Create `benchmarks/<model>/transformers/` and/or `benchmarks/<model>/vllm_omni/` with scripts referencing your model and dataset.  
-  2) Add a task README describing dataset, configs, and expected outputs.  
-  3) Keep the output/log structure similar for easy comparison (perf_stats/results/audio or text outputs; stats.jsonl/logs for pipeline).
+Online-serving benchmark for diffusion image/video models, sending requests to the configured vLLM serving endpoint (`/v1/chat/completions`, `/v1/images/generations`, or `/v1/videos`, depending on backend/task).

-## Metrics to watch
- **Throughput**: `overall_tps`, `*_tps_avg` per stage.
- **Latency distribution**: look for long tails in `*.stats.jsonl`.
- **Quality/completeness**: missing outputs or errors in stage logs indicate pipeline failures or misconfigurations.
+- **Tasks**: text-to-image, text-to-video, image-to-image, image-to-video, text+image-to-image, text+image-to-video
+- **Datasets**: `vbench`, `trace`, `random`
+- **Key metrics**: request throughput, latency percentiles, optional SLO attainment

-## Troubleshooting
- Verify GPU/driver/FlashAttention2 requirements for your chosen model/config.
- Ensure network access for dataset/model downloads (Google Drive, Hugging Face, etc.).
- If outputs are missing or slow, inspect per-stage logs and `*.stats.jsonl` for errors, stragglers, or contention.
+### [GLM-Image](glm_image/README.md) — Text-to-Image and Image-to-Image
+
+Benchmarks for GLM-Image performance across HuggingFace baseline, vLLM-Omni offline inference, and vLLM-Omni online serving.
+
+- **Layout**: `glm_image/huggingface/` (HF baseline), `glm_image/vllm-omni/` (offline inference), `glm_image/benchmark_glm_image.py` (online serving)
+- **Tasks**: text-to-image and image-to-image
+- **Key metrics**: request/image throughput, latency percentiles, optional per-stage pipeline timings
+
+### [Distributed](distributed/omni_connectors/README.md) — RDMA Connector Testing
+
+RDMA environment setup and transfer tests for `MooncakeTransferEngineConnector`, including pytest-based single-node checks and manual cross-node benchmarks.
+
+- **Transfer modes**: `copy`, `zerocopy`, `gpu` (GPUDirect)
+- **Supports**: single-node pytest suites and manual multi-node/cross-node transfer testing
+
+### [Accuracy](accuracy/README.md) — Image Generation and Editing Quality
+
+Accuracy benchmarks for image generation/editing models, adapting external suites to vLLM-Omni serving and local judge-evaluation flows.
+
+- **Layout**: `accuracy/text_to_image/` (GEBench), `accuracy/image_to_image/` (GEdit-Bench)
+- **Method**: generation and judge scoring both run through local `vllm-omni serve` endpoints
+
+### Common serving metrics framework
+
+`vllm_omni/benchmarks/` extends `vllm bench serve --omni` with Omni-specific datasets, backends, and multimodal metrics. Key metrics include:
+
+- **Text output**: TTFT (time to first token), TPOT (time per output token), ITL (inter-token latency)
+- **Audio output**: TTFP (time to first audio packet), E2E latency, RTF (real-time factor)
+- **Throughput**: request throughput, output token throughput, total token throughput, audio throughput
+
+See `vllm_omni/benchmarks/serve.py` for the `vllm bench serve --omni` runner wrapper and `vllm_omni/benchmarks/metrics/` for Omni metric definitions.
+
+## Adding a new benchmark
+
+1. Create a subfolder under `benchmarks/<name>/` with scripts, configs if needed, and a `README.md`.
+2. If comparing against another runtime, use clear backend subfolders where applicable, such as `huggingface/` and `vllm-omni/`, or follow the shared TTS serving benchmark pattern in `tts/`.
+3. Add reusable dataset or prompt-building utilities to `build_dataset/` if applicable.
+4. Update this README with a link to the new benchmark family.
@@ -151,6 +151,9 @@ class VllmOmniImageClient:
        seed: int | None = None,
        negative_prompt: str | None = None,
        output_compression: int | None = None,
+        bot_task: str | None = None,
+        sys_type: str | None = None,
+        system_prompt: str | None = None,
    ) -> Image.Image:
        if not isinstance(images, list):
            images = [images]
@@ -170,6 +173,12 @@ class VllmOmniImageClient:
            data["negative_prompt"] = negative_prompt
        if output_compression is not None:
            data["output_compression"] = str(output_compression)
+        if bot_task is not None:
+            data["bot_task"] = bot_task
+        if sys_type is not None:
+            data["sys_type"] = sys_type
+        if system_prompt is not None:
+            data["system_prompt"] = system_prompt

        files = [
            (
@@ -64,6 +64,47 @@ def resolve_model_name(*, model_name: str | None, model: str | None = None, outp
    raise ValueError("model-name is required when it cannot be inferred from model or output-root")


+def _coerce_score_int(value: Any) -> int:
+    if isinstance(value, bool):
+        raise TypeError(f"Expected numeric score, got bool: {value!r}")
+    if isinstance(value, (int, float)):
+        return int(value)
+    if isinstance(value, str):
+        stripped = value.strip()
+        if stripped.lstrip("-").isdigit():
+            return int(stripped)
+    raise TypeError(f"Expected numeric score, got {type(value).__name__}: {value!r}")
+
+
+def _expand_score_entry(entry: Any) -> list[int]:
+    if isinstance(entry, dict):
+        if "score" in entry:
+            return [_coerce_score_int(entry["score"])]
+        if "value" in entry:
+            return [_coerce_score_int(entry["value"])]
+        numeric_values = [_coerce_score_int(value) for value in entry.values()]
+        if numeric_values:
+            return numeric_values
+        raise TypeError(f"Score dict has no numeric values: {entry!r}")
+    return [_coerce_score_int(entry)]
+
+
+def _normalize_score_list(score: Any) -> list[int]:
+    if isinstance(score, dict):
+        entries: list[Any] = [score]
+    elif isinstance(score, list):
+        entries = score
+    else:
+        entries = [score]
+
+    normalized: list[int] = []
+    for entry in entries:
+        normalized.extend(_expand_score_entry(entry))
+    if not normalized:
+        raise ValueError(f"Empty score list after normalization: {score!r}")
+    return normalized
+
+
 def parse_score_payload(raw_text: str) -> dict[str, Any]:
    try:
        parsed = extract_json_object(raw_text)
@@ -73,10 +114,7 @@ def parse_score_payload(raw_text: str) -> dict[str, Any]:
            parsed = {"score": json.loads(stripped), "reasoning": ""}
        else:
            raise
-    score = parsed.get("score", [])
-    if not isinstance(score, list):
-        score = [score]
-    parsed["score"] = [int(value) for value in score]
+    parsed["score"] = _normalize_score_list(parsed.get("score", []))
    return parsed


@@ -391,6 +429,9 @@ class GEditBenchRunner:
        num_inference_steps: int = 20,
        guidance_scale: float | None = None,
        seed: int | None = 42,
+        bot_task: str | None = None,
+        sys_type: str | None = None,
+        system_prompt: str | None = None,
    ):
        self.dataset_ref = dataset_ref
        self.output_root = output_root
@@ -400,6 +441,9 @@ class GEditBenchRunner:
        self.num_inference_steps = num_inference_steps
        self.guidance_scale = guidance_scale
        self.seed = seed
+        self.bot_task = bot_task
+        self.sys_type = sys_type
+        self.system_prompt = system_prompt
        self.client = VllmOmniImageClient(base_url=base_url, api_key=api_key)

    def generate(
@@ -478,6 +522,9 @@ class GEditBenchRunner:
            num_inference_steps=self.num_inference_steps,
            guidance_scale=self.guidance_scale,
            seed=self.seed,
+            bot_task=self.bot_task,
+            sys_type=self.sys_type,
+            system_prompt=self.system_prompt,
        )
        edited_image.save(output_path)
        return {
@@ -633,6 +680,25 @@ def build_parser() -> argparse.ArgumentParser:
    generate.add_argument("--num-inference-steps", type=int, default=20)
    generate.add_argument("--guidance-scale", type=float, default=None)
    generate.add_argument("--seed", type=int, default=42)
+    generate.add_argument(
+        "--bot-task",
+        type=str,
+        default=None,
+        choices=["think", "recaption", "think_recaption", "vanilla"],
+        help="HunyuanImage-3 prompting mode for /v1/images/edits (optional).",
+    )
+    generate.add_argument(
+        "--sys-type",
+        type=str,
+        default=None,
+        help="Hunyuan system-prompt type (e.g. en_unified). Defaults from --bot-task when omitted.",
+    )
+    generate.add_argument(
+        "--system-prompt",
+        type=str,
+        default=None,
+        help="Custom Hunyuan system prompt body (sys_type=custom).",
+    )
    generate.add_argument("--workers", type=int, default=1)
    generate.add_argument("--max-samples", type=int, default=None)
    generate.add_argument("--samples-per-group", type=int, default=None)
@@ -675,6 +741,9 @@ def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
            num_inference_steps=args.num_inference_steps,
            guidance_scale=args.guidance_scale,
            seed=args.seed,
+            bot_task=args.bot_task,
+            sys_type=args.sys_type,
+            system_prompt=args.system_prompt,
        )
        records = runner.generate(
            model_name=model_name,
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+se001|ocean waves crashing on a rocky beach|10.0
+se002|heavy rain on a metal roof at night|8.0
+se003|a dog barking in the distance|6.0
+se004|a crackling campfire in a quiet forest|10.0
+se005|footsteps on dry leaves|6.0
+se006|thunder rolling across a wide valley|8.0
+se007|a busy coffee shop with chatter and espresso machines|10.0
+se008|wind howling through tall pine trees|8.0
+se009|a small stream flowing over pebbles|10.0
+se010|a creaking wooden door slowly opening|6.0
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+ttsd001|prompt-wavs/spk1.wav|prompt-wavs/spk2.wav|[S1] Hello and welcome to the show today. [S2] Thanks for having me, it's a pleasure to be here. [S1] Let's dive right in.
+ttsd002|prompt-wavs/spk1.wav|prompt-wavs/spk2.wav|[S1] Did you finish the report? [S2] Almost — I'm just polishing the conclusion. [S1] Great, send it over when you're done.
+ttsd003|prompt-wavs/spk1.wav|prompt-wavs/spk2.wav|[S1] Have you tried that new restaurant downtown? [S2] Yes, the pasta is amazing. [S1] I'll book a table for Friday.
+ttsd004|prompt-wavs/spk1.wav|prompt-wavs/spk2.wav|[S1] What did you think of yesterday's meeting? [S2] Productive, but a bit long. [S1] Agreed, we should set an hour cap next time.
+ttsd005|prompt-wavs/spk1.wav|prompt-wavs/spk2.wav|[S1] The weather is beautiful today. [S2] Perfect for a hike. [S1] Want to drive out to the trails this afternoon?
+ttsd006|prompt-wavs/spk1.wav|prompt-wavs/spk2.wav|[S1] How did the demo go? [S2] Better than expected — the client signed off on the prototype. [S1] Fantastic news!
+ttsd007|prompt-wavs/spk1.wav|prompt-wavs/spk2.wav|[S1] Coffee or tea this morning? [S2] Coffee please, with a splash of milk. [S1] Coming right up.
+ttsd008|prompt-wavs/spk1.wav|prompt-wavs/spk2.wav|[S1] Did you read the email about the deadline change? [S2] I did, we now have until next Friday. [S1] That should give us enough buffer.
+ttsd009|prompt-wavs/spk1.wav|prompt-wavs/spk2.wav|[S1] Are you joining the team dinner tonight? [S2] I'll be there around seven. [S1] See you then.
+ttsd010|prompt-wavs/spk1.wav|prompt-wavs/spk2.wav|[S1] Have we backed up the database? [S2] Last backup ran two hours ago. [S1] Good, I'll trigger a fresh snapshot before the migration.
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ python3 benchmarks/diffusion/diffusion_benchmark_serving.py \

 **Notes**

- The benchmark talks to `http://<host>:<port>/v1/chat/completions`.
+- By default, image tasks talk to `http://<host>:<port>/v1/chat/completions`; video tasks talk to `/v1/videos`.
 - If you run the server on another host or port, pass `--base-url` accordingly.

 ## 2. Supported Datasets
@@ -95,8 +95,9 @@ You can point to your own trace using `--dataset-path`.

 ### Basic flags

- `--base-url`: Server address (the script calls `.../v1/chat/completions`).
+- `--base-url`: Server address; `--endpoint` selects the path appended to this base URL.
 - `--model`: The OpenAI-compatible `model` field.
+- `--endpoint`: API endpoint path. Leading `/` is optional, e.g. `/v1/videos` or `v1/videos`.
 - `--task`: Task type (e.g., `t2i`, `t2v`, `i2i`, `i2v`).
 - `--dataset`: Dataset mode (`vbench` / `trace` / `random`).
 - `--num-prompts`: Number of requests to send.
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ from typing import Any
 import aiohttp
 from tqdm import tqdm

+DEFAULT_EDITS_BOT_TASK = "think"
+

@dataclass
 class RequestFuncInput:
@@ -27,6 +29,7 @@ class RequestFuncInput:
    extra_body: dict[str, Any] = field(default_factory=dict)
    image_paths: list[str] | None = None
    request_id: str = field(default_factory=lambda: str(uuid.uuid4()))
+    default_bot_task: str | None = DEFAULT_EDITS_BOT_TASK


@dataclass
@@ -53,6 +56,95 @@ def _encode_image_as_data_url(path: str) -> str:
    return f"data:{mime};base64,{encoded}"


+async def async_request_image_edits(
+    input: RequestFuncInput,
+    session: aiohttp.ClientSession,
+    pbar: tqdm | None = None,
+    enable_diffusion_pipeline_profiler: bool = False,
+) -> RequestFuncOutput:
+    """POST /v1/images/edits (multipart)."""
+    del enable_diffusion_pipeline_profiler
+    output = RequestFuncOutput()
+    output.start_time = time.perf_counter()
+
+    extra_body = dict(input.extra_body)
+    width = input.width or extra_body.get("width") or 1024
+    height = input.height or extra_body.get("height") or 1024
+    edits_url = input.api_url
+
+    form = aiohttp.FormData()
+    form.add_field("model", input.model)
+    form.add_field("prompt", input.prompt)
+    form.add_field("size", f"{width}x{height}")
+    form.add_field("response_format", "b64_json")
+
+    if input.num_inference_steps is not None:
+        form.add_field("num_inference_steps", str(input.num_inference_steps))
+    elif extra_body.get("num_inference_steps") is not None:
+        form.add_field("num_inference_steps", str(extra_body["num_inference_steps"]))
+
+    if input.seed is not None:
+        form.add_field("seed", str(input.seed))
+    elif extra_body.get("seed") is not None:
+        form.add_field("seed", str(extra_body["seed"]))
+
+    if extra_body.get("guidance_scale") is not None:
+        form.add_field("guidance_scale", str(extra_body["guidance_scale"]))
+    if extra_body.get("negative_prompt") is not None:
+        form.add_field("negative_prompt", str(extra_body["negative_prompt"]))
+    if extra_body.get("true_cfg_scale") is not None:
+        form.add_field("true_cfg_scale", str(extra_body["true_cfg_scale"]))
+    if extra_body.get("sys_type") is not None:
+        form.add_field("sys_type", str(extra_body["sys_type"]))
+    if extra_body.get("system_prompt") is not None:
+        form.add_field("system_prompt", str(extra_body["system_prompt"]))
+
+    bot_task = extra_body.get("bot_task")
+    if bot_task is None and input.default_bot_task is not None:
+        bot_task = input.default_bot_task
+    if bot_task is not None:
+        form.add_field("bot_task", str(bot_task))
+
+    assert input.image_paths is not None
+    for img_path in input.image_paths:
+        if not os.path.exists(img_path):
+            output.error = f"Image file not found: {img_path}"
+            output.success = False
+            if pbar:
+                pbar.update(1)
+            return output
+        with open(img_path, "rb") as img_f:
+            image_bytes = img_f.read()
+        form.add_field(
+            "image",
+            image_bytes,
+            filename=os.path.basename(img_path),
+            content_type=_guess_mime_type(img_path),
+        )
+
+    try:
+        async with session.post(edits_url, data=form) as response:
+            if response.status == 200:
+                resp_json = await response.json()
+                output.response_body = resp_json
+                output.success = True
+            else:
+                output.error = f"HTTP {response.status}: {await response.text()}"
+                output.success = False
+    except Exception as e:
+        output.error = str(e)
+        output.success = False
+
+    output.latency = time.perf_counter() - output.start_time
+
+    if output.success and input.slo_ms is not None:
+        output.slo_achieved = (output.latency * 1000.0) <= float(input.slo_ms)
+
+    if pbar:
+        pbar.update(1)
+    return output
+
+
 async def async_request_chat_completions(
    input: RequestFuncInput,
    session: aiohttp.ClientSession,
@@ -151,7 +243,7 @@ async def async_request_chat_completions(
    return output


-async def async_request_openai_images(
+async def async_request_openai_image_generations(
    input: RequestFuncInput,
    session: aiohttp.ClientSession,
    pbar: tqdm | None = None,
@@ -348,12 +440,39 @@ async def async_request_v1_videos(
    return output


+LEGACY_BACKEND_ENDPOINT_ALIASES = {
+    "vllm-omni": "/v1/chat/completions",
+    "openai": "/v1/images/generations",
+}
+
+
+def normalize_endpoint(value: str) -> str:
+    endpoint = str(value).strip()
+    if not endpoint:
+        raise ValueError("endpoint must not be empty.")
+    endpoint = LEGACY_BACKEND_ENDPOINT_ALIASES.get(
+        endpoint,
+        LEGACY_BACKEND_ENDPOINT_ALIASES.get(endpoint.lstrip("/"), endpoint),
+    )
+    if not endpoint.startswith("/"):
+        endpoint = f"/{endpoint}"
+    return endpoint
+
+
+def endpoint_filename_token(value: str) -> str:
+    token = normalize_endpoint(value).lstrip("/")
+    for bad in ("/", "\\", ":", "*", "?", '"', "<", ">", "|"):
+        token = token.replace(bad, "_")
+    return token or "endpoint"
+
+
 backends_function_mapping = {
    "2i": {
-        "vllm-omni": (async_request_chat_completions, "/v1/chat/completions"),
-        "openai": (async_request_openai_images, "/v1/images/generations"),
+        "/v1/chat/completions": (async_request_chat_completions, "/v1/chat/completions"),
+        "/v1/images/generations": (async_request_openai_image_generations, "/v1/images/generations"),
+        "/v1/images/edits": (async_request_image_edits, "/v1/images/edits"),
    },
    "2v": {
-        "v1/videos": (async_request_v1_videos, "/v1/videos"),
+        "/v1/videos": (async_request_v1_videos, "/v1/videos"),
    },
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,328 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+"""Standalone diagnostic for the diffusion attention backends added in #3079.
+
+Exercises the same synthetic attention shape through each backend and each
+torch SDPA sub-kernel, with and without an attn_mask, so we can pinpoint why
+CUDNN_ATTN underperforms on some SKUs. Two typical causes:
+
+  (a) cuDNN lacks a tuned kernel for this (SM, head_dim, seq) combination
+      and silently falls back to MATH.
+  (b) attn_mask is non-None and the cuDNN SDPA dispatch rejects it,
+      walking CUDNN -> FLASH -> MATH.
+
+Run:
+    python benchmarks/diffusion/bench_attention_backends.py --preset hv15
+    python benchmarks/diffusion/bench_attention_backends.py --preset wan22
+    python benchmarks/diffusion/bench_attention_backends.py \
+        --batch 1 --heads 24 --seq 14336 --head-dim 128
+
+Optional extras:
+    pip install --pre flash-attn-4        # FA4 is currently pre-release only
+    pip install -U flashinfer              # latest FlashInfer (0.6.9)
+
+The table at the end is the data we want on the PR — surface the row where a
+backend is >1.5x the SDPA baseline, that's the one to gate off the auto-route.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import time
+
+import torch
+from torch.nn.attention import SDPBackend, sdpa_kernel
+
+# Presets mirror the DiT hot-path attention call (single-stream block) at the
+# shapes we run in the PR's validation configs.
+_PRESETS = {
+    # HunyuanVideo-1.5 480p/33f: (30 * 52 * 9) latent + ~256 text tokens.
+    "hv15": {"batch": 1, "heads": 24, "seq": 14336, "head_dim": 128},
+    # Wan 2.2 480p/33f rough estimate; adjust when we measure real shapes.
+    "wan22": {"batch": 1, "heads": 40, "seq": 16384, "head_dim": 128},
+    # Smaller image-gen shape for quick smoke tests.
+    "flux": {"batch": 1, "heads": 24, "seq": 4096, "head_dim": 128},
+}
+
+_SDPA_BACKENDS = [
+    ("CUDNN_ATTENTION", [SDPBackend.CUDNN_ATTENTION]),
+    ("FLASH_ATTENTION", [SDPBackend.FLASH_ATTENTION]),
+    ("EFFICIENT_ATTENTION", [SDPBackend.EFFICIENT_ATTENTION]),
+    ("MATH", [SDPBackend.MATH]),
+    # The PR's CUDNN_ATTN impl uses this priority chain; keep it here to show
+    # what torch actually picks when multiple are allowed.
+    ("CUDNN_ATTN_CHAIN", [SDPBackend.CUDNN_ATTENTION, SDPBackend.FLASH_ATTENTION, SDPBackend.MATH]),
+]
+
+
+def _env_report() -> None:
+    if not torch.cuda.is_available():
+        raise SystemExit("CUDA not available; this diagnostic needs a GPU.")
+    cc = torch.cuda.get_device_capability()
+    print("=" * 72)
+    print(f"GPU           : {torch.cuda.get_device_name()}")
+    print(f"SM capability : sm_{cc[0]}{cc[1]}")
+    print(f"torch         : {torch.__version__}")
+    print(f"cuDNN version : {torch.backends.cudnn.version()}")
+    print("flashinfer    : ", end="")
+    try:
+        import flashinfer
+
+        print(getattr(flashinfer, "__version__", "present"))
+    except Exception as e:
+        print(f"not installed ({type(e).__name__})")
+    print("=" * 72)
+
+
+def _make_qkv(batch: int, heads: int, seq: int, head_dim: int, device: str, dtype: torch.dtype):
+    # Layout: (B, S, H, D) — what the PR's backends accept as input.
+    q = torch.randn(batch, seq, heads, head_dim, device=device, dtype=dtype)
+    k = torch.randn(batch, seq, heads, head_dim, device=device, dtype=dtype)
+    v = torch.randn(batch, seq, heads, head_dim, device=device, dtype=dtype)
+    return q, k, v
+
+
+def _make_mask(batch: int, seq: int, device: str, dtype: torch.dtype, pad_tokens: int = 128) -> torch.Tensor:
+    # Mirrors a text-encoder padding mask: last `pad_tokens` positions masked.
+    mask = torch.zeros(batch, 1, seq, seq, device=device, dtype=dtype)
+    if pad_tokens > 0:
+        mask[..., -pad_tokens:] = float("-inf")
+    return mask
+
+
+def _time_call(fn, *args, warmup: int = 3, iters: int = 10) -> tuple[float, str]:
+    """Return (median ms, error string). Skips on any exception so that a
+    backend that rejects our args (wrong dtype, missing JIT module, unsupported
+    kwarg value) doesn't abort the whole sweep."""
+    try:
+        for _ in range(warmup):
+            fn(*args)
+        torch.accelerator.synchronize()
+        times = []
+        for _ in range(iters):
+            torch.accelerator.synchronize()
+            t0 = time.perf_counter()
+            fn(*args)
+            torch.accelerator.synchronize()
+            times.append((time.perf_counter() - t0) * 1000.0)
+        times.sort()
+        return times[len(times) // 2], ""
+    except Exception as e:  # noqa: BLE001 — probe script, keep the whole table going
+        msg = str(e).split("\n", 1)[0][:60]
+        return float("nan"), f"{type(e).__name__}: {msg}" if msg else type(e).__name__
+
+
+def _run_sdpa_variants(q, k, v, attn_mask, scale: float) -> list[tuple[str, float, str]]:
+    # q/k/v come in (B, S, H, D); F.sdpa wants (B, H, S, D).
+    q_t = q.permute(0, 2, 1, 3)
+    k_t = k.permute(0, 2, 1, 3)
+    v_t = v.permute(0, 2, 1, 3)
+    rows: list[tuple[str, float, str]] = []
+    for name, backends in _SDPA_BACKENDS:
+
+        def _call(mask=attn_mask):
+            with sdpa_kernel(backends):
+                return torch.nn.functional.scaled_dot_product_attention(
+                    q_t, k_t, v_t, attn_mask=mask, dropout_p=0.0, is_causal=False, scale=scale
+                )
+
+        ms, err = _time_call(_call)
+        rows.append((name, ms, err))
+    return rows
+
+
+def _run_flashinfer(q, k, v, scale: float, backend: str | None = None, attn_mask=None) -> tuple[float, str]:
+    """Call FlashInfer's dense single-prefill.
+
+    ``backend`` hints at cutlass/fa3/trtllm if the installed version exposes
+    that kwarg. ``attn_mask`` is the same additive 4D mask we pass to SDPA —
+    we convert it to the 2D boolean ``custom_mask`` form FlashInfer accepts.
+    Per FlashInfer docs, ``custom_mask`` only applies when ``causal=False``.
+    """
+    try:
+        import inspect
+
+        from flashinfer.prefill import single_prefill_with_kv_cache
+    except Exception as e:
+        return float("nan"), f"import-{type(e).__name__}"
+
+    kwargs: dict = {"sm_scale": scale, "causal": False, "return_lse": False}
+    if backend is not None:
+        sig = inspect.signature(single_prefill_with_kv_cache)
+        if "backend" not in sig.parameters:
+            return float("nan"), "no-backend-kwarg"
+        kwargs["backend"] = backend
+
+    if attn_mask is not None:
+        # Collapse (B, 1, S, S) additive float mask to (S, S) boolean.
+        # FlashInfer expects True = keep, False = masked out.
+        mask_2d = attn_mask[0, 0]
+        kwargs["custom_mask"] = mask_2d != float("-inf")
+
+    def _call():
+        out = single_prefill_with_kv_cache(q[0], k[0], v[0], **kwargs)
+        return out.unsqueeze(0)
+
+    return _time_call(_call)
+
+
+def _run_fa4(q, k, v, scale: float) -> tuple[float, str]:
+    """Call FlashAttention-4 directly (``pip install flash-attn-4``). FA4
+    ships a Blackwell-native kernel via CuTe-DSL; on sm_120 it should beat
+    cuDNN by ~20%. API lives under ``flash_attn.cute``; the older
+    ``flash_attn.flash_attn_func`` path is FA2/FA3 only."""
+    try:
+        from flash_attn.cute import flash_attn_func
+    except Exception as e:
+        return float("nan"), f"import-{type(e).__name__}"
+
+    def _call():
+        # FA4 accepts (B, S, H, D) directly — same layout the PR's backends use.
+        return flash_attn_func(q, k, v, softmax_scale=scale, causal=False)
+
+    return _time_call(_call)
+
+
+def _run_flashinfer_cudnn_batch(q, k, v, scale: float) -> tuple[float, str]:
+    """Call FlashInfer's direct cuDNN wrapper. Bypasses PyTorch SDPA dispatch
+    (which has a few hundred ns of overhead per call) and talks to cuDNN FMHA
+    straight. Useful as a ceiling for 'pure cuDNN, no SDPA' on Blackwell."""
+    try:
+        from flashinfer.prefill import cudnn_batch_prefill_with_kv_cache
+    except Exception as e:
+        return float("nan"), f"import-{type(e).__name__}"
+
+    b, s, h, d = q.shape
+    qo_indptr = torch.tensor([0, s], dtype=torch.int32, device=q.device)
+    kv_indptr = torch.tensor([0, s], dtype=torch.int32, device=q.device)
+
+    def _call():
+        return cudnn_batch_prefill_with_kv_cache(
+            q.reshape(b * s, h, d),
+            k.reshape(b * s, h, d),
+            v.reshape(b * s, h, d),
+            qo_indptr=qo_indptr,
+            kv_indptr=kv_indptr,
+            max_qo_len=s,
+            max_kv_len=s,
+            sm_scale=scale,
+            causal=False,
+        )
+
+    return _time_call(_call)
+
+
+def _print_table(title: str, rows: list[tuple[str, float, str]], baseline_name: str | None = None) -> None:
+    print(f"\n{title}")
+    print("-" * 88)
+    header = f"{'backend':<24} {'median (ms)':>14}    {'vs baseline':>12}    status"
+    print(header)
+    print("-" * 88)
+    baseline_ms = None
+    if baseline_name is not None:
+        for name, ms, _ in rows:
+            if name == baseline_name and ms == ms:  # not NaN
+                baseline_ms = ms
+                break
+    for name, ms, err in rows:
+        ms_str = f"{ms:>14.3f}" if ms == ms else f"{'n/a':>14}"
+        if baseline_ms is not None and ms == ms:
+            ratio = baseline_ms / ms
+            ratio_str = f"{ratio:>11.2f}x"
+        else:
+            ratio_str = f"{'—':>12}"
+        status = "ok" if not err else f"FAILED ({err})"
+        print(f"{name:<24} {ms_str}    {ratio_str}    {status}")
+
+
+def _pick_winner(rows: list[tuple[str, float, str]]) -> tuple[str, float] | None:
+    """Return (backend, ms) of the fastest non-failing row, or None."""
+    ok_rows = [(n, m) for n, m, err in rows if not err and m == m]
+    if not ok_rows:
+        return None
+    return min(ok_rows, key=lambda x: x[1])
+
+
+def _bench_one_shape(shape: dict, dtype: torch.dtype, device: str) -> tuple[list, list]:
+    torch.manual_seed(0)
+    q, k, v = _make_qkv(**shape, device=device, dtype=dtype)
+    scale = 1.0 / (shape["head_dim"] ** 0.5)
+
+    rows_nomask = _run_sdpa_variants(q, k, v, attn_mask=None, scale=scale)
+    rows_nomask.append(("FLASHINFER (default)", *_run_flashinfer(q, k, v, scale)))
+    # `trtllm-gen` has no sm_120 cubins (NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#11799) — skipped.
+    for fi_backend in ("fa2", "fa3", "cutlass", "auto"):
+        rows_nomask.append((f"FLASHINFER ({fi_backend})", *_run_flashinfer(q, k, v, scale, backend=fi_backend)))
+    rows_nomask.append(("FLASHINFER (cudnn-batch)", *_run_flashinfer_cudnn_batch(q, k, v, scale)))
+    rows_nomask.append(("FA4 (direct)", *_run_fa4(q, k, v, scale)))
+
+    mask = _make_mask(shape["batch"], shape["seq"], device=device, dtype=dtype, pad_tokens=256)
+    rows_mask = _run_sdpa_variants(q, k, v, attn_mask=mask, scale=scale)
+    rows_mask.append(("FLASHINFER (dense)", *_run_flashinfer(q, k, v, scale, attn_mask=mask)))
+    rows_mask.append(("FA4 (direct)", float("nan"), "mask-not-supported"))
+
+    return rows_nomask, rows_mask
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__, formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter)
+    parser.add_argument("--preset", choices=list(_PRESETS.keys()), default="hv15")
+    parser.add_argument("--sweep", action="store_true", help="Run all presets and print a ranking")
+    parser.add_argument("--batch", type=int, default=None)
+    parser.add_argument("--heads", type=int, default=None)
+    parser.add_argument("--seq", type=int, default=None)
+    parser.add_argument("--head-dim", type=int, default=None)
+    parser.add_argument("--dtype", choices=["bf16", "fp16"], default="bf16")
+    parser.add_argument("--device", default="cuda:0")
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    dtype = torch.bfloat16 if args.dtype == "bf16" else torch.float16
+    _env_report()
+    print(f"dtype         : {args.dtype}")
+
+    presets = list(_PRESETS.keys()) if args.sweep else [args.preset]
+    summary: dict[str, tuple[str, float] | None] = {}
+
+    for preset_name in presets:
+        shape = dict(_PRESETS[preset_name])
+        if not args.sweep:
+            for k in ("batch", "heads", "seq", "head_dim"):
+                v = getattr(args, k if k != "head_dim" else "head_dim")
+                if v is not None:
+                    shape[k] = v
+
+        print("\n" + "=" * 88)
+        print(
+            f"Preset: {preset_name}  |  batch={shape['batch']} heads={shape['heads']} "
+            f"seq={shape['seq']} head_dim={shape['head_dim']}"
+        )
+        print("=" * 88)
+
+        rows_nomask, rows_mask = _bench_one_shape(shape, dtype, args.device)
+        _print_table(f"[{preset_name}] No attention mask", rows_nomask, baseline_name="CUDNN_ATTENTION")
+        _print_table(
+            f"[{preset_name}] With attention mask (pad 256 tokens)", rows_mask, baseline_name="CUDNN_ATTENTION"
+        )
+
+        summary[preset_name] = _pick_winner(rows_nomask)
+
+    if args.sweep or len(presets) > 1:
+        print("\n" + "=" * 88)
+        print("Winners per preset (no-mask path)")
+        print("=" * 88)
+        for preset_name, winner in summary.items():
+            if winner is None:
+                print(f"  {preset_name:<10} — no successful backend")
+            else:
+                name, ms = winner
+                print(f"  {preset_name:<10} {name:<24} {ms:>8.3f} ms")
+
+    print("\nNotes:")
+    print("  * Ratios are relative to CUDNN_ATTENTION. >1.0x means faster than cuDNN.")
+    print("  * Mask-path winner inherits CUDNN_ATTN's fallback in the PR's backends.")
+    print("  * `trtllm-gen` and FA4 4.0.0b10 are known-broken on sm_120 as of Apr 2026.")
+    print("  * For e2e timings, run text_to_video.py / text_to_image.py while varying DIFFUSION_ATTENTION_BACKEND.")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+#
+# 2x2 timing matrix (backend x compile mode) for SAGE_ATTN_3 vs TORCH_SDPA,
+# on HunyuanVideo-1.5 480p T2V and Wan 2.2 TI2V-5B. Run from the repo root:
+#
+#     bash benchmarks/diffusion/bench_sage_attn3_matrix.sh
+#
+# Requires: sageattn3 installed (for SAGE_ATTN_3 rows) and a Blackwell GPU.
+
+set -u
+
+STEPS=${STEPS:-50}
+SEED=${SEED:-42}
+PROMPT=${PROMPT:-"A dog running across a field of golden wheat."}
+OUT_DIR=${OUT_DIR:-/tmp/bench_sage3}
+mkdir -p "$OUT_DIR"
+
+declare -A TOTAL PER_STEP TEXT_ENC TRANSFORMER VAE
+
+run() {
+    local name="$1"; shift
+    local model="$1"; shift
+    local h="$1"; shift
+    local w="$1"; shift
+    local f="$1"; shift
+    local g="$1"; shift
+    local log="$OUT_DIR/${name}.log"
+    echo "[$(date +%T)] Running $name ..."
+    env "$@" python examples/offline_inference/text_to_video/text_to_video.py \
+        --model "$model" \
+        --prompt "$PROMPT" \
+        --height "$h" --width "$w" --num-frames "$f" \
+        --num-inference-steps "$STEPS" --seed "$SEED" --guidance-scale "$g" \
+        --enable-diffusion-pipeline-profiler \
+        --output "$OUT_DIR/${name}.mp4" > "$log" 2>&1 || {
+            echo "  FAILED — see $log"
+            TOTAL[$name]="FAIL"; PER_STEP[$name]="FAIL"
+            TEXT_ENC[$name]="-"; TRANSFORMER[$name]="-"; VAE[$name]="-"
+            return
+        }
+
+    local wait_ms
+    wait_ms=$(grep "add_req_and_wait=" "$log" | tail -1 | sed -nE 's/.*add_req_and_wait=([0-9.]+) ms.*/\1/p')
+    local total_s
+    total_s=$(grep -oE "Total generation time: [0-9.]+ seconds" "$log" | tail -1 | sed -nE 's/.*: ([0-9.]+) seconds.*/\1/p')
+    local text_enc_s
+    text_enc_s=$(grep -oE "text_encoder.forward took [0-9.]+s" "$log" | awk '{sub(/s$/,"",$NF); sum+=$NF} END {printf "%.3f", sum+0}')
+    local vae_s
+    vae_s=$(grep -oE "vae.decode took [0-9.]+s" "$log" | awk '{sub(/s$/,"",$NF); sum+=$NF} END {printf "%.3f", sum+0}')
+    local pipeline_s
+    pipeline_s=$(grep -oE "Pipeline\.forward took [0-9.]+s" "$log" | tail -1 | sed -nE 's/.*took ([0-9.]+)s.*/\1/p')
+    local transformer_s
+    transformer_s=$(awk "BEGIN {printf \"%.3f\", ${pipeline_s:-0} - ${vae_s:-0} - ${text_enc_s:-0}}")
+
+    TOTAL[$name]="${total_s:-0}"
+    PER_STEP[$name]=$(awk "BEGIN {printf \"%.3f\", ${wait_ms:-0} / 1000 / $STEPS}")
+    TEXT_ENC[$name]="$text_enc_s"
+    TRANSFORMER[$name]="$transformer_s"
+    VAE[$name]="$vae_s"
+
+    echo "  total=${TOTAL[$name]}s  per-step=${PER_STEP[$name]}s/it  transformer=${TRANSFORMER[$name]}s  vae=${VAE[$name]}s"
+}
+
+# ========== HunyuanVideo-1.5 480p T2V (480x832x33, CFG=6.0) ==========
+HV_MODEL=hunyuanvideo-community/HunyuanVideo-1.5-Diffusers-480p_t2v
+run hv15_sdpa_eager     "$HV_MODEL" 480 832 33 6.0 TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE=1
+run hv15_sdpa_compiled  "$HV_MODEL" 480 832 33 6.0
+run hv15_sage3_eager    "$HV_MODEL" 480 832 33 6.0 TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE=1 DIFFUSION_ATTENTION_BACKEND=SAGE_ATTN_3
+run hv15_sage3_compiled "$HV_MODEL" 480 832 33 6.0                         DIFFUSION_ATTENTION_BACKEND=SAGE_ATTN_3
+
+# ========== Wan 2.2 TI2V-5B (704x1280x33, CFG=5.0) ==========
+WAN_MODEL=Wan-AI/Wan2.2-TI2V-5B-Diffusers
+run wan22_sdpa_eager     "$WAN_MODEL" 704 1280 33 5.0 TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE=1
+run wan22_sdpa_compiled  "$WAN_MODEL" 704 1280 33 5.0
+run wan22_sage3_eager    "$WAN_MODEL" 704 1280 33 5.0 TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE=1 DIFFUSION_ATTENTION_BACKEND=SAGE_ATTN_3
+run wan22_sage3_compiled "$WAN_MODEL" 704 1280 33 5.0                         DIFFUSION_ATTENTION_BACKEND=SAGE_ATTN_3
+
+print_table() {
+    local title="$1"; shift
+    echo
+    echo "$title (${STEPS} steps, seed=${SEED})"
+    echo
+    printf "| %-23s | %-9s | %-15s | %-12s | %-15s | %-14s |\n" \
+        "Config" "Total (s)" "Per-step (s/it)" "Text Enc (s)" "Transformer (s)" "VAE Decode (s)"
+    printf "| %-23s | %-9s | %-15s | %-12s | %-15s | %-14s |\n" \
+        "-----------------------" "---------" "---------------" "------------" "---------------" "--------------"
+    for row in "$@"; do
+        case "$row" in
+            *_sdpa_eager)     label="SDPA + Eager" ;;
+            *_sdpa_compiled)  label="SDPA + Compiled" ;;
+            *_sage3_eager)    label="SAGE_ATTN_3 + Eager" ;;
+            *_sage3_compiled) label="SAGE_ATTN_3 + Compiled" ;;
+        esac
+        printf "| %-23s | %-9s | %-15s | %-12s | %-15s | %-14s |\n" \
+            "$label" "${TOTAL[$row]}" "${PER_STEP[$row]}" "${TEXT_ENC[$row]}" "${TRANSFORMER[$row]}" "${VAE[$row]}"
+    done
+}
+
+print_table "HunyuanVideo-1.5 480p T2V, 832x480x33" \
+    hv15_sdpa_eager hv15_sdpa_compiled hv15_sage3_eager hv15_sage3_compiled
+
+print_table "Wan 2.2 TI2V-5B, 1280x704x33" \
+    wan22_sdpa_eager wan22_sdpa_compiled wan22_sage3_eager wan22_sage3_compiled
+
+echo
+echo "Logs: $OUT_DIR/*.log"
@@ -6,31 +6,34 @@
 Benchmark online serving for diffusion models (Image/Video Generation).
 If you want to use i2v, i2i dataset, you should `uv pip install gdown` first

-Supports multiple backends:
-    - vllm-omni: Uses /v1/chat/completions endpoint (default)
-    - openai: Uses /v1/images/generations endpoint
-    - v1/videos: Use /v1/videos endpoint
+Supports multiple endpoints:
+    - /v1/chat/completions: OpenAI chat-compatible image requests (e.g. t2i, Qwen i2i)
+    - /v1/images/edits: OpenAI image edit / IT2I (multipart; e.g. Hunyuan --bot-task think)
+    - /v1/images/generations: OpenAI image generation requests
+    - /v1/videos: Async video jobs
+
+Legacy --backend vllm-omni and openai are aliases for chat/completions and images/generations.

 Usage:
-    # Video (v1/videos backend)
+    # Video (/v1/videos endpoint)
    t2v:
    python3 benchmarks/diffusion/diffusion_benchmark_serving.py \
-        --backend v1/videos --dataset vbench --task t2v --num-prompts 10 \
+        --endpoint /v1/videos --dataset vbench --task t2v --num-prompts 10 \
        --height 480 --width 640 --fps 16 --num-frames 80

    i2v:
    python3 benchmarks/diffusion/diffusion_benchmark_serving.py \
-        --backend v1/videos --dataset vbench --task i2v --num-prompts 10
+        --endpoint /v1/videos --dataset vbench --task i2v --num-prompts 10


-    # Image (vllm-omni backend)
+    # Image (/v1/chat/completions endpoint)
    t2i:
    python3 benchmarks/diffusion/diffusion_benchmark_serving.py \
-        --backend vllm-omni --dataset vbench --task t2i --num-prompts 10 \
+        --endpoint /v1/chat/completions --dataset vbench --task t2i --num-prompts 10 \
        --height 1024 --width 1024

    python3 benchmarks/diffusion/diffusion_benchmark_serving.py \
-        --backend vllm-omni --dataset random --task t2i --num-prompts 1 \
+        --endpoint /v1/chat/completions --dataset random --task t2i --num-prompts 1 \
        --max-concurrency 1 --enable-negative-prompt \
        --random-request-config '[
            {"width":512,"height":512,"num_inference_steps":20,"weight":0.15},
@@ -39,20 +42,32 @@ Usage:
            {"width":1536,"height":1536,"num_inference_steps":35,"weight":0.15}
        ]'

-    i2i:
+    ti2i (Hunyuan / OpenAI image edit API):
    python3 benchmarks/diffusion/diffusion_benchmark_serving.py \
-        --backend vllm-omni --dataset vbench --task i2i --num-prompts 10
+        --endpoint /v1/images/edits --dataset random --task ti2i --num-prompts 10 \
+        --bot-task think

-    # Image (openai backend)
+    python benchmarks/diffusion/diffusion_benchmark_serving.py \
+      --endpoint /v1/images/edits \
+      --dataset custom \
+      --dataset-path custom_requests.jsonl \
+      --task ti2i \
+      --bot-task think
+
+    i2i (chat-based models such as Qwen-Image-Edit):
+    python3 benchmarks/diffusion/diffusion_benchmark_serving.py \
+        --endpoint /v1/chat/completions --dataset vbench --task i2i --num-prompts 10
+
+    # Image (/v1/images/generations endpoint)
    t2i:
    python3 benchmarks/diffusion/diffusion_benchmark_serving.py \
-        --backend openai --dataset vbench --task t2i --num-prompts 10 \
+        --endpoint /v1/images/generations --dataset vbench --task t2i --num-prompts 10 \
        --height 1024 --width 1024 --port 3000

    # Video (v1/videos)
    t2v:
    python3 benchmarks/diffusion/diffusion_benchmark_serving.py \
-        --backend v1/videos --dataset random --task t2v --num-prompts 1 \
+        --endpoint /v1/videos --dataset random --task t2v --num-prompts 1 \
        --max-concurrency 1 --enable-negative-prompt \
        --random-request-config '[
            {"width":854,"height":480,"num_inference_steps":18,"num_frames":120,"fps":24,"weight":1}
@@ -64,6 +79,7 @@ Usage:
 import argparse
 import ast
 import asyncio
+import base64
 import glob
 import json
 import logging
@@ -80,12 +96,20 @@ from typing import Any
 import aiohttp
 import numpy as np
 import requests
-from backends import RequestFuncInput, RequestFuncOutput, backends_function_mapping
+from backends import (
+    RequestFuncInput,
+    RequestFuncOutput,
+    backends_function_mapping,
+    normalize_endpoint,
+)
 from PIL import Image
 from tqdm.asyncio import tqdm

 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

+_STAGE_METRICS_ENDPOINTS = {"/v1/chat/completions"}
+_RETURN_STAGE_METRICS_FIELD = "return_stage_metrics"
+

 class BaseDataset(ABC):
    def __init__(self, args, api_url: str, model: str):
@@ -127,7 +151,7 @@ class VBenchDataset(BaseDataset):
    def _load_data(self) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
        if self.args.task == "t2v":
            return self._load_t2v_prompts()
-        elif self.args.task in ["i2v", "ti2v", "ti2i", "i2i"]:
+        elif self.args.task in ["i2v", "ti2v", "ti2i", "i2i", "it2i"]:
            return self._load_i2v_data()
        else:
            return self._load_t2v_prompts()
@@ -519,7 +543,7 @@ class TraceDataset(BaseDataset):
            single = row.get("image_path")
            image_paths = [single] if single else None

-        if not image_paths and self.args.task in ["i2v", "i2i", "ti2v", "ti2i"]:
+        if not image_paths and self.args.task in ["i2v", "i2i", "ti2v", "ti2i", "it2i"]:
            raise ValueError(
                f"Task {self.args.task} requires image input, but no image_path or image_paths found in trace row."
            )
@@ -553,6 +577,135 @@ class TraceDataset(BaseDataset):
        return [self[i] for i in range(len(self))]


+class CustomDataset(BaseDataset):
+    """
+    Custom dataset that loads requests from a JSONL file.
+
+    Each line in the JSONL file should be a JSON object with the following fields:
+    - prompt (required): The text prompt for the request
+    - width (optional): Image/video width
+    - height (optional): Image height
+    - num_inference_steps (optional): Number of diffusion steps
+    - seed (optional): Random seed
+    - image_paths (optional): List of input image paths for i2i/i2v/ti2i tasks
+    - image_urls (optional): List of input image URLs (alternative to image_paths)
+
+    Example JSONL for ti2i:
+    {"prompt": "Add sunset lighting", "width": 1024, "height": 1024, "image_urls": ["https://example.com/image.jpg"]}
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, args, api_url: str, model: str):
+        super().__init__(args, api_url, model)
+        self.dataset_path = args.dataset_path
+        if not self.dataset_path:
+            raise ValueError("--dataset-path must be provided when using 'custom' dataset")
+        self.load_data()
+
+    def load_data(self) -> None:
+        """Load data from JSONL file."""
+        import pandas as pd
+
+        if not self.dataset_path.endswith(".jsonl"):
+            raise ValueError("Custom dataset must be a JSONL file")
+
+        try:
+            df = pd.read_json(path_or_buf=self.dataset_path, lines=True)
+        except Exception as e:
+            raise ValueError(f"Failed to load JSONL file {self.dataset_path}: {e}")
+
+        if "prompt" not in df.columns:
+            raise ValueError("JSONL file must contain a 'prompt' column")
+
+        self.data = df.to_dict("records")
+        print(f"Loaded {len(self.data)} requests from {self.dataset_path}")
+
+    def _resolve_image_paths(self, item: dict) -> list[str] | None:
+        # Handle local file paths
+        if "image_paths" in item and item["image_paths"]:
+            paths = item["image_paths"]
+            if isinstance(paths, str):
+                paths = [paths]
+
+            # Verify all paths exist
+            valid_paths = []
+            for path in paths:
+                if os.path.exists(path):
+                    valid_paths.append(path)
+                else:
+                    raise ValueError(f"Image file not found: {path}")
+
+            return valid_paths if valid_paths else None
+
+        # Handle URLs - download to temp files
+        if "image_urls" in item and item["image_urls"]:
+            urls = item["image_urls"]
+            if isinstance(urls, str):
+                urls = [urls]
+
+            downloaded_paths = []
+            for url in urls:
+                try:
+                    response = requests.get(url, timeout=30)
+                    response.raise_for_status()
+
+                    # Create temp file with appropriate extension
+                    suffix = os.path.splitext(url)[1] or ".png"
+                    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False, suffix=suffix) as tmp:
+                        tmp.write(response.content)
+                        downloaded_paths.append(tmp.name)
+                except Exception as e:
+                    raise ValueError(f"Failed to download image from {url}: {e}")
+
+            return downloaded_paths if downloaded_paths else None
+
+        return None
+
+    def __len__(self) -> int:
+        return len(self.data)
+
+    def __getitem__(self, idx: int) -> RequestFuncInput:
+        item = self.data[idx]
+
+        # Extract fields with fallback to args defaults
+        prompt = item["prompt"]
+        width = item.get("width", self.args.width)
+        height = item.get("height", self.args.height)
+        num_inference_steps = item.get("num_inference_steps", self.args.num_inference_steps)
+        seed = item.get("seed", self.args.seed)
+        reserved_keys = {"prompt", "width", "height", "num_inference_steps", "seed", "image_paths", "image_urls"}
+        extra_body = {k: v for k, v in item.items() if k not in reserved_keys}
+
+        # Handle image paths/URLs
+        image_paths = self._resolve_image_paths(item)
+
+        return RequestFuncInput(
+            prompt=prompt,
+            api_url=self.api_url,
+            model=self.model,
+            seed=seed,
+            image_paths=image_paths,
+            extra_body=extra_body,
+            width=width,
+            height=height,
+            num_inference_steps=num_inference_steps,
+        )
+
+    def get_requests(self) -> list[RequestFuncInput]:
+        """Get all requests, cycling through data if num_prompts > dataset size."""
+        num_requests = getattr(self.args, "num_prompts", len(self.data))
+
+        if num_requests <= len(self.data):
+            return [self[i] for i in range(num_requests)]
+
+        # Cycle through the dataset to reach num_prompts
+        requests = []
+        for i in range(num_requests):
+            idx = i % len(self.data)
+            requests.append(self[idx])
+
+        return requests
+
+
 class RandomDataset(BaseDataset):
    def __init__(self, args, api_url: str, model: str, enable_negative_prompt: bool = False):
        super().__init__(args, api_url, model)
@@ -580,7 +733,7 @@ class RandomDataset(BaseDataset):
            self._sampled_requests = None

        # Random image generate
-        if self.args.task in ["i2v", "ti2v", "ti2i", "i2i"]:
+        if self.args.task in ["i2v", "ti2v", "ti2i", "i2i", "it2i"]:
            self._random_image_path = self._generate_random_image_paths()
        else:
            self._random_image_path = None
@@ -864,6 +1017,81 @@ def calculate_metrics(
    return metrics


+def _save_generated_outputs(
+    outputs: list[RequestFuncOutput],
+    requests_list: list[RequestFuncInput],
+    save_dir: str,
+) -> None:
+    """Decode and save base64 images/videos from successful responses."""
+    os.makedirs(save_dir, exist_ok=True)
+    saved = 0
+    failed = 0
+
+    for idx, (req, out) in enumerate(zip(requests_list, outputs)):
+        if not out.success or not out.response_body:
+            continue
+
+        if isinstance(out.response_body, bytes):
+            fname = f"req_{idx:04d}.mp4"
+            fpath = os.path.join(save_dir, fname)
+            with open(fpath, "wb") as f:
+                f.write(out.response_body)
+            saved += 1
+            continue
+
+        media_urls: list[str] = []
+
+        # Chat-completions style: choices[*].message.content[*].image_url.url
+        choices = out.response_body.get("choices", [])
+        if isinstance(choices, list):
+            for choice in choices:
+                content = (choice or {}).get("message", {}).get("content")
+                if not isinstance(content, list):
+                    continue
+                for item in content:
+                    if not isinstance(item, dict) or item.get("type") != "image_url":
+                        continue
+                    url = (item.get("image_url") or {}).get("url", "")
+                    if isinstance(url, str) and url.startswith("data:"):
+                        media_urls.append(url)
+
+        # Images endpoint style: data[*].b64_json
+        data_items = out.response_body.get("data", [])
+        if isinstance(data_items, list):
+            for data_item in data_items:
+                if not isinstance(data_item, dict):
+                    continue
+                b64_json = data_item.get("b64_json", "")
+                if isinstance(b64_json, str) and b64_json:
+                    media_urls.append(f"data:image/png;base64,{b64_json}")
+
+        for img_idx, url in enumerate(media_urls):
+            if "," not in url:
+                continue
+
+            try:
+                header, b64_data = url.split(",", 1)
+                ext = "png"
+                if "image/jpeg" in header:
+                    ext = "jpg"
+                elif "image/webp" in header:
+                    ext = "webp"
+                elif "video/mp4" in header:
+                    ext = "mp4"
+
+                img_bytes = base64.b64decode(b64_data)
+                fname = f"req_{idx:04d}_{img_idx}.{ext}"
+                fpath = os.path.join(save_dir, fname)
+                with open(fpath, "wb") as f:
+                    f.write(img_bytes)
+                saved += 1
+            except Exception as e:
+                failed += 1
+                logger.warning(f"Failed to save image for request {idx}: {e}", exc_info=True)
+
+    logger.info(f"Saved {saved} generated image(s) to {save_dir}. Failed to save {failed} image(s).")
+
+
 def wait_for_service(base_url: str, timeout: int = 120) -> None:
    print(f"Waiting for service at {base_url}...")
    start_time = time.time()
@@ -883,13 +1111,23 @@ def wait_for_service(base_url: str, timeout: int = 120) -> None:
        time.sleep(1)


+def _default_endpoint_for_task(task: str) -> str:
+    if task in {"t2v", "i2v", "ti2v"}:
+        return "/v1/videos"
+    if task in {"i2i", "ti2i", "it2i"}:
+        return "/v1/images/edits"
+    if task == "t2i":
+        return "/v1/chat/completions"
+    raise ValueError(f"Unsupported task for endpoint resolution: {task}")
+
+
 async def benchmark(args):
    # Construct base_url if not provided
    if args.base_url is None:
        args.base_url = f"http://{args.host}:{args.port}"

    VIDEO_TASKS = {"t2v", "i2v", "ti2v"}
-    IMAGE_TASKS = {"t2i", "i2i", "ti2i"}
+    IMAGE_TASKS = {"t2i", "i2i", "ti2i", "it2i"}

    if args.task in VIDEO_TASKS:
        task_type = "2v"
@@ -902,18 +1140,23 @@ async def benchmark(args):
            f"Valid image tasks: {sorted(IMAGE_TASKS)}"
        )

-    valid_backends = sorted(backends_function_mapping[task_type].keys())
+    raw_endpoint = args.endpoint if args.endpoint is not None else args.backend
+    if raw_endpoint is None:
+        raw_endpoint = _default_endpoint_for_task(args.task)
+    args.endpoint = normalize_endpoint(raw_endpoint)

-    if args.backend not in valid_backends:
+    valid_endpoints = sorted(backends_function_mapping[task_type].keys())
+
+    if args.endpoint not in valid_endpoints:
        logger.error(
-            f"Invalid backend '{args.backend}' for task '{args.task}' (task type: '{task_type}').\n"
-            f"Valid backends for this task type: {valid_backends}\n"
-            f"Example usage: --task {args.task} --backend {valid_backends[0]}"
+            f"Invalid endpoint '{args.endpoint}' for task '{args.task}' (task type: '{task_type}').\n"
+            f"Valid endpoints for this task type: {valid_endpoints}\n"
+            f"Example usage: --task {args.task} --endpoint {valid_endpoints[0]}"
        )
-        raise ValueError("Backend validation failed. See log above for valid options.")
+        raise ValueError("Endpoint validation failed. See log above for valid options.")

-    # Setup API URL and request function based on backend
-    request_func, api_url = backends_function_mapping[task_type][args.backend]
+    # Setup API URL and request function based on endpoint.
+    request_func, api_url = backends_function_mapping[task_type][args.endpoint]
    api_url = f"{args.base_url}{api_url}"

    if args.dataset == "vbench":
@@ -922,6 +1165,8 @@ async def benchmark(args):
        dataset = TraceDataset(args, api_url, args.model)
    elif args.dataset == "random":
        dataset = RandomDataset(args, api_url, args.model, args.enable_negative_prompt)
+    elif args.dataset == "custom":
+        dataset = CustomDataset(args, api_url, args.model)
    else:
        raise ValueError(f"Unknown dataset: {args.dataset}")

@@ -929,6 +1174,14 @@ async def benchmark(args):
    requests_list = dataset.get_requests()
    print(f"Prepared {len(requests_list)} requests from {args.dataset} dataset.")

+    if args.return_stage_metrics and args.endpoint in _STAGE_METRICS_ENDPOINTS:
+        for req in requests_list:
+            req.extra_body.setdefault(_RETURN_STAGE_METRICS_FIELD, True)
+
+    if args.endpoint == "/v1/images/edits":
+        for req in requests_list:
+            req.default_bot_task = args.bot_task
+
    # Limit concurrency
    if args.max_concurrency is not None:
        semaphore = asyncio.Semaphore(args.max_concurrency)
@@ -976,15 +1229,17 @@ async def benchmark(args):
    metrics = calculate_metrics(outputs, total_duration, requests_list, args, args.slo)

    # Add configuration info to metrics for JSON output
-    metrics["backend"] = args.backend
+    metrics["endpoint"] = args.endpoint
    metrics["model"] = args.model
    metrics["dataset"] = args.dataset
    metrics["task"] = args.task
+    if args.endpoint == "/v1/images/edits":
+        metrics["bot_task"] = args.bot_task

-    print("\n{s:{c}^{n}}".format(s=" Serving Benchmark Result ", n=60, c="="))
+    print("\n{s:{c}^{n}}".format(s=" Serving Benchmark Result ", n=50, c="="))

    # Section 1: Configuration
-    print("{:<40} {:<15}".format("Backend:", args.backend))
+    print("{:<40} {:<15}".format("Endpoint:", args.endpoint))
    print("{:<40} {:<15}".format("Model:", args.model))
    print("{:<40} {:<15}".format("Dataset:", args.dataset))
    print("{:<40} {:<15}".format("Task:", args.task))
@@ -1030,6 +1285,9 @@ async def benchmark(args):

    print("\n" + "=" * 60)

+    if args.save_dir:
+        _save_generated_outputs(outputs, requests_list, args.save_dir)
+
    if args.output_file:
        with open(args.output_file, "w") as f:
            json.dump(metrics, f, indent=2)
@@ -1047,25 +1305,30 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
    parser.add_argument("--host", type=str, default="localhost", help="Server host.")
    parser.add_argument("--port", type=int, default=8091, help="Server port.")
    parser.add_argument("--model", type=str, default="default", help="Model name.")
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--endpoint",
+        type=str,
+        default=None,
+        help=("Endpoint path to target. Leading '/' is optional, e.g. /v1/videos or v1/videos."),
+    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--backend",
        type=str,
-        default="vllm-omni",
-        choices=["vllm-omni", "openai", "v1/videos"],
-        help="Backend to target the benchmark to.",
+        default=None,
+        help=argparse.SUPPRESS,
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--dataset",
        type=str,
        default="vbench",
-        choices=["vbench", "trace", "random"],
+        choices=["vbench", "trace", "random", "custom"],
        help="Dataset to use.",
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--task",
        type=str,
        default="t2v",
-        choices=["t2v", "i2v", "ti2v", "ti2i", "i2i", "t2i"],
+        choices=["t2v", "i2v", "ti2v", "ti2i", "i2i", "it2i", "t2i"],
        help="Task type.",
    )
    parser.add_argument(
@@ -1101,11 +1364,18 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
        default=1,
        help="Number of warmup requests to run before measurement.",
    )
+    # NOTE Changed default from 1 to 2 because some models (e.g., Bagel) run
+    # `num_timesteps - 1` denoising iterations. A default of 1 results in 0 steps,
+    # which causes errors.
+    # TODO If this slightly longer warmup causes regression issues for other
+    # diffusion pipelines in the future, consider implementing model-specific
+    # overrides instead of a global default.
    parser.add_argument(
        "--warmup-num-inference-steps",
        type=int,
-        default=1,
-        help="num_inference_steps used for warmup requests.",
+        default=2,
+        help="Number of inference steps used for warmup requests. "
+        "Default is 2 to ensure at least one denoising step is executed.",
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--warmup-concurrency",
@@ -1146,6 +1416,13 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
        default=3.0,
        help="SLO target multiplier: slo_ms = estimated_exec_time_ms * slo_scale (default: 3).",
    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--save-dir",
+        type=str,
+        default=None,
+        help="Directory to save generated images/outputs for visual inspection. "
+        "If not set, generated outputs are discarded after metric collection.",
+    )
    parser.add_argument("--disable-tqdm", action="store_true", help="Disable progress bar.")
    parser.add_argument(
        "--enable-negative-prompt",
@@ -1172,9 +1449,20 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
        default=1,
        help=(
            "Number of synthetic input images to attach for image-conditioned tasks "
-            "(i2v, ti2v, ti2i, i2i) when using random dataset."
+            "(i2v, ti2v, ti2i, i2i, it2i) when using random dataset."
        ),
    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--bot-task",
+        type=str,
+        default="think",
+        help=("bot_task form field for --endpoint /v1/images/edits (think, recaption, think_recaption, vanilla)."),
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--return-stage-metrics",
+        action="store_true",
+        help="Request stage duration metrics from endpoints that support return_stage_metrics.",
+    )

    args = parser.parse_args()
    asyncio.run(benchmark(args))
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Record these parameters when reporting performance results.

 ```bash
 python benchmarks/diffusion/diffusion_benchmark_serving.py \
-    --backend vllm-omni \
+    --endpoint /v1/chat/completions \
    --dataset <DATASET_NAME> \
    --task t2i \
    --num-prompts <N> \
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ python benchmarks/diffusion/diffusion_benchmark_serving.py \

 | Parameter              | Description                       |
 | ---------------------- | --------------------------------- |
-| `--backend`            | Serving backend (use `vllm-omni`) |
+| `--endpoint`           | API endpoint (use `/v1/chat/completions`; leading `/` is optional) |
 | `--dataset`            | Dataset name (`random` or custom) |
 | `--task`               | Task type (e.g., `t2i`)           |
 | `--num-prompts`        | Total number of requests          |
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ python benchmarks/diffusion/diffusion_benchmark_serving.py \

 ```bash
 python benchmarks/diffusion/diffusion_benchmark_serving.py \
-    --backend vllm-omni \
+    --endpoint /v1/chat/completions \
    --dataset random \
    --task t2i \
    --num-prompts 1 \
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Record these parameters when reporting performance results.

 ```bash
 python benchmarks/diffusion/diffusion_benchmark_serving.py \
-    --backend v1/videos \
+    --endpoint /v1/videos \
    --dataset <DATASET_NAME> \
    --task t2v \
    --num-prompts <N> \
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ python benchmarks/diffusion/diffusion_benchmark_serving.py \

 | Parameter              | Description                       |
 | ---------------------- | --------------------------------- |
-| `--backend`            | Serving backend (use `v1/videos`) |
+| `--endpoint`           | API endpoint (use `/v1/videos`; leading `/` is optional) |
 | `--dataset`            | Dataset name (`random` or custom) |
 | `--task`               | Task type (e.g., `t2v`)           |
 | `--num-prompts`        | Total number of requests          |
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ python benchmarks/diffusion/diffusion_benchmark_serving.py \

 ```bash
 python benchmarks/diffusion/diffusion_benchmark_serving.py \
-    --backend v1/videos \
+    --endpoint /v1/videos \
    --dataset random \
    --task t2v \
    --num-prompts 1 \
@@ -34,6 +34,16 @@ Video example (text-to-video):
        --height 720 --width 1280 \
        --num-frames 81 --num-inference-steps 40 --seed 42

+LTX-2 example (text-to-video; audio output is generated but not scored by LPIPS):
+    python benchmarks/diffusion/quantization_quality.py \
+        --model Lightricks/LTX-Video-2 \
+        --task t2v \
+        --quantization fp8 int8 \
+        --prompts \
+            "A serene lakeside sunrise with mist over the water" \
+        --height 704 --width 1216 \
+        --num-frames 121 --num-inference-steps 40 --seed 42
+
 Multiple quantization methods:
    python benchmarks/diffusion/quantization_quality.py \
        --model Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo \
@@ -148,6 +158,7 @@ def _build_omni_kwargs(args, quantization=None):
 def _generate_image(omni, args, prompt, seed):
    """Generate a single image and return (PIL.Image, time_seconds, memory_gib)."""
    from vllm_omni.inputs.data import OmniDiffusionSamplingParams
+    from vllm_omni.outputs import OmniRequestOutput
    from vllm_omni.platforms import current_omni_platform

    generator = torch.Generator(device=current_omni_platform.device_type).manual_seed(seed)
@@ -165,8 +176,9 @@ def _generate_image(omni, args, prompt, seed):
    elapsed = time.perf_counter() - start
    peak_mem = torch.accelerator.max_memory_allocated() / (1024**3)

-    first = outputs[0]
-    req_out = first.request_output[0] if hasattr(first, "request_output") else first
+    req_out = OmniRequestOutput.unwrap_result(outputs)
+    if not req_out.images:
+        raise ValueError("Could not extract image output from result.")
    img = req_out.images[0]
    return img, elapsed, peak_mem

@@ -202,10 +214,19 @@ def _generate_video(omni, args, prompt, seed):
        else:
            frames = inner
    elif hasattr(first, "images") and first.images:
-        frames = first.images
+        frames = first.images[0]
    else:
        raise ValueError("Could not extract video frames from output.")

+    # LTX-2 (and similar audio+video models) may surface a dict or (video, audio) tuple
+    if isinstance(frames, dict):
+        frames = frames.get("video") or frames.get("frames")
+    elif isinstance(frames, tuple) and len(frames) == 2:
+        frames = frames[0]
+
+    if frames is None:
+        raise ValueError("Could not extract video frames from output.")
+
    if isinstance(frames, torch.Tensor):
        video = frames.detach().cpu()
        if video.dim() == 5:
@@ -223,9 +244,11 @@ def _generate_video(omni, args, prompt, seed):
    return frames_array, elapsed, peak_mem


-def _unload_omni(omni):
-    """Delete Omni instance and free GPU memory."""
-    del omni
+def _free_gpu_memory():
+    """Force GC and release cached GPU memory.
+
+    Must be called AFTER the caller has dropped (i.e., via `del`)
+    every reference to the Omni instance"""
    gc.collect()
    if torch.cuda.is_available():
        torch.accelerator.empty_cache()
@@ -265,7 +288,9 @@ def run_benchmark(args):

    bl_avg_time = np.mean([v[1] for v in baseline_outputs.values()])
    bl_mem = baseline_outputs[prompts[0]][2]  # use first prompt's memory
-    _unload_omni(omni_bl)
+    omni_bl.shutdown()
+    del omni_bl
+    _free_gpu_memory()

    # Save baseline outputs
    bl_dir = output_dir / "baseline"
@@ -305,7 +330,9 @@ def run_benchmark(args):

        qt_avg_time = np.mean([v[1] for v in qt_outputs.values()])
        qt_mem = qt_outputs[prompts[0]][2]
-        _unload_omni(omni_qt)
+        omni_qt.shutdown()
+        del omni_qt
+        _free_gpu_memory()

        # Save quantized outputs
        qt_dir = output_dir / config_label.replace(" ", "_")
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ async def main():
            "input": prompt,
            "voice": "default",
            "stream": True,
+            "stream_format": "audio",
            "response_format": "pcm",
            "ref_audio": ref_audio_b64,
            "ref_text": args.ref_text,
@@ -240,6 +241,7 @@ async def main():
            "input": prompt,
            "voice": args.voice_name,
            "stream": True,
+            "stream_format": "audio",
            "response_format": "pcm",
            "ref_text": args.ref_text,
            "max_new_tokens": 2048,
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ vllm bench serve --omni \
    --num-prompts 20 --num-warmups 2 \
    --extra-body '{"task_type":"Base"}' \
    --max-concurrency 1 --request-rate inf \
-    --percentile-metrics ttft,e2el,audio_rtf,audio_ttfp,audio_duration \
+    --percentile-metrics ttft,e2el,audio_rtf,audio_ttfp,audio_duration,audio_underrun \
    --save-result --result-dir ./results
 ```

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ vllm bench serve --omni \
    --num-prompts 20 --num-warmups 2 \
    --extra-body '{"voice":"Vivian","language":"English","task_type":"CustomVoice"}' \
    --max-concurrency 1 --request-rate inf \
-    --percentile-metrics ttft,e2el,audio_rtf,audio_ttfp,audio_duration \
+    --percentile-metrics ttft,e2el,audio_rtf,audio_ttfp,audio_duration,audio_underrun \
    --save-result --result-dir ./results
 ```

@@ -76,10 +76,28 @@ vllm bench serve --omni \
    --num-prompts 20 --num-warmups 2 \
    --extra-body '{"task_type":"VoiceDesign","language":"English"}' \
    --max-concurrency 1 --request-rate inf \
-    --percentile-metrics ttft,e2el,audio_rtf,audio_ttfp,audio_duration \
+    --percentile-metrics ttft,e2el,audio_rtf,audio_ttfp,audio_duration,audio_underrun \
    --save-result --result-dir ./results
 ```

+#### Streaming continuity (`audio_underrun`)
+
+`audio_underrun` (seconds) is the per-request worst-case buffer deficit
+under a realtime-rate player simulation. The audio-speech backend records
+chunk arrival times during the SSE stream and surfaces:
+
+- `Mean / Median / P{50,99} AUDIO_UNDERRUN (s)` per the standard percentile
+  output - any positive value means at least one inter-chunk gap was longer
+  than the chunk's audio duration.
+- `Streaming continuity OK rate` - fraction of requests whose worst-case
+  underrun stayed under the threshold (default 100 ms, the commonly cited
+  "audible gap" budget). Override the threshold with
+  `VLLM_OMNI_BENCH_AUDIO_CONTINUITY_THRESHOLD_S=<float>`.
+
+This captures the failure mode where `RTF_p50 < 1` (server keeps up in
+aggregate) but per-stream chunk arrival is bursty enough that listeners
+still hear gaps - common at high concurrency on streaming TTS pipelines.
+
 #### Add WER / SIM / UTMOS to any of the above

 Append `--seed-tts-wer-eval` (and optionally `SEED_TTS_EVAL_DEVICE=cuda:0`
@@ -215,7 +233,6 @@ sentinel for regressions in this area.
 benchmarks/tts/
 ├── README.md                  (this file)
 ├── bench_tts.py               CLI — serve-mode benchmark driver
-├── bench_voxcpm_offline.py    CLI — offline VoxCPM benchmark (sync + streaming)
 ├── plot_results.py            Generate per-task / per-concurrency curves
 └── model_configs.yaml         Model registry (supported tasks + extra body)
 ```
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ _TASK_TO_DATASET: dict[str, str] = {
    "voice_clone": "seed-tts",
    "default_voice": "seed-tts-text",
    "voice_design": "seed-tts-design",
+    "dialogue": "ttsd",
+    "sound_effect": "sound-effect",
 }

 # Default design dataset path (bundled with the repo)
@@ -81,6 +83,7 @@ def build_bench_args(
    output_dir: str | None,
    result_filename: str | None,
    extra_cli_args: list[str],
+    output_len: int | None = None,
 ) -> list[str]:
    """Build the ``vllm bench serve --omni`` command for one (task, concurrency) run."""
    dataset_name = _TASK_TO_DATASET[task]
@@ -118,7 +121,7 @@ def build_bench_args(
        "--num-warmups",
        "2",
        "--percentile-metrics",
-        "ttft,e2el,audio_rtf,audio_ttfp,audio_duration",
+        "ttft,e2el,audio_rtf,audio_ttfp,audio_duration,audio_underrun",
    ]

    if resolved_dataset_path:
@@ -130,12 +133,18 @@ def build_bench_args(
    if task_extra_body:
        cmd += ["--extra-body", json.dumps(task_extra_body, separators=(",", ":"))]

+    if model_cfg.get("trust_remote_code"):
+        cmd.append("--trust-remote-code")
+
    if concurrency is not None:
        cmd += ["--max-concurrency", str(concurrency), "--request-rate", "inf"]

    if wer_eval:
        cmd.append("--seed-tts-wer-eval")

+    if output_len is not None:
+        cmd += ["--hf-output-len", str(output_len)]
+
    if output_dir or result_filename:
        out_dir = output_dir or "."
        os.makedirs(out_dir, exist_ok=True)
@@ -235,6 +244,15 @@ def main() -> None:
    parser.add_argument("--host", default="localhost")
    parser.add_argument("--port", type=int, default=8000)
    parser.add_argument("--model-configs", default=str(_DEFAULT_MODEL_CONFIGS), help="Path to model_configs.yaml")
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--output-len",
+        type=int,
+        default=None,
+        help="Override per-request max_new_tokens forwarded to the server "
+        "(seed-tts datasets default to 2048; the MOSS-TTS full talker takes "
+        "this as 'max_new_frames' so smaller values cap audio length per "
+        "request and keep bench runtime tractable).",
+    )
    parser.add_argument("extra", nargs=argparse.REMAINDER, help="Extra args passed directly to vllm bench serve")
    args = parser.parse_args()

@@ -289,6 +307,7 @@ def main() -> None:
                output_dir=args.output_dir,
                result_filename=result_filename,
                extra_cli_args=args.extra or [],
+                output_len=args.output_len,
            )
            result = run_one_benchmark(cmd)
            if result is not None:
@@ -1,922 +0,0 @@
-"""Offline VoxCPM benchmark for vLLM Omni.
-
-Supports both:
- sync one-shot (Omni.generate)
- streaming (AsyncOmni.generate with async_chunk config)
- text-only synthesis
- voice cloning
- text/clone batch inputs from txt or jsonl
-
-Usage::
-
-    # Sync (default voice)
-    python benchmarks/tts/bench_voxcpm_offline.py \\
-        --model /path/to/VoxCPM \\
-        --text "Hello world" \\
-        --output-dir results/audio/
-
-    # Streaming (async_chunk)
-    python benchmarks/tts/bench_voxcpm_offline.py \\
-        --model /path/to/VoxCPM \\
-        --stage-configs-path vllm_omni/model_executor/stage_configs/voxcpm_async_chunk.yaml \\
-        --txt-prompts prompts.txt \\
-        --output-dir results/audio/
-
-    # Voice cloning batch via JSONL
-    python benchmarks/tts/bench_voxcpm_offline.py \\
-        --model /path/to/VoxCPM \\
-        --jsonl-prompts prompts.jsonl \\
-        --output-dir results/audio/
-"""
-
-from __future__ import annotations
-
-import asyncio
-import json
-import logging
-import os
-import tempfile
-import time
-import uuid
-from dataclasses import dataclass
-from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Any
-
-import torch
-from vllm.utils.argparse_utils import FlexibleArgumentParser
-
-from vllm_omni import AsyncOmni, Omni
-
-
-def _find_repo_root(start: Path) -> Path:
-    """Walk up from ``start`` until a repo marker is found.
-
-    Falls back to ``parents[2]`` for backwards compatibility if no marker hits
-    (which can only happen in unusual checkouts — the tree should always have
-    pyproject.toml + vllm_omni/ at the top level).
-    """
-    for candidate in [start, *start.parents]:
-        if (candidate / "pyproject.toml").is_file() and (candidate / "vllm_omni").is_dir():
-            return candidate
-    return start.parents[2]
-
-
-REPO_ROOT = _find_repo_root(Path(__file__).resolve())
-DEFAULT_STAGE_ASYNC = REPO_ROOT / "vllm_omni" / "model_executor" / "stage_configs" / "voxcpm_async_chunk.yaml"
-DEFAULT_STAGE_SYNC = REPO_ROOT / "vllm_omni" / "deploy" / "voxcpm.yaml"
-
-logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
-
-
-@dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True)
-class PromptSpec:
-    text: str
-    label: str
-    ref_audio: str | None = None
-    ref_text: str | None = None
-
-
-def _require_soundfile():
-    try:
-        import soundfile as sf  # type: ignore
-    except ModuleNotFoundError as exc:
-        raise RuntimeError(
-            "soundfile is required to write VoxCPM benchmark WAV outputs. Install it with: pip install soundfile"
-        ) from exc
-    return sf
-
-
-def _build_prompt(
-    args,
-    *,
-    text: str,
-    ref_audio: str | None = None,
-    ref_text: str | None = None,
-    global_request_id: str | None = None,
-) -> dict[str, Any]:
-    additional_information: dict[str, list[Any]] = {
-        "text": [text],
-        "cfg_value": [args.cfg_value],
-        "inference_timesteps": [args.inference_timesteps],
-        "min_len": [args.min_len],
-        "max_new_tokens": [args.max_new_tokens],
-    }
-    if args.streaming_prefix_len is not None:
-        additional_information["streaming_prefix_len"] = [args.streaming_prefix_len]
-
-    if ref_audio:
-        additional_information["ref_audio"] = [ref_audio]
-    if ref_text:
-        additional_information["ref_text"] = [ref_text]
-    if global_request_id is not None:
-        additional_information["global_request_id"] = [global_request_id]
-
-    return {
-        "prompt_token_ids": [1],
-        "additional_information": additional_information,
-    }
-
-
-def _extract_audio_tensor(mm: dict[str, Any]) -> torch.Tensor:
-    audio = mm.get("audio", mm.get("model_outputs"))
-    if audio is None:
-        raise ValueError("No audio output found in multimodal output.")
-    if isinstance(audio, list):
-        parts = [torch.as_tensor(a).float().cpu().reshape(-1) for a in audio]
-        audio = torch.cat(parts, dim=-1) if parts else torch.zeros(0)
-    if not isinstance(audio, torch.Tensor):
-        audio = torch.as_tensor(audio)
-    return audio.float().cpu().reshape(-1)
-
-
-def _extract_sample_rate(mm: dict[str, Any]) -> int:
-    sr_raw = mm.get("sr", 24000)
-    if isinstance(sr_raw, list) and sr_raw:
-        sr_raw = sr_raw[-1]
-    if hasattr(sr_raw, "item"):
-        return int(sr_raw.item())
-    return int(sr_raw)
-
-
-def _emit_offline_metrics(
-    *,
-    request_id: str,
-    elapsed_s: float,
-    first_audio_elapsed: float | None,
-    audio_duration_s: float,
-) -> None:
-    metrics = {
-        "request_id": request_id,
-        "ttfp_ms": round(first_audio_elapsed * 1000.0, 3) if first_audio_elapsed is not None else None,
-        "audio_duration_s": round(audio_duration_s, 6),
-        "rtf": round(elapsed_s / audio_duration_s, 6) if audio_duration_s > 0 else None,
-    }
-    print(f"[OfflineMetrics] {metrics}")
-
-
-def _write_audio_tensor(output_path: Path, audio_tensor: Any, sample_rate: int) -> None:
-    sf = _require_soundfile()
-    if isinstance(audio_tensor, torch.Tensor):
-        audio_np = audio_tensor.float().cpu().clamp(-1.0, 1.0).numpy()
-    else:
-        audio_np = torch.as_tensor(audio_tensor).float().cpu().clamp(-1.0, 1.0).numpy()
-    sf.write(
-        output_path,
-        audio_np,
-        sample_rate,
-        format="WAV",
-        subtype="PCM_16",
-    )
-
-
-def _save_wav(mm: dict[str, Any], output_dir: Path, request_id: str) -> Path:
-    output_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
-    output_path = output_dir / f"output_{request_id}.wav"
-    _write_audio_tensor(output_path, _extract_audio_tensor(mm), _extract_sample_rate(mm))
-    return output_path
-
-
-def _iter_request_multimodal_outputs(request_output: Any):
-    outputs = getattr(request_output, "outputs", None)
-    if outputs:
-        for output in outputs:
-            mm = getattr(output, "multimodal_output", None)
-            if isinstance(mm, dict):
-                yield mm
-
-    mm = getattr(request_output, "multimodal_output", None)
-    if isinstance(mm, dict):
-        yield mm
-
-
-def _read_non_empty_lines(path: str) -> list[str]:
-    with open(path, encoding="utf-8") as f:
-        return [line.strip() for line in f if line.strip()]
-
-
-def _load_prompt_specs(args) -> list[PromptSpec]:
-    specs: list[PromptSpec] = []
-
-    if args.txt_prompts is not None:
-        texts = _read_non_empty_lines(args.txt_prompts)
-        if not texts:
-            raise ValueError(f"No prompts found in {args.txt_prompts}")
-        for idx, text in enumerate(texts, start=1):
-            specs.append(
-                PromptSpec(
-                    text=text,
-                    label=f"item{idx:03d}",
-                    ref_audio=args.ref_audio,
-                    ref_text=args.ref_text,
-                )
-            )
-        return specs
-
-    if args.jsonl_prompts is not None:
-        with open(args.jsonl_prompts, encoding="utf-8") as f:
-            for line_no, raw_line in enumerate(f, start=1):
-                line = raw_line.strip()
-                if not line:
-                    continue
-                try:
-                    item = json.loads(line)
-                except json.JSONDecodeError as exc:
-                    raise ValueError(f"{args.jsonl_prompts}:{line_no} is not valid JSON: {exc}") from exc
-                if not isinstance(item, dict):
-                    raise ValueError(f"{args.jsonl_prompts}:{line_no} must be a JSON object")
-
-                text = item.get("text")
-                if not isinstance(text, str) or not text.strip():
-                    raise ValueError(f"{args.jsonl_prompts}:{line_no} requires non-empty string field 'text'")
-
-                ref_audio = item.get("ref_audio", args.ref_audio)
-                ref_text = item.get("ref_text", args.ref_text)
-                if (ref_audio is None) != (ref_text is None):
-                    raise ValueError(
-                        f"{args.jsonl_prompts}:{line_no} must provide both 'ref_audio' and 'ref_text' together"
-                    )
-
-                specs.append(
-                    PromptSpec(
-                        text=text.strip(),
-                        label=f"item{len(specs) + 1:03d}",
-                        ref_audio=ref_audio,
-                        ref_text=ref_text,
-                    )
-                )
-
-        if not specs:
-            raise ValueError(f"No prompts found in {args.jsonl_prompts}")
-        return specs
-
-    specs.append(
-        PromptSpec(
-            text=args.text,
-            label="item001",
-            ref_audio=args.ref_audio,
-            ref_text=args.ref_text,
-        )
-    )
-    return specs
-
-
-def _build_prompt_for_spec(args, spec: PromptSpec, *, global_request_id: str | None = None) -> dict[str, Any]:
-    return _build_prompt(
-        args,
-        text=spec.text,
-        ref_audio=spec.ref_audio,
-        ref_text=spec.ref_text,
-        global_request_id=global_request_id,
-    )
-
-
-def _count_voice_clone_prompts(prompt_specs: list[PromptSpec]) -> int:
-    return sum(1 for spec in prompt_specs if spec.ref_audio is not None)
-
-
-def _get_warmup_specs(prompt_specs: list[PromptSpec]) -> list[PromptSpec]:
-    return prompt_specs[:1]
-
-
-def _extract_stream_finished(stage_output: Any) -> bool:
-    request_output = getattr(stage_output, "request_output", None)
-    request_finished = getattr(request_output, "finished", None)
-    if request_finished is not None:
-        return bool(request_finished)
-    return bool(getattr(stage_output, "finished", False))
-
-
-def _build_profiled_stage_config(
-    stage_configs_path: str,
-    profiler_dir: str,
-) -> str:
-    stage_config_path = Path(stage_configs_path)
-    yaml_text = stage_config_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
-    injected_lines: list[str] = []
-    injected_count = 0
-
-    for line in yaml_text.splitlines():
-        injected_lines.append(line)
-        if line.strip() != "engine_args:":
-            continue
-        indent = line[: len(line) - len(line.lstrip())]
-        child_indent = indent + "  "
-        grandchild_indent = child_indent + "  "
-        injected_lines.extend(
-            [
-                f"{child_indent}profiler_config:",
-                f'{grandchild_indent}profiler: "torch"',
-                f'{grandchild_indent}torch_profiler_dir: "{profiler_dir}"',
-                f"{grandchild_indent}torch_profiler_with_stack: true",
-            ]
-        )
-        injected_count += 1
-
-    if injected_count == 0:
-        raise ValueError(f"No engine_args block found in stage config: {stage_configs_path}")
-
-    tmp = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(
-        mode="w",
-        encoding="utf-8",
-        delete=False,
-        suffix=".yaml",
-        prefix=f"{stage_config_path.stem}_profile_",
-    )
-    tmp.write("\n".join(injected_lines) + "\n")
-    tmp.close()
-    return tmp.name
-
-
-def parse_args():
-    parser = FlexibleArgumentParser(
-        description="Offline split-stage VoxCPM inference with vLLM Omni (auto sync/streaming by stage config)"
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--model",
-        type=str,
-        default=os.environ.get("VOXCPM_MODEL"),
-        help="Local VoxCPM model directory. Defaults to $VOXCPM_MODEL.",
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--text",
-        type=str,
-        default="This is a split-stage VoxCPM synthesis example running on vLLM Omni.",
-        help="Text to synthesize. Ignored when --txt-prompts or --jsonl-prompts is used.",
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--txt-prompts",
-        type=str,
-        default=None,
-        help="Path to a .txt file with one synthesis text per line.",
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--jsonl-prompts",
-        type=str,
-        default=None,
-        help=(
-            "Path to a .jsonl file. Each line must contain at least {'text': ...}; "
-            "clone rows can also set ref_audio/ref_text, and ref_text must be the "
-            "real transcript of ref_audio."
-        ),
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--ref-audio",
-        type=str,
-        default=None,
-        help=(
-            "Optional reference audio path for voice cloning. With --txt-prompts, "
-            "the same reference is applied to every line."
-        ),
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--ref-text",
-        type=str,
-        default=None,
-        help=(
-            "Real transcript of the reference audio. Placeholder text or mismatched "
-            "text will usually produce noisy/electronic clone audio."
-        ),
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--stage-configs-path",
-        type=str,
-        default=str(DEFAULT_STAGE_SYNC),
-        help="Stage config YAML path. Routing is selected only from this path.",
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--cfg-value",
-        type=float,
-        default=2.0,
-        help="Classifier-free guidance value for VoxCPM.",
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--inference-timesteps",
-        type=int,
-        default=10,
-        help="Number of inference timesteps.",
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--min-len",
-        type=int,
-        default=2,
-        help="Minimum generated token length.",
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--max-new-tokens",
-        type=int,
-        default=4096,
-        help="Maximum generated token length.",
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--streaming-prefix-len",
-        type=int,
-        default=None,
-        help="VoxCPM streaming window (optional, streaming mode only).",
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--output-dir",
-        type=str,
-        default=None,
-        help="Directory for output WAV files.",
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--stage-init-timeout",
-        type=int,
-        default=600,
-        help="Stage initialization timeout in seconds.",
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--log-stats",
-        dest="log_stats",
-        action="store_true",
-        help="Enable vLLM Omni stats logging.",
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--no-log-stats",
-        dest="log_stats",
-        action="store_false",
-        help="Disable vLLM Omni stats logging.",
-    )
-    parser.set_defaults(log_stats=True)
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--num-runs",
-        type=int,
-        default=1,
-        help="Number of full inference runs (same prompt each time). Default 1.",
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--warmup-runs",
-        type=int,
-        default=0,
-        help=(
-            "Optional number of warmup passes before measured runs. Warmup uses only "
-            "the first prompt and does not save outputs."
-        ),
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--enable-profiler",
-        action="store_true",
-        help=(
-            "Enable torch profiler for the configured stages. A temporary profiled "
-            "stage config is generated automatically."
-        ),
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--profiler-dir",
-        type=str,
-        default=None,
-        help="Directory for profiler traces. Defaults to <output-dir>/profiler when profiling is enabled.",
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--profiler-stages",
-        type=int,
-        nargs="*",
-        default=None,
-        help="Optional stage ids to profile. Defaults to all stages that have profiler_config.",
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--profiler-wait-seconds",
-        type=float,
-        default=30.0,
-        help="Seconds to wait after stop_profile for trace files to flush.",
-    )
-    args = parser.parse_args()
-
-    if not args.model:
-        parser.error("--model is required unless $VOXCPM_MODEL is set")
-    if args.txt_prompts is not None and args.jsonl_prompts is not None:
-        parser.error("--txt-prompts and --jsonl-prompts are mutually exclusive")
-    if (args.ref_audio is None) != (args.ref_text is None):
-        parser.error("--ref-audio and --ref-text must be provided together")
-    if args.num_runs < 1:
-        parser.error("--num-runs must be >= 1")
-    if args.warmup_runs < 0:
-        parser.error("--warmup-runs must be >= 0")
-    if args.output_dir is None:
-        args.output_dir = (
-            "output_audio_streaming" if _is_streaming_stage_config(args.stage_configs_path) else "output_audio"
-        )
-    if args.enable_profiler and args.profiler_dir is None:
-        args.profiler_dir = str(Path(args.output_dir) / "profiler")
-    try:
-        args.prompt_specs = _load_prompt_specs(args)
-    except ValueError as exc:
-        parser.error(str(exc))
-
-    return args
-
-
-def _is_streaming_stage_config(stage_configs_path: str) -> bool:
-    cfg_name = Path(stage_configs_path).name.lower()
-    return "async_chunk" in cfg_name
-
-
-async def _collect_streaming_audio(
-    omni: AsyncOmni,
-    args: Any,
-    spec: PromptSpec,
-    request_id: str,
-    *,
-    phase_label: str,
-    prompt_index: int,
-    prompt_count: int,
-    print_prompt: bool = False,
-) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, int, float, float | None]:
-    prompt = _build_prompt_for_spec(args, spec, global_request_id=request_id)
-    delta_chunks: list[torch.Tensor] = []
-    sample_rate = 24000
-    chunk_i = 0
-    prev_total_samples = 0
-    t_start = time.perf_counter()
-    first_audio_elapsed: float | None = None
-
-    if print_prompt:
-        print(f"---prompt---:{prompt}")
-
-    async for stage_output in omni.generate(prompt, request_id=request_id):
-        mm = getattr(stage_output, "multimodal_output", None)
-        if not isinstance(mm, dict):
-            ro = getattr(stage_output, "request_output", None)
-            if ro is None:
-                continue
-            mm = getattr(ro, "multimodal_output", None)
-            if not isinstance(mm, dict) and getattr(ro, "outputs", None):
-                seq = ro.outputs[0]
-                mm = getattr(seq, "multimodal_output", None)
-        if not isinstance(mm, dict):
-            continue
-        sample_rate = _extract_sample_rate(mm)
-        try:
-            w = _extract_audio_tensor(mm)
-            n = int(w.numel())
-            if n == 0:
-                continue
-            finished = _extract_stream_finished(stage_output)
-            if n > prev_total_samples:
-                delta = w.reshape(-1)[prev_total_samples:]
-                prev_total_samples = n
-            elif finished and n == prev_total_samples:
-                delta = w.reshape(-1)[:0]
-            else:
-                delta = w.reshape(-1)
-                prev_total_samples += int(delta.numel())
-            if int(delta.numel()) > 0:
-                delta_chunks.append(delta)
-            if first_audio_elapsed is None and int(delta.numel()) > 0:
-                first_audio_elapsed = time.perf_counter() - t_start
-            logger.info(
-                "%s prompt=%d/%d chunk=%d delta_samples=%d buf_len=%d finished=%s",
-                phase_label,
-                prompt_index + 1,
-                prompt_count,
-                chunk_i,
-                int(delta.numel()),
-                n,
-                finished,
-            )
-            chunk_i += 1
-        except ValueError:
-            if not _extract_stream_finished(stage_output):
-                logger.debug("skip non-audio partial output chunk=%d", chunk_i)
-
-    if not delta_chunks:
-        raise RuntimeError("No audio chunks received; check stage config and logs.")
-
-    audio_cat = torch.cat([c.reshape(-1) for c in delta_chunks], dim=0)
-    elapsed = time.perf_counter() - t_start
-    return audio_cat, sample_rate, elapsed, first_audio_elapsed
-
-
-async def _abort_streaming_residual_work(
-    omni: AsyncOmni,
-    request_id: str,
-    *,
-    settle_seconds: float = 0.1,
-) -> None:
-    """Stop any late stage-0 work once the final audio has been collected."""
-    await omni.engine.abort_async([request_id])
-    if settle_seconds > 0:
-        await asyncio.sleep(settle_seconds)
-
-
-async def _run_streaming_single(
-    omni: AsyncOmni,
-    args: Any,
-    spec: PromptSpec,
-    output_dir: Path,
-    request_id: str,
-    *,
-    run_index: int,
-    num_runs: int,
-    prompt_index: int,
-    prompt_count: int,
-) -> Path:
-    audio_cat, sample_rate, elapsed, first_audio_elapsed = await _collect_streaming_audio(
-        omni,
-        args,
-        spec,
-        request_id,
-        phase_label=f"run={run_index + 1}/{num_runs}",
-        prompt_index=prompt_index,
-        prompt_count=prompt_count,
-        print_prompt=(run_index == 0 and prompt_index == 0),
-    )
-    await _abort_streaming_residual_work(omni, request_id)
-    output_path = output_dir / f"output_run{run_index + 1}_{spec.label}.wav"
-    _write_audio_tensor(output_path, audio_cat, sample_rate)
-    audio_duration_s = float(audio_cat.numel()) / float(sample_rate) if sample_rate > 0 else 0.0
-    ttfp_text = f", ttfp={first_audio_elapsed:.2f}s" if first_audio_elapsed is not None else ""
-    rtf_text = f", rtf={elapsed / audio_duration_s:.3f}" if audio_duration_s > 0 else ""
-    print(
-        f"Saved (streaming) run {run_index + 1}/{num_runs}, "
-        f"prompt {prompt_index + 1}/{prompt_count}: {output_path} ({elapsed:.2f}s{ttfp_text}{rtf_text})"
-    )
-    _emit_offline_metrics(
-        request_id=request_id,
-        elapsed_s=elapsed,
-        first_audio_elapsed=first_audio_elapsed,
-        audio_duration_s=audio_duration_s,
-    )
-    return output_path
-
-
-async def _run_streaming_warmup(args, omni: AsyncOmni) -> None:
-    if args.warmup_runs == 0:
-        return
-
-    warmup_specs = _get_warmup_specs(args.prompt_specs)
-    print(
-        f"Warmup: {args.warmup_runs} run(s) using the first prompt "
-        f"({len(warmup_specs)} prompt(s)); outputs will be discarded."
-    )
-    for warmup_index in range(args.warmup_runs):
-        t_warmup = time.perf_counter()
-        tasks = []
-        request_ids: list[str] = []
-        for prompt_index, spec in enumerate(warmup_specs):
-            request_id = f"warmup_stream_{warmup_index + 1}_{spec.label}_{uuid.uuid4().hex[:8]}"
-            request_ids.append(request_id)
-            tasks.append(
-                _collect_streaming_audio(
-                    omni,
-                    args,
-                    spec,
-                    request_id,
-                    phase_label=f"warmup={warmup_index + 1}/{args.warmup_runs}",
-                    prompt_index=prompt_index,
-                    prompt_count=len(warmup_specs),
-                )
-            )
-        results = await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
-        for request_id in request_ids:
-            await _abort_streaming_residual_work(omni, request_id)
-        total_samples = sum(int(audio.numel()) for audio, _, _, _ in results)
-        warmup_ttfps = [ttfp for _, _, _, ttfp in results if ttfp is not None]
-        ttfp_text = f", ttfp={min(warmup_ttfps):.2f}s" if warmup_ttfps else ""
-        print(
-            f"Warmup (streaming) {warmup_index + 1}/{args.warmup_runs} finished: "
-            f"{len(results)} prompt(s), {total_samples} sample(s) "
-            f"({time.perf_counter() - t_warmup:.2f}s{ttfp_text})"
-        )
-
-
-async def _run_streaming(args) -> list[Path]:
-    output_dir = Path(args.output_dir)
-    output_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
-
-    omni = AsyncOmni(
-        model=args.model,
-        stage_configs_path=args.stage_configs_path,
-        log_stats=args.log_stats,
-        stage_init_timeout=args.stage_init_timeout,
-    )
-
-    await _run_streaming_warmup(args, omni)
-    profiler_started = False
-    if args.enable_profiler:
-        profile_prefix = f"voxcpm_streaming_{int(time.time())}"
-        stages_text = args.profiler_stages if args.profiler_stages is not None else "all-configured"
-        print(f"Starting profiler (streaming): stages={stages_text}, dir={args.profiler_dir}")
-        await omni.start_profile(profile_prefix=profile_prefix, stages=args.profiler_stages)
-        profiler_started = True
-    t_total = time.perf_counter()
-    total_elapsed = 0.0
-    paths: list[Path] = []
-    prompt_specs: list[PromptSpec] = args.prompt_specs
-    try:
-        for run in range(args.num_runs):
-            for prompt_index, spec in enumerate(prompt_specs):
-                request_id = f"stream_{run + 1}_{spec.label}_{uuid.uuid4().hex[:8]}"
-                paths.append(
-                    await _run_streaming_single(
-                        omni,
-                        args,
-                        spec,
-                        output_dir,
-                        request_id,
-                        run_index=run,
-                        num_runs=args.num_runs,
-                        prompt_index=prompt_index,
-                        prompt_count=len(prompt_specs),
-                    )
-                )
-        total_elapsed = time.perf_counter() - t_total
-    finally:
-        if profiler_started:
-            print("Stopping profiler (streaming)...")
-            await omni.stop_profile(stages=args.profiler_stages)
-            if args.profiler_wait_seconds > 0:
-                print(f"Waiting {args.profiler_wait_seconds:.1f}s for profiler traces to flush...")
-                await asyncio.sleep(args.profiler_wait_seconds)
-
-    print(
-        f"All streaming runs finished: {args.num_runs} run(s), "
-        f"{len(prompt_specs)} prompt(s), {len(paths)} file(s) in {total_elapsed:.2f}s total"
-    )
-    return paths
-
-
-def _run_sync(args) -> list[Path]:
-    output_dir = Path(args.output_dir)
-
-    omni = Omni(
-        model=args.model,
-        stage_configs_path=args.stage_configs_path,
-        log_stats=args.log_stats,
-        stage_init_timeout=args.stage_init_timeout,
-    )
-
-    def _run_sync_single(
-        spec: PromptSpec,
-        *,
-        request_prefix: str,
-        save_outputs: bool,
-        run_index: int | None = None,
-    ) -> tuple[list[Path], int, float | None, float, float, str]:
-        global_request_id = f"{request_prefix}_{spec.label}"
-        prompt = _build_prompt_for_spec(args, spec, global_request_id=global_request_id)
-        if save_outputs and run_index == 0 and spec.label == "item001":
-            print(f"---prompt---:{prompt}")
-
-        saved_paths: list[Path] = []
-        output_count = 0
-        first_audio_elapsed: float | None = None
-        total_audio_duration_s = 0.0
-        metrics_request_id = global_request_id
-        t_start = time.perf_counter()
-        for stage_outputs in omni.generate(prompt):
-            request_output = stage_outputs.request_output
-            if request_output is None:
-                continue
-            request_output_id = getattr(request_output, "request_id", None)
-            if isinstance(request_output_id, str) and request_output_id:
-                metrics_request_id = request_output_id
-            for j, mm in enumerate(_iter_request_multimodal_outputs(request_output)):
-                output_count += 1
-                if first_audio_elapsed is None:
-                    try:
-                        audio_tensor = _extract_audio_tensor(mm)
-                        if int(audio_tensor.numel()) > 0:
-                            first_audio_elapsed = time.perf_counter() - t_start
-                        total_audio_duration_s += float(audio_tensor.numel()) / float(_extract_sample_rate(mm))
-                    except ValueError:
-                        pass
-                else:
-                    try:
-                        audio_tensor = _extract_audio_tensor(mm)
-                        total_audio_duration_s += float(audio_tensor.numel()) / float(_extract_sample_rate(mm))
-                    except ValueError:
-                        pass
-                if not save_outputs:
-                    continue
-                save_stem = f"run{run_index + 1}_{spec.label}" if j == 0 else f"run{run_index + 1}_{spec.label}_{j}"
-                saved_paths.append(_save_wav(mm, output_dir, save_stem))
-
-        if output_count == 0:
-            raise RuntimeError("No output from Omni.generate")
-        elapsed_s = time.perf_counter() - t_start
-        return saved_paths, output_count, first_audio_elapsed, elapsed_s, total_audio_duration_s, metrics_request_id
-
-    if args.warmup_runs:
-        warmup_specs = _get_warmup_specs(args.prompt_specs)
-        print(
-            f"Warmup: {args.warmup_runs} run(s) using the first prompt "
-            f"({len(warmup_specs)} prompt(s)); outputs will be discarded."
-        )
-        for warmup_index in range(args.warmup_runs):
-            t_warmup = time.perf_counter()
-            _, output_count, first_audio_elapsed, elapsed_s, audio_duration_s, _ = _run_sync_single(
-                warmup_specs[0],
-                request_prefix=f"warmup_sync{warmup_index + 1}",
-                save_outputs=False,
-            )
-            ttfp_text = f", ttfp={first_audio_elapsed:.2f}s" if first_audio_elapsed is not None else ""
-            rtf_text = f", rtf={elapsed_s / audio_duration_s:.3f}" if audio_duration_s > 0 else ""
-            print(
-                f"Warmup (sync) {warmup_index + 1}/{args.warmup_runs} finished: "
-                f"{output_count} output(s) ({time.perf_counter() - t_warmup:.2f}s{ttfp_text}{rtf_text})"
-            )
-
-    profiler_started = False
-    if args.enable_profiler:
-        profile_prefix = f"voxcpm_sync_{int(time.time())}"
-        stages_text = args.profiler_stages if args.profiler_stages is not None else "all-configured"
-        print(f"Starting profiler (sync): stages={stages_text}, dir={args.profiler_dir}")
-        omni.start_profile(profile_prefix=profile_prefix, stages=args.profiler_stages)
-        profiler_started = True
-
-    t_total = time.perf_counter()
-    total_elapsed = 0.0
-    saved_paths: list[Path] = []
-    prompt_specs: list[PromptSpec] = args.prompt_specs
-    try:
-        for run in range(args.num_runs):
-            t_run = time.perf_counter()
-            run_paths: list[Path] = []
-            for prompt_index, spec in enumerate(prompt_specs):
-                prompt_paths, _, first_audio_elapsed, elapsed_s, audio_duration_s, metrics_request_id = (
-                    _run_sync_single(
-                        spec,
-                        request_prefix=f"sync_run{run + 1}_{prompt_index + 1:03d}",
-                        save_outputs=True,
-                        run_index=run,
-                    )
-                )
-                run_paths.extend(prompt_paths)
-                ttfp_text = f", ttfp={first_audio_elapsed:.2f}s" if first_audio_elapsed is not None else ""
-                rtf_text = f", rtf={elapsed_s / audio_duration_s:.3f}" if audio_duration_s > 0 else ""
-                print(
-                    f"Saved (sync) run {run + 1}/{args.num_runs}, "
-                    f"prompt {prompt_index + 1}/{len(prompt_specs)}: {len(prompt_paths)} file(s){ttfp_text}{rtf_text}"
-                )
-                _emit_offline_metrics(
-                    request_id=metrics_request_id,
-                    elapsed_s=elapsed_s,
-                    first_audio_elapsed=first_audio_elapsed,
-                    audio_duration_s=audio_duration_s,
-                )
-
-            saved_paths.extend(run_paths)
-            print(
-                f"Run {run + 1}/{args.num_runs} finished: {len(run_paths)} file(s) ({time.perf_counter() - t_run:.2f}s)"
-            )
-            for path in run_paths:
-                print(f"  {path}")
-
-        total_elapsed = time.perf_counter() - t_total
-    finally:
-        if profiler_started:
-            print("Stopping profiler (sync)...")
-            omni.stop_profile(stages=args.profiler_stages)
-            if args.profiler_wait_seconds > 0:
-                print(f"Waiting {args.profiler_wait_seconds:.1f}s for profiler traces to flush...")
-                time.sleep(args.profiler_wait_seconds)
-
-    print(
-        f"All sync runs finished: {args.num_runs} run(s), "
-        f"{len(prompt_specs)} prompt(s), {len(saved_paths)} file(s) in {total_elapsed:.2f}s total"
-    )
-    return saved_paths
-
-
-def main(args) -> int:
-    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
-    profiled_stage_config_path: str | None = None
-    original_stage_config_path = args.stage_configs_path
-    if args.enable_profiler:
-        Path(args.profiler_dir).mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
-        profiled_stage_config_path = _build_profiled_stage_config(
-            args.stage_configs_path,
-            str(Path(args.profiler_dir).resolve()),
-        )
-        args.stage_configs_path = profiled_stage_config_path
-
-    is_streaming = _is_streaming_stage_config(args.stage_configs_path)
-    voice_clone_count = _count_voice_clone_prompts(args.prompt_specs)
-    print(f"Model: {args.model}")
-    print(f"Stage config: {original_stage_config_path}")
-    print(f"Route: {'streaming' if is_streaming else 'sync'} (from stage-configs-path)")
-    print(f"Prompt count: {len(args.prompt_specs)}")
-    print("Batch mode: sequential (aligned with native VoxCPM)")
-    print(f"Warmup runs: {args.warmup_runs}")
-    print(f"Voice cloning prompts: {voice_clone_count}/{len(args.prompt_specs)}")
-    if args.enable_profiler:
-        print(f"Profiler: enabled (dir={args.profiler_dir}, stages={args.profiler_stages or 'all-configured'})")
-        print(f"Profiled stage config: {args.stage_configs_path}")
-    if voice_clone_count:
-        print("Voice cloning note: --ref-text/ref_text must match the spoken content of the reference audio.")
-    print(f"Num runs: {args.num_runs}")
-    try:
-        if is_streaming:
-            asyncio.run(_run_streaming(args))
-        else:
-            _run_sync(args)
-    finally:
-        if profiled_stage_config_path is not None and os.path.exists(profiled_stage_config_path):
-            os.unlink(profiled_stage_config_path)
-    return 0
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    os.environ["VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD"] = "spawn"
-    raise SystemExit(main(parse_args()))
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ models:
    supported_tasks: [default_voice, voice_design]
    backend: openai-audio-speech
    endpoint: /v1/audio/speech
+    trust_remote_code: true
    task_extra_body:
      default_voice:
        voice: Vivian
@@ -27,13 +28,96 @@ models:
    supported_tasks: [voice_clone]
    backend: openai-audio-speech
    endpoint: /v1/audio/speech
+    trust_remote_code: true
    task_extra_body:
      voice_clone:
        task_type: Base

+  bosonai/higgs-audio-v3-tts-4b:
+    supported_tasks: [default_voice, voice_clone]
+    backend: openai-audio-speech
+    endpoint: /v1/audio/speech
+    trust_remote_code: true
+    task_extra_body:
+      default_voice: {}
+      voice_clone: {}
+
  openbmb/VoxCPM2:
+    supported_tasks: [voice_clone, default_voice]
+    trust_remote_code: true
+    backend: openai-audio-speech
+    endpoint: /v1/audio/speech
+    trust_remote_code: true
+    task_extra_body:
+      voice_clone: {}
+      default_voice:
+        voice: default
+
+  # MOSS-TTS family. After the serving_speech.py variant-detection refactor
+  # all five variants now go through OpenAI /v1/audio/speech with the
+  # variant-specific request fields (ambient_sound, ref_audio_2, instructions).
+  OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-TTS:
    supported_tasks: [voice_clone]
    backend: openai-audio-speech
    endpoint: /v1/audio/speech
    task_extra_body:
      voice_clone: {}
+
+  # MOSS-TTS-v1.5: continued-training upgrade of MOSS-TTS 1.0 — same
+  # MossTTSDelay-8B architecture and API, so identical wiring. Adds 31-language
+  # synthesis via the `language` field and inline `[pause Xs]` markers.
+  OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-TTS-v1.5:
+    supported_tasks: [voice_clone]
+    backend: openai-audio-speech
+    endpoint: /v1/audio/speech
+    task_extra_body:
+      voice_clone: {}
+
+  OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-TTS-Realtime:
+    supported_tasks: [voice_clone]
+    backend: openai-audio-speech
+    endpoint: /v1/audio/speech
+    task_extra_body:
+      voice_clone: {}
+
+  # MOSS-TTS-Local-Transformer-v1.5: Qwen3 backbone + 1-layer GPT2-style local
+  # depth transformer (n_vq=12), paired with the 48 kHz stereo
+  # MOSS-Audio-Tokenizer-v2 codec. Same voice-clone request shape as the
+  # other MOSS-TTS variants.
+  OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-TTS-Local-Transformer-v1.5:
+    supported_tasks: [voice_clone]
+    backend: openai-audio-speech
+    endpoint: /v1/audio/speech
+    task_extra_body:
+      voice_clone: {}
+
+  # MOSS-TTSD synthesizes [S1]/[S2] dialogue. The seed-tts voice_clone dataset
+  # has single-speaker rows; bench piggybacks on it (both speakers share the
+  # same ref_audio). For real dialogue evaluation use the ttsd dataset.
+  OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-TTSD-v1.0:
+    supported_tasks: [voice_clone, dialogue]
+    backend: openai-audio-speech
+    endpoint: /v1/audio/speech
+    task_extra_body:
+      voice_clone: {}
+      dialogue: {}
+
+  # MOSS-SoundEffect ignores text/ref_audio; expects ambient_sound +
+  # duration_seconds. The sound_effect dataset module emits those.
+  OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-SoundEffect:
+    supported_tasks: [sound_effect]
+    backend: openai-audio-speech
+    endpoint: /v1/audio/speech
+    task_extra_body:
+      sound_effect:
+        duration_seconds: 10
+
+  # MOSS-VoiceGenerator: instructions-driven (no ref_audio). seed-tts-design
+  # dataset already emits {instructions, target_text}, so voice_design works
+  # out of the box once the serving validator accepts instructions.
+  OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-VoiceGenerator:
+    supported_tasks: [voice_design]
+    backend: openai-audio-speech
+    endpoint: /v1/audio/speech
+    task_extra_body:
+      voice_design: {}
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
+# Target vllm version: v0.24.0 (releases/v0.24.0 branch).
+# The pinned VLLM_PRECOMPILED_WHEEL_COMMIT and VLLM_BASE_TAG below must
+# be updated on every rebase to match the new upstream vllm commit/tag.
 ARG VLLM_BASE_IMAGE=vllm/vllm-openai
-ARG VLLM_BASE_TAG=v0.21.0
+ARG VLLM_BASE_TAG=v0.24.0
 FROM ${VLLM_BASE_IMAGE}:${VLLM_BASE_TAG}
 ARG APP_DIR=/workspace/vllm-omni
 WORKDIR ${APP_DIR}
@@ -13,6 +16,7 @@ RUN apt-get update && \

 RUN uv pip install --system ".[dev]"

+
 RUN ln -sf /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python

 ENTRYPOINT []
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-ARG BASE_IMAGE=vllm/vllm-openai:v0.20.0
+ARG BASE_IMAGE=vllm/vllm-openai:v0.24.0
 FROM ${BASE_IMAGE}

 ARG COMMON_WORKDIR=/app
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-ARG VLLM_ASCEND_IMAGE=quay.io/ascend/vllm-ascend
-ARG VLLM_ASCEND_TAG=v0.18.0rc1
+ARG VLLM_ASCEND_IMAGE=quay.io/atlas-ci/vllm-ascend
+ARG VLLM_ASCEND_TAG=v0.24.0
 FROM ${VLLM_ASCEND_IMAGE}:${VLLM_ASCEND_TAG}

 # WORKDIR /vllm-workspace/vllm
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-ARG VLLM_ASCEND_IMAGE=quay.io/ascend/vllm-ascend
-ARG VLLM_ASCEND_TAG=v0.18.0rc1-a3
+ARG VLLM_ASCEND_IMAGE=quay.io/atlas-ci/vllm-ascend
+ARG VLLM_ASCEND_TAG=v0.24.0-a3
 FROM ${VLLM_ASCEND_IMAGE}:${VLLM_ASCEND_TAG}

 # WORKDIR /vllm-workspace/vllm
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-ARG VLLM_ASCEND_IMAGE=quay.io/ascend/vllm-ascend
-ARG VLLM_ASCEND_TAG=nightly-main
+ARG VLLM_ASCEND_IMAGE=quay.io/atlas-ci/vllm-ascend
+ARG VLLM_ASCEND_TAG=v0.24.0
 FROM ${VLLM_ASCEND_IMAGE}:${VLLM_ASCEND_TAG}

 ARG APP_DIR=/vllm-workspace/vllm-omni
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-ARG VLLM_ASCEND_IMAGE=quay.io/ascend/vllm-ascend
-ARG VLLM_ASCEND_TAG=nightly-main-a3
+ARG VLLM_ASCEND_IMAGE=quay.io/atlas-ci/vllm-ascend
+ARG VLLM_ASCEND_TAG=v0.24.0-a3
 FROM ${VLLM_ASCEND_IMAGE}:${VLLM_ASCEND_TAG}

 ARG APP_DIR=/vllm-workspace/vllm-omni
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-ARG BASE_IMAGE=vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:v0.20.0
+ARG BASE_IMAGE=vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:v0.24.0
 FROM ${BASE_IMAGE} AS base

 # Declare a variable to know if we want to use the nightly build or the stable build.
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ ENV UV_EXTRA_INDEX_URL=${PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL}
 ENV UV_INDEX_STRATEGY="unsafe-best-match"
 ENV UV_LINK_MODE="copy"

-ARG VLLM_VERSION=v0.20.0
+ARG VLLM_VERSION=v0.24.0
 RUN git clone -b ${VLLM_VERSION} https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm
 WORKDIR /workspace/vllm

@@ -101,13 +101,15 @@ RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/uv \
    source /opt/intel/oneapi/ccl/2021.15/env/vars.sh --force && \
    export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="$(python3 -c 'import site; print(site.getsitepackages()[0])'):${CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH}"

-ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib/"
+ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/intel/oneapi/ccl/2021.15/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib/"

 ENV VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=xpu
 ENV VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn

 RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/uv \
-    uv pip install --no-build-isolation .
+    uv pip uninstall triton triton-xpu && \
+    uv pip install triton-xpu==3.7.1 && \
+    uv pip install --no-build-isolation --no-deps .

 CMD ["/bin/bash"]

@@ -133,20 +135,21 @@ ENTRYPOINT []

 FROM ${VLLM_BASE} AS vllm-omni

+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y espeak-ng ffmpeg git jq && \
+    apt-get clean && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
 WORKDIR /workspace/vllm-omni
 COPY . .

 ENV VLLM_OMNI_TARGET_DEVICE=xpu
-RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir ".[dev]" --no-build-isolation
-
-# FIX triton
 RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/uv \
-    uv pip uninstall triton triton-xpu && \
-    uv pip install triton-xpu==3.7.0
-
-# remove torch bundled oneccl to avoid conflicts
-RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/uv \
-    uv pip uninstall oneccl oneccl-devel
+    uv pip install --no-build-isolation \
+    --extra-index-url https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/pypi/simple/ \
+    ".[dev]" && \
+    uv pip uninstall triton oneccl oneccl-devel && \
+    uv pip install triton-xpu==3.7.1 --reinstall

 FROM vllm-omni AS vllm-omni-openai

@@ -6,10 +6,11 @@ nav:
    - getting_started/installation/*
  - Serving:
    - OpenAI-Compatible API:
-      - Diffusion Chat API: serving/diffusion_chat_api.md
+      - Chat Completions API: serving/chat_completions_api.md
      - Image Generation: serving/image_generation_api.md
      - Image Edit: serving/image_edit_api.md
      - Text to Speech: serving/speech_api.md
+      - Videos: serving/videos_api.md
      - Audio Generation: serving/audio_generate_api.md
      - Streaming Video Input: serving/video_stream_api.md
  - Examples:
@@ -17,7 +18,6 @@ nav:
    - Offline Inference:
      - BAGEL-7B-MoT: user_guide/examples/offline_inference/bagel.md
      - GLM-Image Multistage End-to-End Inference: user_guide/examples/offline_inference/glm_image.md
-      - Helios Video Generation: user_guide/examples/offline_inference/helios.md
      - HunyuanImage-3.0 Image-to-Text Inference: user_guide/examples/offline_inference/hunyuan_image3.md
      - Image-To-Image: user_guide/examples/offline_inference/image_to_image.md
      - Image-To-Video: user_guide/examples/offline_inference/image_to_video.md
@@ -68,10 +68,11 @@ nav:
        - Hybrid Sharded Data Parallel: user_guide/diffusion/parallelism/hsdp.md
        - Sequence Parallel: user_guide/diffusion/parallelism/sequence_parallel.md
        - Tensor Parallel: user_guide/diffusion/parallelism/tensor_parallel.md
-        - VAE Patch Parallel: user_guide/diffusion/parallelism/vae_patch_parallel.md
+        - VAE Parallelism: user_guide/diffusion/parallelism/vae_parallelism.md
      - CPU Offloading: user_guide/diffusion/cpu_offload_diffusion.md
      - LoRA: user_guide/diffusion/lora.md
      - Custom Pipeline: features/custom_pipeline.md
+      - Request-Level Batching: user_guide/diffusion/request_batching.md
      - Step Execution: user_guide/diffusion/step_execution.md
    - Quantization:
      - Overview: user_guide/quantization/overview.md
@@ -79,11 +80,15 @@ nav:
      - Quantized KV Cache: user_guide/quantization/quantized_kvcache.md
      - FP8 W8A8: user_guide/quantization/fp8.md
      - Int8 W8A8: user_guide/quantization/int8.md
+      - MXFP8 W8A8: user_guide/quantization/mxfp8.md
+      - MXFP4 W4A4: user_guide/quantization/mxfp4.md
      - ModelOpt: user_guide/quantization/modelopt.md
      - GGUF: user_guide/quantization/gguf.md
      - AutoRound: user_guide/quantization/autoround.md
      - msModelSlim: user_guide/quantization/msmodelslim.md
    - ComfyUI: features/comfyui.md
+  - Fault Tolerance:
+    - Failure Modes: user_guide/fault_injection_reliability_matrix.md
 - Developer Guide:
  - General:
    - contributing/README.md
@@ -114,6 +119,7 @@ nav:
      - design/feature/async_chunk.md
      - design/feature/vae_parallel.md
      - design/feature/diffusion_step_execution.md
+      - design/feature/diffusion_request_level_batching.md
      - design/feature/diffusion_continuous_batching.md
    - Module Design:
      - design/module/ar_module.md
@@ -92,14 +92,12 @@ Core scheduling and caching components.
 Configuration classes.

 - [vllm_omni.config.model.OmniModelConfig][]
- [vllm_omni.config.stage_config.ModelPipeline][]
 - [vllm_omni.config.stage_config.StageConfig][]
 - [vllm_omni.config.stage_config.StageConfigFactory][]
 - [vllm_omni.config.stage_config.StageType][]
 - [vllm_omni.diffusion.cache.teacache.config.TeaCacheConfig][]
 - [vllm_omni.distributed.omni_connectors.utils.config.ConnectorSpec][]
 - [vllm_omni.distributed.omni_connectors.utils.config.OmniTransferConfig][]
- [vllm_omni.model_executor.models.cosyvoice3.config.CosyVoice3Config][]
 - [vllm_omni.model_executor.models.fish_speech.configuration_fish_speech.FishSpeechConfig][]
 - [vllm_omni.model_executor.models.fish_speech.configuration_fish_speech.FishSpeechFastARConfig][]
 - [vllm_omni.model_executor.models.fish_speech.configuration_fish_speech.FishSpeechSlowARConfig][]
@@ -116,10 +114,13 @@ Configuration classes.
 - [vllm_omni.model_executor.models.qwen3_tts.tokenizer_25hz.configuration_qwen3_tts_tokenizer_v1.Qwen3TTSTokenizerV1DecoderConfig][]
 - [vllm_omni.model_executor.models.qwen3_tts.tokenizer_25hz.configuration_qwen3_tts_tokenizer_v1.Qwen3TTSTokenizerV1DecoderDiTConfig][]
 - [vllm_omni.model_executor.models.qwen3_tts.tokenizer_25hz.configuration_qwen3_tts_tokenizer_v1.Qwen3TTSTokenizerV1EncoderConfig][]
+- [vllm_omni.transformers_utils.configs.cosyvoice3.CosyVoice3Config][]
 - [vllm_omni.transformers_utils.configs.mammoth_moda2.Mammothmoda2Config][]
 - [vllm_omni.transformers_utils.configs.mammoth_moda2.Mammothmoda2Qwen2_5_VLConfig][]
 - [vllm_omni.transformers_utils.configs.mammoth_moda2.Mammothmoda2Qwen2_5_VLTextConfig][]
 - [vllm_omni.transformers_utils.configs.mammoth_moda2.Mammothmoda2Qwen2_5_VLVisionConfig][]
+- [vllm_omni.transformers_utils.configs.omnivoice.OmniVoiceConfig][]
+- [vllm_omni.transformers_utils.configs.voxcpm2.VoxCPM2Config][]

 ## Workers

@@ -2,29 +2,29 @@
 The vllm bench command launches the vLLM-Omni benchmark to evaluate the performance of multimodal models.

 ## Notes
-We currently only support using the "openai-chat-omni" backend.
+We currently only support using the "openai-chat-omni" and "openai-image-edits-omni" backend.

 ## Basic Parameter Description
 You can use `vllm bench serve --omni --help=all` to get descriptions of all parameters. The commonly used parameters are described below:
- `--omni`  
+- `--omni`
  Enable Omni (multimodal) mode, supporting multimodal inputs and outputs such as images, videos, and audio.

- `--backend`  
+- `--backend`
  Specify the backend adapter as openai-chat-omni, using OpenAI Chat compatible API behavior as the protocol. Currently only openai-chat-omni is supported.

- `--model`  
+- `--model`
  The model identifier to load, filled according to the models supported by vLLM-Omni.

- `--endpoint`  
+- `--endpoint`
  The API endpoint exposed externally, to which clients send their requests.

- `--dataset-name`  
+- `--dataset-name`
  The name of the dataset used; random-mm indicates generating random multimodal inputs (images, videos, audio).

- `--num-prompts`  
+- `--num-prompts`
  The total number of requests to send, an integer.

- `--max-concurrency`  
+- `--max-concurrency`
  "Maximum number of concurrent requests. This can be used "
        "to help simulate an environment where a higher level component "
        "is enforcing a maximum number of concurrent requests. While the "
@@ -34,69 +34,73 @@ You can use `vllm bench serve --omni --help=all` to get descriptions of all para
        "actual request rate may be lower than specified with --request-rate, "
        "if the server is not processing requests fast enough to keep up."

- `--request-rate`  
+- `--request-rate`
  "Number of requests per second. If this is inf, "
        "then all the requests are sent at time 0. "
        "Otherwise, we use Poisson process or gamma distribution "
        "to synthesize the request arrival times."

- `--ignore-eos`  
+- `--ignore-eos`
  "Set ignore_eos flag when sending the benchmark request."

- `--metric-percentiles`  
+- `--metric-percentiles`
  Comma-separated list of percentiles for selected metrics. "
        "To report 25-th, 50-th, and 75-th percentiles, use \"25,50,75\". "
        "Default value is \"99\"."
        "Use \"--percentile-metrics\" to select metrics.

- `--percentile-metrics`  
+- `--percentile-metrics`
        "Comma-separated list of selected metrics to report percentiles."
                    "This argument specifies the metrics to report percentiles."
-                    'Allowed metric names are "ttft", "tpot", "itl", "e2el", "audio_ttfp", "audio_rtf", "audio_duration". '
+                    'Allowed metric names are "ttft", "tpot", "itl", "ttfc", "tpoc", "icl", '
+                    '"tpop", "e2el", "audio_ttfp", "audio_rtf", "audio_duration". '

- `--save-result`  
+- `-print-stage`
+Print per-stage benchmark metrics for --omni serving when stage metrics are returned by the server. Disabled by default.
+
+- `--save-result`
 Specify to save benchmark results to a json file

- `--save-detailed`  
+- `--save-detailed`
 "When saving the results, whether to include per request "
        "information such as response, error, ttfs, tpots, etc."

- `--result-dir`  
+- `--result-dir`
 "Specify directory to save benchmark json results."
        "If not specified, results are saved in the current directory."

- `--result-filename`  
+- `--result-filename`
 "Specify the filename to save benchmark json results."
        "If not specified, results will be saved in "
        "{label}-{args.request_rate}qps-{base_model_id}-{current_dt}.json"

- `--random-prefix-len`  
+- `--random-prefix-len`
  Number of fixed prefix tokens before the random context in a request.
  The total input length is the sum of random-prefix-len and a random
  context length sampled from [input_len * (1 - range_ratio),
  input_len * (1 + range_ratio)].Only the random and random-mm modes
  support this parameter.

- `--random-input-len`  
+- `--random-input-len`
  Number of input tokens per request.Only the random and random-mm modes support this parameter.

- `--random-output-len`  
+- `--random-output-len`
  Number of output tokens per request.Only the random and random-mm modes support this parameter.

- `--random-range-ratio`  
+- `--random-range-ratio`
  Range ratio for sampling input/output length,
  used only for random sampling. Must be in the range [0, 1) to define
  a symmetric sampling range
  [length * (1 - range_ratio), length * (1 + range_ratio)].
  Only the random and random-mm modes support this parameter.

- `--random-mm-base-items-per-request`  
+- `--random-mm-base-items-per-request`
  Base number of multimodal items per request for random-mm.
  Actual per-request count is sampled around this base using
  --random-mm-num-mm-items-range-ratio.
  Only the random-mm mode supports this parameter.

- `--random-mm-limit-mm-per-prompt`  
+- `--random-mm-limit-mm-per-prompt`
  Per-modality hard caps for items attached per request, e.g.
  '{"image": 3, "video": 1, "audio": 1}'. The sampled per-request item
  count is clamped to the sum of these limits. When a modality
@@ -104,7 +108,7 @@ Specify to save benchmark results to a json file
  renormalized.
  Only the random-mm mode supports this parameter.

- `--random-mm-num-mm-items-range-ratio`  
+- `--random-mm-num-mm-items-range-ratio`
  Range ratio r in [0, 1] for sampling items per request.
  We sample uniformly from the closed integer range
  [floor(n*(1-r)), ceil(n*(1+r))]
@@ -115,7 +119,7 @@ Specify to save benchmark results to a json file
  An error is raised if the computed min exceeds the max.
  Only the random-mm mode supports this parameter.

- `--random-mm-bucket-config`  
+- `--random-mm-bucket-config`
  The bucket config is a dictionary mapping a multimodal item
  sampling configuration to a probability.
  Currently allows for 3 modalities: audio, images and videos.
@@ -276,7 +280,9 @@ Generate synthetic image、video、audio inputs alongside random text prompts to

 Notes:

- Works only with online benchmark via the OpenAI backend (`--backend openai-chat-omni`) and endpoint `/v1/chat/completions`.
+- Works only with online benchmark via:
+  - the OpenAI chat backend (`--backend openai-chat-omni`) and endpoint `/v1/chat/completions`.
+  - the OpenAI edit image backend (`--backend openai-image-edits-omni`) and endpoint `/v1/images/edits`.

 Start the server (example):

@@ -357,3 +363,105 @@ How sampling works:
 This should be seen as an edge case, and if this behavior can be avoided by setting `--random-mm-limit-mm-per-prompt` to a large number. Note that this might result in errors due to engine config `--limit-mm-per-prompt`.
 - The resulting request contains synthetic image data in `multi_modal_data` (OpenAI Chat format). When `random-mm` is used with the OpenAI Chat backend, prompts remain text and MM content is attached via `multi_modal_data`.
 </details>
+
+### Multi-Stage Benchmark
+
+<details class="admonition abstract" markdown="1">
+<summary>Show more</summary>
+
+Start the server (change the port and model):
+
+```bash
+vllm serve --omni --port 29999 --model ~/Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct
+```
+
+Then run the benchmarking script (remember to add the flag `--print-stage`):
+```bash
+vllm bench serve --omni \
+  --dataset-name random \
+  --port 29999 \
+  --max-concurrency 1 \
+  --num-warmups 2 \
+  --model ~/Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct \
+  --endpoint /v1/chat/completions \
+  --backend openai-chat-omni \
+  --num-prompts 3 \
+  --random-input-len 2500 \
+  --ignore-eos \
+  --percentile-metrics ttft,tpot,itl,e2el,audio_ttfp,audio_rtf,ttfc,tpoc,icl \
+  --random-output-len 900 \
+  --extra_body '{"modalities": ["text","audio"]}' \
+  --print-stage
+```
+
+Besides the "Serving Benchmark Result", there will be "Stage Benchmark Result" below:
+```text
+============= Stage Benchmark Result =============
+=============== Stage 0 (thinker) ================
+-------------------Stage Timing-------------------
+Mean stage_gen_time (ms):                18243.16
+Median stage_gen_time (ms):              18220.83
+P99 stage_gen_time (ms):                 18296.75
+================== Text Result ===================
+Stage generated tokens:                  2700
+-----------Serving Time to First Token------------
+Mean Serving TTFT (ms):                  816.31
+Median Serving TTFT (ms):                818.94
+P99 Serving TTFT (ms):                   829.76
+-----Time per Output Token (excl. 1st token)------
+Mean TPOP (ms):                          19.41
+Median TPOP (ms):                        19.40
+P99 TPOP (ms):                           19.47
+---------------Inter-token Latency----------------
+Mean ITL (ms):                           19.41
+Median ITL (ms):                         19.12
+P99 ITL (ms):                            23.58
+================ Stage 1 (talker) ================
+-------------------Stage Timing-------------------
+Mean stage_gen_time (ms):                18849.64
+Median stage_gen_time (ms):              13641.15
+P99 stage_gen_time (ms):                 33655.58
+============= Internal Stream Result =============
+-----------Serving Time to First Chunk------------
+Mean Serving TTFC (ms):                  1029.14
+Median Serving TTFC (ms):                1027.98
+P99 Serving TTFC (ms):                   1032.59
+-----Time per Output Chunk (excl. 1st chunk)------
+Mean TPOP (ms):                          17.53
+Median TPOP (ms):                        18.70
+P99 TPOP (ms):                           18.88
+---------------Inter-chunk Latency----------------
+Mean ICL (ms):                           16.27
+Median ICL (ms):                         18.19
+P99 ICL (ms):                            25.86
+=============== Stage 2 (code2wav) ===============
+-------------------Stage Timing-------------------
+Mean stage_gen_time (ms):                18860.74
+Median stage_gen_time (ms):              13655.84
+P99 stage_gen_time (ms):                 33659.79
+================== Audio Result ==================
+Stage audio duration generated(s):       260.11
+Stage audio frames generated:            6242730
+-----------Serving Time to First Packet-----------
+Mean Serving AUDIO_TTFP (ms):            1366.16
+Median Serving AUDIO_TTFP (ms):          1367.20
+P99 Serving AUDIO_TTFP (ms):             1368.26
+-----------------Real Time Factor-----------------
+Mean AUDIO_RTF:                          0.24
+Median AUDIO_RTF:                        0.26
+P99 AUDIO_RTF:                           0.27
+```
+Explanation:
+- stage_gen_time: Time from submitting a request to a specific stage to that stage finishing generation.
+
+- Serving TTFC (Time to First Chunk): Time from the HTTP request being accepted by the serving frontend to
+  the stage producing its first non-empty output chunk. Keep the name TTFT in text stage, TTFP in audio stage
+  for easier mapping.
+
+- TPOP (Time per Output Chunk): Average time from the first output chunk to stage completion, divided by the
+  number of remaining output chunks. The TPOP abbreviation follows Qwen3.5-Omni Technical Report.
+
+- ICL (Inter-Chunk Latency): Time between two consecutive output chunks produced by the same stage. Keep the
+  name ITL in text stage for easier mapping.
+
+</details>
@@ -33,17 +33,45 @@ Lead maintainers are responsible for the overall direction and strategy of the p

 Committers have write access and merge rights. They typically have deep expertise in specific areas of this project and shepherd the community contributions:

+- [@alex-jw-brooks](https://github.com/alex-jw-brooks): Frontend, Configuration, and Entrypoint Support
+- [@amy-why-3459](https://github.com/amy-why-3459): Omni Modality Model and World Model Support
 - [@david6666666](https://github.com/david6666666): Quantization and Community Relationship
- [@gcanlin](https://github.com/gcanlin): Hardware plugin and NPU integration
+- [@gcanlin](https://github.com/gcanlin): Hardware plugin, NPU integration, and TTS Model Support
 - [@Isotr0py](https://github.com/Isotr0py): Diffusion and Quantization
 - [@linyueqian](https://github.com/linyueqian): TTS and Omni Support
 - [@lishunyang12](https://github.com/lishunyang12): Quantization and Configuration
 - [@princepride](https://github.com/princepride): Diffusion and Omni Support
- [@SamitHuang](https://github.com/SamitHuang): RL and Diffusion
+- [@RuixiangMa](https://github.com/RuixiangMa): Diffusion models, parallel, cache, and docs
+- [@SamitHuang](https://github.com/SamitHuang): RL, Diffusion, and cache
+- [@Sy0307](https://github.com/Sy0307): TTS Model and AR Engine Support
 - [@tzhouam](https://github.com/tzhouam): Engine and New Model Support
- [@wtomin](https://github.com/wtomin): Diffusion and Parallelism
+- [@wtomin](https://github.com/wtomin): Diffusion models, parallel, and docs
+- [@xuechendi](https://github.com/xuechendi): Diffusion and Intel GPU Support
 - [@ZeldaHuang](https://github.com/ZeldaHuang): Omni Support
- [@ZJY0516](https://github.com/ZJY0516): Diffusion and CustomOp
+- [@ZJY0516](https://github.com/ZJY0516): Diffusion attention backend, kernel fusion, and CustomOp
+- [@yuanheng-zhao](https://github.com/yuanheng-zhao): Diffusion cache, offload, and Omni Support
+
+## Diffusion Workload Division
+
+This section breaks down diffusion-related responsibilities. If you have PRs touching these areas, please ping the listed owners for review.
+
+### Runtime-related
+
+- Diffusion models: @RuixiangMa, @wtomin, @xuechendi
+
+### Optimization
+
+- Parallel: @RuixiangMa, @wtomin
+- Attention backend: @ZJY0516
+- Cache: @yuanheng-zhao, @RuixiangMa, @SamitHuang
+- Offload: @yuanheng-zhao
+- Intel GPU support: @xuechendi
+- Quantization: @lishunyang12, @david6666666
+- Kernel fusion / communication-computation: @ZJY0516
+
+### Docs & Test
+
+- Diffusion docs: @RuixiangMa, @wtomin

 ## Meetings

@@ -290,7 +290,6 @@ stage_args:
      enable_prefix_caching: false
      engine_output_type: latent
    engine_input_source: [0]
-    custom_process_input_func: vllm_omni.model_executor.stage_input_processors.qwen2_5_omni.thinker2talker
    default_sampling_params:
      temperature: 0.9
      top_p: 0.8
@@ -379,6 +378,20 @@ The maximum number of sequences for concurrent processing in this stage. For LLM

 Default: `1`

+#### `engine_args.request_batch_max_wait_ms`
+
+The maximum time, in milliseconds, that a diffusion request-mode stage may wait
+before the first `schedule()` of a new scheduler wave so compatible requests can
+accumulate for request-level batching. This only applies to diffusion pipelines
+that support request-level batching with `step_execution` disabled.
+
+Use this together with `max_num_seqs > 1` for bursty serving traffic. `0`
+disables admission waiting and preserves the lowest first-request latency.
+For diffusion request-level batching tuning, see
+[Request-Level Batching](../user_guide/diffusion/request_batching.md).
+
+Default: `0.0`
+
 ### `engine_args`

 Engine arguments for configuring the LLM engine, diffusion engine, or other engine types used by this stage.
@@ -116,9 +116,40 @@ Only specific types of PRs will be reviewed. The PR title is prefixed appropriat
 !!! note
    If the PR spans more than one category, please include all relevant prefixes.

+### Pre-Check Before Submitting
+
+Before submitting a PR, run the [precheck-pr skill](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/blob/main/.claude/skills/precheck-pr/SKILL.md) with the code agent for a self-review against project conventions:
+
+The skill offers two modes:
+- **Quick (~3 min):** catches showstoppers — PR title format, missing benchmark claims, rebase status
+- **Full (~10 min):** thorough maintainer-grade review — dead code scan, copy-paste detection, import hygiene
+
+The precheck covers five PR types: Bug Fix, Performance, New Model, Diffusion Model, and General. Each type has a tailored checklist that validates evidence quality (repro steps, A/B benchmarks, registry entries, etc.). See the [precheck-pr skill](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/blob/main/.claude/skills/precheck-pr/SKILL.md) for the full checklist.
+
 ### Local Test
 Please run the L1 and L2 test cases locally first and attach the results before contacting us to add the "ready" label. Please refer to the [test instructions](./ci/test_guide.md) for running the test cases.

+### Automatic skip-ci (docs and pytest skip marks)
+
+On pull requests and `main` pushes, the bootstrap step in [`.buildkite/pipeline.yml`](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/blob/main/.buildkite/pipeline.yml) runs [`.buildkite/scripts/upload_pipeline.py`](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/blob/main/.buildkite/scripts/upload_pipeline.py) against the git diff. When every changed file qualifies, **L2 (`ready`) and L3 (`merge-test`) pipelines are not uploaded**, so the default GPU CI jobs are skipped.
+
+| Change per file | Examples |
+| --- | --- |
+| Documentation | `docs/**`, any `*.md`, `mkdocs.yml` |
+| Pytest skip marks only (under `tests/`) | Add/remove/edit `@pytest.mark.skip`, `@pytest.mark.skipif`, or `pytest.skip(...)`; reformat `pytestmark` only to add a skip/skipif alongside existing `pytest.mark.*` entries |
+| New skipped test module | New `tests/**/*.py` whose `pytestmark` includes unconditional `pytest.mark.skip` |
+
+These PR shapes all trigger skip-ci:
+
+- Documentation only
+- Qualifying skip-mark edits in `tests/**/*.py` only
+- **A mix of documentation and qualifying skip-mark test edits**
+
+Skip-ci does **not** apply when the diff also touches product code (for example `vllm_omni/`), or when test files change assertions, imports, fixtures, or other non-skip logic. If the diff cannot be resolved (non-PR branches outside `main`), CI runs as usual.
+
+!!! note
+    Skipping L2/L3 does **not** disable the Docker image build step. Nightly (L4) upload can still run when the PR has a `nightly-test` label or on scheduled `main` builds with `NIGHTLY=1`. See [CI levels](./ci/CI_5levels.md) for how bootstrap skip-ci relates to diff-gated E2E jobs.
+
 ### Code Quality

 The PR needs to meet the following code quality standards:
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ Through five levels (L1-L5) and common (Common) specifications, the system clari
    <tr>
      <th>Level</th>
      <th>Scope & Focus</th>
+      <th>Model Coverage Strategy</th>
+      <th>Feature Coverage Strategy</th>
+      <th>Interface Coverage Strategy</th>
+      <th>Tags</th>
      <th>Time Cost</th>
      <th>Test Dir</th>
      <th>Doc</th>
@@ -24,6 +28,10 @@ Through five levels (L1-L5) and common (Common) specifications, the system clari
      <td>Contribution Guideline & PR checklist</td>
      <td>/</td>
      <td>/</td>
+      <td>/</td>
+      <td>/</td>
+      <td>/</td>
+      <td>/</td>
      <td>.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md <a href="../tests_style/"> Test Style (PR Checklist)</a></td>
      <td>/</td>
      <td>/</td>
@@ -32,6 +40,10 @@ Through five levels (L1-L5) and common (Common) specifications, the system clari
      <td>CI Failure Description</td>
      <td>/</td>
      <td>/</td>
+      <td>/</td>
+      <td>/</td>
+      <td>/</td>
+      <td>/</td>
      <td><a href="../failures/"> CI Failures</a></td>
      <td>/</td>
      <td>/</td>
@@ -39,6 +51,10 @@ Through five levels (L1-L5) and common (Common) specifications, the system clari
    <tr>
      <td><strong>L1</strong><br>(Unit & Logic)</td>
      <td>Unit tests for components like entrypoints, models</td>
+      <td>/</td>
+      <td>/</td>
+      <td>/</td>
+      <td><code>core_model and cpu</code></td>
      <td rowspan="2">&lt;15min</td>
      <td>/tests/{component_name}/test_xxx</td>
      <td>
@@ -50,10 +66,18 @@ Through five levels (L1-L5) and common (Common) specifications, the system clari
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><strong>L2</strong><br>(E2E across models & GPU-required UT)</td>
-      <td>Online & Offline (basic deployment scenarios):<br>dummy, normal inference function (output format, stream), some instance startup UT</td>
+      <td>Online (basic deployment scenarios):<br>dummy, normal inference function (output format, stream), some instance startup UT</td>
+      <td>High-priority models + online basic scenarios; request success, non-empty output, format match (no Whisper/accuracy)</td>
+      <td>High-priority features (using random lightweight models)</td>
+      <td>High-priority interfaces (using random lightweight models)</td>
+      <td><code>core_model and hardware_test(H100, L4, etc.) and omni/tts/diffusion</code></td>
      <td>
+        <strong>Model tests:</strong><br>
        /tests/e2e/online_serving/test_{model_name}.py<br>
-        /tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_{model_name}.py
+        <strong>Feature tests:</strong><br>
+        /tests/{component_name}/test_xxx<br>
+        <strong>Interface tests:</strong><br>
+        /tests/entrypoints/test_xxx
      </td>
      <td>
        <a href="#chapter-1-l1-l2-level-testing-unit-testing-and-basic-end-to-end-verification">Chapter 1</a><br>
@@ -65,10 +89,19 @@ Through five levels (L1-L5) and common (Common) specifications, the system clari
    <tr>
      <td><strong>L3</strong><br>(Important Perf & Integration & Accuracy)</td>
      <td>Online & Offline (multiple deployment scenarios):<br>real model, normal inference function, normal accuracy</td>
+      <td>High/medium-priority models + key online/offline scenarios; real weights, Whisper/similarity, preset voice gender, basic accuracy</td>
+      <td>Medium-priority features (using random lightweight models)</td>
+      <td>Medium-priority interfaces (using random lightweight models)</td>
+      <td><code>advanced_model and hardware_test(H100, L4, etc.) and omni/tts/diffusion</code></td>
      <td>&lt;30min</td>
      <td>
+        <strong>Model tests:</strong><br>
        /tests/e2e/online_serving/test_{model_name}.py<br>
-        /tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_{model_name}.py
+        /tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_{model_name}.py<br>
+        <strong>Feature tests:</strong><br>
+        /tests/{component_name}/test_xxx<br>
+        <strong>Interface tests:</strong><br>
+        /tests/entrypoints/test_xxx
      </td>
      <td>
        <a href="#chapter-2-l3-level-testing-core-integration-performance-and-accuracy-verification">Chapter 2</a><br>
@@ -79,18 +112,27 @@ Through five levels (L1-L5) and common (Common) specifications, the system clari
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><strong>L4</strong><br>(Perf & Integration & Accuracy)</td>
-      <td>Online & Offline: full functional scenarios + performance test + doc test</td>
+      <td>Online: full functional scenarios + performance test + doc test + accuracy test</td>
+      <td>High-priority models: function, performance, accuracy, and doc testing<br>Medium-priority models: function and doc testing</td>
+      <td>Low-priority features (using real weights)</td>
+      <td>Low-priority interfaces (using real weights)</td>
+      <td><code>full_model and hardware_test(H100, L4, etc.) and omni/tts/diffusion</code></td>
      <td>&lt;3 hour</td>
      <td>
-        <strong>Full Function:</strong><br>
+        <strong>Model tests:</strong><br>
        /tests/e2e/online_serving/test_{model_name}_expansion.py<br>
-        /tests/e2e/offline_inference/test_{model_name}_expansion.py<br>
+        <strong>Feature tests:</strong><br>
+        /tests/{component_name}/test_xxx<br>
+        <strong>Interface tests:</strong><br>
+        /tests/entrypoints/test_xxx<br>
        <strong>Performance:</strong><br>
        /tests/dfx/perf/tests/test_qwen_omni.json (Omni), test_tts.json (TTS),<br>
        and /tests/dfx/perf/tests/test_{diffusion_model}_vllm_omni.json (Diffusion)<br>
        <strong>Doc Test:</strong><br>
        tests/example/online_serving/test_{model_name}.py<br>
-        tests/example/offline_inference/test_{model_name}.py
+        tests/example/offline_inference/test_{model_name}.py<br>
+        <strong>Accuracy Test:</strong><br>
+        /tests/e2e/accuracy/test_{model_name}.py
      </td>
      <td>
        <a href="#chapter-3-l4-level-testing-full-functionality-performance-and-documentation-testing">Chapter 3</a><br>
@@ -101,7 +143,11 @@ Through five levels (L1-L5) and common (Common) specifications, the system clari
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><strong>L5</strong><br>(Stability & Reliability)</td>
-      <td>Online & Offline: long-term stability test + reliability test</td>
+      <td>Online: long-term stability test + reliability test</td>
+      <td>Long-term stability and reliability testing for high-priority models<br>Low-priority models: function and doc testing</td>
+      <td>/</td>
+      <td>Invalid-parameter validation for high-priority interfaces</td>
+      <td><code>slow and hardware_test(H100, L4, etc.) and omni/tts/diffusion</code></td>
      <td> Depends on reality </td>
      <td>
        <strong>Stability:</strong><br>
@@ -109,7 +155,7 @@ Through five levels (L1-L5) and common (Common) specifications, the system clari
        /tests/dfx/stability/tests/test_wan22.json<br>
        <strong>Reliability:</strong><br>
        tests/dfx/reliability/test_reliability_{model_key}.py<br>
-        (e.g. <code>test_reliability_qwen3_omni.py</code>, <code>test_reliability_wan22.py</code>)
+        (e.g. <code>test_reliability_qwen3_omni.py</code>, <code>test_reliability_wan22.py</code>, <code>test_reliability_hunyuan_image.py</code>, <code>test_reliability_voxcpm2.py</code>)
      </td>
      <td>
        <a href="#chapter-4-l5-level-testing-stability-and-reliability-testing">Chapter 4</a><br>
@@ -268,6 +314,120 @@ Before entering specific testing levels, the project establishes two common spec
 1.  ***PR Checklist ([Tests Style](../ci/tests_style.md))***: This template defines the self-check items that must be completed before submitting a code review (Pull Request). It ensures that each code change meets basic requirements such as code style, dependency updates, and documentation synchronization before entering the automated testing pipeline, serving as the first manual line of defense for quality assurance.
 2.  ***CI Failure Explanation ([CI Failures](../ci/failures.md))***: This document archives and explains common failure patterns in the Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline, error log interpretation, and preliminary troubleshooting steps. It helps developers and testers quickly diagnose the causes of automated test failures, improving problem-solving efficiency.

+## Notes
+
+### Diff-aware Buildkite uploads (`source_file_dependencies`)
+
+L2 (`.buildkite/test-ready.yml`) and L3 (`.buildkite/test-merge.yml`) pipelines can **skip unrelated GPU jobs at upload time** based on the PR diff. This is implemented by `.buildkite/scripts/upload_pipeline.py`, which filters steps before calling `buildkite-agent pipeline upload`.
+
+#### What `source_file_dependencies` is
+
+- A **uploader-only** YAML key on a Buildkite step or group. **Buildkite does not understand it**; `upload_pipeline.py` always **removes** it from the YAML that is uploaded.
+- A list of path **prefixes** (directories or individual files). If **any** changed file in the diff equals a prefix or starts with `prefix/`, the step is kept; otherwise the step (or entire group) is **omitted** from the uploaded pipeline.
+
+#### When filtering runs
+
+| Build context | Changed files used for matching |
+| --- | --- |
+| Pull request | `git diff --name-only origin/<base>...<BUILDKITE_COMMIT>` |
+| `main` branch push | `git diff --name-only <commit>^..<commit>` |
+| Other (e.g. local dry-run, non-PR branch) | Diff cannot be resolved → **no filtering**; all steps are uploaded and `source_file_dependencies` is still stripped |
+
+Docs-only PRs are handled earlier in bootstrap (`pipeline.yml`) via skip-ci logic; `source_file_dependencies` applies only to the **uploaded** L2/L3 test pipelines.
+
+#### Where it is configured
+
+| Level | Pipeline file | Upload entry |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| L2 | `.buildkite/test-ready.yml` | `upload_pipeline.py --upload .buildkite/test-ready.yml` (from `pipeline.yml`) |
+| L3 | `.buildkite/test-merge.yml` | `upload_pipeline.py --upload .buildkite/test-merge.yml` (from `pipeline.yml`) |
+
+Steps **without** `source_file_dependencies` are always uploaded (subject to the usual label conditions: `ready` for L2, `merge-test` for L3).
+
+#### Current skip policy (L2 / L3)
+
+To balance CI cost and coverage:
+
+- **Always run** (no `source_file_dependencies`): baseline groups outside E2E Test—e.g. Simple Test, Diffusion unit tests, Engine/Model Executor, Distributed, Custom Pipeline, Entrypoints (L2), LoRA / Entrypoints (L3).
+- **Diff-gated** (`source_file_dependencies` set): **every leaf job under the E2E Test group** in `test-ready.yml` and `test-merge.yml`, regardless of queue (`mithril-h100-pool`, `gpu_1_queue`, or `gpu_4_queue`). Each step lists the smallest set of prefixes that should trigger it—typically:
+  - pytest file(s) exercised by the job (online and/or offline);
+  - model code under `vllm_omni/model_executor/models/` or `vllm_omni/diffusion/models/`;
+  - related `vllm_omni/model_executor/stage_input_processors/` and `vllm_omni/deploy/*.yaml` when applicable.
+
+Adding a new E2E step: add `source_file_dependencies` on the leaf job with those prefixes. Prefer **per-step** deps rather than a broad group-level list unless every child shares the same paths.
+
+#### YAML examples
+
+H100 E2E (kubernetes / `mithril-h100-pool`):
+
+```yaml
+      - label: "Diffusion · Qwen Image Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen_image.py
+          - vllm_omni/diffusion/models/qwen_image/
+        commands:
+          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen_image.py -m 'core_model' ...
+        agents:
+          queue: "mithril-h100-pool"
+```
+
+Docker E2E (`gpu_1_queue` / `gpu_4_queue`)—same key, same upload-time filtering:
+
+```yaml
+      - label: "TTS · Qwen3-TTS CustomVoice Test"
+        source_file_dependencies:
+          - tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_tts_customvoice.py
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/models/qwen3_tts/
+          - vllm_omni/model_executor/stage_input_processors/qwen3_tts.py
+          - vllm_omni/deploy/qwen3_tts.yaml
+        commands:
+          - pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_tts_customvoice.py ...
+        agents:
+          queue: "gpu_4_queue"
+```
+
+A **group** may also define `source_file_dependencies`; nested steps inherit filtering as a unit—the whole group is dropped if no prefix matches.
+
+#### Local dry-run
+
+```bash
+# Render filtered YAML to stdout (no upload)
+python3 .buildkite/scripts/upload_pipeline.py .buildkite/test-ready.yml
+
+# Confirm uploader-only keys are stripped
+python3 .buildkite/scripts/upload_pipeline.py .buildkite/test-merge.yml | grep source_file_dependencies
+# (no output expected)
+```
+
+On a PR build, Buildkite logs from `upload_pipeline.py` include lines such as `skip '…' (no changes under …)` for omitted steps.
+
+#### Related
+
+- Implementation: `.buildkite/scripts/upload_pipeline.py`
+- L2/L3 diff skip does **not** replace label-based triggers (`ready`, `merge-test`); it only reduces which steps appear **after** the pipeline is already scheduled.
+
+### Test helper environment variables
+
+Some shared helpers under `tests/helpers/` honor optional environment variables for local debugging. These are **not** set in CI by default.
+
+| Variable | Accepted values | Description |
+| -------- | --------------- | ----------- |
+| `VLLM_OMNI_KEEP_REQUEST_MEDIA` | `1`, `true`, `yes` (case-insensitive) | When enabled, temporary WAV files created by `tests.helpers.media.convert_audio_bytes_to_text` are **not** deleted when the pytest process exits. By default, each call writes a unique file under the system temp directory via `tempfile.mkstemp` and registers `atexit` cleanup. Use this when debugging audio output validation (Whisper transcription, keyword checks, text–audio similarity). The saved path is logged as `audio data is saved: <path>`. |
+
+Example (Linux / macOS):
+
+```bash
+export VLLM_OMNI_KEEP_REQUEST_MEDIA=1
+pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_omni.py -k test_mix_to_text_audio
+```
+
+Example (Windows PowerShell):
+
+```powershell
+$env:VLLM_OMNI_KEEP_REQUEST_MEDIA = "1"
+pytest -s -v tests/e2e/online_serving/test_qwen3_omni.py -k test_mix_to_text_audio
+```
+
 ## Chapter 1: L1 & L2 Level Testing - Unit Testing and Basic End-to-End Verification

 ### 1.1 Testing Purpose
@@ -286,7 +446,11 @@ L2 level testing builds upon L1 by introducing GPU resources and verifying that
    -   ***Time Cost***: Execution time is controlled within ***15 minutes*** to ensure fast feedback.
 -   ***L2 (Basic End-to-End Testing)***:
 -   -   ***Scope***: Covers two basic deployment scenarios: `online` (serving) and `offline` (inference).
-    -   ***Focus***: Uses `dummy` models or lightweight real models to verify that the entire chain from request input to result output works normally, including output data structure, streaming (stream) support, etc. Also includes some unit tests that require launching independent service instances.
+    -   ***Focus***: Uses `dummy` weights (via deploy YAML patching at `core_model`) or lightweight real models to verify that the entire chain from request input to result output works normally, including output data structure, streaming (stream) support, and **cheap payload checks** at `--run-level core_model` (see below). Also includes some unit tests that require launching independent service instances.
+    -   ***L2 response validation (`core_model`)***: Implemented in `tests/helpers/assertions.py` and invoked by `OpenAIClientHandler` based on `--run-level`. At L2 we require **request success** plus minimal output sanity—not full accuracy:
+        -   **Speech / TTS** (`assert_audio_speech_response`): decoded audio must be present and non-empty (or exceed `min_audio_bytes` when set in `request_config`); `response_format` must match the returned content-type (e.g. `wav`, `pcm`). Whisper transcript similarity, PCM HNR, and preset-voice gender checks run only at L3+.
+        -   **Diffusion** (`assert_diffusion_response`): at least one non-empty image, video, or audio artifact. Resolution/frame-count parity and other deep checks run only at L3+.
+        -   **Omni multimodal** (`assert_omni_response`): L2 asserts successful completion; keyword, transcript, and cross-modal similarity checks run only at L3+.
    -   ***Characteristic***: Requires ***GPU*** resources to perform model computations.

 ### 1.3 Test Directory and Execution Files
@@ -302,6 +466,7 @@ A clear directory structure is key to managing test cases efficiently.
 ### 1.4 Execution Method and Example

 -   ***Trigger Timing***: **`PR with ready label`**. That is, when a developer adds a "ready for review" or similar label to a PR on platforms like GitHub, L1 and L2 tests are automatically triggered.
+-   ***Diff-aware step skipping***: On L2, **E2E Test** jobs may be omitted at pipeline upload when the PR diff does not touch their [`source_file_dependencies`](#diff-aware-buildkite-uploads-source_file_dependencies) prefixes (H100 and docker queues alike); non-E2E groups still always upload. See [Diff-aware Buildkite uploads](#diff-aware-buildkite-uploads-source_file_dependencies).
 -   ***Execution Environment***: L1 uses ***CPU*** environment; L2 requires ***GPU*** environment.
 -   ***Script Example***:

@@ -394,6 +559,11 @@ L3 level testing executes after code is merged into the main branch. Its core pu
 -   1.  ***Inference Functionality***: Ensures real models can perform forward computation normally and return results.
    2.  ***Accuracy Compliance***: Verifies that the model's evaluation metrics (e.g., accuracy) meet the expected baseline, preventing code changes from introducing accuracy issues.
    3.  ***Important Performance***: Verifies whether performance (e.g., P99 latency, throughput) in core scenarios meets preset thresholds.
+-   ***L3 response validation (`advanced_model`)***: At `--run-level advanced_model`, `tests/helpers/assertions.py` adds semantic checks on top of L2 payload gates (see Chapter 1):
+    -   **Speech / TTS** (`assert_audio_speech_response`): Whisper transcript of returned audio vs `request_config["input"]` (cosine similarity &gt; 0.9 when input text is set); optional `min_audio_bytes` floor; PCM harmonic-to-noise ratio when `response_format` is `pcm`; **preset voice gender** via `_assert_preset_voice_gender_from_audio` when `voice` matches a known preset in `_PRESET_VOICE_GENDER_MAP` (pitch/F0-based classifier; skipped for unknown voices or `pcm` output).
+    -   **Omni multimodal** (`assert_omni_response`): non-empty text/audio outputs; `key_words` in transcript or text; text–audio similarity / containment; preset **`speaker`** gender check (same helper as TTS).
+    -   **Diffusion** (`assert_*_diffusion_response`): image/video dimension and frame-count parity with request parameters where configured.
+    -   **Accuracy suites**: pixel/video similarity and metric baselines under `/tests/e2e/accuracy/` (separate from inline helper assertions).

 ### 2.3 Test Directory and Execution Files

@@ -404,7 +574,8 @@ L3 level testing executes after code is merged into the main branch. Its core pu

 ### 2.4 Execution Method and Example

-   ***Trigger Timing***: **`PR Merged`**. Automatically triggered after code review is approved and merged into the main branch.
+-   ***Trigger Timing***: **`PR Merged`**. Automatically triggered after code review is approved and merged into the main branch (typically via `merge-test` label on the PR before merge).
+-   ***Diff-aware step skipping***: Same [`source_file_dependencies`](#diff-aware-buildkite-uploads-source_file_dependencies) mechanism as L2—**all E2E Test** leaf steps are diff-gated; other L3 groups always upload. See [Diff-aware Buildkite uploads](#diff-aware-buildkite-uploads-source_file_dependencies).
 -   ***Execution Environment***: ***GPU*** servers.
 -   ***Script Example***:

@@ -420,9 +591,9 @@ L3 level testing executes after code is merged into the main branch. Its core pu

    **Explanation**:

-    @pytest.mark.advanced_model: Marks the test as L3 merge level, indicating deep validation with real models. @pytest.mark.full_model: Marks L4 nightly-only suites (e.g. `test_*_expansion.py`, doc examples).
+    @pytest.mark.advanced_model: Marks the test as L3 merge level (`--run-level advanced_model`): real weights, Whisper/similarity/keyword checks, diffusion deep checks, and **preset voice/speaker gender** validation where applicable. @pytest.mark.full_model: Marks L4 nightly-only suites (e.g. `test_*_expansion.py`, doc examples).

-    @pytest.mark.core_model: Marks the test as L1 or L2 level, indicating that this test case validates the basic functionality of the core model. It uses mock weights and only checks if the relevant interface functions correctly.
+    @pytest.mark.core_model: Marks the test as L1 or L2 level. At `--run-level core_model`, validation is limited to request success plus cheap payload checks (e.g. non-empty audio bytes, response format/content-type, non-empty diffusion outputs)—not Whisper, keyword, or accuracy gates. Deploy YAML may use `load_format: dummy` for fast PR feedback.

    @pytest.mark.parametrize: A parameterization decorator that allows abstracting test data into parameters, enabling reuse of the same test logic across different data configurations. indirect=True indicates that parameters will be passed to the fixture for processing.

@@ -518,7 +689,9 @@ L3 level testing executes after code is merged into the main branch. Its core pu

    **Single Request**: The comment clearly states this is a single-request completion test. For concurrent testing, it can be extended to multiple requests using request_num = n.

-    **Implicit Validation**: The `send_omni_request` and `send_diffusion_request` methods internally includes validation logic dynamically selected based on the --run-level parameter: core_model performs basic validation, while advanced_model and full_model perform deep validation.
+    **Implicit Validation**: `send_omni_request`, `send_audio_speech_request`, and `send_diffusion_request` call `assert_*_response` helpers with the session `--run-level`. At `core_model`, checks are limited to success plus cheap payload sanity (non-empty audio/media, format/content-type, optional `min_audio_bytes`). At `advanced_model` and `full_model`, deep validation adds Whisper transcripts, keyword/similarity, diffusion dimension checks, PCM HNR, etc.
+
+    **Audio output debugging**: Deep validation may transcribe returned audio via `convert_audio_bytes_to_text` (Whisper). If an audio keyword or text–audio similarity assertion fails, set `VLLM_OMNI_KEEP_REQUEST_MEDIA=1` before running pytest to keep the intermediate WAV files for inspection (see [Test helper environment variables](#test-helper-environment-variables)).

 -   ***Run Command (L3 merge)***: `pytest -s -v /tests/e2e/online_serving/test_{model_name}.py -m advanced_model --run-level=advanced_model`

@@ -577,14 +750,16 @@ L5 level testing focuses on the performance of model services under ***long-runn
 ### 4.2 Testing Content and Scope

 -   ***Long-term Stability (Stability) Testing***: Uses JSON under `tests/dfx/stability/tests/` (for example `test_qwen3_omni.json` and `test_wan22.json`) to run the service under moderate load for an extended period (e.g., over 12 hours), monitoring whether metrics like memory/VRAM usage, response time, and throughput degrade over time, and whether the service process remains stable.
-   ***Reliability Testing***: Uses pytest suites under `tests/dfx/reliability/` to inject controlled faults against a **live** `vllm_omni serve` instance (same **`omni_server` / `omni_server_function`** fixture style as E2E). Current suites emphasize **GPU memory pressure** (CUDA sidecar “memory hog”), **worker / runtime process kill** (`SIGKILL` on `VLLM::Worker` for Qwen3-Omni or `multiprocessing.spawn` for Wan2.2 video workers), **large multimodal chat** or **`/v1/videos`** jobs under OOM, **`/health` → 503** and **fast-fail / non-hanging concurrent** requests after kill, and **OpenAI-style 5xx error contracts** (e.g. text vs text+audio under OOM). **Post-fault recovery** checks exist where enabled (some cases may be `skip` while issues are tracked). See the Reliability `<details>` block in Section 4.4 for file-level responsibilities and CI markers (`slow`, `hardware_test`, POSIX-only kill).
+-   ***Reliability Testing***: Uses pytest suites under `tests/dfx/reliability/` to inject controlled faults against a **live** `vllm_omni serve` instance (same **`omni_server` / `omni_server_function`** fixture style as E2E). Current suites emphasize **GPU memory pressure** (CUDA sidecar “memory hog”), **worker / runtime process kill** (`SIGKILL` on `VLLM::Worker` for Qwen3-Omni, `multiprocessing.spawn` for Wan2.2 video workers, or `vLLM-Omni::` for HunyuanImage DiT workers), **large multimodal chat**, **`/v1/videos`**, **`/v1/images/generations`**, or **`/v1/audio/speech`** jobs under OOM, **`/health` → 503** and **fast-fail / non-hanging concurrent** requests after kill, and **OpenAI-style 5xx error contracts** (e.g. text vs text+audio under OOM). **Post-fault recovery** checks exist where enabled (some cases may be `skip` while issues are tracked). See the Reliability `<details>` block in Section 4.4 for file-level responsibilities and CI markers (`slow`, `hardware_test`, POSIX-only kill).

 ### 4.3 Test Directory and Execution Files

 -   ***Stability Test Configuration***: `tests/dfx/stability/tests/test_qwen3_omni.json`, `tests/dfx/stability/tests/test_wan22.json` (one JSON per model / runner family)
 -   ***Reliability Test Suite*** (`tests/dfx/reliability/`):
    -   `test_reliability_qwen3_omni.py` — Qwen3-Omni chat / multimodal reliability (GPU OOM, process kill, recovery, error contract under `--async-chunk` vs default).
-    -   `test_reliability_wan22.py` — Wan2.2 T2V video API reliability (`/v1/videos` under OOM and process kill, recovery).
+    -   `test_reliability_wan22.py` — Wan2.2 I2V video API reliability (`/v1/videos` under OOM and process kill, recovery).
+    -   `test_reliability_hunyuan_image.py` — HunyuanImage-3.0-Instruct DiT-only reliability (`/v1/images/generations` under OOM and process kill; deploy `hunyuan_image3_dit.yaml`, H100 × 4).
+    -   `test_reliability_voxcpm2.py` — VoxCPM2 TTS reliability (`/v1/audio/speech` under OOM and process kill; deploy `voxcpm2.yaml`, L4 × 1).
    -   `helpers.py` — Shared primitives used by current suites: raw HTTP probes for `/v1/chat/completions` and `/health`, OpenAI-style error parsing, GPU OOM sidecar (`inject_gpu_oom` / `stop_gpu_oom_hogs`), and `pgrep`-based process-kill injector construction (`make_process_kill_fault_injector`).
    -   `conftest.py` — `fault_injector` and `omni_server_after_fault` / `omni_server_after_fault_function` fixtures to run a callable **after** the server is ready.
    -   `README.md` — Short local run commands for this directory.
@@ -682,22 +857,33 @@ Reliability tests are **short fault-injection** integration runs (L5 **(b)** in
 | `helpers.py` | Shared helpers used by current reliability suites: raw `POST`/`GET` probes (`/v1/chat/completions`, `/health`), OpenAI error parsing (`extract_openai_error_contract_from_bytes`), GPU OOM sidecar lifecycle (`inject_gpu_oom`, `stop_gpu_oom_hogs`), and process-kill injector builder (`make_process_kill_fault_injector`). |
 | `conftest.py` | Pytest fixtures: indirect `fault_injector`, `omni_server_after_fault` / `omni_server_after_fault_function` (run injector after server is ready, then yield server). |
 | `test_reliability_qwen3_omni.py` | Qwen3-Omni: OOM vs **text vs text+audio** error contract, large multimodal chat under OOM, concurrent pressure, **SIGKILL** on `VLLM::Worker`, `/health` → 503 + fast-fail + concurrent chat; optional OOM recovery scenario (may be skipped while tracked in issues). |
-| `test_reliability_wan22.py` | Wan2.2 T2V: large `/v1/videos` under OOM, **SIGKILL** on `multiprocessing.spawn` chain, health / fast-fail / concurrent video requests; optional recovery test (may be skipped). |
+| `test_reliability_wan22.py` | Wan2.2 I2V: large `/v1/videos` under OOM, **SIGKILL** on `multiprocessing.spawn` chain, health / fast-fail / concurrent video requests; optional recovery test (may be skipped). |
+| `test_reliability_hunyuan_image.py` | HunyuanImage DiT-only: large `/v1/images/generations` under OOM, **SIGKILL** on `vLLM-Omni::` workers and serve/tree targets, health / fast-fail / concurrent image requests; some OOM/recovery cases may be skipped while tracked in issues. |
+| `test_reliability_voxcpm2.py` | VoxCPM2: `/v1/audio/speech` under OOM (error contract), **SIGKILL** on `VLLM::` workers and serve/tree targets, health / fast-fail / concurrent speech requests; some OOM cases may be skipped while tracked in issues. |
 | `README.md` | Minimal run / collect examples. |

 #### Parametrization and markers

 - Each test module defines a **`RELIABILITY_SCENARIOS`** list (`test_name`, `server_params`: model, `stage_config_name` or diffusion `server_args`, etc.). **`create_reliability_omni_server_params()`** in `tests/dfx/conftest.py` resolves stage paths (including XPU substitutions where applicable) and builds **`OmniServerParams`** lists consumed by **`@pytest.mark.parametrize(..., indirect=True)`** on `omni_server` or `omni_server_function`.
- Cases are tagged **`@pytest.mark.slow`** for weekly / selective CI. GPU-heavy suites use **`@hardware_test(res={"cuda": "H100"}, num_cards=...)`** (Qwen3-Omni paths often require **2** cards; Wan2.2 video paths **1** card).
+- Cases are tagged **`@pytest.mark.slow`** for weekly / selective CI. GPU-heavy suites use **`@hardware_test(res={"cuda": "H100"}, num_cards=...)`** or **`@hardware_test(res={"cuda": "L4"}, num_cards=1)`** (Qwen3-Omni **2**× H100; Wan2.2 **1**× H100; HunyuanImage DiT **4**× H100; VoxCPM2 **1**× L4).
 - **Process-kill** tests use **`@pytest.mark.skipif(os.name == "nt", ...)`** because injection uses POSIX **`pgrep` / `kill`**.

 #### CI trigger

-Weekly Buildkite (`.buildkite/test-weekly.yml`) runs, for example:
+Weekly Buildkite (`.buildkite/test-weekly.yml`) runs one step per model suite (trigger: `WEEKLY=1` or PR label `weekly-test`), for example:
+
+| Buildkite step | Test file | CI hardware |
+| -------------- | --------- | ----------- |
+| Reliability Test - qwen3-omni | `test_reliability_qwen3_omni.py` | H100 × 2 (`mithril-h100-pool`) |
+| Reliability Test - wan22 | `test_reliability_wan22.py` | H100 × 2 (`mithril-h100-pool`) |
+| Reliability Test - hunyuan-image | `test_reliability_hunyuan_image.py` | H100 × 4 (`mithril-h100-pool`) |
+| Reliability Test - voxcpm2 | `test_reliability_voxcpm2.py` | L4 × 1 (`gpu_1_queue`) |

 ```bash
 pytest -s -v tests/dfx/reliability/test_reliability_qwen3_omni.py -m "slow"
 pytest -s -v tests/dfx/reliability/test_reliability_wan22.py -m "slow"
+pytest -s -v tests/dfx/reliability/test_reliability_hunyuan_image.py -m "slow"
+pytest -s -v tests/dfx/reliability/test_reliability_voxcpm2.py -m "slow"
 ```

 #### Local commands
@@ -706,6 +892,8 @@ pytest -s -v tests/dfx/reliability/test_reliability_wan22.py -m "slow"
 pytest --collect-only tests/dfx/reliability
 pytest -s -v tests/dfx/reliability/test_reliability_qwen3_omni.py -m slow
 pytest -s -v tests/dfx/reliability/test_reliability_wan22.py -m slow
+pytest -s -v tests/dfx/reliability/test_reliability_hunyuan_image.py -m slow
+pytest -s -v tests/dfx/reliability/test_reliability_voxcpm2.py -m slow
 ```

 #### Adding a new model suite
@@ -718,7 +906,7 @@ pytest -s -v tests/dfx/reliability/test_reliability_wan22.py -m slow
 </details>

 -   -   ***Stability***: `pytest -s -v tests/dfx/stability/scripts/test_stability_qwen3_omni.py` or `pytest -s -v tests/dfx/stability/scripts/test_stability_wan22.py` (or add `test_stability_<model>.py` alongside a matching JSON config)
-    -   ***Reliability***: `pytest -s -v tests/dfx/reliability/test_reliability_qwen3_omni.py -m slow` and/or `pytest -s -v tests/dfx/reliability/test_reliability_wan22.py -m slow` (add `test_reliability_<suite>.py` for new models)
+    -   ***Reliability***: `pytest -s -v tests/dfx/reliability/test_reliability_<model>.py -m slow` (current suites: `qwen3_omni`, `wan22`, `hunyuan_image`, `voxcpm2`; add `test_reliability_<suite>.py` and a matching step in `.buildkite/test-weekly.yml` for new models)

 ## Summary

@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ If the failure is already tracked, leave a comment on your PR noting that the fa

 If the failure appears to be new, investigate whether your changes caused it.

+For resilience behavior under injected process signals/OOM pressure (validation scenarios, not root-cause equivalence), see [Failure Mode Injection Scenarios and Expected Behavior Matrix](../../user_guide/fault_injection_reliability_matrix.md).
+
 ### Reading Buildkite Logs

 1. Click **Details** next to the Buildkite check on your PR.
@@ -96,15 +96,21 @@ Our test scripts use the pytest framework. First, please use `git clone https://
    # Stability: Wan2.2 (v1/videos diffusion benchmark loop)
    pytest -s -v dfx/stability/scripts/test_stability_wan22.py -m slow

-    # Reliability: Qwen3-Omni
+    # Reliability: Qwen3-Omni (H100 × 2)
    pytest -s -v dfx/reliability/test_reliability_qwen3_omni.py -m slow

-    # Reliability: Wan2.2
+    # Reliability: Wan2.2 (H100)
    pytest -s -v dfx/reliability/test_reliability_wan22.py -m slow

+    # Reliability: HunyuanImage DiT (H100 × 4)
+    pytest -s -v dfx/reliability/test_reliability_hunyuan_image.py -m slow
+
+    # Reliability: VoxCPM2 (L4)
+    pytest -s -v dfx/reliability/test_reliability_voxcpm2.py -m slow
+
    ```

-    The latest L5 commands for CI can be found in the [pipeline](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/blob/main/.buildkite/test-ready.yml).
+    The latest L5 CI jobs (reliability + invalid-parameter weekly steps) are in [test-weekly.yml](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/blob/main/.buildkite/test-weekly.yml).

 You can find more information about markers in the documentation: [marker doc](./tests_markers.md)

@@ -349,12 +349,14 @@ class YourModelPipeline(nn.Module):
 - def __call__(
 + def forward(
    self,
-+   req: OmniDiffusionRequest,  # ← Add request parameter here
+   req: DiffusionRequestBatch,  # ← Add request-batch parameter here
 - ):
-+ ) -> DiffusionOutput:  # ← Add return type
+ ) -> list[DiffusionOutput]:  # ← Add return type
 ```

-[`OmniDiffusionRequest`](https://docs.vllm.ai/projects/vllm-omni/en/latest/api/vllm_omni/diffusion/request/#vllm_omni.diffusion.request.OmniDiffusionRequest) is a dataclass that contains the **prompts** and **sampling parameters** [`OmniDiffusionSamplingParams`](https://docs.vllm.ai/projects/vllm-omni/en/latest/api/vllm_omni/inputs/data/#vllm_omni.inputs.data.OmniDiffusionSamplingParams) for the diffusion pipeline execution. It also contains a request_id for other components to trace this request and its outputs.
+[`OmniDiffusionRequest`](https://docs.vllm.ai/projects/vllm-omni/en/latest/api/vllm_omni/diffusion/request/#vllm_omni.diffusion.request.OmniDiffusionRequest) is a dataclass that contains one **prompt** and the **sampling parameters** [`OmniDiffusionSamplingParams`](https://docs.vllm.ai/projects/vllm-omni/en/latest/api/vllm_omni/inputs/data/#vllm_omni.inputs.data.OmniDiffusionSamplingParams) for one logical diffusion request. It also contains a request_id for other components to trace this request and its outputs. Before pipeline execution, the runner wraps one or more independent requests into `DiffusionRequestBatch`.
+
+[`DiffusionRequestBatch`](https://docs.vllm.ai/projects/vllm-omni/en/latest/api/vllm_omni/diffusion/worker/request_batch/#vllm_omni.diffusion.worker.request_batch.DiffusionRequestBatch) exposes compatibility properties such as `prompts`, `sampling_params`, and `request_id`. Pipelines that can execute the whole request batch in one forward pass should set `supports_request_batch = True`; other pipelines still receive a single-request batch and return a one-element output list.

 See some parameters in `OmniDiffusionSamplingParams` as follows:

@@ -367,35 +369,36 @@ See some parameters in `OmniDiffusionSamplingParams` as follows:
 **Extract parameters from request:**

 ```python
-from vllm_omni.diffusion.request import OmniDiffusionRequest
 from vllm_omni.diffusion.data import DiffusionOutput
+from vllm_omni.diffusion.worker.request_batch import DiffusionRequestBatch

 def forward(
    self,
-    req: OmniDiffusionRequest,
-) -> DiffusionOutput:
-    # Extract prompts from request
-    if req.prompts is not None:
-        prompt = [
-            p if isinstance(p, str) else (p.get("prompt") or "")
-            for p in req.prompts
-        ]
+    req: DiffusionRequestBatch,
+) -> list[DiffusionOutput]:
+    # Extract prompts from the request batch
+    prompts = [
+        p if isinstance(p, str) else (p.get("prompt") or "")
+        for p in req.prompts
+    ]

-    # Extract sampling parameters
+    # Extract common sampling parameters
    sampling_params = req.sampling_params
    num_inference_steps = sampling_params.num_inference_steps or 50
    guidance_scale = sampling_params.guidance_scale or 7.5
    height = sampling_params.height or (self.default_sample_size * self.vae_scale_factor)
    width = sampling_params.width or (self.default_sample_size * self.vae_scale_factor)

-    # For image editing pipelines, extract images from multi_modal_data
-    if hasattr(req, 'multi_modal_data') and req.multi_modal_data:
-        input_images = req.multi_modal_data.get('image', [])
+    # For image editing pipelines, extract media from each prompt dict
+    input_images = []
+    for p in req.prompts:
+        multi_modal_data = p.get("multi_modal_data", {}) if isinstance(p, dict) else {}
+        input_images.append(multi_modal_data.get("image"))

    # ... rest of generation logic
 ```

-For an image editing model, an example `OmniDiffusionRequest` is like:
+For an image editing model, the request `prompt` can be a dict like:
 ```python
 {
    "prompt": "turn this cat to a dog",
@@ -472,12 +475,12 @@ def get_your_model_pre_process_func(
    def pre_process_func(
        request: OmniDiffusionRequest,
        ):
-        for i, prompt in enumerate(request.prompts):
-            multi_modal_data = prompt.get("multi_modal_data", {}) if not isinstance(prompt, str) else None
-            raw_image = multi_modal_data.get("image", None) if multi_modal_data is not None else None
-            # image pre-processing
-            # after pre-processing, update the request attributes
-            ...
+        prompt = request.prompt
+        multi_modal_data = prompt.get("multi_modal_data", {}) if not isinstance(prompt, str) else None
+        raw_image = multi_modal_data.get("image", None) if multi_modal_data is not None else None
+        # image pre-processing
+        # after pre-processing, update the request attributes
+        ...
        return request

    return pre_process_func
@@ -923,11 +926,11 @@ When implementing a new pipeline, avoid putting all logic inside a single functi

 For example:
 ```
-def forward(self, req: OmniDiffusionRequest):
+def forward(self, req: DiffusionRequestBatch) -> list[DiffusionOutput]:
    prompt_embeds = self.encode_prompt(req)
    latents = self.diffuse(prompt_embeds, req)
    images = self.vae.decode(latents)
-    return DiffusionOutput(output=images)
+    return [DiffusionOutput(output=images)]
 ```
 This allows the timing utility to measure each stage (e.g., encode_prompt, diffuse, vae.decode) separately and helps identify performance bottlenecks more easily.

@@ -286,3 +286,54 @@ Recommended viewers:
 - Nsight Systems GUI for CUDA kernel timelines

 For upstream background on the underlying vLLM profiling infrastructure, see the [vLLM profiling guide](https://docs.vllm.ai/en/stable/contributing/profiling/).
+
+## 7. Orchestrator Monitor
+
+> **Warning:** Diagnostic only. Adds lightweight counters on the orchestrator poll loop and per-replica queue depth. Disable in production unless you are actively debugging orchestrator saturation.
+
+Multi-stage omni pipelines route client-facing outputs and inter-stage connector traffic through a single-process orchestrator. When that loop is saturated (for example by large multimodal payloads on the poll path), TTFT and stability can degrade even when GPU stages are healthy. The orchestrator monitor records time-series signals to confirm whether the orchestrator or downstream stage queues are the bottleneck.
+
+Enable on the stage-0 (orchestrator) process:
+
+```bash
+vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct --omni --port 8091 \
+  --stage-id 0 \
+  --enable-orch-monitor
+```
+
+Optional output path override:
+
+```bash
+export VLLM_OMNI_ORCH_MONITOR_PATH=/tmp/vllm_omni_orch_monitor.json
+```
+
+If unset, the monitor writes `./vllm_omni_orch_monitor_<MMDDHHMM>.json` at shutdown.
+
+### Recorded metrics
+
+Each 1-second window records:
+
+| Series | Description |
+|---|---|
+| `windows.duration_s` | Wall time covered by the window |
+| `windows.loop_idle` / `windows.loop_active` | Orchestrator poll-loop iterations with no work vs. active forwarding |
+| `replicas.<stage,replica>.outputs_queue_size` | MP client `outputs_queue` backlog for that replica |
+| `replicas.<stage,replica>.inflight` | Requests currently bound/routed to the replica |
+
+On shutdown the server also logs a short summary (`loop_active_pct`, per-replica queue averages/maxima).
+
+### Relationship to other diagnostics
+
+This monitor is intentionally separate from the existing profiling tools:
+
+| Tool | Scope | Output |
+|---|---|---|
+| `--enable-diffusion-pipeline-profiler` | Diffusion stage functions (`vae.decode`, `diffuse`, …) | Per-request `stage_durations` / logs |
+| `--enable-ar-profiler` | AR stage generation time | Per-request `stage_durations` |
+| `profiler_config` (`torch` / `cuda`) | GPU/CPU kernels inside a stage worker | `trace.json`, Nsight, operator tables |
+| Prometheus `/metrics` (`vllm:omni_*`) | Pipeline SLOs and cross-stage transfer | Continuous scrape endpoint |
+| `--enable-orch-monitor` | Orchestrator poll loop + replica queue backlog | Single JSON file at shutdown |
+
+The orchestrator monitor does not use `torch.profiler` because the bottleneck signal lives in the orchestrator process (poll-loop duty cycle and queue depth), not inside stage workers. It complements Prometheus metrics when you need a post-run time series for a benchmark or regression run.
+
+Process liveness monitors (`monitor_engine_liveness`, worker/engine-core monitors) are unrelated: they detect crashed workers, not orchestrator load.
@@ -126,16 +126,16 @@ Call `self.diffuse` in your pipeline's forward function:

 ```python
 import torch.nn as nn
+from vllm_omni.diffusion.worker.request_batch import DiffusionRequestBatch
+
 class YourModelPipeline(nn.Module, CFGParallelMixin):
    def forward(
        self,
-        prompt: str,
-        negative_prompt: str | None = None,
-        guidance_scale: float = 3.5,
-        num_inference_steps: int = 50,
-        **kwargs,
-    ):
-        # Encode prompts, Initialize latents, Get timesteps
+        req: DiffusionRequestBatch,
+    ) -> list[DiffusionOutput]:
+        # Read prompts and sampling params from the request
+        ...
+        # Encode prompts, initialize latents, get timesteps
        ...
        # Run diffusion loop (calls the mixin's diffuse method)
        latents = self.diffuse(
@@ -38,9 +38,13 @@ With continuous batching enabled:
 The current implementation is conservative:

 - only compatible requests are batched together
- request-mode diffusion still runs with `max_num_seqs=1`
 - per-request progress and completion remain independent

+Here, "continuous batching" means the step-wise path enabled by
+`step_execution=True`. Request-mode `DiffusionRequestBatch` is static
+request-level batching for one full pipeline `forward()` call; it does not
+admit or remove requests between denoise steps.
+
 ## Enablement

 Use `--step-execution` as the feature gate, then increase `--max-num-seqs`
@@ -72,7 +76,7 @@ which is built from shape-sensitive and CFG-sensitive sampling fields. This is
 the core correctness rule for batching: requests are only co-batched when they
 share the same denoise tensor contract.

-There are two important details:
+There are three important details:

 - `num_inference_steps` is not part of the key, so requests with different
  total step counts can still share a batch
@@ -83,10 +87,15 @@ There are two important details:

 Today that compatibility rule is still shape-sensitive. `height`, `width`,
 `num_frames`, and CFG-related fields remain part of the key, so different
-resolutions or incompatible guidance settings do **not** co-batch yet.
+resolutions or incompatible guidance settings do **not** co-batch yet. The
+key also covers LoRA identity (`lora_int_id`, `lora_scale`), so requests
+targeting different adapters or scales run in separate batches and the
+worker can activate exactly one adapter per step.

-The current batching unit is one `OmniDiffusionRequest`. Requests with
-multiple prompts do not participate in batching today.
+The scheduler batching unit is one logical `OmniDiffusionRequest`. In the
+step-wise path, runtime tensor batching is represented as `StepInputBatch`. For
+request-mode prompt semantics, see
+[Request-Level Batching](../../user_guide/diffusion/request_batching.md).

 ## Runner

@@ -123,17 +132,15 @@ request-local scheduler state and outputs.
 the background loop and async add-request path needed for multiple requests to
 accumulate in the scheduler.

-This is supporting infrastructure, not the main design point. The batching
-behavior is defined by scheduler-side compatibility gating and runner-side
-batch packing.
+When `step_execution=True`, the engine routes work through the step-wise
+executor path. The continuous batching behavior is defined by scheduler-side
+compatibility gating and runner-side `StepInputBatch` packing.

 ## Current Limitations

 - Experimental feature; use `max_num_seqs=1` for the older conservative path.
 - Only native pipelines that already support `step_execution=True`.
- Request-mode diffusion still clamps `max_num_seqs` back to `1`.
 - Only homogeneous batches keyed by `SamplingParamsKey` are supported.
- Multi-prompt requests are not batched.
 - `cache_backend`, KV transfer, and other request-mode extras are not wired
  into the batched step-wise path yet.
 - Future work can relax the current same-shape restriction with richer
@@ -0,0 +1,175 @@
+# Request-Level Batching for Diffusion
+
+This document describes the request-mode batching path for diffusion pipelines.
+For end-user enablement and tuning, see
+[Request-Level Batching](../../user_guide/diffusion/request_batching.md).
+
+This is separate from
+[Continuous Batching for Step-Wise Diffusion](diffusion_continuous_batching.md).
+Request-level batching runs one full pipeline `forward()` over a static batch of
+compatible requests. Step-wise continuous batching admits work between denoise
+steps when `step_execution=True`.
+
+## Why It Helps
+
+The request-level design avoids coupling several logical requests to one request
+object. This keeps request identity, abort/error handling, and per-request
+metadata unambiguous while still allowing one fused pipeline forward pass for
+bursty or concurrent traffic.
+
+## Overview
+
+With request-level batching enabled:
+
+- each `OmniDiffusionRequest` contains one `prompt` and one `request_id`
+- the scheduler groups compatible waiting requests into one scheduler wave
+- `DiffusionRequestBatch` wraps the scheduled requests for pipeline `forward()`
+- batch-capable pipelines return `list[DiffusionOutput]`, one output per
+  request
+- `BatchRunnerOutput` maps each result back to its original `request_id`
+
+Pipelines opt in with `supports_request_batch = True` and a `forward()` method
+that accepts `DiffusionRequestBatch` and returns `list[DiffusionOutput]`.
+Pipelines that do not opt in keep the existing per-request execution path.
+
+## Enablement
+
+Request-level batching is the request-mode path, so `step_execution` must remain
+disabled. Increase `max_num_seqs` above `1` to let the scheduler keep multiple
+compatible requests active:
+
+```bash
+vllm serve Qwen/Qwen-Image --omni \
+  --port 8091 \
+  --max-num-seqs 4
+```
+
+For bursty online ingress, `request_batch_max_wait_ms` can add a bounded
+admission wait before the first `schedule()` of a scheduler wave:
+
+```bash
+vllm serve Qwen/Qwen-Image --omni \
+  --port 8091 \
+  --max-num-seqs 4 \
+  --request-batch-max-wait-ms 20
+```
+
+`request_batch_max_wait_ms=0` disables this wait and is the default.
+
+## Request Contract
+
+`OmniDiffusionRequest` represents one logical request. It owns one prompt,
+sampling parameters, request id, and request-local metadata. Runtime batches are
+formed by the scheduler and represented separately from the request payload.
+
+Runtime batching is represented by:
+
+- [`DiffusionSchedulerOutput`](gh-file:vllm_omni/diffusion/sched/interface.py)
+  for scheduled request ids and request payloads
+- [`DiffusionRequestBatch`](gh-file:vllm_omni/diffusion/worker/request_batch.py)
+  for the pipeline-facing request batch
+- [`BatchRunnerOutput`](gh-file:vllm_omni/diffusion/worker/utils.py) for
+  per-request results
+
+`DiffusionRequestBatch` intentionally exposes compatibility properties such as
+`prompts`, `sampling_params`, `request_id`, and `kv_sender_info` so migrated
+pipelines can stay close to upstream code while using a batch-aware contract.
+
+## Scheduler
+
+The scheduler derives its capacity from `max_num_seqs` through
+`max_num_running_reqs`. It exposes waiting/running queue counters so the engine
+can decide whether admission wait is useful before scheduling a new wave.
+
+Batch compatibility is controlled by
+[`SamplingParamsKey`](gh-file:vllm_omni/diffusion/sched/interface.py). The key
+contains shape-sensitive and guidance-sensitive fields, including output count
+and LoRA identity. Requests with incompatible shapes, CFG settings, output
+counts, LoRA adapters, or LoRA scales are kept in separate batches.
+
+Admission is conservative:
+
+- the scheduler only batches compatible requests
+- FIFO ordering is preserved
+- an incompatible request at the head of the waiting queue blocks later
+  compatible requests
+
+## Engine
+
+[`DiffusionEngine`](gh-file:vllm_omni/diffusion/diffusion_engine.py) resolves
+request-batch capability during initialization from the configured pipeline
+class, including custom pipeline classes.
+
+The capability check uses the pipeline class attribute
+`supports_request_batch = True`. Pipelines that set this attribute must implement
+a request-batch-compatible `forward()` contract and return one
+`DiffusionOutput` per request; the runner validates that return shape at runtime.
+
+When the selected pipeline is batch-capable and `step_execution=False`, request
+mode routes scheduler waves through the batch executor path. Otherwise it keeps
+the per-request executor path.
+
+The optional admission wait runs only when:
+
+- request batching is supported
+- `step_execution=False`
+- `request_batch_max_wait_ms > 0`
+- no requests are currently running
+
+The wait exits early when the waiting queue reaches capacity, when the queue is
+stable for a short window, when the deadline expires, or when the engine stops.
+
+## Executor And Runner
+
+The executor exposes two request-mode entries:
+
+- `execute_request`: one worker call per scheduled request
+- `execute_batch`: one worker call for the whole `DiffusionSchedulerOutput`
+
+On the batch path, the worker builds a `DiffusionRequestBatch` and runs the
+pipeline once. Request-local setup remains per request:
+
+- KV transfer metadata
+- random generator and seed handling
+- request output/error/abort mapping
+
+Shared batch setup happens once per batch when possible:
+
+- cache refresh
+- LoRA activation for the homogeneous adapter key
+- pipeline `forward(req_batch)`
+
+Large tensor IPC still uses the shared-memory packing path. The packer traverses
+both normal `RunnerOutput.result` wrappers and nested batch results so batched
+outputs do not fall back to pickle IPC for tensor payloads.
+
+## Current Limitations
+
+- Only pipelines that declare the request-batch contract use fused batch
+  execution.
+- Batches are homogeneous under `SamplingParamsKey`; heterogeneous resolution or
+  incompatible guidance settings do not co-batch yet.
+- FIFO scheduling can reduce batching opportunities when an incompatible
+  request is at the front of the queue.
+- `request_batch_max_wait_ms` improves burst coalescing but can add latency to
+  the first request in a scheduler wave. Keep it small for latency-sensitive
+  serving.
+- Step-wise continuous batching is documented separately and only applies when
+  `step_execution=True`.
+
+## Related Files
+
+- Request object and request batch:
+  [`vllm_omni/diffusion/request.py`](gh-file:vllm_omni/diffusion/request.py)
+- Scheduler interface:
+  [`vllm_omni/diffusion/sched/interface.py`](gh-file:vllm_omni/diffusion/sched/interface.py)
+- Scheduler base:
+  [`vllm_omni/diffusion/sched/base_scheduler.py`](gh-file:vllm_omni/diffusion/sched/base_scheduler.py)
+- Engine:
+  [`vllm_omni/diffusion/diffusion_engine.py`](gh-file:vllm_omni/diffusion/diffusion_engine.py)
+- Worker runner:
+  [`vllm_omni/diffusion/worker/diffusion_model_runner.py`](gh-file:vllm_omni/diffusion/worker/diffusion_model_runner.py)
+- Executor interface:
+  [`vllm_omni/diffusion/executor/abstract.py`](gh-file:vllm_omni/diffusion/executor/abstract.py)
+- Tests:
+  [`tests/diffusion/test_diffusion_engine.py`](gh-file:tests/diffusion/test_diffusion_engine.py)
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ Backend-specific setup lives in separate docs:
 - [SharedMemoryConnector](omni_connectors/shared_memory_connector.md)
 - [MooncakeStoreConnector](omni_connectors/mooncake_store_connector.md)
 - [MooncakeTransferEngineConnector](omni_connectors/mooncake_transfer_engine_connector.md)
+- [MoriTransferEngineConnector](omni_connectors/mori_transfer_engine_connector.md)
 - [YuanrongConnector](omni_connectors/yuanrong_connector.md)
+- [YuanrongTransferEngineConnector](omni_connectors/yuanrong_transfer_engine_connector.md)

 ## Overview

@@ -22,7 +24,9 @@ Current connectors operate in D2H2D (device to host to device) mode.
 | Single node | SharedMemoryConnector | Auto-configured if no connector is specified. |
 | Multi node (Mooncake Store) | MooncakeStoreConnector | TCP-based, requires Mooncake Master + metadata server. |
 | Multi node (Mooncake RDMA) | MooncakeTransferEngineConnector | RDMA/TCP direct transfer with managed memory pool. Fastest. |
+| Multi node (Mori RDMA) | MoriTransferEngineConnector | RDMA direct transfer via Mori IOEngine. |
 | Multi node (Yuanrong) | YuanrongConnector | Requires Yuanrong Datasystem + etcd. |
+| Ascend NPU P2P (Yuanrong TE) | YuanrongTransferEngineConnector | Uses Yuanrong TransferEngine directly. Configure NPU device IPv4 and `memory_pool_device: "npu"`. |

 ## Core API

@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+# MoriTransferEngineConnector
+
+## When to Use
+
+Currently supports intra-node deployment with Mori.
+
+As noted in #1742, inter-node support will be added back in a future
+refactor.
+
+## Mechanism
+
+Uses Mori's `IOEngine` / `MemoryDesc` API for zero-copy RDMA transfers.
+
+- Data Plane: RDMA (InfiniBand/RoCE) with managed memory pool.
+- Control Plane: ZMQ for pull-request handshake and async completion.
+
+## Installation
+
+See the [Mori repository](https://github.com/ROCm/mori) for installation instructions.
+
+## Configuration
+
+Mori is configured through the new deploy-config schema (see
+[`docs/configuration/stage_configs.md`](../../../configuration/stage_configs.md)).
+Define the connector at the top level of the deploy YAML and reference it
+by name from each stage's `input_connectors` / `output_connectors`:
+
+```yaml
+connectors:
+  mori_connector:
+    name: MoriTransferEngineConnector
+    extra:
+      host: "auto"
+      zmq_port: 50051
+      device_name: ""
+      memory_pool_size: 536870912
+      memory_pool_device: "cuda"
+
+stages:
+  - stage_id: 0
+    output_connectors:
+      to_stage_1: mori_connector
+
+  - stage_id: 1
+    input_connectors:
+      from_stage_0: mori_connector
+```
+
+A ready-to-run intra-node example for Qwen3-Omni-MoE on AMD MI300X lives
+at `vllm_omni/deploy/qwen3_omni_moe_mori_intranode.yaml` and can be loaded
+with:
+
+```bash
+vllm-omni serve Qwen/Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct --omni --log-stats \
+    --deploy-config vllm_omni/deploy/qwen3_omni_moe_mori_intranode.yaml
+```
+
+The yaml wires `MoriTransferEngineConnector` (with `backend_type: xgmi`) to
+the chunk_transfer_adapter path (`async_chunk: true`) so stage-to-stage
+hidden-state and codec-frame streams ship GPU-to-GPU over AMD Infinity
+Fabric instead of SHM.  Qwen2.5-Omni + Mori is not yet functional on
+the chunk path: it needs `thinker2talker_async_chunk` /
+`talker2code2wav_async_chunk` input processors that do not exist yet
+(the orchestrator-level path the upstream PR originally targeted was
+lost during the entrypoints → engine refactor and removed in #1742).
+
+Parameters:
+
+- host: local RDMA IP (`"auto"` for auto-detect).
+- zmq_port: ZMQ base port for control-plane communication.
+- device_name: RDMA device (e.g., `"mlx5_0"`), empty for auto-detect.
+- memory_pool_size: RDMA memory pool size in bytes.
+- memory_pool_device: `"cpu"` (pinned) or `"cuda"` (GPUDirect / XGMI RDMA).
+
+For more details, refer to the
+[Mori repository](https://github.com/ROCm/mori).
@@ -0,0 +1,211 @@
+# YuanrongTransferEngineConnector
+
+## When to Use
+
+Use `YuanrongTransferEngineConnector` for high-performance peer-to-peer KV cache
+transfer on Ascend NPU. It is different from `YuanrongConnector`:
+
+- `YuanrongConnector` uses Yuanrong Datasystem as a distributed KV store and
+  requires Datasystem workers plus etcd.
+- `YuanrongTransferEngineConnector` uses Yuanrong TransferEngine directly. It
+  registers local memory in each stage worker and lets the receiver pull data
+  from the sender with TransferEngine.
+
+The implementation currently lives under
+`vllm_omni/platforms/npu/omni_connectors/` because the supported backend is
+Ascend NPU only. The connector is still registered with the generic
+OmniConnector factory under the name `YuanrongTransferEngineConnector`.
+
+For Ascend P2P transfer, the connector should use NPU memory as its transfer
+pool. The Mooncake-style CPU pool is not supported for this connector.
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+Install Yuanrong Datasystem/TransferEngine Python bindings in the runtime
+environment. The packaged install is:
+
+```bash
+pip install openyuanrong-datasystem
+```
+
+To build from source, follow the upstream project instructions:
+
+- Source repository: [openeuler/yuanrong-datasystem](https://atomgit.com/openeuler/yuanrong-datasystem)
+- Installation guide: [Yuanrong Datasystem Linux installation](https://pages.openeuler.openatom.cn/openyuanrong-datasystem/docs/zh-cn/latest/installation/installation_linux.html)
+
+The Ascend driver, CANN runtime, HCCL/HCCP, and NPU device network must also be
+configured on every machine participating in the transfer.
+
+## Check NPU Device IPv4
+
+Yuanrong TransferEngine with `protocol: "ascend"` uses the NPU device network,
+not only the host management IP. Each participating NPU must have an IPv4 HCCN
+device IP.
+
+Check the device IP, link, and health state:
+
+```bash
+for i in {0..7}; do
+  echo "===== NPU $i ====="
+  hccn_tool -i "$i" -ip -g
+  hccn_tool -i "$i" -link -g
+  hccn_tool -i "$i" -net_health -g
+done
+```
+
+Expected output for each NPU should include an IPv4 address and healthy link:
+
+```text
+ipaddr:10.86.1.80
+netmask:255.255.255.0
+link status: UP
+net health status: Success
+```
+
+If the output says `Get ipconf failed, because no ip was preset there!`, the NPU
+device IP is not configured and Ascend P2P will fail. If the address is IPv6,
+configure IPv4 for this connector path or validate that the underlying Yuanrong
+TransferEngine build supports the IPv6 HCCN path before using it.
+
+## Check Device-to-Device Connectivity
+
+After collecting the target-stage NPU IPv4 addresses, ping them from each
+source-stage NPU:
+
+```bash
+# Example: AR uses NPU 0..3 and DiT uses NPU 4..7.
+# Replace the destination IPs with the values reported by hccn_tool -i 4..7 -ip -g.
+for src in 0 1 2 3; do
+  for dst_ip in 10.86.1.78 10.86.1.79 10.86.1.80 10.86.1.81; do
+    echo "===== NPU $src -> $dst_ip ====="
+    hccn_tool -i "$src" -ping -g address "$dst_ip" || true
+  done
+done
+```
+
+The expected result is `0.00% packet loss` for every required source/target pair.
+This verifies basic HCCN IPv4 connectivity. TransferEngine can still fail later
+if RDMA/QP/HCCL setup is broken, but failed ping means the device network must be
+fixed first.
+
+## YAML Configuration
+
+For Ascend P2P, configure the connector with `protocol: "ascend"` and an NPU
+memory pool:
+
+```yaml
+runtime:
+  enabled: true
+  defaults:
+    window_size: -1
+    max_inflight: 1
+  connectors:
+    yuanrong_te_connector:
+      name: YuanrongTransferEngineConnector
+      extra:
+        host: "auto"
+        zmq_port: 50051
+        rpc_port: "auto"
+        protocol: "ascend"
+        device_name: "auto"
+        memory_pool_size: 1073741824
+        memory_pool_device: "npu"
+  edges:
+    - from: 0
+      to: 1
+      window_size: -1
+```
+
+Important fields:
+
+| Parameter | Recommended Value | Notes |
+|---|---|---|
+| `host` | `"auto"` | Advertises a routable local host IP for ZMQ metadata exchange. |
+| `zmq_port` | `50051` | Base ZMQ port. The runtime applies stage/rank offsets. |
+| `rpc_port` | `"auto"` | Lets TransferEngine choose an available RPC port. |
+| `protocol` | `"ascend"` | Uses the Ascend TransferEngine backend. |
+| `device_name` | `"auto"` | Each TP worker resolves to its local logical NPU, for example `npu:0`, `npu:1`, etc. |
+| `memory_pool_device` | `"npu"` | Required for the Ascend fast path. This registers NPU memory with TransferEngine. |
+| `memory_pool_size` | `1073741824` | 1 GiB per worker is a practical starting point for KV-cache transfer validation. Increase if the transfer pool is exhausted. |
+
+`memory_pool_device: "cpu"` is rejected for
+`YuanrongTransferEngineConnector` with `protocol: "ascend"`. CPU pool registration
+can lead to Ascend P2P failures such as HCCL RA init errors, QP timeouts, or
+FFTS/SDMA runtime errors. `memory_pool_device: "cpu"` is common for
+`MooncakeTransferEngineConnector`, but Yuanrong TE on Ascend only supports
+`"npu"`.
+
+## 4-Card AR-to-DiT TP Example
+
+For AR 4-way TP sending KV cache to DiT 4-way TP, set the stage TP topology in
+both stage `omni_kv_config` blocks:
+
+```yaml
+stage_args:
+  - stage_id: 0
+    runtime:
+      devices: "0,1,2,3"
+    engine_args:
+      tensor_parallel_size: 4
+      omni_kv_config:
+        need_send_cache: true
+        rank_mapping:
+          from_tp: 4
+          to_tp: 4
+    output_connectors:
+      to_stage_1: yuanrong_te_connector
+
+  - stage_id: 1
+    runtime:
+      devices: "4,5,6,7"
+    engine_args:
+      parallel_config:
+        tensor_parallel_size: 4
+      omni_kv_config:
+        need_recv_cache: true
+        rank_mapping:
+          from_tp: 4
+          to_tp: 4
+    input_connectors:
+      from_stage_0: yuanrong_te_connector
+```
+
+In this topology each DiT rank receives the corresponding AR rank shard:
+
+```text
+DiT rank 0 <- AR rank 0
+DiT rank 1 <- AR rank 1
+DiT rank 2 <- AR rank 2
+DiT rank 3 <- AR rank 3
+```
+
+## Validate a Successful Run
+
+Search the inference log for Yuanrong TE receive-side messages:
+
+```bash
+grep -E "\[YR GET\]|Successfully received KV cache|transfer_engine get failed" inference.log
+```
+
+A successful Ascend fast-path transfer contains lines like:
+
+```text
+[YR GET] ... fast_path, zero-copy
+Successfully received KV cache ... across 1 key(s)
+Applied CFG KV caches
+[KV Reuse] ...
+```
+
+Sender-side `KV transfer OK` only means that the sender registered the payload
+and metadata. The actual P2P data transfer happens on the receiver side during
+`[YR GET]`.
+
+## Troubleshooting
+
+| Symptom | Likely Cause | Action |
+|---|---|---|
+| `IPv4 device IP not found` | NPU HCCN IPv4 is missing. | Run `hccn_tool -i <id> -ip -g` and configure IPv4 for every participating NPU. |
+| `P2PCommInitRootInfo failed`, `ra init failed`, `RA_QP_STATUS_TIMEOUT` | Ascend P2P/RDMA/QP setup failed. | First verify device IPv4, link health, and device-to-device ping. Then test a minimal Yuanrong TE pair outside vLLM. |
+| `fftsplus sdma error`, `context is abort` | Runtime SDMA/FFTS failure, often after an invalid or failed P2P transfer. | Use `memory_pool_device: "npu"` for Ascend TE, reduce `memory_pool_size` if OOM occurs, and isolate the failing NPU pair with a Yuanrong TE demo. |
+| Sender logs `KV transfer OK` but receiver never logs `[YR GET]` | Sender `put()` succeeded, receiver P2P read failed or timed out. | Check receiver logs and search for `transfer_engine get failed`. |
+| Pool allocation fails or OOM | Transfer pool is too small or too large for available NPU memory. | Start with 1 GiB (`1073741824`), reduce to 512 MiB for validation, or increase for larger KV payloads. |
@@ -0,0 +1,356 @@
+# Pipeline Parallel
+
+This section describes how to add Pipeline Parallelism (PP) to a diffusion pipeline. We use the Wan2.2 text-to-video and
+image-to-video pipelines as the reference implementations.
+
+## Implementation Checklist
+
+Adding Pipeline Parallel support requires:
+
+1. ✅ **Inherit the mixin** - add `PipelineParallelMixin` before `CFGParallelMixin` in the pipeline class
+2. ✅ **Make stage forward resumable** - support `intermediate_tensors` in the transformer forward path
+3. ✅ **Return the right object type** - `IntermediateTensors` on non-last PP ranks, final model output on the last rank
+4. ✅ **Use the standard denoising loop** - call `predict_noise_maybe_with_cfg()` and `scheduler_step_maybe_with_cfg()`
+5. ✅ **Test parity** - compare PP results against the single-GPU baseline
+
+---
+
+## Table of Contents
+
+- [Overview](#overview)
+- [Step-by-Step Implementation](#step-by-step-implementation)
+- [Testing](#testing)
+- [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting)
+- [Reference Implementations](#reference-implementations)
+
+---
+
+## Overview
+
+### What is Pipeline Parallelism?
+
+Pipeline Parallelism splits the denoising transformer into multiple sequential stages and places each stage on a
+different rank. Instead of every rank holding the full DiT, each PP rank owns only a slice of the layers.
+
+For each denoising step:
+
+1. Rank 0 starts the forward pass using the current latents.
+2. Each intermediate rank receives hidden states from the previous rank, runs its local layer slice, and forwards the
+   intermediate tensors downstream.
+3. The last PP rank produces the final noise prediction.
+4. The last PP rank applies the scheduler step and sends the updated latents back to rank 0 for the next timestep.
+
+This reduces per-rank model memory and enables larger diffusion transformers to run across multiple GPUs. It can also be
+combined with CFG-Parallel, where each PP pipeline carries one CFG branch.
+
+### Architecture
+
+vLLM-Omni provides `PipelineParallelMixin` to encapsulate the PP communication pattern for diffusion pipelines.
+
+| Method                            | Purpose                       | Automatic Behavior                                                              |
+|-----------------------------------|-------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| `diffuse()`                       | Denoising loop boundary       | Wrapped by `PipelineParallelMixin` to flush pending async PP sends on exit      |
+| `predict_noise_maybe_with_cfg()`  | Predict noise with PP support | Runs partial forwards on non-last PP ranks, combines with CFG logic when needed |
+| `scheduler_step_maybe_with_cfg()` | Step scheduler with PP sync   | Runs scheduler on the last PP rank, returns updated latents to rank 0           |
+| `_sync_pp_send()`                 | Flush pending async sends     | Waits for outstanding `isend` handles before later collectives or decode        |
+
+`PipelineParallelMixin` is intentionally a pipeline-level abstraction. Your model-specific `predict_noise()` still
+defines how a local stage executes.
+
+### How It Works
+
+`predict_noise_maybe_with_cfg()` automatically switches between these modes:
+
+- **PP disabled** (`pipeline_parallel_size == 1`):
+    - Falls back to `CFGParallelMixin.predict_noise_maybe_with_cfg()`
+- **PP only** (`pipeline_parallel_size > 1`, `cfg_parallel_size == 1`):
+    - Rank 0 starts with the input latents
+    - Middle ranks receive `intermediate_tensors`, run their local layer range, and asynchronously send downstream
+    - The last rank returns the final noise prediction
+    - When CFG is enabled in this mode (sequential CFG), both the positive and negative branches run through the same
+      PP pipeline, doubling the communication volume per denoising step. Prefer PP + CFG-Parallel when
+      `cfg_parallel_size > 1` is available to avoid this overhead.
+- **PP + CFG-Parallel** (`pipeline_parallel_size > 1`, `cfg_parallel_size > 1`):
+    - Each PP pipeline carries one CFG branch
+    - The last PP rank all-gathers across the CFG group
+    - CFG combination happens on every last PP rank in the CFG group, matching the non-PP CFG-parallel behavior
+
+`scheduler_step_maybe_with_cfg()` keeps the denoising loop consistent:
+
+- **PP disabled**:
+    - Falls back to `scheduler_step_maybe_with_cfg()`
+- **PP enabled**:
+    - Only the last PP rank has `noise_pred` and runs the scheduler step
+    - The resulting latents are sent back to rank 0
+    - Rank 0 receives an `AsyncLatents` wrapper that resolves only when the tensor is next consumed
+
+This asynchronous design avoids unnecessary blocking between denoising steps.
+
+When a pipeline class is defined, `PipelineParallelMixin` wraps its `diffuse()` method and calls `_sync_pp_send()` in a
+`finally` block after `diffuse()` returns or raises. This keeps model code free of explicit PP cleanup while still
+ensuring that the final non-blocking PP send completes before decode or later collectives.
+
+---
+
+## Step-by-Step Implementation
+
+### Step 1: Inherit `PipelineParallelMixin` and `CFGParallelMixin`
+
+`PipelineParallelMixin` **requires** `CFGParallelMixin` and must appear before it in the class MRO. This is enforced at
+class definition time via `__init_subclass__`: defining a pipeline that inherits `PipelineParallelMixin` without
+`CFGParallelMixin`, or after `CFGParallelMixin`, raises a `TypeError` immediately on import.
+
+`PipelineParallelMixin` delegates noise prediction, CFG combination, and scheduler stepping to `CFGParallelMixin`, which
+supplies `predict_noise()`, `predict_noise_maybe_with_cfg()`, `scheduler_step_maybe_with_cfg()`, and
+`combine_cfg_noise()`.
+
+**Example:**
+
+```python
+from vllm_omni.diffusion.distributed.cfg_parallel import CFGParallelMixin
+from vllm_omni.diffusion.distributed.pipeline_parallel import PipelineParallelMixin
+import torch.nn as nn
+
+
+class YourPipeline(nn.Module, PipelineParallelMixin, CFGParallelMixin):
+    ...
+```
+
+The order matters: `PipelineParallelMixin` must be listed before `CFGParallelMixin` so calls to
+`predict_noise_maybe_with_cfg()` and `scheduler_step_maybe_with_cfg()` resolve to the PP-aware wrappers, while their
+`super()` calls delegate to the CFG implementation when PP is disabled or after the last PP stage.
+
+### Step 2: Make model forward and `predict_noise()` PP-aware
+
+The PP mixin injects `intermediate_tensors` into the normal `predict_noise()` call. Your model forward path must support
+two inputs:
+
+- Normal input from rank 0, typically passed as `hidden_states` or `x`
+- `intermediate_tensors` from upstream PP ranks
+
+The standard model forward pattern is:
+
+1. If `intermediate_tensors` is present, read the local hidden state from it.
+2. Run only this rank's layer slice.
+3. Return `IntermediateTensors(...)` on non-last PP ranks.
+4. Return the final model output on the last PP rank. `CFGParallelMixin.predict_noise()` already follows this contract
+   for common pipelines.
+
+**Minimal example:**
+
+```python
+from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors
+from vllm_omni.diffusion.distributed.parallel_state import get_pp_group
+
+
+def forward(self, hidden_states=None, intermediate_tensors=None, **kwargs):
+    if intermediate_tensors is not None:
+        hidden_states = intermediate_tensors["hidden_states"]
+
+    for i in range(self.start_layer, self.end_layer):
+        hidden_states = self.layers[i](hidden_states)
+
+    pp_group = get_pp_group()
+    if not pp_group.is_last_rank:
+        return IntermediateTensors({"hidden_states": hidden_states})
+    return (hidden_states,)
+```
+
+### Step 3: Partition the transformer layers
+
+The local module on each PP rank must expose only that rank's layer slice. In the reference tests and vLLM model
+implementations, this is typically done with vLLM utilities such as `make_layers(...)`, which fill missing ranges with
+`PPMissingLayer`. Besides partitioning the layers themselves, model authors should also wire
+`make_empty_intermediate_tensors_factory(...)` for intermediate tensor allocation and `is_pp_missing_parameter(...)` for
+PP-aware weight loading.
+
+To prepare a transformer for PP, implement the following pieces in order.
+
+#### 3.1 Split the transformer layers across PP ranks
+
+Each PP rank should own only its local layer range, typically exposed as `[start_layer, end_layer)`. In practice this is
+usually done with `make_layers(...)`, which constructs local layers and fills missing ranges with `PPMissingLayer`.
+
+The goal is:
+
+- every PP rank knows its `[start_layer, end_layer)` range
+- non-local layers do not execute on this rank
+- the forward can resume from incoming `intermediate_tensors`
+
+By default, layers are distributed evenly across PP ranks using `get_pp_indices()`. When the number of layers is not
+divisible by the PP size, remaining layers are assigned to middle partitions to balance compute and memory. You can
+override this with the `VLLM_PP_LAYER_PARTITION` environment variable to specify an exact per-rank layer count:
+
+```bash
+# Example: 40 layers across 4 PP ranks, assigning 8 / 12 / 12 / 8 layers
+export VLLM_PP_LAYER_PARTITION=8,12,12,8
+```
+
+The value must be a comma-separated list of integers whose length equals `pipeline_parallel_size` and whose sum equals
+the total number of transformer layers.
+
+#### 3.2 Expose `make_empty_intermediate_tensors`
+
+Your transformer module should expose `self.make_empty_intermediate_tensors`, typically created with
+`make_empty_intermediate_tensors_factory(...)`.
+
+This is important because PP ranks need a consistent way to allocate placeholder `IntermediateTensors` with the expected
+keys and hidden dimension.
+
+**Example:**
+
+```python
+from vllm.model_executor.models.utils import make_empty_intermediate_tensors_factory
+
+self.make_empty_intermediate_tensors = make_empty_intermediate_tensors_factory(
+    ["hidden_states"],
+    inner_dim,
+)
+```
+
+For Wan2.2, the intermediate payload between PP stages is the token sequence stored under `"hidden_states"`, so the
+factory is created with that key and the transformer hidden size.
+
+#### 3.3 Return `IntermediateTensors` on non-last PP ranks
+
+Your model `forward()` or custom `predict_noise()` implementation should consume `intermediate_tensors` on non-first
+ranks and return `IntermediateTensors(...)` on non-last ranks.
+
+This lets each PP stage resume from the upstream hidden states and pass the local result to the next stage.
+
+#### 3.4 Skip non-local weights during `load_weights()`
+
+When a model is PP-partitioned, many parameters in the checkpoint belong to layers that do not exist on the current
+rank. `load_weights()` must therefore skip parameters for missing PP stages using `is_pp_missing_parameter(...)`.
+
+If this is not done, weight loading will either fail or incorrectly try to load tensors into `PPMissingLayer`
+placeholders.
+
+The Wan2.2 transformer is the best reference here: it uses `is_pp_missing_parameter(...)` before loading both remapped
+and fused parameters.
+
+If your model has multiple transformer variants, PP still works as long as each selected transformer obeys the same
+contract.
+
+### Step 4: Use the standard denoising contract
+
+vLLM-Omni diffusion pipelines already route denoising through `diffuse()`, `predict_noise_maybe_with_cfg()`, and
+`scheduler_step_maybe_with_cfg()`. `PipelineParallelMixin` overrides those standard helpers when
+`pipeline_parallel_size > 1`, so model integrations should not add separate PP-specific helper names or manual post-loop
+synchronization.
+
+In PP mode:
+
+- Non-last PP ranks return `None` from `predict_noise_maybe_with_cfg()` after sending `IntermediateTensors` downstream.
+- The last PP rank returns the final prediction, and with CFG-Parallel every last PP rank in the CFG group receives the
+  combined result.
+- Rank 0 receives `AsyncLatents` from `scheduler_step_maybe_with_cfg()`, which resolves only when the latents are
+  consumed.
+- Pending non-blocking sends are flushed automatically when `diffuse()` exits.
+
+---
+
+## Testing
+
+Use an offline inference script with `pipeline_parallel_size > 1`.
+
+```bash
+python examples/offline_inference/text_to_video/text_to_video.py \
+--model=Wan-AI/Wan2.2-TI2V-5B-Diffusers \
+--width=1280 \
+--height=704 \
+--guidance-scale=5.0 \
+--prompt="Two anthropomorphic cats in comfy boxing gear and bright gloves fight intensely on a spotlighted stage" \
+--output=t2v_5B_pp2.mp4 \
+--pipeline-parallel-size=2
+```
+
+For PP + CFG-Parallel together:
+
+```bash
+python examples/offline_inference/text_to_video/text_to_video.py \
+--model=Wan-AI/Wan2.2-TI2V-5B-Diffusers \
+--width=1280 \
+--height=704 \
+--guidance-scale=5.0 \
+--prompt="Two anthropomorphic cats in comfy boxing gear and bright gloves fight intensely on a spotlighted stage" \
+--output=t2v_5B_pp2_cfg2.mp4 \
+--pipeline-parallel-size=2 \
+--cfg-parallel-size=2
+```
+
+**Verify:**
+
+1. The run completes without hangs at the PP stage boundary
+2. Output quality matches the non-PP baseline within normal numerical variance
+3. Peak memory per GPU drops compared with the single-rank model
+4. There are no outstanding communication errors before decode
+
+---
+
+## Troubleshooting
+
+### Issue: `TypeError` on import — `CFGParallelMixin` missing
+
+**Symptoms:** Importing a pipeline that inherits `PipelineParallelMixin` raises:
+
+```
+TypeError: YourPipeline inherits PipelineParallelMixin but not CFGParallelMixin.
+```
+
+or:
+
+```
+TypeError: YourPipeline must inherit PipelineParallelMixin before CFGParallelMixin ...
+```
+
+**Cause:** `PipelineParallelMixin` enforces via `__init_subclass__` that the subclass also inherits `CFGParallelMixin`
+and lists `PipelineParallelMixin` first in the MRO.
+
+**Solution:** Add `CFGParallelMixin` to the pipeline's base classes after `PipelineParallelMixin`:
+
+```python
+from vllm_omni.diffusion.distributed.cfg_parallel import CFGParallelMixin
+from vllm_omni.diffusion.distributed.pipeline_parallel import PipelineParallelMixin
+
+
+class YourPipeline(nn.Module, PipelineParallelMixin, CFGParallelMixin):
+    ...
+```
+
+### Issue: Non-last PP ranks crash when calling `predict_noise`
+
+**Symptoms:** Shape or missing-input errors on ranks other than the first or last PP rank.
+
+**Cause:** The model forward path assumes direct input tensors and ignores `intermediate_tensors`.
+
+**Solution:** Update the transformer `forward()` or custom `predict_noise()` path to load hidden states from
+`intermediate_tensors` when present.
+
+### Issue: PP outputs differ from single-GPU baseline
+
+**Symptoms:** The PP run finishes but produces numerically inconsistent outputs.
+
+**Causes & Solutions:**
+
+- **Local layer partitioning is wrong**
+    - Verify each rank runs only its `[start_layer, end_layer)` slice
+- **Non-last ranks return a plain tensor instead of `IntermediateTensors`**
+    - Return `IntermediateTensors({...})` until the last PP stage
+- **CFG branch wiring is incorrect**
+    - When CFG is enabled, confirm positive and negative kwargs are passed exactly as in the non-PP path
+
+---
+
+## Reference Implementations
+
+Complete examples in the codebase:
+
+| Component               | Path                                                       | Notes                                                                                                                   |
+|-------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| `PipelineParallelMixin` | `vllm_omni/diffusion/distributed/pipeline_parallel.py`     | Core PP communication and scheduler helpers                                                                             |
+| `CFGParallelMixin`      | `vllm_omni/diffusion/distributed/cfg_parallel.py`          | Default `predict_noise()` tuple normalization and CFG helper fallback                                                   |
+| Wan2.2 transformer      | `vllm_omni/diffusion/models/wan2_2/wan2_2_transformer.py`  | Reference for layer partitioning, `IntermediateTensors`, `make_empty_intermediate_tensors`, and PP-aware weight loading |
+| Wan2.2 T2V pipeline     | `vllm_omni/diffusion/models/wan2_2/pipeline_wan2_2.py`     | Reference PP + CFG integration for text-to-video                                                                        |
+| Wan2.2 I2V pipeline     | `vllm_omni/diffusion/models/wan2_2/pipeline_wan2_2_i2v.py` | Reference PP + CFG integration for image-to-video                                                                       |
+| PP tests                | `tests/diffusion/distributed/test_pipeline_parallel.py`    | Baseline parity and async communication tests                                                                           |
@@ -448,6 +448,42 @@ Complete examples in the codebase:

 ---

+## Spatially-Sharded Decode (Wan)
+
+The tile-parallel executor above assigns independent spatial **tiles** to ranks. The Wan VAE additionally supports a **spatially-sharded decode** backend, selected through `DiffusionParallelConfig.vae_parallel_mode` (`"spatial_shard_height"` or `"spatial_shard_width"`; default is `"tile"`).
+
+### How it differs from tile parallel
+
+| Aspect | Tile parallel (`"tile"`) | Spatially-sharded (`"spatial_shard_height"`/`"spatial_shard_width"`) |
+|--------|--------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
+| Unit of work | Independent overlapping tiles | A single global feature map sharded along H or W |
+| Cross-rank communication | Gather tiles to rank 0, stitch + blend | Per-conv **halo exchange** of boundary rows/cols (P2P) |
+| Output assembly | Blend overlapping tiles | All-gather shards on rank 0, trim padding (matches `broadcast_result=False`) |
+| Scope | Decode + encode | Decode only |
+
+Spatial-shard decode swaps the decoder's spatial convolutions/padding for halo-exchanging variants (`WanDistConv2d`, `WanDistCausalConv3d`, `WanDistZeroPad2d`) so each rank only holds a shard of the activations but still sees the correct receptive field at shard boundaries. Implementation lives in `vllm_omni/diffusion/distributed/autoencoders/wan_spatial_shard.py`.
+
+### Wiring
+
+`vae_parallel_mode` flows through the same path as `vae_patch_parallel_size`:
+
+```text
+serve.py (--vae-parallel-mode) / OmniEngineArgs
+  -> DiffusionParallelConfig.vae_parallel_mode
+  -> registry.py: model.vae.set_parallel_size(vae_pp_size, mode=...)
+  -> DistributedVaeExecutor.parallel_mode
+  -> DistributedAutoencoderKLWan.tiled_decode dispatch
+```
+
+`DistributedAutoencoderKLWan._spatial_shard_decode_enabled()` gates the path: it requires distributed decode to be enabled, a 5D latent, and `vae_patch_parallel_size == DiT group size`. Otherwise it logs a warning and falls back to tile-parallel decode.
+
+### Notes
+
+- The decoder is patched **in place** the first time spatial-shard decode runs and is bound to a single split dimension for the lifetime of the VAE instance.
+- Numerical correctness vs. single-GPU decode is covered by `tests/diffusion/distributed/test_wan_spatial_shard.py::test_spatial_shard_decode_matches_reference` (multi-GPU, nightly `full_model` + `distributed_cuda`).
+
+---
+
 ## Summary

 Adding VAE Patch Parallel support to diffusion model:
@@ -11,8 +11,13 @@ This section contains design documents and architecture specifications for vLLM-
 - [Disaggregated Inference](feature/disaggregated_inference.md)
 - [Ray-based Execution](feature/ray_based_execution.md)
 - [Adding Step Execution Support for Diffusion Pipelines](feature/diffusion_step_execution.md)
+- [Request-Level Batching for Diffusion](feature/diffusion_request_level_batching.md)
 - [Continuous Batching for Step-Wise Diffusion](feature/diffusion_continuous_batching.md)

+## Infrastructure Design Documents
+
+- [Prometheus Metrics](metrics.md)
+
 ## Module Design Documents

 - [AR Module](module/ar_module.md)
@@ -0,0 +1,208 @@
+# Prometheus Metrics Design
+
+This document describes how vLLM-Omni exposes Prometheus metrics for multi-stage pipelines, the constraints that shaped the design, and how the pipeline-level metrics coexist with upstream vLLM per-engine metrics. This iteration covers the text and audio surface; diffusion / image / video families land in a follow-up.
+
+## Objectives
+
+- Expose pipeline-level request and latency metrics that span the full multi-stage execution (orchestrator scope).
+- Preserve all upstream vLLM per-engine metrics (`vllm:*`) for stages backed by an AR LLM engine, and reshape their `engine` label into `stage` + `replica` so multi-replica deployments gain per-replica visibility automatically.
+- Expose per-modality SLO metrics that the upstream `vllm:*` families do not capture — audio TTFP / RTF / duration / frames / streaming continuity / silent-loss.
+- Expose per-replica-edge cross-stage transfer metrics so the slack between E2E latency and the sum of per-stage `gen_time` (queueing, serialization, network) becomes attributable.
+- Keep the metrics collection overhead low enough that it does not regress TTFA or throughput.
+
+## Background
+
+### Upstream vLLM Metrics
+
+Upstream vLLM defines ~37 Prometheus metric families under the `vllm:` prefix. These are registered by `PrometheusStatLogger` and cover engine-level state: KV cache usage, running/waiting request counts, token throughput, TTFT, inter-token latency, e2e latency, and so on. They are served via the `/metrics` HTTP endpoint provided by `prometheus_fastapi_instrumentator` and the default `prometheus_client` WSGI handler.
+
+vLLM's `unregister_vllm_metrics()` function strips every `prometheus_client` collector whose `_name` attribute contains the substring `"vllm"`. This runs during engine initialization to clean up stale collectors from prior instantiations within the same process.
+
+### The Problem
+
+vLLM-Omni runs multiple engine instances (stages × replicas) within a single process, coordinated by an Orchestrator. The pipeline needs its own metrics — aggregate request counts, end-to-end latency across all stages, per-modality SLO signals, and cross-stage transfer attribution — that do not exist in upstream vLLM. All pipeline-level metrics use the `vllm:omni_` prefix to distinguish them from upstream per-engine metrics. At import time (see `vllm_omni/patch.py`) we replace `unregister_vllm_metrics()` with a scoped version that still strips upstream `vllm:*` collectors before each new `PrometheusStatLogger` registers (so multi-engine processes don't crash on duplicate registration), but preserves anything prefixed `vllm:omni_` / `vllm_omni`.
+
+Upstream per-engine metrics retain the `vllm:` prefix but are now registered by `OmniPrometheusStatLogger`, a thin subclass of upstream's `PrometheusStatLogger` that reshapes the single `engine` label into a `stage` + `replica` pair (see "OmniPrometheusStatLogger wrap" below).
+
+## Architecture
+
+### Component Overview
+
+```text
+                       +------------------------+
+                       |  API Server (FastAPI)  |
+                       |   GET /metrics         |
+                       +-----------+------------+
+                                   |
+                  prometheus_client default registry
+                                   |
+        +--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
+        |                                            |
+   vllm:omni_*                                    vllm:*
+   collectors                                  collectors
+        |                                            |
+   +----+--------+   +-----------+   +----------+   +-----------+
+   | OmniPromet- |   | OmniMod-  |   | OmniTra- |   | OmniProm- |
+   | heusMetrics |   | alityMet- |   | nsferMe- |   | etheusSt- |
+   |             |   | rics      |   | trics    |   | atLogger  |
+   +----+--------+   +-----+-----+   +----+-----+   +----+------+
+        |                  |              |              |
+     OmniBase           OmniBase     Orchestrator    Orchestrator
+   (request life-     (finalize +   (record_trans-  (per-(stage,
+    cycle, success/    streaming     fer_tx/rx        replica)
+    fail counter)      hooks via     hooks via        scheduler/
+                       observe_*     emit hook in     iteration
+                       APIs)         OrchestratorAg-  stats)
+                                     gregator)
+```
+
+### Data Flow
+
+There are four independent paths for metric collection.
+
+**Path 1: Pipeline-level metrics (`vllm:omni_*`)**
+
+`OmniPrometheusMetrics` registers the Gauge / Counter / Histogram collectors at import time. It is instantiated once per entrypoint, labeled with the model name. The entrypoint calls its methods as requests progress:
+
+- `set_running(n)` / `set_waiting(n)` — updated after each request completes. The running count comes from `OmniRequestCounter`, a simple counter incremented/decremented by the Orchestrator as it tracks requests. Waiting is derived as `total - running`.
+- `request_succeeded(e2e_seconds, finished_reason="stop")` — recorded when a request finishes at the final stage. `finished_reason` is extracted from `engine_outputs.outputs[0].finish_reason` (vLLM `CompletionOutput` convention) and increments `vllm:omni_requests_success_total{finished_reason}`.
+- `request_failed()` — recorded by the cleanup path when a request exits without natural completion. Internally maps to `finished_reason="abort"` so a single Counter family covers both natural and aborted completion.
+
+**Path 2: Audio modality metrics (`vllm:omni_audio_*`)**
+
+`OmniModalityMetrics` registers seven audio families with `{model_name, stage, replica}` (plus an extra `threshold_ms` / `reason` label on the two extra-cardinality Counters). Three observation sites:
+
+- `observe_modality_at_finalize(...)` — called from `omni_base._process_single_result` inside the existing `e2e_done` finalize guard. For `output_type == "audio"` it emits `audio_frames_total`, `audio_duration_s`, `audio_rtf` (or `audio_skipped_requests_total{reason="no_audio_data"}` when no audio was produced). Sample rate is resolved from `engine_outputs.multimodal_output` via `definitions.resolve_audio_sample_rate(...)` (fallback chain mirrors `serving_chat.py`'s audio response path).
+- `observe_audio_first_packet(...)` — called from the OpenAI SSE audio branch in `serving_chat.py` on the first audio packet for a request. The once-per-request guard is held by `ClientRequestState.first_audio_ts`. The `request_arrival_ts` anchor is stored in `ClientRequestState` by `async_omni.generate()`, computed at request entry.
+- `observe_audio_streaming_finalize(...)` — called from `serving_chat.py` after the streaming chunk loop exhausts. It runs the per-chunk player simulation from `vllm_omni/benchmarks/audio_continuity.py` to compute the worst-case underrun and emits `audio_underrun_s` plus (when the request stayed below the threshold) `audio_continuity_ok_total{threshold_ms}`. Per-chunk PCM byte counts and arrival timestamps are recorded by the same audio branch that updates `first_audio_ts`.
+
+**Path 3: Cross-stage transfer metrics (`vllm:omni_transfer_*`)**
+
+`OmniTransferMetrics` registers four Histogram families with `{model_name, from_stage, from_replica, to_stage, to_replica}` labels. Each observation corresponds to one physical transfer hop (one chunk between adjacent stages), not the per-request accumulated total — so the histograms track per-transfer distribution.
+
+The hook lives in `OrchestratorAggregator.record_transfer_tx` and `record_transfer_rx`. After the existing `TransferEdgeStats` accumulation, the aggregator calls `_emit_transfer_tx` / `_emit_transfer_rx`. Those:
+
+1. Resolve `from_replica` / `to_replica` via a `replica_resolver` callback supplied by `async_omni.py`. The resolver delegates to `stage_pool.get_bound_replica_id(request_id)` — i.e. the orchestrator's existing sticky-routing binding is the source of truth.
+2. Convert the underlying `_ms` accumulators to seconds and call the `_s`-suffixed observe methods on `OmniTransferMetrics`.
+
+Defensive fail-safe: if `transfer_emitter` or `replica_resolver` is missing, or the resolver returns `None` for either side, the emit is skipped silently (the underlying `TransferEdgeStats` accumulation is unaffected).
+
+**Path 4: Per-engine metrics (`vllm:*`, stage/replica wrap)**
+
+The Orchestrator instantiates `OmniPrometheusStatLogger` (a thin subclass of upstream `vllm.v1.metrics.loggers.PrometheusStatLogger`) and feeds it scheduler stats and iteration stats after processing each batch of engine outputs. This populates the standard ~37 vLLM metric families (TTFT, ITL, TPOT, KV cache usage, etc.) using the same upstream code path — but with the `engine` label reshaped into `stage` + `replica` so multi-replica deployments produce distinct series per replica. See the next section for the wrap mechanics.
+
+### Shared State Between Threads
+
+The Orchestrator runs in a background thread. The API server (OmniBase) runs in the asyncio event loop thread. `OmniRequestCounter` bridges them — a plain Python object with an `int` field. The Orchestrator increments/decrements it; the entrypoint reads it for gauge updates. No lock is needed because the counter is advisory (a stale read by one Prometheus scrape interval is acceptable). It is created by `AsyncOmniEngine.__init__()` and passed to the Orchestrator at construction time.
+
+### Metric Registration and Lifecycle
+
+All `vllm:omni_*` collectors are registered once when their owning class (`OmniPrometheusMetrics` / `OmniModalityMetrics` / `OmniTransferMetrics`) is imported. Per-`(stage, replica)` labels are bound lazily on first observation to avoid registering label sets for combinations that never produce data.
+
+The `prometheus_client` default registry holds all collectors. FastAPI's `/metrics` endpoint serves the default registry, so `vllm:omni_*` and the wrapped `vllm:*` metrics appear in the same scrape response alongside `http_*` and `process_*` metrics from the instrumentator and the Python client runtime.
+
+## OmniPrometheusStatLogger Wrap
+
+Upstream `PrometheusStatLogger.__init__` hard-codes `labelnames = ["model_name", "engine"]` as a local variable, references it across ~37 metric-family construction sites, and uses the `engine` label value in five different `.labels()` call shapes (kwarg with int engine, kwarg with str engine, positional with str engine in the middle, plus a `metrics_info["engine"] = str(...)` dict pattern). To reshape `engine` into `stage` + `replica` without forking the entire upstream `__init__`, the wrap uses three coordinated mechanisms:
+
+1. **Class-level metric class slot overrides.** `OmniPrometheusStatLogger` overrides `_gauge_cls`, `_counter_cls`, `_histogram_cls` (which upstream calls via `self._gauge_cls(...)` etc.) with `_RelabelGauge` / `_RelabelCounter` / `_RelabelHistogram` wrapper classes. These intercept the `labelnames` kwarg at metric family creation time and replace `engine` with `("stage", "replica")`.
+2. **Property descriptor for `per_engine_labelvalues`.** Upstream builds `self.per_engine_labelvalues = {idx: [model_name, str(idx)]}` inside `__init__` and then captures it into a local variable for `create_metric_per_engine` calls. By making `per_engine_labelvalues` a Python property on the subclass, the setter intercepts upstream's assignment and rewrites each 2-tuple into a 3-tuple `[model_name, stage, replica]` using the `stage_replica_map` supplied at construction time. The captured local then sees the rewritten dict.
+3. **Override of `.labels()` on the wrapper classes.** For the five call sites that pass `engine` directly (kwarg or positional, int or str), `_RelabelMixin.labels()` translates the engine value back to `(stage, replica)` via a process-level `_ENGINE_INDEX_MAP` populated by `OmniPrometheusStatLogger.__init__`. This handles `gauge_engine_sleep_state.labels(engine=idx, ...)`, `counter_request_success_base.labels(model_name, str(idx), str(reason))`, `info_gauge.labels(**metrics_info)`, etc.
+
+The three sub-helpers that upstream `PrometheusStatLogger.__init__` constructs (`spec_decoding_prom` / `kv_connector_prom` / `perf_metrics_prom`) use their own `_counter_cls` / `_gauge_cls` / `_histogram_cls` slots and would otherwise build families with the raw 2-element labelnames. `_OmniPerfMetricsProm` / `_OmniSpecDecodingProm` / `_OmniKVConnectorProm` subclass each helper to route the same relabel mixin through their internal family construction.
+
+The `Orchestrator` constructs `stage_replica_map` from the static `stage_pools` configuration at startup:
+
+```python
+stage_replica_map = {
+    flat_idx: (str(stage_id), str(replica_id))
+    for flat_idx, (stage_id, replica_id) in enumerate(
+        (s, r)
+        for s, pool in enumerate(stage_pools)
+        for r in range(pool.num_replicas)
+    )
+}
+```
+
+A reverse map `(stage_id, replica_id) -> flat_idx` is maintained on the Orchestrator so the per-replica `record(engine_idx=...)` call site can look up the right flat index.
+
+> Dynamic add/remove of replicas at runtime is intentionally out of scope — the upstream `PrometheusStatLogger` materializes per-engine_idx child metrics at init time, and supporting hot-add would require non-trivial intervention into upstream's per-family child dictionaries.
+
+## Gating: `--log-stats`
+
+All metrics — both the 15 `vllm:omni_*` families and the ~65 upstream `vllm:*` wrap families — are gated by the user's `--log-stats` CLI flag (default off). The flag is plumbed from `OmniBase.__init__(log_stats=...)` through `AsyncOmniEngine` to the stage-spawn helpers and to the three Prometheus metric classes (`OmniPrometheusMetrics` / `OmniModalityMetrics` / `OmniTransferMetrics`), and is forwarded to `Orchestrator._init_metrics_state(...)`.
+
+Behavior with `--log-stats=off` (default):
+
+- The three `Omni*Metrics` classes register their module-level Gauge / Counter / Histogram families at import time (prometheus_client requires up-front registration), but each `observe / inc / set` method early-returns. The per-label child series for `vllm:omni_*` stay materialized but never have data written to them.
+- `OmniPrometheusStatLogger` is not constructed in `_init_metrics_state`, so the ~65 upstream `vllm:*` wrap families are not registered in the default registry at all.
+- The engine core's `Scheduler.make_stats()` also short-circuits inside upstream (`if not self.log_stats: return None`), so no `SchedulerStats` is produced per step — the per-iteration cost is bounded by the existing upstream gate.
+
+Behavior with `--log-stats=on`: all metric paths fire normally; the orchestrator's per-replica recording is bounded only by `OmniSchedulerMixin.make_stats()`'s per-scheduler 1 Hz throttle (see next section).
+
+The overhead with the flag on is small enough that an A/B benchmark on Qwen3-Omni-30B single replica (30 sequential audio requests) showed a mean latency delta of +0.6% (Welch's t = 0.318, n=30, not statistically significant at α=0.05); the `/metrics` line count drops from 1358 to 124 lines when the flag is off.
+
+## Throttling: `make_stats()` Override
+
+Upstream vLLM's `Scheduler.make_stats()` runs on every AR generation step, returning a SchedulerStats object for the orchestrator. Under vLLM's architecture, this is fine. But since vLLM-Omni requires that the object be serialized and transferred over ZMQ, receiving a SchedulerStats object on every step can introduce unacceptable overhead to the system.
+
+`OmniSchedulerMixin.make_stats()` (in `vllm_omni/core/sched/omni_scheduler_mixin.py`) throttles stats emission to at most once per second **per scheduler** — i.e. per `(stage, replica)` since each replica owns its own scheduler instance. Between intervals it returns `None`, which the engine core skips serializing. This keeps gauges fresh enough for Prometheus scrapes (typically 15-30s intervals) while eliminating the per-step overhead.
+
+The orchestrator side does not add its own throttle on top: the per-replica recording loop gates only on `raw_outputs.scheduler_stats is not None` (i.e. this replica's scheduler passed its own 1 Hz gate). A previous global `_last_stats_ts` on the orchestrator was removed because it starved every replica other than the first to emit within each second.
+
+## Metric Definitions
+
+### Pipeline (4)
+
+| Metric | Type | Labels | Description |
+|--------|------|--------|-------------|
+| `vllm:omni_num_requests_running` | Gauge | `model_name` | Requests currently executing across all stages |
+| `vllm:omni_num_requests_waiting` | Gauge | `model_name` | Requests queued but not yet scheduled |
+| `vllm:omni_requests_success_total` | Counter | `model_name`, `finished_reason` | Total requests by completion reason ({stop, length, abort, ...}); aborts cover client-disconnect / cancellation paths in addition to upstream `FinishReason.ABORT` |
+| `vllm:omni_e2e_request_latency_s` | Histogram | `model_name` | Pipeline-global end-to-end latency in seconds |
+
+### Audio (7)
+
+Labels: `{model_name, stage, replica}` plus the listed extra label.
+
+| Metric | Type | Extra label | Description |
+|--------|------|-------------|-------------|
+| `vllm:omni_audio_ttfp_s` | Histogram | — | Time from request arrival to first audio packet/frame |
+| `vllm:omni_audio_duration_s` | Histogram | — | Audio content duration (`audio_frames / sample_rate`) |
+| `vllm:omni_audio_rtf` | Histogram | — | Real-time factor `stage_gen_time_s / audio_duration_s` (SLO `< 1`); uses `RTF_BUCKETS` |
+| `vllm:omni_audio_frames_total` | Counter | — | Cumulative audio frames generated |
+| `vllm:omni_audio_underrun_s` | Histogram | — | Per-request worst-case player deficit; `> 0` indicates listener heard silent gaps |
+| `vllm:omni_audio_continuity_ok_total` | Counter | `threshold_ms` | Incremented when the request's worst underrun stayed below `threshold_ms` |
+| `vllm:omni_audio_skipped_requests_total` | Counter | `reason` | Silent-loss counter — code2wav rejected malformed codec input and returned `200 OK` with empty audio |
+
+### Cross-stage transfer (4)
+
+Labels: `{model_name, from_stage, from_replica, to_stage, to_replica}`.
+
+| Metric | Type | Description |
+|--------|------|-------------|
+| `vllm:omni_transfer_size_bytes` | Histogram | Per-transfer payload size in bytes |
+| `vllm:omni_transfer_tx_s` | Histogram | Sender-side time (serialize + submit to connector) |
+| `vllm:omni_transfer_rx_s` | Histogram | Receiver-side time (recv + deserialize) |
+| `vllm:omni_transfer_in_flight_s` | Histogram | Network in-flight time (TX done → RX recv start) |
+
+### LLM stage-level (wrapped `vllm:*`)
+
+After the wrap, every upstream `vllm:*` family — TTFT, ITL, TPOT, e2e latency, KV cache usage, scheduler running/waiting, request success counts, etc. — carries `{model_name, stage, replica}` labels. For the full upstream catalog see [the vLLM docs](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/main/docs/usage/metrics.md); note that metrics depending on features unsupported in vLLM-Omni (e.g. speculative decoding, LoRA) will not be available.
+
+## Naming Convention
+
+- All time-bearing metrics use the `_s` suffix (values in seconds). Two bucket families are used:
+  - `SECONDS_BUCKETS` (0.05 s – 300 s) for e2e / generation / TTFP style values.
+  - `SECONDS_FAST_BUCKETS` (0.001 s – 60 s) for fine-grained cross-stage transfer and audio-underrun values that need millisecond-level resolution.
+- Counters use the `_total` suffix (auto-appended by `prometheus_client`).
+- Sizes use the `_bytes` suffix.
+- All omni-specific families are prefixed `vllm:omni_`. The upstream `unregister_vllm_metrics()` function is monkey-patched to a scoped version that still strips upstream `vllm:*` collectors (so multi-engine init within one process does not crash on duplicate registration) but preserves anything prefixed `vllm:omni_` / `vllm_omni`.
+
+## Logging vs. Prometheus
+
+`OrchestratorAggregator` (in `vllm_omni/metrics/stats.py`) is the logging-oriented metrics path. It collects detailed per-request, per-stage, and per-transfer statistics and prints formatted tables to the `INFO` log. This is designed for development and debugging — individual request traces, transfer bandwidth, inter-stage timing.
+
+`OmniPrometheusMetrics` / `OmniModalityMetrics` / `OmniTransferMetrics` form the Prometheus-oriented path. They record aggregate counters, gauges, and histograms suitable for time-series monitoring and alerting. Both paths share the same source data (`StageRequestStats`, `TransferEdgeStats`) — `OrchestratorAggregator.record_transfer_tx/rx` in particular calls both the existing accumulator code and the Prometheus emit hook in the same method body. The two consumption models can run simultaneously without coupling.
+
+The separation follows upstream vLLM's pattern of `LoggingStatLogger` vs. `PrometheusStatLogger` — same underlying data, different consumption models.
@@ -169,15 +169,13 @@ class DiffusionRequestStatus(enum.IntEnum):

@dataclass
 class DiffusionRequestState:
-    sched_req_id: str
+    request_id: str
    req: OmniDiffusionRequest
    status: DiffusionRequestStatus = DiffusionRequestStatus.WAITING
 ```

 **Design Features**:

- **Scheduler-owned ID**: Each `OmniDiffusionRequest` is tracked by an internal `sched_req_id`, separated from public `request_id` values.
-
 - **Explicit lifecycle**: Requests move through waiting, running, optional preemption, and terminal states.

 - **Centralized error handling**: Completion, abort, and error states are all normalized in the scheduler layer.
@@ -188,7 +186,6 @@ class DiffusionRequestState:
 class _BaseScheduler(SchedulerInterface):
    def __init__(self) -> None:
        self._request_states = {}
-        self._request_id_to_sched_req_id = {}
        self._waiting = deque()
        self._running = []
        self._finished_req_ids = set()
@@ -199,9 +196,10 @@ class _BaseScheduler(SchedulerInterface):

 - **Common state storage**: Shared request maps and waiting/running sets live in the base class.

- **Shared cleanup logic**: Request-id registration, finish handling, and state removal are centralized instead of duplicated in each policy.
+- **Shared cleanup logic**: Duplicate-request checks, finish handling, and state removal are centralized instead of
+  duplicated in each policy.

- **Current constraint boundary**: `_BaseScheduler` derives `max_num_running_reqs` from `max_num_seqs`, but request-mode diffusion is still clamped back to `1` by the engine. The step-wise path can keep this above `1` for compatible-request batching.
+- **Current constraint boundary**: `_BaseScheduler` derives `max_num_running_reqs` from `max_num_seqs`. Request-mode diffusion can use that capacity for compatible independent requests when the configured pipeline declares `supports_request_batch = True`; step-wise diffusion uses the same scheduler capacity for compatible step batches.

 #### 2.4 Current `RequestScheduler` Policy

@@ -217,14 +215,14 @@ class RequestScheduler(_BaseScheduler):

 - **FIFO request scheduling**: Waiting requests are promoted in queue order.

- **Single-request admission**: `RequestScheduler` still admits one active request at a time because request-mode execution completes a whole request per dispatch.
+- **Compatible request admission**: `RequestScheduler` admits waiting requests while capacity remains and the request's `SamplingParamsKey` is compatible with the active batch. Request-mode execution keeps each logical request independent, while batch-capable pipelines receive the scheduled requests as a runner-side `DiffusionRequestBatch`.

- **Executor result feedback**: `update_from_output()` converts executor output into `FINISHED_COMPLETED` or `FINISHED_ERROR` and returns finished scheduler ids.
+- **Executor result feedback**: `update_from_output()` converts executor output into `FINISHED_COMPLETED` or `FINISHED_ERROR` and returns finished request ids.

 #### 2.5 Engine-Driven Execution Loop

 ```python
-sched_req_id = scheduler.add_request(request)
+request_id = scheduler.add_request(request)
 while True:
    sched_output = scheduler.schedule()
    output = executor.add_req(req)
@@ -237,7 +235,12 @@ while True:

 - **No scheduler-owned IPC**: Scheduler no longer talks to workers directly.

- **Split concurrency model**: Request-mode diffusion remains single-active-request, while the step-wise path can keep multiple compatible requests running and advance them independently between denoise steps.
+- **Split concurrency model**: Request-mode diffusion can schedule a static
+  batch of compatible independent requests for one full pipeline forward when
+  the pipeline supports request-level batching; the step-wise path can also
+  admit or remove compatible requests between denoise steps. See
+  [Request-Level Batching](../feature/diffusion_request_level_batching.md) and
+  [Continuous Batching for Step-Wise Diffusion](../feature/diffusion_continuous_batching.md).

 ---

@@ -307,8 +310,8 @@ class GPUWorker:
        )

        # Load model
-        model_loader = DiffusersPipelineLoader(load_config)
-        self.pipeline = model_loader.load_model(od_config, load_device=f"cuda:{rank}")
+        model_loader = DiffusersPipelineLoader(load_config, self.od_config)
+        self.pipeline = model_loader.load_model(load_device=f"cuda:{rank}")

        # Setup cache backend
        from vllm_omni.diffusion.cache.selector import get_cache_backend
@@ -411,6 +411,8 @@ Notes:
 - `runtime.max_batch_size` controls stage-level batching.
 - Thinker/Talker commonly use `enforce_eager: false` for CUDA Graph paths.
 - Code2Wav often remains eager (`enforce_eager: true`) depending on runtime behavior.
+- Qwen3-Omni defaults `VLLM_USE_FLASHINFER_MOE_FP16=0`. The Triton has been more stable & faster
+ than the FlashInfer CUTLASS unquantized MoE backend on recent vLLM rebases.

 #### 2) Enable async chunk