[Bugfix] Allow Only SDPA Backend for ViT on B200 for Qwen3-VL (#25788)

vllm/model_executor/models/qwen2_5_vl.py

@@ -274,6 +274,8 @@ class Qwen2_5_VisionAttention(nn.Module):
         quant_config: Optional[QuantizationConfig] = None,
         prefix: str = "",
         use_data_parallel: bool = False,
+        attn_backend: _Backend = _Backend.TORCH_SDPA,
+        use_upstream_fa: bool = False,
     ) -> None:
         super().__init__()
         # Per attention head and per partition values.
@@ -300,25 +302,8 @@ class Qwen2_5_VisionAttention(nn.Module):
                                       quant_config=quant_config,
                                       prefix=f"{prefix}.proj",
                                       disable_tp=use_data_parallel)
-
-        # Detect attention implementation.
-        self.attn_backend = get_vit_attn_backend(
-            head_size=self.hidden_size_per_attention_head,
-            dtype=torch.get_default_dtype())
-        self.use_upstream_fa = False
-        if self.attn_backend != _Backend.FLASH_ATTN and \
-            check_upstream_fa_availability(
-                torch.get_default_dtype()):
-            self.attn_backend = _Backend.FLASH_ATTN
-            self.use_upstream_fa = True
-
-        if self.attn_backend not in {
-                _Backend.FLASH_ATTN, _Backend.TORCH_SDPA, _Backend.XFORMERS,
-                _Backend.ROCM_AITER_FA
-        }:
-            raise RuntimeError(
-                f"Qwen2.5-VL does not support {self.attn_backend} backend now."
-            )
+        self.attn_backend = attn_backend
+        self.use_upstream_fa = use_upstream_fa
         self.is_flash_attn_backend = self.attn_backend in {
             _Backend.FLASH_ATTN, _Backend.ROCM_AITER_FA
         }
@@ -443,6 +428,8 @@ class Qwen2_5_VisionBlock(nn.Module):
         quant_config: Optional[QuantizationConfig] = None,
         prefix: str = "",
         use_data_parallel: bool = False,
+        attn_backend: _Backend = _Backend.TORCH_SDPA,
+        use_upstream_fa: bool = False,
     ) -> None:
         super().__init__()
         if norm_layer is None:
@@ -455,7 +442,9 @@ class Qwen2_5_VisionBlock(nn.Module):
             projection_size=dim,
             quant_config=quant_config,
             prefix=f"{prefix}.attn",
-            use_data_parallel=use_data_parallel)
+            use_data_parallel=use_data_parallel,
+            attn_backend=attn_backend,
+            use_upstream_fa=use_upstream_fa)
         self.mlp = Qwen2_5_VisionMLP(dim,
                                      mlp_hidden_dim,
                                      act_fn=act_fn,
@@ -627,17 +616,35 @@ class Qwen2_5_VisionTransformer(nn.Module):
         head_dim = self.hidden_size // self.num_heads
         self.rotary_pos_emb = Qwen2_5_VisionRotaryEmbedding(head_dim // 2)
 
+        use_upstream_fa = False
+        self.attn_backend = get_vit_attn_backend(
+            head_size=head_dim, dtype=torch.get_default_dtype())
+        if self.attn_backend != _Backend.FLASH_ATTN and \
+            check_upstream_fa_availability(
+                torch.get_default_dtype()):
+            self.attn_backend = _Backend.FLASH_ATTN
+            use_upstream_fa = True
+
+        if self.attn_backend not in {
+                _Backend.FLASH_ATTN, _Backend.TORCH_SDPA, _Backend.XFORMERS,
+                _Backend.ROCM_AITER_FA
+        }:
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                f"Qwen2.5-VL does not support {self.attn_backend} backend now."
+            )
+
         self.blocks = nn.ModuleList([
-            Qwen2_5_VisionBlock(dim=self.hidden_size,
-                                num_heads=self.num_heads,
-                                mlp_hidden_dim=vision_config.intermediate_size,
-                                act_fn=get_act_and_mul_fn(
-                                    vision_config.hidden_act),
-                                norm_layer=norm_layer,
-                                quant_config=quant_config,
-                                prefix=f"{prefix}.blocks.{layer_idx}",
-                                use_data_parallel=use_data_parallel)
-            for layer_idx in range(depth)
+            Qwen2_5_VisionBlock(
+                dim=self.hidden_size,
+                num_heads=self.num_heads,
+                mlp_hidden_dim=vision_config.intermediate_size,
+                act_fn=get_act_and_mul_fn(vision_config.hidden_act),
+                norm_layer=norm_layer,
+                quant_config=quant_config,
+                prefix=f"{prefix}.blocks.{layer_idx}",
+                use_data_parallel=use_data_parallel,
+                attn_backend=self.attn_backend,
+                use_upstream_fa=use_upstream_fa) for layer_idx in range(depth)
         ])
         self.merger = Qwen2_5_VisionPatchMerger(
             d_model=vision_config.out_hidden_size,
@@ -648,12 +655,6 @@ class Qwen2_5_VisionTransformer(nn.Module):
             prefix=f"{prefix}.merger",
             use_data_parallel=use_data_parallel,
         )
-        self.attn_backend = get_vit_attn_backend(
-            head_size=head_dim, dtype=torch.get_default_dtype())
-        if self.attn_backend != _Backend.FLASH_ATTN and \
-            check_upstream_fa_availability(
-                torch.get_default_dtype()):
-            self.attn_backend = _Backend.FLASH_ATTN
 
     @property
     def dtype(self) -> torch.dtype:

vllm/model_executor/models/qwen3_vl.py

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ from vllm.multimodal.processing import (BaseMultiModalProcessor,
                                         PromptReplacement, PromptUpdate,
                                         PromptUpdateDetails)
 from vllm.multimodal.profiling import BaseDummyInputsBuilder
-from vllm.platforms import _Backend
+from vllm.platforms import _Backend, current_platform
 from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors
 from vllm.transformers_utils.config import uses_mrope
 from vllm.utils import is_list_of
@@ -158,6 +158,8 @@ class Qwen3_VisionBlock(nn.Module):
         quant_config: Optional[QuantizationConfig] = None,
         prefix: str = "",
         use_data_parallel: bool = False,
+        attn_backend: _Backend = _Backend.TORCH_SDPA,
+        use_upstream_fa: bool = False,
     ) -> None:
         super().__init__()
         if norm_layer is None:
@@ -170,7 +172,9 @@ class Qwen3_VisionBlock(nn.Module):
             projection_size=dim,
             quant_config=quant_config,
             prefix=f"{prefix}.attn",
-            use_data_parallel=use_data_parallel)
+            use_data_parallel=use_data_parallel,
+            attn_backend=attn_backend,
+            use_upstream_fa=use_upstream_fa)
         self.mlp = Qwen3_VisionMLP(dim,
                                    mlp_hidden_dim,
                                    act_fn=act_fn,
@@ -287,19 +291,6 @@ class Qwen3_VisionTransformer(nn.Module):
         head_dim = self.hidden_size // self.num_heads
         self.rotary_pos_emb = Qwen2_5_VisionRotaryEmbedding(head_dim // 2)
 
-        self.blocks = nn.ModuleList([
-            Qwen3_VisionBlock(
-                dim=self.hidden_size,
-                num_heads=self.num_heads,
-                mlp_hidden_dim=vision_config.intermediate_size,
-                act_fn=_ACTIVATION_REGISTRY[vision_config.hidden_act],
-                norm_layer=norm_layer,
-                quant_config=quant_config,
-                prefix=f"{prefix}.blocks.{layer_idx}",
-                use_data_parallel=use_data_parallel)
-            for layer_idx in range(vision_config.depth)
-        ])
-
         self.merger = Qwen3_VisionPatchMerger(
             d_model=vision_config.out_hidden_size,
             context_dim=self.hidden_size,
@@ -325,10 +316,42 @@ class Qwen3_VisionTransformer(nn.Module):
 
         self.attn_backend = get_vit_attn_backend(
             head_size=head_dim, dtype=torch.get_default_dtype())
+        use_upstream_fa = False
         if self.attn_backend != _Backend.FLASH_ATTN and \
             check_upstream_fa_availability(
                 torch.get_default_dtype()):
             self.attn_backend = _Backend.FLASH_ATTN
+            use_upstream_fa = True
+
+        if self.attn_backend not in {
+                _Backend.FLASH_ATTN, _Backend.TORCH_SDPA, _Backend.XFORMERS,
+                _Backend.ROCM_AITER_FA
+        }:
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                f"Qwen3-VL does not support {self.attn_backend} backend now.")
+        if current_platform.is_device_capability(
+                100) and self.attn_backend != _Backend.TORCH_SDPA:
+            # TODO(Roger/Wentao): remove this after FA
+            # or XFORMERS's issue fixed on Blackwell
+            logger.info_once("Qwen3-VL vision attention does not support "
+                             f"{self.attn_backend} backend on Blackwell now. "
+                             "Vision attention backend is set to TORCH_SDPA.")
+            self.attn_backend = _Backend.TORCH_SDPA
+
+        self.blocks = nn.ModuleList([
+            Qwen3_VisionBlock(
+                dim=self.hidden_size,
+                num_heads=self.num_heads,
+                mlp_hidden_dim=vision_config.intermediate_size,
+                act_fn=_ACTIVATION_REGISTRY[vision_config.hidden_act],
+                norm_layer=norm_layer,
+                quant_config=quant_config,
+                prefix=f"{prefix}.blocks.{layer_idx}",
+                use_data_parallel=use_data_parallel,
+                attn_backend=self.attn_backend,
+                use_upstream_fa=use_upstream_fa)
+            for layer_idx in range(vision_config.depth)
+        ])
 
     @property
     def dtype(self) -> torch.dtype: