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Multimodal full-request encoding, item scheduling, and E/P handoff use separate representations of item order and output lengths. This can misalign selected payloads and cache keys when prompt order differs from payload order.

Use one MultimodalItemMetadata record, owned by the existing MultimodalParams, throughout input preparation and execution.

• Use one processor hook, get_mm_item_metadata, for item order, optional encoder costs, output rows, and input partitions. Remove the old metadata tuple, encoder-only hook, and duplicate order/length fallbacks. Unknown costs remain None; full-request encoding does not require item scheduling.
• Share item selection between full-request and selected-item encoding. Keep tensor slices, output splits, and partial-cache keys aligned while preserving batching across requests and shared encoders.
• Keep request cache/state ownership in LlmRequest.py_multimodal_params. Encoder and LLM chunk Params are execution views; they do not own request cache references.
• Remove host synchronization from GPU item reordering, Nemotron audio clip/length handling, and Gemma4 audio output compaction.
• Replace DisaggPrefillMultimodalInputs with (prompt_token_ids, MultimodalParams) and a common embedding constructor. Preserve deepstack, mRoPE, sparse video layouts, and embedding lifetimes.

Public LLM signatures/configuration and the Dynamo/C++ transport are unchanged. Model-specific batching policy remains a follow-up. Custom processors must migrate to the common metadata hook/type; local E/P hooks return the new Params result.

Performance

CPU encoder-input preparation: PR base 3ac4e61255 → measured PR revision 44078d3e18.

Requests	Selection	Base → PR	Reduction
64	Contiguous	0.816 → 0.502 ms	38.4%
64	Reordered	1.176 → 0.945 ms	19.6%
64	Alternating image/video	5.090 → 3.171 ms	37.7%
128	Contiguous	1.635 → 0.998 ms	38.9%
128	Reordered	2.369 → 1.928 ms	18.6%
128	Alternating image/video	10.298 → 6.487 ms	37.0%

Eight items/request; median of 9 paired samples × 20 repetitions with executor GC defaults. These are CPU preparation batch sizes, not serving concurrency. Encoder/LLM inference and E2E latency/throughput are excluded.

CPU check at 9bf910a281 vs 9e1cfc, 64/128 requests: -0.002 to +0.090 ms (-0.1% to +1.3%); no E2E measurement.

Validation

Rebased onto main abb94ab8fc, including Gemma4 item scheduling, at head b99b3a1c2e. Preserve main's LoRA checkpoint source; migrate Gemma4 and Gemma4 Unified to the common metadata hook. Whole-video selection uses declared frame spans. Unified keeps tower-specific costs and item scheduling disabled.

• Current-source CPU checks: 323 passed (+3 subtests), 26 skipped, covering item metadata/selection, encoder grouping, request conversion, Gemma4 item sizing and long-video profiling, GLM profiling, and encoder engine logic. Changed-file pre-commit checks passed.
• These checks used genuine CI #65923 native configuration bindings with native initialization disabled. That older wheel lacks main's new trtllm::allreduce_pg_by_name operator, so full runtime/GPU validation awaits new-head CI. Earlier runtime and performance results below remain pinned to their measured revisions.
• Prior 3d2be8d393 validation: 1,368 CPU tests (+2 subtests) passed, covering input preparation, encoder selection/profiling, scheduling/cache ownership, E/P handoff, and protected public LLM APIs; 15 skipped. Four Nemotron processor checks fail identically on main in this environment: two have a +1 prompt-token length difference, and two read a Git LFS pointer instead of the video asset.
• Prior schema check: regenerated all three serving schemas with the real runtime: output matches #20778 byte for byte. CI #65510 failed schema freshness on x86/ARM, also present on main, plus a separate B200 VisualGen health timeout. No schema changes are bundled here.
• Prior CUDA traces (9bf910a281): five audited sync sites went from 1 to 0. Small Parakeet/Gemma4 audio encoders match prior assembly exactly (random weights). CUDA-only metadata fallbacks and EVS can still synchronize.
• Prior H200 validation: 24 tests (+7 subtests) passed for CUDA streams, Qwen3-VL deepstack/CUDA graphs, and reduced Gemma4 models.
• Prior real-weight E/P validation: four cases (Qwen3-VL-2B and Nemotron Nano 12B, image/video) match pre-migration revision b2be7967f028 exactly for layout, hashes, tokens, text, and logits. Both workers share one physical H200. Five Dynamo contract fixtures passed against pinned revision 92a28f8.

The earlier full CPU/schema checks used genuine PostMerge 3032 native artifacts. Remote/multi-GPU E/P/D, full Gemma4-26B equivalence, and AIPerf serving measurements remain unvalidated.

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The change centralizes multimodal item metadata, partitions, encoder state, and disaggregated-prefill data in shared contracts. Model processors, encoder grouping, caching, executor requests, scheduling, tests, and developer documentation now use these contracts.

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Multimodal request data and execution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared multimodal contracts and input preparation tensorrt_llm/inputs/..., tests/unittest/inputs/test_multimodal.py, docs/source/developer-guide/..., docs/source/release-notes.md, AGENTS.md	Adds immutable item metadata, item partitions, shared encoder state, validation, hashing, exports, migration notes, and developer guidance.
Model metadata and prefill handoff tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_*.py, tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm.py, tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/*, tests/unittest/_torch/multimodal/test_qwen3vl_disagg_prompt.py	Model processors provide item metadata and partitions. Disaggregated-prefill builders accept optional mm_hashes and return expanded token IDs with MultimodalParams.
Encoder item selection, ordering, and cache tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_multimodal_mixin.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_gemma4mm.py, tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_multimodal_encoder_item_groups.py, tests/unittest/_torch/multimodal/*	Encoder input selection, grouped encoding, output ordering, cache keys, and partial-cache encoding use item layouts and declared partitions.
Executor request state and scheduling tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/*, tensorrt_llm/executor/base_worker.py, tests/unittest/_torch/executor/*	Executor requests store multimodal data and encoder state through MultimodalParams. Admission, scheduling, cleanup, request conversion, and fixtures use shared item metadata and output lengths.

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Change: Refactor

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sequenceDiagram
  participant InputProcessor
  participant MultimodalParams
  participant PyExecutor
  participant MultimodalScheduler
  participant MultimodalModelMixin
  InputProcessor->>MultimodalParams: Build item metadata, partitions, hashes, and embedding handles
  PyExecutor->>MultimodalParams: Validate item metadata and output lengths
  PyExecutor->>MultimodalScheduler: Admit request with encoder state
  MultimodalScheduler->>MultimodalModelMixin: Provide selected item layouts
  MultimodalModelMixin->>MultimodalParams: Read item references and output lengths

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Two whole-PR items and one request on the description.

Stacked on #20468. The diff includes the request-ownership commits from that PR, so this change's own delta (the metadata record, the partition-driven slicer, the handoff tuple) cannot be reviewed in isolation and the two will conflict on merge. Please land #20468 first and rebase, or close it into this one and say so in the title/description. AGENTS.md asks for one concern per PR.

Removed interfaces with no shim or release note. DisaggPrefillMultimodalInputs, MultimodalEncoderItemMetadata and the get_mm_encoder_item_metadata hook are gone, and build_disagg_prefill_multimodal_inputs changed both its return type and gained a keyword-only mm_hashes that [tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm.py:981](https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM/pull/20391/files#diff-4f4789a9552c0458fa969d6f4e418893fe52d5533d1f7c383296a8388497bd79R981)-988 now passes unconditionally. An out-of-tree processor hits a TypeError on the first E/P request, and one that still overrides the old metadata hook is never called, so item scheduling silently degrades (the wrapper at [tensorrt_llm/inputs/registry.py:1534](https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM/pull/20391/files#diff-34567c3d44579a4e959cdc4ceaefcc344eef1adaf2c34f4f111fc1a1f06f908bR1534) only looks up the new name). Please add a guard that raises when a processor still defines get_mm_encoder_item_metadata, and add a line under docs/source/release-notes.md listing the removed names and the new tuple contract. The new developer guide documents the change well; it just is not where upgrade readers look.

Description. The description still contains an auto-generated "Dev Engineer Review / QA Engineer Review" block claiming the diff is 10 files of import reformatting. It contradicts the actual change; please remove it. The description does name the follow-ups honestly (remote E/P/D and full Gemma4 unvalidated).

Everything else is inline. One defensive point not anchored to a visible line: MultimodalParams.get_item_layout() returns ((), ()) when no record is present but raises when a record lacks output rows. encode_multimodal_by_groups then splits the group output into zero rows and returns an empty tensor without error. If a raw-payload request can reach that path without a record (processors whose __call__ does not emit one when hashing has fallen back), that should raise like the no-rows case does.

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🟠 Major · Preserve mixed-modality hashing when metadata is not precomputed. · registry.py:1384-1402

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Preserve mixed-modality hashing when metadata is not precomputed.

For a direct multi_modal_data request without mm_item_order, Qwen's processor returns no item metadata. The hashing path then raises ValueError. On the first probe, this permanently sets multimodal_hashing_supported = False, disabling hashing for later requests. If hashing was already enabled, the request fails instead.

Call get_mm_item_metadata before rejecting mixed modalities. Qwen derives the prompt order from prompt_token_ids and the processed multimodal data.

Suggested fix

         mm_item_order = inputs.get("mm_item_order")
         metadata = get_multimodal_item_metadata(multimodal_data)
+        if not mm_item_order and metadata is None:
+            get_item_metadata = getattr(input_processor,
+                                        "get_mm_item_metadata", None)
+            if get_item_metadata is not None:
+                metadata = get_item_metadata(prompt_token_ids,
+                                             multimodal_data, None)
         if mm_item_order:

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Review comment at @tensorrt_llm/inputs/registry.py around lines 1384 - 1402:
Update the multimodal item-reference setup around get_multimodal_item_metadata
so that, when mm_item_order is absent and metadata is None, it calls
input_processor.get_mm_item_metadata(prompt_token_ids, multimodal_data, None)
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