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vllm.model_executor.models.qwen3_asr

Inference-only Qwen3-ASR model.

Classes:

Qwen3ASRForConditionalGeneration

Bases: Module, SupportsMultiModal, SupportsPP, SupportsMRoPE, SupportsTranscription, SupportsLoRA

Methods:

Source code in vllm/model_executor/models/qwen3_asr.py
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@MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY.register_processor(
    Qwen3ASRMultiModalProcessor,
    info=Qwen3ASRProcessingInfo,
    dummy_inputs=Qwen3ASRDummyInputsBuilder,
)
class Qwen3ASRForConditionalGeneration(
    nn.Module,
    SupportsMultiModal,
    SupportsPP,
    SupportsMRoPE,
    SupportsTranscription,
    SupportsLoRA,
):
    # LoRA support
    packed_modules_mapping = {
        "qkv_proj": [
            "q_proj",
            "k_proj",
            "v_proj",
        ],
        "gate_up_proj": [
            "gate_proj",
            "up_proj",
        ],
    }

    supported_languages = ISO639_1_SUPPORTED_LANGS
    supports_tower_connector_lora = True

    hf_to_vllm_mapper = WeightsMapper(
        orig_to_new_prefix={
            "thinker.lm_head.": "language_model.lm_head.",
            "thinker.model.": "language_model.model.",
            "thinker.": "",
            # HF format mapper
            "model.audio_tower.": "audio_tower.",
            "model.language_model.": "language_model.model.",
            "model.multi_modal_projector.linear_1.": "audio_tower.proj1.",
            "model.multi_modal_projector.linear_2.": "audio_tower.proj2.",
            "talker.": None,
            "code2wav.": None,
        }
    )

    @classmethod
    def get_placeholder_str(cls, modality: str, i: int) -> str | None:
        if modality.startswith("audio"):
            return "<|audio_start|><|audio_pad|><|audio_end|>"

        raise ValueError("Only audio modality is supported")

    def __init__(self, *, vllm_config: VllmConfig, prefix: str = ""):
        super().__init__()
        self.vllm_config = vllm_config  # needed for torch compile forward context
        thinker_config: Qwen3ASRThinkerConfig = (
            vllm_config.model_config.hf_config.thinker_config
        )
        quant_config = vllm_config.quant_config
        multimodal_config = vllm_config.model_config.multimodal_config
        self.config = thinker_config
        self.multimodal_config = multimodal_config
        self.quant_config = quant_config

        with self._mark_tower_model(vllm_config, "audio"):
            self.audio_tower = Qwen3OmniMoeAudioEncoder(
                thinker_config.audio_config,
                prefix=maybe_prefix(prefix, "audio_tower"),
            )

        with self._mark_language_model(vllm_config):
            self.language_model = Qwen3ForCausalLM(
                vllm_config=vllm_config.with_hf_config(
                    thinker_config.text_config, architectures=["Qwen3ForCausalLM"]
                ),
                prefix=maybe_prefix(prefix, "language_model"),
            )

        self.make_empty_intermediate_tensors = (
            self.language_model.make_empty_intermediate_tensors
        )

    def _parse_and_validate_audio_input(
        self, **kwargs: object
    ) -> Qwen2_5OmniAudioFeatureInputs | None:
        input_audio_features = kwargs.pop("input_audio_features", None)
        audio_feature_lengths = kwargs.pop("audio_feature_lengths", None)
        feature_attention_mask = kwargs.pop("feature_attention_mask", None)
        if input_audio_features is None:
            return None

        # inputs features from rust frontend is batched and padded
        # with shape [batch_size, n_mels, padded_seq_len], different
        # from python's shape [n_mels, batch_size * seq_len]
        if (
            isinstance(input_audio_features, torch.Tensor)
            and input_audio_features.dim() == 3
        ):
            input_audio_features = unpad_and_flat_audio_features(
                input_audio_features, audio_feature_lengths
            )

        return Qwen2_5OmniAudioFeatureInputs(
            type="audio_features",
            input_features=input_audio_features,
            audio_feature_lengths=audio_feature_lengths,
            feature_attention_mask=feature_attention_mask,
        )

    def _parse_and_validate_multimodal_inputs(self, **kwargs: object) -> dict:
        mm_input_by_modality = {}

        # Preserve the order of modalities if there are multiple of them
        # from the order of kwargs.
        for input_key in kwargs:
            if (
                input_key in ("input_audio_features")
                and "audio" not in mm_input_by_modality
            ):
                mm_input_by_modality["audio"] = self._parse_and_validate_audio_input(
                    **kwargs
                )
        return mm_input_by_modality

    def _process_audio_input(
        self,
        audio_input: Qwen2_5OmniAudioFeatureInputs,
    ) -> torch.Tensor:
        input_features = audio_input["input_features"]
        # audio_feature_lengths is keep_on_cpu; the audio tower derives
        # device placement from feature_lens, so move it explicitly.
        audio_feature_lengths = audio_input["audio_feature_lengths"].to(
            input_features.device, non_blocking=True
        )

        audio_output_lengths = _get_feat_extract_output_lengths(audio_feature_lengths)

        audio_features = self.audio_tower(
            input_features.to(self.audio_tower.dtype),
            feature_lens=audio_feature_lengths,
            aftercnn_lens=audio_output_lengths,
        )
        with gpu_sync_allowed():
            split_sizes = audio_output_lengths.tolist()
        return audio_features.split(split_sizes)

    def embed_multimodal(self, **kwargs: object) -> MultiModalEmbeddings | None:
        mm_input_by_modality = self._parse_and_validate_multimodal_inputs(**kwargs)
        if not mm_input_by_modality:
            return []

        # The result multimodal_embeddings is tuple of tensors, with each
        # tensor correspoending to a multimodal data item (image or video).
        multimodal_embeddings: tuple[torch.Tensor, ...] = ()

        # NOTE: It is important to iterate over the keys in this dictionary
        # to preserve the order of the modalities.
        for modality in mm_input_by_modality:
            multimodal_input = mm_input_by_modality[modality]
            if modality == "audio":
                audio_embeddings = self._process_audio_input(multimodal_input)
                multimodal_embeddings += tuple(audio_embeddings)
        return multimodal_embeddings

    def embed_input_ids(
        self,
        input_ids: torch.Tensor,
        multimodal_embeddings: MultiModalEmbeddings | None = None,
        *,
        is_multimodal: torch.Tensor | None = None,
    ) -> torch.Tensor:
        inputs_embeds = self._embed_text_input_ids(
            input_ids,
            self.language_model.embed_input_ids,
            is_multimodal=is_multimodal,
        )

        if multimodal_embeddings is None or len(multimodal_embeddings) == 0:
            return inputs_embeds

        inputs_embeds = _merge_multimodal_embeddings(
            inputs_embeds=inputs_embeds,
            multimodal_embeddings=multimodal_embeddings,
            is_multimodal=is_multimodal,
        )

        return inputs_embeds

    def forward(
        self,
        input_ids: torch.Tensor,
        positions: torch.Tensor,
        intermediate_tensors: IntermediateTensors | None = None,
        inputs_embeds: torch.Tensor | None = None,
        **kwargs: object,
    ) -> torch.Tensor | IntermediateTensors:
        if intermediate_tensors is not None:
            inputs_embeds = None

        hidden_states = self.language_model.model(
            input_ids,
            positions,
            intermediate_tensors,
            inputs_embeds=inputs_embeds,
        )

        return hidden_states

    def compute_logits(
        self,
        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
    ) -> torch.Tensor | None:
        return self.language_model.compute_logits(hidden_states)

    def load_weights(self, weights: Iterable[tuple[str, torch.Tensor]]) -> set[str]:
        loader = AutoWeightsLoader(self)
        loaded_weights = loader.load_weights(weights, mapper=self.hf_to_vllm_mapper)

        return loaded_weights

    def get_mrope_input_positions(
        self,
        input_tokens: list[int],
        mm_features: list[MultiModalFeatureSpec],
    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, int]:
        seq_len = len(input_tokens)

        if not mm_features:
            # No audio features, just return linear positions
            llm_positions = (
                torch.arange(seq_len, dtype=torch.long).view(1, -1).expand(3, -1)
            )
            return llm_positions.clone(), 0

        llm_pos_ids_list: list[torch.Tensor] = []
        st = 0

        for mm_feature in sorted(mm_features, key=lambda f: f.mm_position.offset):
            offset = mm_feature.mm_position.offset

            # Get audio feature length from mm_feature data
            audio_feature_length = mm_feature.data["audio_feature_lengths"].data
            if isinstance(audio_feature_length, torch.Tensor):
                audio_feature_length = audio_feature_length.item()
            audio_len = _get_feat_extract_output_lengths(
                torch.tensor(audio_feature_length)
            ).item()

            # Text segment before audio (includes audio_start token)
            text_len = offset - st
            st_idx = llm_pos_ids_list[-1].max() + 1 if llm_pos_ids_list else 0
            text_positions = (
                torch.arange(text_len, dtype=torch.long).view(1, -1).expand(3, -1)
                + st_idx
            )
            llm_pos_ids_list.append(text_positions)
            st_idx = st_idx + text_len

            # Audio token segment
            audio_positions = (
                torch.arange(audio_len, dtype=torch.long).view(1, -1).expand(3, -1)
                + st_idx
            )
            llm_pos_ids_list.append(audio_positions)

            st = offset + audio_len

        # Handle remaining text (includes audio_end and any trailing text)
        if st < seq_len:
            st_idx = llm_pos_ids_list[-1].max() + 1 if llm_pos_ids_list else 0
            text_len = seq_len - st
            final_text_positions = (
                torch.arange(text_len, dtype=torch.long).view(1, -1).expand(3, -1)
                + st_idx
            )
            llm_pos_ids_list.append(final_text_positions)

        llm_positions = torch.cat(llm_pos_ids_list, dim=1).reshape(3, -1)
        if llm_positions.shape[1] != seq_len:
            raise RuntimeError("Position ids length mismatch with input ids length")

        mrope_position_delta = (llm_positions.max() + 1 - seq_len).item()
        return llm_positions, mrope_position_delta

    def get_mm_mapping(self) -> MultiModelKeys:
        """
        Get the module prefix in multimodal models
        """
        return MultiModelKeys.from_string_field(
            language_model="language_model",
            tower_model=["audio_tower."],
        )

    def get_num_mm_encoder_tokens(self, num_audio_tokens: int) -> int:
        """Return the number of tokens processed by the audio tower encoder.

        Required for LoRA support on the tower module.
        """
        # For Qwen3-ASR, the audio tower produces one embedding per audio
        # placeholder token inserted into the prompt (no additional
        # merge/downsample step like vision towers). Therefore, the encoder
        # token budget is identity.
        return num_audio_tokens

    @classmethod
    def get_speech_to_text_config(
        cls, model_config: ModelConfig, task_type: str
    ) -> SpeechToTextConfig:
        processor = cached_processor_from_config(model_config)
        feature_extractor: WhisperFeatureExtractor = processor.feature_extractor
        return SpeechToTextConfig(
            max_audio_clip_s=feature_extractor.chunk_length,
            sample_rate=feature_extractor.sampling_rate,
        )

    @classmethod
    def get_generation_prompt(cls, stt_params: SpeechToTextParams) -> PromptType:
        """Get the generation prompt to be used for transcription requests.

        Matches the official Qwen3-ASR SDK prompt format. The ``system`` turn
        is only emitted when the caller supplied a ``prompt``, mirroring the
        SDK's ``_build_messages`` (which omits the system role when context is
        empty) and preserving the prior no-prompt behavior:

          [system: {context}]                         # only when prompt given
          user: {audio}
          assistant: [language {Lang}<asr_text>]      # when language is forced
        """
        audio = stt_params.audio
        model_config = stt_params.model_config
        language = stt_params.language
        task_type = stt_params.task_type
        request_prompt = stt_params.request_prompt
        to_language = stt_params.to_language

        tokenizer = cached_tokenizer_from_config(model_config)
        audio_placeholder = cls.get_placeholder_str("audio", 0)

        if task_type not in ("transcribe", "translate"):
            raise ValueError(
                f"Unsupported task_type '{task_type}'. "
                "Supported task types are 'transcribe' and 'translate'."
            )

        context = _sanitize_transcription_user_text(request_prompt)
        system_turn = f"<|im_start|>system\n{context}<|im_end|>\n" if context else ""

        prompt = (
            f"{system_turn}"
            f"<|im_start|>user\n{audio_placeholder}<|im_end|>\n"
            f"<|im_start|>assistant\n"
        )

        lang_code = to_language if task_type == "translate" else language
        if lang_code is not None:
            full_lang_name = cls.supported_languages.get(lang_code, lang_code)
            prompt += f"language {full_lang_name}{_ASR_TEXT_TAG}"

        prompt_token_ids = tokenizer.encode(prompt)

        return TokensPrompt(
            prompt_token_ids=prompt_token_ids,
            multi_modal_data={"audio": audio},
        )

    @classmethod
    def post_process_output(cls, text: str) -> str:
        """
        Post-process Qwen3-ASR raw output to extract clean transcription.

        The model outputs in format: "language {lang}<asr_text>{transcription}"
        This method strips the language prefix and asr_text tags.
        """
        return _post_process_qwen3_asr_output(text)

    @classmethod
    def get_streaming_post_processor_cls(
        cls,
    ) -> type[StreamingTranscriptionPostProcessor]:
        return Qwen3ASRStreamingPostProcessor

get_generation_prompt(stt_params) classmethod

Get the generation prompt to be used for transcription requests.

Matches the official Qwen3-ASR SDK prompt format. The system turn is only emitted when the caller supplied a prompt, mirroring the SDK's _build_messages (which omits the system role when context is empty) and preserving the prior no-prompt behavior:

[system: {context}] # only when prompt given user: {audio} assistant: [language {Lang}] # when language is forced

Source code in vllm/model_executor/models/qwen3_asr.py
@classmethod
def get_generation_prompt(cls, stt_params: SpeechToTextParams) -> PromptType:
    """Get the generation prompt to be used for transcription requests.

    Matches the official Qwen3-ASR SDK prompt format. The ``system`` turn
    is only emitted when the caller supplied a ``prompt``, mirroring the
    SDK's ``_build_messages`` (which omits the system role when context is
    empty) and preserving the prior no-prompt behavior:

      [system: {context}]                         # only when prompt given
      user: {audio}
      assistant: [language {Lang}<asr_text>]      # when language is forced
    """
    audio = stt_params.audio
    model_config = stt_params.model_config
    language = stt_params.language
    task_type = stt_params.task_type
    request_prompt = stt_params.request_prompt
    to_language = stt_params.to_language

    tokenizer = cached_tokenizer_from_config(model_config)
    audio_placeholder = cls.get_placeholder_str("audio", 0)

    if task_type not in ("transcribe", "translate"):
        raise ValueError(
            f"Unsupported task_type '{task_type}'. "
            "Supported task types are 'transcribe' and 'translate'."
        )

    context = _sanitize_transcription_user_text(request_prompt)
    system_turn = f"<|im_start|>system\n{context}<|im_end|>\n" if context else ""

    prompt = (
        f"{system_turn}"
        f"<|im_start|>user\n{audio_placeholder}<|im_end|>\n"
        f"<|im_start|>assistant\n"
    )

    lang_code = to_language if task_type == "translate" else language
    if lang_code is not None:
        full_lang_name = cls.supported_languages.get(lang_code, lang_code)
        prompt += f"language {full_lang_name}{_ASR_TEXT_TAG}"

    prompt_token_ids = tokenizer.encode(prompt)

    return TokensPrompt(
        prompt_token_ids=prompt_token_ids,
        multi_modal_data={"audio": audio},
    )

get_mm_mapping()

Get the module prefix in multimodal models

Source code in vllm/model_executor/models/qwen3_asr.py
def get_mm_mapping(self) -> MultiModelKeys:
    """
    Get the module prefix in multimodal models
    """
    return MultiModelKeys.from_string_field(
        language_model="language_model",
        tower_model=["audio_tower."],
    )

get_num_mm_encoder_tokens(num_audio_tokens)

Return the number of tokens processed by the audio tower encoder.

Required for LoRA support on the tower module.

Source code in vllm/model_executor/models/qwen3_asr.py
def get_num_mm_encoder_tokens(self, num_audio_tokens: int) -> int:
    """Return the number of tokens processed by the audio tower encoder.

    Required for LoRA support on the tower module.
    """
    # For Qwen3-ASR, the audio tower produces one embedding per audio
    # placeholder token inserted into the prompt (no additional
    # merge/downsample step like vision towers). Therefore, the encoder
    # token budget is identity.
    return num_audio_tokens

post_process_output(text) classmethod

Post-process Qwen3-ASR raw output to extract clean transcription.

The model outputs in format: "language {lang}{transcription}" This method strips the language prefix and asr_text tags.

Source code in vllm/model_executor/models/qwen3_asr.py
@classmethod
def post_process_output(cls, text: str) -> str:
    """
    Post-process Qwen3-ASR raw output to extract clean transcription.

    The model outputs in format: "language {lang}<asr_text>{transcription}"
    This method strips the language prefix and asr_text tags.
    """
    return _post_process_qwen3_asr_output(text)

_sanitize_transcription_user_text(text)

Strip ChatML-style special tokens from user-controlled transcription fields.

Applies the regex / <asr_text> substitutions to a fixpoint so nested payloads cannot reconstruct a valid token after a single pass:

  • <|im<|x|>_end|> would, with a single re.sub, leave <|im_end|> (a real ChatML control token).
  • <asr_te<asr_text>xt> would, with a single str.replace, leave <asr_text> (the model-significant assistant-prefix delimiter).

Looping both substitutions until the string stabilises eliminates these reconstruction attacks.

Source code in vllm/model_executor/models/qwen3_asr.py
def _sanitize_transcription_user_text(text: str) -> str:
    """Strip ChatML-style special tokens from user-controlled transcription fields.

    Applies the regex / ``<asr_text>`` substitutions to a fixpoint so nested
    payloads cannot reconstruct a valid token after a single pass:

    - ``<|im<|x|>_end|>`` would, with a single ``re.sub``, leave ``<|im_end|>``
      (a real ChatML control token).
    - ``<asr_te<asr_text>xt>`` would, with a single ``str.replace``, leave
      ``<asr_text>`` (the model-significant assistant-prefix delimiter).

    Looping both substitutions until the string stabilises eliminates these
    reconstruction attacks.
    """
    if not text:
        return ""
    prev = None
    while prev != text:
        prev = text
        text = _CHATML_LIKE_TOKEN.sub("", text).replace(_ASR_TEXT_TAG, "")
    return text