[misc] Revert # 12833 (#12857)

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Co-authored-by: EC2 Default User <ec2-user@ip-172-31-20-117.us-west-2.compute.internal>

vllm/inputs/preprocess.py

@@ -260,6 +260,9 @@ class InputPreprocessor:
         mm_processor = self.mm_registry.create_processor(
             self.model_config, tokenizer)
 
+        if isinstance(prompt, list):
+            prompt = tokenizer.decode(prompt)
+
         if mm_processor_kwargs is None:
             mm_processor_kwargs = {}