diff --git a/tests/compile/test_multimodal_compile.py b/tests/compile/test_multimodal_compile.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6c195dd93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/compile/test_multimodal_compile.py
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+import pytest
+
+from vllm.compilation.counter import compilation_counter
+from vllm.config.compilation import CompilationMode
+
+
+# forked needed to workaround https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/21073
+@pytest.mark.forked
+def test_qwen2_5_vl_compilation(vllm_runner, monkeypatch):
+    """Test that Qwen2.5-VL vision submodules are compiled.
+
+    This test verifies that the 3 vision submodules (Qwen2_5_VisionPatchEmbed,
+    Qwen2_5_VisionBlock, and Qwen2_5_VisionPatchMerger) are properly tagged
+    for compilation by checking that num_models_seen increases by at least 3.
+    """
+    # Disable multiprocessing so that the counter is in the same process
+    monkeypatch.setenv("VLLM_ENABLE_V1_MULTIPROCESSING", "0")
+
+    with (
+        # NOTE: Qwen2.5-VL has 35 models in total - the LLM backend
+        # Vision Patch Embed, Vision Patch Merger, and then 32 Vision Blocks
+        # (one for each layer) - in the future, we should fix vLLM compilation
+        # logic to handle this case and only compile the Vision submodules once
+        # and reuse the compiled code for all layers
+        # See https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/27590
+        compilation_counter.expect(num_models_seen=35),
+        vllm_runner(
+            "Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct",
+            max_model_len=2048,
+            gpu_memory_utilization=0.7,
+            compilation_config={"mode": CompilationMode.VLLM_COMPILE},
+        ) as _,
+    ):
+        pass
diff --git a/vllm/attention/ops/vit_attn_wrappers.py b/vllm/attention/ops/vit_attn_wrappers.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f71f49a1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vllm/attention/ops/vit_attn_wrappers.py
@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+"""
+This file contains ops for ViT attention to be compatible with torch.compile
+as there are operations here not supported by torch.compile (for instance,
+`to_list` in xformers attn, or `.item()` in flash attention)
+
+Using these ops and wrapping vision blocks with `torch.compile` can speed up
+throughput in vision models by ~5% relative on H100, and improve token
+latencies by ~7% (see qwen2_5_vl for example usage)
+
+To use these ops, you must have a recent version of PyTorch installed (>= 2.4.0)
+"""
+
+import einops
+import torch
+
+from vllm.utils.torch_utils import direct_register_custom_op
+
+
+def xformers_attn_seqlens_wrapper(
+    q: torch.Tensor, k: torch.Tensor, v: torch.Tensor, seqlens: torch.Tensor
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    from xformers import ops as xops
+    from xformers.ops.fmha.attn_bias import BlockDiagonalMask
+
+    attn_bias = BlockDiagonalMask.from_seqlens(
+        q_seqlen=seqlens.tolist(), kv_seqlen=None, device=q.device
+    )
+    context_layer = xops.memory_efficient_attention_forward(
+        q, k, v, attn_bias=attn_bias, p=0, scale=None
+    )
+    context_layer = einops.rearrange(context_layer, "b s h d -> s b (h d)").contiguous()
+    return context_layer
+
+
+def xformers_attn_seqlens_wrapper_fake(
+    q: torch.Tensor, k: torch.Tensor, v: torch.Tensor, seqlens: torch.Tensor
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    b, s, h, d = q.shape
+    return torch.empty((s, b, h * d), dtype=q.dtype, device=q.device)
+
+
+direct_register_custom_op(
+    op_name="xformers_attn_seqlens_wrapper",
+    op_func=xformers_attn_seqlens_wrapper,
+    fake_impl=xformers_attn_seqlens_wrapper_fake,
+)
+
+
+def vit_xformers_attn_wrapper(
+    q: torch.Tensor, k: torch.Tensor, v: torch.Tensor, seqlens: torch.Tensor
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    return torch.ops.vllm.xformers_attn_seqlens_wrapper(q, k, v, seqlens)
+
+
+def flash_attn_maxseqlen_wrapper(
+    q: torch.Tensor,
+    k: torch.Tensor,
+    v: torch.Tensor,
+    cu_seqlens: torch.Tensor,
+    max_seqlen: torch.Tensor,
+    batch_size: int,
+    is_rocm_aiter: bool,
+    use_upstream_fa: bool,
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    if is_rocm_aiter:
+        from aiter import flash_attn_varlen_func
+    else:
+        if use_upstream_fa:
+            from flash_attn import flash_attn_varlen_func
+        else:
+            from vllm.vllm_flash_attn import flash_attn_varlen_func
+    q, k, v = (einops.rearrange(x, "b s ... -> (b s) ...") for x in [q, k, v])
+    output = flash_attn_varlen_func(
+        q,
+        k,
+        v,
+        cu_seqlens_q=cu_seqlens,
+        cu_seqlens_k=cu_seqlens,
+        max_seqlen_q=max_seqlen.item(),
+        max_seqlen_k=max_seqlen.item(),
+        dropout_p=0.0,
+        causal=False,
+    )
+    context_layer = einops.rearrange(
+        output, "(b s) h d -> s b (h d)", b=batch_size
+    ).contiguous()
+    return context_layer
+
+
+def flash_attn_maxseqlen_wrapper_fake(
+    q: torch.Tensor,
+    k: torch.Tensor,
+    v: torch.Tensor,
+    cu_seqlens: torch.Tensor,
+    max_seqlen: torch.Tensor,
+    batch_size: int,
+    is_rocm_aiter: bool,
+    use_upstream_fa: bool,
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    b, s, h, d = q.shape
+    return torch.empty((s, b, h * d), dtype=q.dtype, device=q.device)
+
+
+direct_register_custom_op(
+    op_name="flash_attn_maxseqlen_wrapper",
+    op_func=flash_attn_maxseqlen_wrapper,
+    fake_impl=flash_attn_maxseqlen_wrapper_fake,
+)
+
+
+def vit_flash_attn_wrapper(
+    q: torch.Tensor,
+    k: torch.Tensor,
+    v: torch.Tensor,
+    cu_seqlens: torch.Tensor,
+    max_seqlen: torch.Tensor,
+    batch_size: int,
+    is_rocm_aiter: bool,
+    use_upstream_fa: bool,
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    return torch.ops.vllm.flash_attn_maxseqlen_wrapper(
+        q, k, v, cu_seqlens, max_seqlen, batch_size, is_rocm_aiter, use_upstream_fa
+    )
diff --git a/vllm/compilation/decorators.py b/vllm/compilation/decorators.py
index 69fb93601..0946fa691 100644
--- a/vllm/compilation/decorators.py
+++ b/vllm/compilation/decorators.py
@@ -18,7 +18,12 @@ from torch._dynamo.symbolic_convert import InliningInstructionTranslator
 import vllm.envs as envs
 from vllm.compilation.counter import compilation_counter
 from vllm.compilation.wrapper import TorchCompileWrapperWithCustomDispatcher
-from vllm.config import CompilationMode, VllmConfig, set_current_vllm_config
+from vllm.config import (
+    CompilationMode,
+    VllmConfig,
+    get_current_vllm_config,
+    set_current_vllm_config,
+)
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
 from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors
 from vllm.utils.import_utils import resolve_obj_by_qualname
@@ -74,6 +79,21 @@ def support_torch_compile(
 ) -> Callable[[_T], _T]: ...
 
 
+@overload
+def support_torch_compile(
+    *,
+    mark_unbacked_dims: dict[str, int | list[int]] | None,
+) -> Callable[[_T], _T]: ...
+
+
+@overload
+def support_torch_compile(
+    *,
+    dynamic_arg_dims: dict[str, int | list[int]] | None,
+    mark_unbacked_dims: dict[str, int | list[int]] | None,
+) -> Callable[[_T], _T]: ...
+
+
 @overload
 def support_torch_compile(cls: _T) -> _T: ...
 
@@ -82,6 +102,7 @@ def support_torch_compile(
     cls: _T | None = None,
     *,
     dynamic_arg_dims: dict[str, int | list[int]] | None = None,
+    mark_unbacked_dims: dict[str, int | list[int]] | None = None,
     enable_if: Callable[[VllmConfig], bool] | None = None,
 ) -> Callable[[_T], _T] | _T:
     """
@@ -135,6 +156,11 @@ def support_torch_compile(
     returns a boolean value indicating whether to compile the model or not.
     This is useful if you want to compile the model only when certain
     conditions are met.
+
+    `mark_unbacked_dims` is a dictionary that maps argument names with a dynamic
+    dim to be decorated with `mark_unbacked`.  This is useful if we would like to
+    enforce that dynamo do not specialize on 0/1 values in the case of dummy input
+    such as for vision model compilation
     """
 
     def cls_decorator_helper(cls: _T) -> _T:
@@ -172,7 +198,9 @@ def support_torch_compile(
                 raise ValueError(
                     f"Argument {k} not found in the forward method of {cls}"
                 )
-        return _support_torch_compile(cls, inferred_dynamic_arg_dims, enable_if)
+        return _support_torch_compile(
+            cls, inferred_dynamic_arg_dims, mark_unbacked_dims, enable_if
+        )
 
     if cls is not None:
         # use `support_torch_compile` as a decorator without arguments
@@ -212,6 +240,7 @@ def _verify_source_unchanged(source_info, vllm_config) -> None:
 def _support_torch_compile(
     cls: _T,
     dynamic_arg_dims: dict[str, int | list[int]],
+    mark_unbacked_dims: dict[str, int | list[int]] | None = None,
     enable_if: Callable[[VllmConfig], bool] | None = None,
 ) -> _T:
     """
@@ -230,8 +259,22 @@ def _support_torch_compile(
 
     setattr(cls, IGNORE_COMPILE_KEY, False)
 
-    def __init__(self, *, vllm_config: VllmConfig, prefix: str = "", **kwargs):
-        old_init(self, vllm_config=vllm_config, prefix=prefix, **kwargs)
+    def __init__(
+        self, *, vllm_config: VllmConfig | None = None, prefix: str = "", **kwargs
+    ):
+        if vllm_config is None:
+            vllm_config = get_current_vllm_config()
+
+        # NOTE: to support multimodal models (such as encoder),
+        # we may not have vllm_config so we may need to patch
+        # it
+        sig = inspect.signature(old_init)
+        if "vllm_config" in sig.parameters:
+            kwargs["vllm_config"] = vllm_config
+        if "prefix" in sig.parameters:
+            kwargs["prefix"] = prefix
+        old_init(self, **kwargs)
+
         self.vllm_config = vllm_config
         enable_compile = enable_if is None or enable_if(vllm_config)
         # for CompilationMode.STOCK_TORCH_COMPILE , the upper level model runner
@@ -344,6 +387,15 @@ def _support_torch_compile(
                             "Unsupported dynamic dimensions"
                             f" {dims} for argument {k} with type {type(arg)}."
                         )
+            if mark_unbacked_dims:
+                for k, dims in mark_unbacked_dims.items():
+                    arg = bound_args.arguments.get(k)
+                    if arg is not None:
+                        dims = [dims] if isinstance(dims, int) else dims
+                        if isinstance(arg, torch.Tensor):
+                            # In case dims is specified with negative indexing
+                            dims = [arg.ndim + dim if dim < 0 else dim for dim in dims]
+                            torch._dynamo.decorators.mark_unbacked(arg, dims)
             # here, it is the starting point of the `torch.compile` process
             start_monitoring_torch_compile(self.vllm_config)
             logger.debug("Start compiling function %s", self.original_code_object)
diff --git a/vllm/config/compilation.py b/vllm/config/compilation.py
index c24a94091..f3ed78779 100644
--- a/vllm/config/compilation.py
+++ b/vllm/config/compilation.py
@@ -684,6 +684,8 @@ class CompilationConfig:
 
         from vllm.compilation.backends import VllmBackend
 
+        # TODO[@lucaskabela]: See if we can forward prefix
+        # https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/27045
         return VllmBackend(vllm_config)
 
     def post_init_cudagraph_sizes(self) -> None:
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/qwen2_5_omni_thinker.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/qwen2_5_omni_thinker.py
index 6338ea93b..677d34dea 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/qwen2_5_omni_thinker.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/qwen2_5_omni_thinker.py
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ from transformers.models.whisper import WhisperFeatureExtractor
 
 from vllm.config import VllmConfig
 from vllm.config.multimodal import BaseDummyOptions
+from vllm.forward_context import set_forward_context
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
 from vllm.model_executor.models.module_mapping import MultiModelKeys
 from vllm.model_executor.models.qwen2_5_vl import (
@@ -759,7 +760,8 @@ class Qwen2_5OmniConditionalGenerationMixin:
         assert grid_thw.ndim == 2
 
         pixel_values = image_input["pixel_values"].type(self.visual.dtype)
-        image_embeds = self.visual(pixel_values, grid_thw=grid_thw)
+        with set_forward_context(None, self.vllm_config):
+            image_embeds = self.visual(pixel_values, grid_thw=grid_thw)
         # Split concatenated embeddings for each image item.
         merge_size = self.visual.spatial_merge_size
         sizes = grid_thw.prod(-1) // merge_size // merge_size
@@ -779,7 +781,8 @@ class Qwen2_5OmniConditionalGenerationMixin:
         assert grid_thw.ndim == 2
 
         pixel_values_videos = video_input["pixel_values_videos"].type(self.visual.dtype)
-        video_embeds = self.visual(pixel_values_videos, grid_thw=grid_thw)
+        with set_forward_context(None, self.vllm_config):
+            video_embeds = self.visual(pixel_values_videos, grid_thw=grid_thw)
         # Split concatenated embeddings for each video item.
         merge_size = self.visual.spatial_merge_size
         sizes = grid_thw.prod(-1) // merge_size // merge_size
@@ -839,6 +842,7 @@ class Qwen2_5OmniThinkerForConditionalGeneration(
 
     def __init__(self, *, vllm_config: VllmConfig, prefix: str = ""):
         super().__init__()
+        self.vllm_config = vllm_config
         thinker_config: Qwen2_5OmniThinkerConfig = (
             vllm_config.model_config.hf_config.thinker_config
         )
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/qwen2_5_vl.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/qwen2_5_vl.py
index b622021e2..30e3d2dff 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/qwen2_5_vl.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/qwen2_5_vl.py
@@ -31,10 +31,10 @@ from collections.abc import Callable, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
 from functools import lru_cache, partial
 from typing import Annotated, Any, Literal, TypeAlias
 
+import einops
 import torch
 import torch.nn as nn
 import torch.nn.functional as F
-from einops import rearrange
 from transformers import BatchFeature, PretrainedConfig
 from transformers.models.qwen2_5_vl import Qwen2_5_VLProcessor
 from transformers.models.qwen2_5_vl.configuration_qwen2_5_vl import (
@@ -47,9 +47,15 @@ from vllm.attention.layer import (
     check_upstream_fa_availability,
     maybe_get_vit_flash_attn_backend,
 )
+from vllm.attention.ops.vit_attn_wrappers import (
+    vit_flash_attn_wrapper,
+    vit_xformers_attn_wrapper,
+)
+from vllm.compilation.decorators import support_torch_compile
 from vllm.config import VllmConfig
 from vllm.distributed import parallel_state
 from vllm.distributed import utils as dist_utils
+from vllm.forward_context import set_forward_context
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.activation import get_act_and_mul_fn
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.layernorm import RMSNorm
@@ -392,8 +398,8 @@ class Qwen2_5_VisionAttention(nn.Module):
         x: torch.Tensor,
         cu_seqlens: torch.Tensor,
         rotary_pos_emb: torch.Tensor,
-        max_seqlen: int | None = None,  # Only used for Flash Attention
-        seqlens: list[int] | None = None,  # Only used for xFormers
+        max_seqlen: torch.Tensor,  # Only used for Flash Attention
+        seqlens: torch.Tensor,  # Only used for xFormers
     ) -> torch.Tensor:
         # [s, b, c] --> [s, b, head * 3 * head_dim]
         x, _ = self.qkv(x)
@@ -402,7 +408,7 @@ class Qwen2_5_VisionAttention(nn.Module):
         q, k, v = self.split_qkv(x)
         batch_size = q.shape[1]
 
-        q, k, v = (rearrange(x, "s b ... -> b s ...") for x in (q, k, v))
+        q, k, v = (einops.rearrange(x, "s b ... -> b s ...") for x in (q, k, v))
         if rotary_pos_emb is not None:
             # [2 * b, s, heads, head_dim]
             qk_concat = torch.cat([q, k], dim=0)
@@ -410,31 +416,18 @@ class Qwen2_5_VisionAttention(nn.Module):
             q, k = torch.chunk(qk_rotated, 2, dim=0)
 
         if self.is_flash_attn_backend:
-            q, k, v = (rearrange(x, "b s ... -> (b s) ...") for x in [q, k, v])
-
-            output = self.flash_attn_varlen_func(
+            context_layer = vit_flash_attn_wrapper(
                 q,
                 k,
                 v,
-                cu_seqlens_q=cu_seqlens,
-                cu_seqlens_k=cu_seqlens,
-                max_seqlen_q=max_seqlen,
-                max_seqlen_k=max_seqlen,
-                dropout_p=0.0,
-                causal=False,
+                cu_seqlens,
+                max_seqlen,
+                batch_size,
+                self.attn_backend == _Backend.ROCM_AITER_FA,
+                self.use_upstream_fa,
             )
-
-            context_layer = rearrange(
-                output, "(b s) h d -> s b (h d)", b=batch_size
-            ).contiguous()
         elif self.attn_backend == _Backend.TORCH_SDPA:
             # Execute attention entry by entry for speed & less VRAM.
-            from vllm.platforms import current_platform
-
-            if current_platform.is_rocm():
-                q = q.contiguous()
-                k = k.contiguous()
-                v = v.contiguous()
             outputs = []
             for i in range(1, len(cu_seqlens)):
                 start_idx = cu_seqlens[i - 1]
@@ -443,34 +436,31 @@ class Qwen2_5_VisionAttention(nn.Module):
                 k_i = k[:, start_idx:end_idx]
                 v_i = v[:, start_idx:end_idx]
                 q_i, k_i, v_i = (
-                    rearrange(x, "b s h d -> b h s d") for x in [q_i, k_i, v_i]
+                    einops.rearrange(x, "b s h d -> b h s d") for x in [q_i, k_i, v_i]
                 )
                 output_i = F.scaled_dot_product_attention(q_i, k_i, v_i, dropout_p=0.0)
-                output_i = rearrange(output_i, "b h s d -> b s h d ")
+                output_i = einops.rearrange(output_i, "b h s d -> b s h d ")
                 outputs.append(output_i)
             context_layer = torch.cat(outputs, dim=1)
-            context_layer = rearrange(
+            context_layer = einops.rearrange(
                 context_layer, "b s h d -> s b (h d)"
             ).contiguous()
         elif self.attn_backend == _Backend.XFORMERS:
-            from xformers import ops as xops
-            from xformers.ops.fmha.attn_bias import BlockDiagonalMask
-
-            attn_bias = BlockDiagonalMask.from_seqlens(
-                q_seqlen=seqlens, kv_seqlen=None, device=q.device
-            )
-
-            context_layer = xops.memory_efficient_attention_forward(
-                q, k, v, attn_bias=attn_bias, p=0, scale=None
-            )
-            context_layer = rearrange(
-                context_layer, "b s h d -> s b (h d)"
-            ).contiguous()
+            context_layer = vit_xformers_attn_wrapper(q, k, v, seqlens)
 
         output, _ = self.proj(context_layer)
         return output
 
 
+@support_torch_compile(
+    dynamic_arg_dims={
+        "x": 0,
+        "cu_seqlens": 0,
+        "rotary_pos_emb": 0,
+        "seqlens": 0,
+    },
+    mark_unbacked_dims={"seqlens": 0},
+)
 class Qwen2_5_VisionBlock(nn.Module):
     def __init__(
         self,
@@ -515,8 +505,8 @@ class Qwen2_5_VisionBlock(nn.Module):
         x: torch.Tensor,
         cu_seqlens: torch.Tensor,
         rotary_pos_emb: torch.Tensor,
-        max_seqlen: int | None = None,  # Only used for Flash Attention
-        seqlens: list[int] | None = None,  # Only used for xFormers
+        max_seqlen: torch.Tensor,  # Only used for Flash Attention
+        seqlens: torch.Tensor,  # Only used for xFormers
     ) -> torch.Tensor:
         x_attn = self.attn(
             self.norm1(x),
@@ -530,6 +520,11 @@ class Qwen2_5_VisionBlock(nn.Module):
         return x
 
 
+@support_torch_compile(
+    dynamic_arg_dims={
+        "x": 0,
+    }
+)
 class Qwen2_5_VisionPatchEmbed(nn.Module):
     def __init__(
         self,
@@ -556,6 +551,11 @@ class Qwen2_5_VisionPatchEmbed(nn.Module):
         return x
 
 
+@support_torch_compile(
+    dynamic_arg_dims={
+        "x": 0,
+    }
+)
 class Qwen2_5_VisionPatchMerger(nn.Module):
     def __init__(
         self,
@@ -665,13 +665,18 @@ class Qwen2_5_VisionTransformer(nn.Module):
         self.spatial_merge_size = vision_config.spatial_merge_size
         self.fullatt_block_indexes = vision_config.fullatt_block_indexes
         self.spatial_merge_unit = self.spatial_merge_size**2
+        # TODO[@lucaskabela]: Investigate fixing this usage
+        # see https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/27044
+        # DO NOT MOVE THIS IMPORT
+        from vllm.compilation.backends import set_model_tag
 
-        self.patch_embed = Qwen2_5_VisionPatchEmbed(
-            patch_size=patch_size,
-            temporal_patch_size=temporal_patch_size,
-            in_channels=in_channels,
-            hidden_size=self.hidden_size,
-        )
+        with set_model_tag("Qwen2_5_VisionPatchEmbed"):
+            self.patch_embed = Qwen2_5_VisionPatchEmbed(
+                patch_size=patch_size,
+                temporal_patch_size=temporal_patch_size,
+                in_channels=in_channels,
+                hidden_size=self.hidden_size,
+            )
 
         norm_layer = partial(RMSNorm, eps=norm_eps)
         head_dim = self.hidden_size // self.num_heads
@@ -701,32 +706,35 @@ class Qwen2_5_VisionTransformer(nn.Module):
                 f"Qwen2.5-VL does not support {self.attn_backend} backend now."
             )
 
-        self.blocks = nn.ModuleList(
-            [
-                Qwen2_5_VisionBlock(
-                    dim=self.hidden_size,
-                    num_heads=self.num_heads,
-                    mlp_hidden_dim=vision_config.intermediate_size,
-                    act_fn=get_act_and_mul_fn(vision_config.hidden_act),
-                    norm_layer=norm_layer,
-                    quant_config=quant_config,
-                    prefix=f"{prefix}.blocks.{layer_idx}",
-                    use_data_parallel=use_data_parallel,
-                    attn_backend=self.attn_backend,
-                    use_upstream_fa=use_upstream_fa,
-                )
-                for layer_idx in range(depth)
-            ]
-        )
-        self.merger = Qwen2_5_VisionPatchMerger(
-            d_model=vision_config.out_hidden_size,
-            context_dim=self.hidden_size,
-            norm_layer=norm_layer,
-            spatial_merge_size=self.spatial_merge_size,
-            quant_config=quant_config,
-            prefix=f"{prefix}.merger",
-            use_data_parallel=use_data_parallel,
-        )
+        with set_model_tag("Qwen2_5_VisionBlock"):
+            self.blocks = nn.ModuleList(
+                [
+                    Qwen2_5_VisionBlock(
+                        dim=self.hidden_size,
+                        num_heads=self.num_heads,
+                        mlp_hidden_dim=vision_config.intermediate_size,
+                        act_fn=get_act_and_mul_fn(vision_config.hidden_act),
+                        norm_layer=norm_layer,
+                        quant_config=quant_config,
+                        prefix=f"{prefix}.blocks.{layer_idx}",
+                        use_data_parallel=use_data_parallel,
+                        attn_backend=self.attn_backend,
+                        use_upstream_fa=use_upstream_fa,
+                    )
+                    for layer_idx in range(depth)
+                ]
+            )
+
+        with set_model_tag("Qwen2_5_VisionPatchMerger"):
+            self.merger = Qwen2_5_VisionPatchMerger(
+                d_model=vision_config.out_hidden_size,
+                context_dim=self.hidden_size,
+                norm_layer=norm_layer,
+                spatial_merge_size=self.spatial_merge_size,
+                quant_config=quant_config,
+                prefix=f"{prefix}.merger",
+                use_data_parallel=use_data_parallel,
+            )
 
     @property
     def dtype(self) -> torch.dtype:
@@ -827,15 +835,18 @@ class Qwen2_5_VisionTransformer(nn.Module):
     def compute_attn_mask_seqlen(
         self,
         cu_seqlens: torch.Tensor,
-    ) -> tuple[int | None, list[int] | None]:
-        max_seqlen, seqlens = None, None
+    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+        max_seqlen, seqlens = (
+            torch.zeros(1, device=cu_seqlens.device),
+            torch.zeros(1, device=cu_seqlens.device),
+        )
         if (
             self.attn_backend == _Backend.FLASH_ATTN
             or self.attn_backend == _Backend.ROCM_AITER_FA
         ):
-            max_seqlen = (cu_seqlens[1:] - cu_seqlens[:-1]).max().item()
+            max_seqlen = (cu_seqlens[1:] - cu_seqlens[:-1]).max()
         elif self.attn_backend == _Backend.XFORMERS:
-            seqlens = (cu_seqlens[1:] - cu_seqlens[:-1]).tolist()
+            seqlens = cu_seqlens[1:] - cu_seqlens[:-1]
         return max_seqlen, seqlens
 
     @staticmethod
@@ -1233,6 +1244,7 @@ class Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration(
 
         self.use_data_parallel = multimodal_config.mm_encoder_tp_mode == "data"
         self.config = config
+        self.vllm_config = vllm_config
         self.multimodal_config = multimodal_config
         self.video_pruning_rate = multimodal_config.video_pruning_rate
         self.is_multimodal_pruning_enabled = (
@@ -1248,7 +1260,7 @@ class Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration(
                 else None
             )
             self.visual = Qwen2_5_VisionTransformer(
-                config.vision_config,
+                vision_config=config.vision_config,
                 norm_eps=getattr(config, "rms_norm_eps", 1e-6),
                 quant_config=self.quant_config,
                 prefix=maybe_prefix(prefix, "visual"),
@@ -1336,13 +1348,13 @@ class Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration(
             image_embeds = image_input["image_embeds"].type(self.visual.dtype)
         else:
             pixel_values = image_input["pixel_values"]
-
-            if self.use_data_parallel:
-                return run_dp_sharded_mrope_vision_model(
-                    self.visual, pixel_values, grid_thw_list, rope_type="rope_3d"
-                )
-            else:
-                image_embeds = self.visual(pixel_values, grid_thw=grid_thw_list)
+            with set_forward_context(None, self.vllm_config):
+                if self.use_data_parallel:
+                    return run_dp_sharded_mrope_vision_model(
+                        self.visual, pixel_values, grid_thw_list, rope_type="rope_3d"
+                    )
+                else:
+                    image_embeds = self.visual(pixel_values, grid_thw=grid_thw_list)
 
         # Split concatenated embeddings for each image item.
         # Using prod on grid_thw_list instead of grid_thw.prod avoids CUDA sync
@@ -1396,12 +1408,18 @@ class Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration(
             video_embeds = video_input["video_embeds"].type(self.visual.dtype)
         else:
             pixel_values_videos = video_input["pixel_values_videos"]
-            if self.use_data_parallel:
-                return run_dp_sharded_mrope_vision_model(
-                    self.visual, pixel_values_videos, grid_thw_list, rope_type="rope_3d"
-                )
-            else:
-                video_embeds = self.visual(pixel_values_videos, grid_thw=grid_thw_list)
+            with set_forward_context(None, self.vllm_config):
+                if self.use_data_parallel:
+                    return run_dp_sharded_mrope_vision_model(
+                        self.visual,
+                        pixel_values_videos,
+                        grid_thw_list,
+                        rope_type="rope_3d",
+                    )
+                else:
+                    video_embeds = self.visual(
+                        pixel_values_videos, grid_thw=grid_thw_list
+                    )
 
         # Split concatenated embeddings for each video item.
         merge_size = self.visual.spatial_merge_size