Fix Mistral3 retaining every vision-tower layer to read one (#39185)

Co-authored-by: Xinyuan Tong <xinyuantong.cs@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Xinyuan Tong <115166877+JustinTong0323@users.noreply.github.com>

python/sglang/srt/models/llava.py

@@ -804,16 +804,22 @@ class LlavaForConditionalGeneration(LlavaBaseForCausalLM):
         Returns:
             torch.Tensor: features from image inputs, concatenated
         """
+        # Requesting hidden states materialises one tensor per layer (~1.8 GiB per
+        # 1540px image); the plain forward returns the same tensor as the last entry.
+        last_layer_only = self.vision_feature_layer == -1
         features = []
         for item in items:
             # in each item, we assume pixel_values is always batched
             pixel_values, image_sizes = item.feature, item.image_sizes
-            image_outputs = self.vision_tower(
+            if last_layer_only:
-                pixel_values, image_sizes, output_hidden_states=True
+                selected_image_feature = self.vision_tower(pixel_values, image_sizes)
-            )
+            else:
-            selected_image_feature = image_outputs.hidden_states[
+                image_outputs = self.vision_tower(
-                self.vision_feature_layer
+                    pixel_values, image_sizes, output_hidden_states=True
-            ]
+                )
+                selected_image_feature = image_outputs.hidden_states[
+                    self.vision_feature_layer
+                ]
 
             if self.vision_feature_select_strategy in ["default", "patch"]:
                 selected_image_feature = selected_image_feature[:, 1:]

python/sglang/srt/models/mistral.py

@@ -115,16 +115,22 @@ class Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration:
         Returns:
             torch.Tensor: features from image inputs, concatenated
         """
+        # Requesting hidden states materialises one tensor per layer (~1.8 GiB per
+        # 1540px image); the plain forward returns the same tensor as the last entry.
+        last_layer_only = self.vision_feature_layer == -1
         features = []
         for item in items:
             # in each item, we assume pixel_values is always batched
             pixel_values, image_sizes = item.feature, item.image_sizes
-            image_outputs = self.vision_tower(
+            if last_layer_only:
-                pixel_values, image_sizes, output_hidden_states=True
+                selected_image_feature = self.vision_tower(pixel_values, image_sizes)
-            )
+            else:
-            selected_image_feature = image_outputs.hidden_states[
+                image_outputs = self.vision_tower(
-                self.vision_feature_layer
+                    pixel_values, image_sizes, output_hidden_states=True
-            ]
+                )
+                selected_image_feature = image_outputs.hidden_states[
+                    self.vision_feature_layer
+                ]
 
             if self.vision_feature_select_strategy in ["default", "patch"]:
                 selected_image_feature = selected_image_feature[:, 1:]

test/registered/unit/models/test_mistral3_vision_feature.py

@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+"""Pixtral adaptors should not ask the vision tower for every layer to read one.
+
+The tower materialises one hidden-state tensor per layer when hidden states are
+requested, ~49x the tensor the model actually consumes. These tests pin that the
+final-layer case takes the cheap path and that both paths agree, for each
+adaptor that reads the Pixtral tower this way.
+"""
+
+import unittest
+from types import SimpleNamespace
+
+import torch
+
+from sglang.srt.models.llava import LlavaForConditionalGeneration
+from sglang.srt.models.mistral import Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration
+from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_cpu_ci
+
+register_cpu_ci(est_time=10, suite="base-a-test-cpu")
+
+NUM_LAYERS = 4
+TOKENS = 3
+HIDDEN = 8
+
+ADAPTORS = {
+    "mistral3": Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration.get_image_feature,
+    "llava": LlavaForConditionalGeneration.get_image_feature,
+}
+
+
+class RecordingTower:
+    """Stands in for PixtralVisionModel, mirroring how it answers.
+
+    ``all_hidden_states`` is the input embedding followed by one tensor per
+    layer, and the value returned when hidden states are *not* requested is the
+    last entry of that list -- the property the fix relies on.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        torch.manual_seed(0)
+        self.layers = [torch.randn(1, TOKENS, HIDDEN) for _ in range(NUM_LAYERS + 1)]
+        self.calls = []
+
+    def __call__(self, pixel_values, image_sizes, output_hidden_states=False):
+        self.calls.append(output_hidden_states)
+        if output_hidden_states:
+            return SimpleNamespace(
+                last_hidden_state=self.layers[-1], hidden_states=list(self.layers)
+            )
+        return self.layers[-1]
+
+
+def _model(vision_feature_layer):
+    return SimpleNamespace(
+        vision_tower=RecordingTower(),
+        vision_feature_layer=vision_feature_layer,
+        vision_feature_select_strategy="full",
+        multi_modal_projector=lambda feature, image_sizes=None: feature,
+    )
+
+
+def _items(n):
+    return [
+        SimpleNamespace(feature=torch.zeros(1, 3, 4, 4), image_sizes=[(4, 4)])
+        for _ in range(n)
+    ]
+
+
+class TestPixtralAdaptorVisionFeature(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_final_layer_never_requests_hidden_states(self):
+        for name, get_image_feature in ADAPTORS.items():
+            with self.subTest(adaptor=name):
+                model = _model(-1)
+                get_image_feature(model, _items(3))
+                self.assertEqual(model.vision_tower.calls, [False, False, False])
+
+    def test_non_final_layer_still_requests_hidden_states(self):
+        for name, get_image_feature in ADAPTORS.items():
+            with self.subTest(adaptor=name):
+                model = _model(-2)
+                get_image_feature(model, _items(2))
+                self.assertEqual(model.vision_tower.calls, [True, True])
+
+    def test_both_paths_agree_on_the_final_layer(self):
+        # -1 through the cheap path vs NUM_LAYERS (the same tensor, reached by
+        # indexing the hidden-state list) must produce identical features.
+        for name, get_image_feature in ADAPTORS.items():
+            with self.subTest(adaptor=name):
+                cheap = get_image_feature(_model(-1), _items(2))
+                listed = get_image_feature(_model(NUM_LAYERS), _items(2))
+                self.assertTrue(torch.equal(cheap, listed))
+
+    def test_non_final_layer_selects_that_layer(self):
+        for name, get_image_feature in ADAPTORS.items():
+            with self.subTest(adaptor=name):
+                model = _model(1)
+                out = get_image_feature(model, _items(1))
+                self.assertTrue(
+                    torch.equal(out, model.vision_tower.layers[1].squeeze(0))
+                )
+
+    def test_features_are_concatenated_per_item(self):
+        for name, get_image_feature in ADAPTORS.items():
+            with self.subTest(adaptor=name):
+                out = get_image_feature(_model(-1), _items(3))
+                self.assertEqual(out.shape, (3 * TOKENS, HIDDEN))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()