From d6d9f12444ebb55f6d581341128c8eeb1b69a285 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mick <mickjagger19@icloud.com>
Date: Sun, 24 May 2026 11:51:24 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] [VLM] adopt simplified get_rope_index for image-only requests
 (#26100)

---
 .../srt/multimodal/processors/qwen_vl.py      | 123 +++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 120 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/qwen_vl.py b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/qwen_vl.py
index 2023e7ba6..962cf9b43 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/qwen_vl.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/qwen_vl.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import math
 import os
 import re
 import time
-from typing import List, Union
+from typing import List, Optional, Union
 
 import numpy as np
 import torch
@@ -436,6 +436,110 @@ class QwenVLImageProcessor(SGLangBaseProcessor):
             mrope_position_delta = mrope_position_delta.reshape(-1, 1)
         return mrope_positions, mrope_position_delta
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def _as_grid_batch(value):
+        if value is None:
+            return None
+        if isinstance(value, torch.Tensor):
+            return value.unsqueeze(0) if value.ndim == 1 else value
+        tensor = torch.as_tensor(value, dtype=torch.long)
+        return tensor.unsqueeze(0) if tensor.ndim == 1 else tensor
+
+    def _compute_image_only_mrope_positions_from_offsets(
+        self,
+        input_len: int,
+        mm_items: List[MultimodalDataItem],
+        dtype: torch.dtype,
+        device: torch.device,
+    ) -> Optional[tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]]:
+        """instead of calling get_rope_index, build mrope position from mm_items.offsets and image_grid_thw of each image
+        basically a simplified version of get_rope_index for image-only reqs
+        """
+        if self.model_type not in (
+            "qwen3_vl",
+            "qwen3_vl_moe",
+            "qwen3_5",
+            "qwen3_5_moe",
+            "intern_s2_preview",
+        ):
+            return None
+
+        image_items = [item for item in mm_items if item.is_image()]
+        if not image_items or len(image_items) != len(mm_items):
+            return None
+
+        spatial_merge_size = self.hf_config.vision_config.spatial_merge_size
+        sorted_items = sorted(image_items, key=lambda item: item.offsets[0][0])
+        position_segments = []
+        st = 0
+        next_pos = 0
+
+        for item in sorted_items:
+            if item.offsets is None or len(item.offsets) != 1:
+                return None
+
+            start, end = item.offsets[0]
+            if start < st or end >= input_len:
+                return None
+
+            text_len = start - st
+            if text_len > 0:
+                position_segments.append(
+                    torch.arange(text_len, dtype=dtype, device=device)
+                    .view(1, -1)
+                    .expand(3, -1)
+                    + next_pos
+                )
+                next_pos += text_len
+
+            grid = self._as_grid_batch(item.model_specific_data.get("image_grid_thw"))
+            if grid is None or grid.shape[0] != 1:
+                return None
+            t, h, w = [int(x) for x in grid[0].tolist()]
+            llm_grid_t = t
+            llm_grid_h = h // spatial_merge_size
+            llm_grid_w = w // spatial_merge_size
+            num_image_tokens = llm_grid_t * llm_grid_h * llm_grid_w
+            if num_image_tokens != end - start + 1:
+                return None
+
+            t_index = (
+                torch.arange(llm_grid_t, dtype=dtype, device=device)
+                .view(-1, 1)
+                .expand(llm_grid_t, llm_grid_h * llm_grid_w)
+                .reshape(-1)
+            )
+            h_index = (
+                torch.arange(llm_grid_h, dtype=dtype, device=device)
+                .view(1, -1, 1)
+                .expand(llm_grid_t, llm_grid_h, llm_grid_w)
+                .reshape(-1)
+            )
+            w_index = (
+                torch.arange(llm_grid_w, dtype=dtype, device=device)
+                .view(1, 1, -1)
+                .expand(llm_grid_t, llm_grid_h, llm_grid_w)
+                .reshape(-1)
+            )
+            position_segments.append(
+                torch.stack([t_index, h_index, w_index]) + next_pos
+            )
+            next_pos += max(llm_grid_t, llm_grid_h, llm_grid_w)
+            st = end + 1
+
+        if st < input_len:
+            text_len = input_len - st
+            position_segments.append(
+                torch.arange(text_len, dtype=dtype, device=device)
+                .view(1, -1)
+                .expand(3, -1)
+                + next_pos
+            )
+
+        mrope_positions = torch.cat(position_segments, dim=1).unsqueeze(1)
+        mrope_position_delta = (mrope_positions.max() + 1 - input_len).reshape(1, 1)
+        return mrope_positions, mrope_position_delta
+
     def get_mm_data(self, prompt, embeddings, **kwargs):
         img_grid_thw = kwargs.get("img_grid_thw", None)
         video_grid_thw = kwargs.get("video_grid_thw", None)
@@ -636,6 +740,18 @@ class QwenVLImageProcessor(SGLangBaseProcessor):
                 video_grid_thw = first_video.get("video_grid_thw")
 
         mrope_result = self._get_precomputed_mrope_from_output(ret)
+        if mrope_result is None:
+            if (
+                video_grid_thw is None
+                and second_per_grid_ts is None
+                and audio_feature_lengths is None
+            ):
+                mrope_result = self._compute_image_only_mrope_positions_from_offsets(
+                    input_len=input_ids.numel(),
+                    mm_items=mm_items,
+                    dtype=input_ids.dtype,
+                    device=input_ids.device,
+                )
         if mrope_result is None:
             mrope_result = MRotaryEmbedding.get_rope_index(
                 spatial_merge_size=self.hf_config.vision_config.spatial_merge_size,
@@ -659,9 +775,10 @@ class QwenVLImageProcessor(SGLangBaseProcessor):
                     self.hf_config, "position_id_per_seconds", None
                 ),
             )
+
         mrope_positions, mrope_position_delta = mrope_result
-        if mrope_positions.ndim == 3:
-            mrope_positions = mrope_positions.squeeze(1)
+        mrope_positions = mrope_positions.squeeze(1)
+
         get_rope_index_time = time.perf_counter()
         logger.debug(
             f"[QwenVLProcessor Perf] {rid=}, "