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Co-authored-by: Dipika <dipikasikka1@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Dipika Sikka <ds3822@columbia.edu>

Co-authored-by: Sage Moore <sage@neuralmagic.com>

[Core] Subclass ModelRunner to support cross-attention & encoder sequences (towards eventual encoder/decoder model support) (#4942)
Co-authored-by: Andrew Feldman <afeld2012@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Nick Hill <nickhill@us.ibm.com>

[Kernel] Correctly invoke prefill & decode kernels for cross-attention (towards eventual encoder/decoder model support) (#4888)
Co-authored-by: Woosuk Kwon <woosuk.kwon@berkeley.edu>

[Bugfix]: During testing, use pytest monkeypatch for safely overriding the env var that indicates the vLLM backend (#5210)