[Bug] Does PytorchEngine Visual Model Support Prefix Caching?

[OftenDream]

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Describe the bug

I am using the PytorchEngineConfig to build a qwen2-vl triton service.
I sent the following three requests to the server in sequence:

1. Request 1 -> Response A
2. Request 2 -> Response B
3. Request 3 (same content as Request 1) -> Response B
   Ideally, Request 3 should have received Response A. I suspect that Request 3 was parsed with the same prefix as Request 2, resulting in the same response as Request 2.

Could you please confirm whether PytorchEngine supports prefix caching for visual models, and if so, how it might be affecting the responses?

Thank you for your assistance.

Reproduction

build triton server:

        enable_prefix_caching=True
        engine_config = PytorchEngineConfig(
            tp=tp,
            cache_max_entry_count=cache_max_entry_count,
            enable_prefix_caching=enable_prefix_caching)
        self.engine = pipeline(model_path=model_path,
                               model_name=model_name,
                               backend_config=engine_config,
                               log_level='INFO')

then send request:

          with grpcclient.InferenceServerClient(self.server_url) as client:
            inputs = [
                self.prepare_tensor('max_tokens', np.array([max_tokens], dtype=np.int32)),
                self.prepare_tensor('temperature', np.array([temperature], dtype=np.float32)),
                self.prepare_tensor('top_p', np.array([top_p], dtype=np.float32)),
                self.prepare_tensor('top_k', np.array([top_k], dtype=np.int32)),
                self.prepare_tensor('stream', np.array([stream], dtype=np.bool_)),
                self.prepare_tensor('messages', np.array([prompt], dtype=np.object_)),
                self.prepare_tensor('text', np.array([text], dtype=np.object_)),
                self.prepare_tensor('ignore_eos', np.array([ig_eos], dtype=np.bool_))
            ]

        client.start_stream(partial(self.stream_callback))
        client.async_stream_infer(self.model_name, inputs, sequence_start=True, sequence_end=True)

Environment

cuda=11.8
lmdeploy=0.6.2
torch=2.4.0

Error traceback

No response

[grimoire]

Nope, we don't have a good solution to match the multimodal features. Prefix caching is not supported on any vl model.