diff --git a/docs/source/models/supported_models.md b/docs/source/models/supported_models.md
index ffedd5b0..b6fef2f4 100644
--- a/docs/source/models/supported_models.md
+++ b/docs/source/models/supported_models.md
@@ -886,6 +886,13 @@ See [this page](#generative-models) for more information on how to use generativ
   *
   * ✅︎
   * ✅︎
+- * `KimiVLForConditionalGeneration`
+  * Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct, Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking
+  * T + I<sup>+</sup>
+  * `moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct`, `moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking`
+  *
+  *
+  * ✅︎
 - * `Llama4ForConditionalGeneration`
   * Llama 4
   * T + I<sup>+</sup>
diff --git a/examples/offline_inference/vision_language.py b/examples/offline_inference/vision_language.py
index f51cef95..281d4fbd 100644
--- a/examples/offline_inference/vision_language.py
+++ b/examples/offline_inference/vision_language.py
@@ -364,6 +364,29 @@ def run_internvl(questions: list[str], modality: str) -> ModelRequestData:
     )
 
 
+# Kimi-VL
+def run_kimi_vl(questions: list[str], modality: str) -> ModelRequestData:
+    assert modality == "image"
+
+    prompts = [
+        "<|im_user|>user<|im_middle|><|media_start|>image<|media_content|>"
+        f"<|media_pad|><|media_end|>{question}<|im_end|>"
+        "<|im_assistant|>assistant<|im_middle|>" for question in questions
+    ]
+
+    engine_args = EngineArgs(
+        model="moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct",
+        max_model_len=4096,
+        disable_mm_preprocessor_cache=args.disable_mm_preprocessor_cache,
+        trust_remote_code=True,
+    )
+
+    return ModelRequestData(
+        engine_args=engine_args,
+        prompts=prompts,
+    )
+
+
 # LLaVA-1.5
 def run_llava(questions: list[str], modality: str) -> ModelRequestData:
     assert modality == "image"
@@ -966,6 +989,7 @@ model_example_map = {
     "h2ovl_chat": run_h2ovl,
     "idefics3": run_idefics3,
     "internvl_chat": run_internvl,
+    "kimi_vl": run_kimi_vl,
     "llava": run_llava,
     "llava-next": run_llava_next,
     "llava-next-video": run_llava_next_video,
diff --git a/examples/offline_inference/vision_language_multi_image.py b/examples/offline_inference/vision_language_multi_image.py
index 89818f8b..6fa4a754 100644
--- a/examples/offline_inference/vision_language_multi_image.py
+++ b/examples/offline_inference/vision_language_multi_image.py
@@ -326,6 +326,45 @@ def load_llama4(question: str, image_urls: list[str]) -> ModelRequestData:
     )
 
 
+def load_kimi_vl(question: str, image_urls: list[str]) -> ModelRequestData:
+    model_name = "moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct"
+
+    engine_args = EngineArgs(
+        model=model_name,
+        max_model_len=4096,
+        max_num_seqs=4,
+        tensor_parallel_size=1,
+        limit_mm_per_prompt={"image": len(image_urls)},
+        trust_remote_code=True,
+    )
+
+    placeholders = [{"type": "image", "image": url} for url in image_urls]
+    messages = [{
+        "role":
+        "user",
+        "content": [
+            *placeholders,
+            {
+                "type": "text",
+                "text": question
+            },
+        ],
+    }]
+
+    processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_name,
+                                              trust_remote_code=True)
+
+    prompt = processor.apply_chat_template(messages,
+                                           tokenize=False,
+                                           add_generation_prompt=True)
+
+    return ModelRequestData(
+        engine_args=engine_args,
+        prompt=prompt,
+        image_data=[fetch_image(url) for url in image_urls],
+    )
+
+
 def load_mistral3(question: str, image_urls: list[str]) -> ModelRequestData:
     model_name = "mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503"
 
@@ -640,6 +679,7 @@ model_example_map = {
     "h2ovl_chat": load_h2ovl,
     "idefics3": load_idefics3,
     "internvl_chat": load_internvl,
+    "kimi_vl": load_kimi_vl,
     "llama4": load_llama4,
     "mistral3": load_mistral3,
     "mllama": load_mllama,
diff --git a/requirements/test.in b/requirements/test.in
index 95c94dcd..b9b3df06 100644
--- a/requirements/test.in
+++ b/requirements/test.in
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ pytest-timeout
 # testing utils
 awscli
 backoff # required for phi4mm test
+blobfile # required for kimi-vl test
 einops # required for MPT, qwen-vl and Mamba
 httpx
 librosa # required for audio tests
diff --git a/requirements/test.txt b/requirements/test.txt
index 476b4a2c..a5c062b0 100644
--- a/requirements/test.txt
+++ b/requirements/test.txt
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ bitsandbytes==0.45.3
     # via -r requirements/test.in
 black==24.10.0
     # via datamodel-code-generator
+blobfile==3.0.0
+    # via -r requirements/test.in
 boto3==1.35.57
     # via tensorizer
 botocore==1.35.57
@@ -127,6 +129,7 @@ fastsafetensors==0.1.10
     # via -r requirements/test.in
 filelock==3.16.1
     # via
+    #   blobfile
     #   datasets
     #   huggingface-hub
     #   ray
@@ -227,7 +230,9 @@ llvmlite==0.44.0
 lm-eval==0.4.8
     # via -r requirements/test.in
 lxml==5.3.0
-    # via sacrebleu
+    # via
+    #   blobfile
+    #   sacrebleu
 markdown-it-py==3.0.0
     # via rich
 markupsafe==3.0.2
@@ -426,6 +431,8 @@ pybind11==2.13.6
     # via lm-eval
 pycparser==2.22
     # via cffi
+pycryptodomex==3.22.0
+    # via blobfile
 pydantic==2.9.2
     # via
     #   datamodel-code-generator
@@ -689,6 +696,7 @@ tzdata==2024.2
     # via pandas
 urllib3==2.2.3
     # via
+    #   blobfile
     #   botocore
     #   requests
     #   responses
diff --git a/tests/models/decoder_only/vision_language/test_models.py b/tests/models/decoder_only/vision_language/test_models.py
index 5bd10544..5c87cefc 100644
--- a/tests/models/decoder_only/vision_language/test_models.py
+++ b/tests/models/decoder_only/vision_language/test_models.py
@@ -318,6 +318,18 @@ VLM_TEST_SETTINGS = {
         use_tokenizer_eos=True,
         patch_hf_runner=model_utils.internvl_patch_hf_runner,
     ),
+    "kimi_vl": VLMTestInfo(
+        models=["moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct"],
+        test_type=(VLMTestType.IMAGE, VLMTestType.MULTI_IMAGE),
+        prompt_formatter=lambda img_prompt: f"<|im_user|>user<|im_middle|>{img_prompt}<|im_end|><|im_assistant|>assistant<|im_middle|>", # noqa: E501
+        img_idx_to_prompt=lambda _: "<|media_start|>image<|media_content|><|media_pad|><|media_end|>",  # noqa: E501
+        max_model_len=8192,
+        max_num_seqs=2,
+        dtype="bfloat16",
+        tensor_parallel_size=1,
+        vllm_output_post_proc=model_utils.kimiv_vl_vllm_to_hf_output,
+        marks=[large_gpu_mark(min_gb=48)],
+    ),
     "llama4": VLMTestInfo(
         models=["meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct"],
         prompt_formatter=lambda img_prompt: f"<|begin_of_text|><|header_start|>user<|header_end|>\n\n{img_prompt}<|eot|><|header_start|>assistant<|header_end|>\n\n", # noqa: E501
diff --git a/tests/models/decoder_only/vision_language/vlm_utils/model_utils.py b/tests/models/decoder_only/vision_language/vlm_utils/model_utils.py
index 3520345c..49305332 100644
--- a/tests/models/decoder_only/vision_language/vlm_utils/model_utils.py
+++ b/tests/models/decoder_only/vision_language/vlm_utils/model_utils.py
@@ -68,6 +68,17 @@ def qwen2_vllm_to_hf_output(
     return output_ids, hf_output_str, out_logprobs
 
 
+def kimiv_vl_vllm_to_hf_output(
+        vllm_output: RunnerOutput,
+        model: str) -> tuple[list[int], str, Optional[SampleLogprobs]]:
+    """Sanitize vllm output [kimi_vl models] to be comparable with hf output."""
+    output_ids, output_str, out_logprobs = vllm_output
+
+    hf_output_str = output_str + "<|im_end|>[EOS]"
+
+    return output_ids, hf_output_str, out_logprobs
+
+
 def llava_image_vllm_to_hf_output(vllm_output: RunnerOutput,
                                   model: str) -> RunnerOutput:
     config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(model)
diff --git a/tests/models/multimodal/processing/test_common.py b/tests/models/multimodal/processing/test_common.py
index 0f25c189..b14e8a02 100644
--- a/tests/models/multimodal/processing/test_common.py
+++ b/tests/models/multimodal/processing/test_common.py
@@ -258,6 +258,7 @@ def _test_processing_correctness_mistral(
     "OpenGVLab/InternVL2-1B",
     "HuggingFaceM4/Idefics3-8B-Llama3",
     "HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2-2.2B-Instruct",
+    "moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct",
     "meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct",
     "llava-hf/llava-1.5-7b-hf",
     "llava-hf/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf",
diff --git a/tests/models/registry.py b/tests/models/registry.py
index 896b6c3b..530da89c 100644
--- a/tests/models/registry.py
+++ b/tests/models/registry.py
@@ -302,6 +302,9 @@ _MULTIMODAL_EXAMPLE_MODELS = {
                                          trust_remote_code=True),
     "Idefics3ForConditionalGeneration": _HfExamplesInfo("HuggingFaceM4/Idefics3-8B-Llama3",  # noqa: E501
                                                         {"tiny": "HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM-256M-Instruct"}),  # noqa: E501
+    "KimiVLForConditionalGeneration": _HfExamplesInfo("moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct",  # noqa: E501
+                                                      extras={"thinking": "moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking"},  # noqa: E501
+                                                      trust_remote_code=True),
     "Llama4ForConditionalGeneration": _HfExamplesInfo("meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct",   # noqa: E501
                                                       min_transformers_version="4.51"),
     "LlavaForConditionalGeneration": _HfExamplesInfo("llava-hf/llava-1.5-7b-hf",
diff --git a/vllm/entrypoints/chat_utils.py b/vllm/entrypoints/chat_utils.py
index 6fb7dc2c..d6010e1c 100644
--- a/vllm/entrypoints/chat_utils.py
+++ b/vllm/entrypoints/chat_utils.py
@@ -512,6 +512,8 @@ class BaseMultiModalItemTracker(ABC, Generic[_T]):
                 return "<|fim_prefix|><|img|><|fim_suffix|>"
             if model_type == "gemma3":
                 return "<start_of_image>"
+            if model_type == "kimi_vl":
+                return "<|media_start|>image<|media_content|><|media_pad|><|media_end|>" # noqa: E501
 
             raise TypeError(f"Unknown {modality} model type: {model_type}")
         elif modality == "audio":
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/kimi_vl.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/kimi_vl.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c2fac70a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/kimi_vl.py
@@ -0,0 +1,608 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# ruff: noqa: E501
+# Adapted from https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct/blob/main/modeling_kimi_vl.py
+# Copyright 2025 The Moonshot AI Team, DeepSeek-AI, and HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# The code is based on llava (llava/modeling_llava.py) and DeepSeek-V3 (DeepSeek-V3/modeling_deepseek.py), but modified for KimiVL.
+#
+# Licensing Information:
+# - Code derived from llava (llava/modeling_llava.py) and DeepSeek-V3 (DeepSeek-V3/modeling_deepseek.py) is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
+# - Other parts of the code are licensed under the MIT License.
+#
+# Apache License, Version 2.0:
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+# MIT License:
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+# of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+# in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+# to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+# copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+# furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+# copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+#
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+# AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+# LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+# OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+# SOFTWARE.
+
+import copy
+import math
+from collections.abc import Mapping
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import (Any, Iterable, List, Literal, Optional, Sequence, Tuple,
+                    TypedDict, Union)
+
+import torch
+from torch import nn
+from transformers import BatchFeature
+from transformers.activations import GELUActivation
+
+from vllm.config import VllmConfig
+from vllm.distributed import (get_tensor_model_parallel_rank,
+                              get_tensor_model_parallel_world_size)
+from vllm.logger import init_logger
+from vllm.model_executor.layers.fused_moe import FusedMoE
+from vllm.model_executor.layers.logits_processor import LogitsProcessor
+from vllm.model_executor.layers.sampler import SamplerOutput, get_sampler
+from vllm.model_executor.layers.vocab_parallel_embedding import (
+    DEFAULT_VOCAB_PADDING_SIZE, ParallelLMHead)
+from vllm.model_executor.model_loader.weight_utils import (
+    default_weight_loader, maybe_remap_kv_scale_name)
+from vllm.model_executor.models.deepseek_v2 import DeepseekV2Model
+from vllm.model_executor.models.interfaces import SupportsMultiModal
+from vllm.model_executor.models.moonvit import MoonVitPretrainedModel
+from vllm.model_executor.models.utils import merge_multimodal_embeddings
+from vllm.model_executor.sampling_metadata import SamplingMetadata
+from vllm.multimodal import MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY
+from vllm.multimodal.inputs import (MultiModalFieldConfig, MultiModalKwargs,
+                                    NestedTensors)
+from vllm.multimodal.parse import (ImageEmbeddingItems, ImageProcessorItems,
+                                   MultiModalDataItems)
+from vllm.multimodal.processing import (BaseMultiModalProcessor,
+                                        BaseProcessingInfo, PromptReplacement,
+                                        PromptUpdate)
+from vllm.multimodal.profiling import BaseDummyInputsBuilder, ProcessorInputs
+from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors
+from vllm.transformers_utils.configs import KimiVLConfig, MoonViTConfig
+from vllm.transformers_utils.configs.deepseek_vl2 import DeepseekV2Config
+
+from .utils import is_pp_missing_parameter, maybe_prefix
+
+logger = init_logger(__name__)
+
+
+# For dummy input only
+@dataclass
+class MaxImageTokenMeta:
+    width: int = 1024
+    height: int = 1024
+
+
+class KimiVLMultiModalProjector(nn.Module):
+
+    def __init__(self, config: KimiVLConfig):
+        super().__init__()
+
+        self.hidden_size = (config.vision_config.hidden_size *
+                            config.vision_config.merge_kernel_size[0] *
+                            config.vision_config.merge_kernel_size[1])
+
+        self.pre_norm = torch.nn.LayerNorm(config.vision_config.hidden_size,
+                                           eps=1e-5)
+        self.linear_1 = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size,
+                                  self.hidden_size,
+                                  bias=True)
+        self.act = GELUActivation()
+        self.linear_2 = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size,
+                                  config.text_config.hidden_size,
+                                  bias=True)
+
+    def forward(self, image_features: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        hidden_states = self.pre_norm(image_features).view(
+            -1, self.hidden_size)
+        hidden_states = self.linear_1(hidden_states)
+        hidden_states = self.act(hidden_states)
+        hidden_states = self.linear_2(hidden_states)
+        return hidden_states
+
+
+class KimiVLImagePixelInputs(TypedDict):
+    type: Literal["pixel_values"]
+    pixel_values: Union[torch.Tensor, List[torch.Tensor]]
+    """
+    Shape:`(num_patches, num_channels, patch_size, patch_size)`
+    """
+
+    image_grid_hws: torch.Tensor
+    """Shape:`(num_images, 2)`"""
+
+
+# TODO: support embeds too
+# We only support pixel input for kimi-vl now
+KimiVLImageInputs = KimiVLImagePixelInputs
+
+
+class KimiVLProcessingInfo(BaseProcessingInfo):
+
+    def get_hf_config(self):
+        return self.ctx.get_hf_config(KimiVLConfig)
+
+    def get_num_image_tokens(
+        self,
+        *,
+        image_width: int,
+        image_height: int,
+    ) -> int:
+        hf_processor = self.get_hf_processor()
+        patch_size = hf_processor.image_processor.patch_size
+        kernel_size = hf_processor.image_processor.merge_kernel_size
+        in_token_limit = hf_processor.image_processor.in_token_limit
+        height = image_height
+        width = image_width
+        assert isinstance(height,
+                          int), f"height must be int, current height {height}"
+        assert isinstance(width,
+                          int), f"width must be int, current width {width}"
+        assert kernel_size is not None, "kernel_size must be specified"
+
+        if (width // patch_size) * (height // patch_size) > in_token_limit:
+            scale = math.sqrt(in_token_limit / ((width // patch_size) *
+                                                (height // patch_size)))
+            new_w, new_h = int(width * scale), int(height * scale)
+            width, height = new_w, new_h
+
+        kernel_height, kernel_width = kernel_size
+
+        pad_height = (kernel_height * patch_size - height %
+                      (kernel_height * patch_size)) % (kernel_height *
+                                                       patch_size)
+        pad_width = (kernel_width * patch_size - width %
+                     (kernel_width * patch_size)) % (kernel_width * patch_size)
+
+        # Calculate new dimensions after padding and patching
+        token_height = (height + pad_height) // (kernel_size[0] * patch_size)
+        token_width = (width + pad_width) // (kernel_size[1] * patch_size)
+        return int(token_height * token_width)
+
+    def get_supported_mm_limits(self) -> Mapping[str, Optional[int]]:
+        # None means unlimited
+        return {"image": None}
+
+    def get_mm_max_tokens_per_item(
+        self,
+        seq_len: int,
+        mm_counts: Mapping[str, int],
+    ) -> Mapping[str, int]:
+        return {
+            "image":
+            self.get_num_image_tokens(
+                image_width=MaxImageTokenMeta.width,
+                image_height=MaxImageTokenMeta.height,
+            ),
+        }
+
+    @property
+    def image_token_id(self) -> int:
+        return self.get_hf_config().media_placeholder_token_id
+
+
+class KimiVLDummyInputsBuilder(BaseDummyInputsBuilder[KimiVLProcessingInfo]):
+
+    def __init__(self, info: KimiVLProcessingInfo) -> None:
+        super().__init__(info)
+
+        self.image_token_id = self.info.image_token_id
+        self.image_token = self.info.get_tokenizer().decode(
+            self.image_token_id)
+
+    def get_dummy_processor_inputs(
+        self,
+        seq_len: int,
+        mm_counts: Mapping[str, int],
+    ) -> ProcessorInputs:
+        num_images = mm_counts.get("image", 0)
+
+        width = MaxImageTokenMeta.width
+        height = MaxImageTokenMeta.height
+        mm_data = {
+            "image":
+            self._get_dummy_images(width=width,
+                                   height=height,
+                                   num_images=num_images)
+        }
+
+        return ProcessorInputs(
+            prompt_text=self.image_token * num_images,
+            mm_data=mm_data,
+        )
+
+
+class KimiVLMultiModalProcessor(BaseMultiModalProcessor[KimiVLProcessingInfo]):
+
+    def _get_mm_fields_config(
+        self,
+        hf_inputs: BatchFeature,
+        hf_processor_mm_kwargs: Mapping[str, object],
+    ) -> Mapping[str, MultiModalFieldConfig]:
+        image_grid_hws = hf_inputs.get("image_grid_hws", torch.empty((0, 2)))
+        image_grid_sizes = image_grid_hws.prod(-1)
+
+        # pixel_values is merged as a single large tensor
+        # image_grid_hws is shapes for each subtensor in pixel_values
+        return dict(
+            pixel_values=MultiModalFieldConfig.flat_from_sizes(
+                "image", image_grid_sizes),
+            image_grid_hws=MultiModalFieldConfig.batched("image"),
+        )
+
+    def _get_prompt_updates(
+        self,
+        mm_items: MultiModalDataItems,
+        hf_processor_mm_kwargs: Mapping[str, Any],
+        out_mm_kwargs: MultiModalKwargs,
+    ) -> Sequence[PromptUpdate]:
+        image_token_id = self.info.image_token_id
+
+        def get_replacement(item_idx: int):
+            images = mm_items.get_items(
+                "image", (ImageEmbeddingItems, ImageProcessorItems))
+
+            if isinstance(images, ImageEmbeddingItems):
+                num_image_tokens = images.get_feature_size(item_idx)
+            else:
+                image_size = images.get_image_size(item_idx)
+                num_image_tokens = self.info.get_num_image_tokens(
+                    image_width=image_size.width,
+                    image_height=image_size.height,
+                )
+
+            return [image_token_id] * num_image_tokens
+
+        return [
+            PromptReplacement(
+                modality="image",
+                target=[image_token_id],
+                replacement=get_replacement,
+            ),
+        ]
+
+
+@MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY.register_processor(KimiVLMultiModalProcessor,
+                                        info=KimiVLProcessingInfo,
+                                        dummy_inputs=KimiVLDummyInputsBuilder)
+class KimiVLForConditionalGeneration(nn.Module, SupportsMultiModal):
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        vllm_config: VllmConfig,
+        prefix: str = "",
+    ) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        model_config = vllm_config.model_config
+        config: KimiVLConfig = model_config.hf_config
+        self.config = config
+        quant_config = vllm_config.quant_config
+
+        assert isinstance(config.vision_config, MoonViTConfig)
+
+        self.vision_tower = MoonVitPretrainedModel(config.vision_config)
+
+        self.multi_modal_projector = KimiVLMultiModalProjector(config=config)
+
+        self.quant_config = quant_config
+        sub_vllm_config = copy.deepcopy(vllm_config)
+        sub_vllm_config.model_config.hf_config = sub_vllm_config.model_config.hf_config.text_config
+        self.language_model = DeepseekV2Model(
+            vllm_config=sub_vllm_config,
+            prefix=maybe_prefix(prefix, "language_model"),
+        )
+        self.unpadded_vocab_size = config.text_config.vocab_size
+        self.lm_head = ParallelLMHead(
+            self.unpadded_vocab_size,
+            config.text_config.hidden_size,
+            org_num_embeddings=self.config.text_config.vocab_size,
+            padding_size=DEFAULT_VOCAB_PADDING_SIZE)
+        logit_scale = getattr(config, "logit_scale", 1.0)
+        self.logits_processor = LogitsProcessor(self.unpadded_vocab_size,
+                                                config.vocab_size, logit_scale)
+        self.sampler = get_sampler()
+        self.media_placeholder: int = self.config.media_placeholder_token_id
+        self.tp_rank = get_tensor_model_parallel_rank()
+        self.tp_world_size = get_tensor_model_parallel_world_size()
+
+    # ref: qwen2_vl.py
+    def _validate_and_reshape_mm_tensor(self, mm_input: object,
+                                        name: str) -> torch.Tensor:
+        if not isinstance(mm_input, (torch.Tensor, list)):
+            raise ValueError(f"Incorrect type of {name}. "
+                             f"Got type: {type(mm_input)}")
+        if isinstance(mm_input, torch.Tensor):
+            if mm_input.ndim == 2:
+                return mm_input
+            if mm_input.ndim != 3:
+                raise ValueError(f"{name} should be 2D or batched 3D tensor. "
+                                 f"Got ndim: {mm_input.ndim} "
+                                 f"(shape={mm_input.shape})")
+            return mm_input.reshape(-1, mm_input.shape[-1])
+        else:
+            return torch.concat(mm_input)
+
+    def _parse_and_validate_image_input(
+            self, **kwargs: object) -> Optional[KimiVLImageInputs]:
+        # image input type must be pixel values now
+        pixel_values = kwargs.pop("pixel_values", None)
+        image_grid_hws = kwargs.pop("image_grid_hws", None)
+
+        if pixel_values is None:
+            return None
+
+        image_grid_hws = self._validate_and_reshape_mm_tensor(
+            image_grid_hws, "image grid hws")
+        # pixel_values may have complex shapes
+        num_channels = 3
+        patch_size = self.config.vision_config.patch_size
+        if isinstance(pixel_values, list):
+            pixel_values = torch.cat([
+                x.reshape(-1, num_channels, patch_size, patch_size)
+                for x in pixel_values
+            ])
+        else:
+            pixel_values = pixel_values.reshape(-1, num_channels, patch_size,
+                                                patch_size)
+        # fp32 -> bf16
+        pixel_values = pixel_values.to(torch.bfloat16)
+        # image_grid_hws.shape = (N, 2)
+        assert image_grid_hws.ndim == 2, f"unexpected shape for image_grid_hws: {image_grid_hws.shape}"
+
+        return KimiVLImagePixelInputs(
+            type="pixel_values",
+            pixel_values=pixel_values,
+            image_grid_hws=image_grid_hws,
+        )
+
+    # perform vt on processored pixel_values
+    @torch.inference_mode()
+    def _process_image_pixels(self,
+                              inputs: KimiVLImagePixelInputs) -> torch.Tensor:
+        assert self.vision_tower is not None
+
+        pixel_values = inputs["pixel_values"]
+        image_grid_hws = inputs["image_grid_hws"]
+        return self.vision_tower(pixel_values, image_grid_hws)
+
+    def _process_image_input(self,
+                             image_input: KimiVLImageInputs) -> torch.Tensor:
+        assert image_input["type"] == "pixel_values"
+        image_features = self._process_image_pixels(image_input)
+        assert isinstance(image_features, list)
+        lengths = [x.shape[0] for x in image_features]
+        return self.multi_modal_projector(
+            torch.cat(image_features)).split(lengths)
+
+    def get_multimodal_embeddings(self,
+                                  **kwargs: object) -> Optional[NestedTensors]:
+        # Validate the multimodal input keyword arguments
+        image_input = self._parse_and_validate_image_input(**kwargs)
+        if image_input is None:
+            return None
+
+        # Run multimodal inputs through encoder and projector
+        vision_embeddings = self._process_image_input(image_input)
+        return vision_embeddings
+
+    def get_input_embeddings(
+        self,
+        input_ids: torch.Tensor,
+        multimodal_embeddings: Optional[NestedTensors] = None,
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+
+        # `get_input_embeddings` should already be implemented for the language
+        # model as one of the requirements of basic vLLM model implementation.
+        inputs_embeds = self.language_model.get_input_embeddings(input_ids)
+
+        if multimodal_embeddings is not None:
+            inputs_embeds = merge_multimodal_embeddings(
+                input_ids=input_ids,
+                inputs_embeds=inputs_embeds,
+                multimodal_embeddings=multimodal_embeddings,
+                placeholder_token_id=self.config.media_placeholder_token_id)
+
+        return inputs_embeds
+
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        input_ids: torch.Tensor,
+        positions: torch.Tensor,
+        intermediate_tensors: Optional[IntermediateTensors] = None,
+        inputs_embeds: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+        **kwargs: object,
+    ) -> SamplerOutput:
+        if intermediate_tensors is not None:
+            inputs_embeds = None
+        # NOTE: In v1, inputs_embeds is always generated at model runner from
+        # `get_multimodal_embeddings` and `get_input_embeddings`, this
+        # condition is only for v0 compatibility.
+        elif inputs_embeds is None:
+            image_input = self._parse_and_validate_image_input(**kwargs)
+            if image_input is None:
+                inputs_embeds = None
+            else:
+                inputs_embeds = self.get_input_embeddings(input_ids)
+                image_embeds = self._process_image_input(image_input)
+                inputs_embeds = merge_multimodal_embeddings(
+                    input_ids,
+                    inputs_embeds,
+                    image_embeds,
+                    placeholder_token_id=self.config.
+                    media_placeholder_token_id,
+                )
+                input_ids = None
+
+        hidden_states = self.language_model(
+            input_ids=input_ids,
+            positions=positions,
+            intermediate_tensors=intermediate_tensors,
+            inputs_embeds=inputs_embeds,
+        )
+
+        return hidden_states
+
+    def compute_logits(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
+                       sampling_metadata: SamplingMetadata,
+                       **kwargs) -> torch.Tensor:
+        logits = self.logits_processor(self.lm_head, hidden_states,
+                                       sampling_metadata, **kwargs)
+        return logits
+
+    def sample(
+        self,
+        logits: torch.Tensor,
+        sampling_metadata: SamplingMetadata,
+    ) -> Optional[SamplerOutput]:
+        next_tokens = self.sampler(logits, sampling_metadata)
+        return next_tokens
+
+    def load_weights(self, weights: Iterable[Tuple[str, torch.Tensor]]):
+        config = self.config.text_config
+        _KEYS_TO_MODIFY_MAPPING = {
+            "language_model.lm_head": "lm_head",
+            "language_model.model": "language_model",
+        }
+        # only doing this for language model part for now.
+        stacked_params_mapping = [
+            # (param_name, shard_name, shard_id)
+            (".gate_up_proj", ".gate_proj", 0),
+            (".gate_up_proj", ".up_proj", 1),
+        ]
+        if not config.use_mla:
+            stacked_params_mapping += [
+                (".qkv_proj", ".q_proj", "q"),
+                (".qkv_proj", ".k_proj", "k"),
+                (".qkv_proj", ".v_proj", "v"),
+            ]
+        if getattr(config, "n_routed_experts", None):
+            # Params for weights, fp8 weight scales, fp8 activation scales
+            # (param_name, weight_name, expert_id, shard_id)
+            expert_params_mapping = FusedMoE.make_expert_params_mapping(
+                ckpt_gate_proj_name="gate_proj",
+                ckpt_down_proj_name="down_proj",
+                ckpt_up_proj_name="up_proj",
+                num_experts=config.n_routed_experts)
+        else:
+            expert_params_mapping = []
+
+        params_dict = dict(self.named_parameters())
+        for args in weights:
+            name, loaded_weight = args[:2]
+            kwargs = args[2] if len(args) > 2 else {}
+            if "rotary_emb.inv_freq" in name:
+                continue
+
+            spec_layer = get_spec_layer_idx_from_weight_name(config, name)
+            if spec_layer is not None:
+                continue  # skip spec decode layers for main model
+
+            if ("rotary_emb.cos_cached" in name
+                    or "rotary_emb.sin_cached" in name):
+                # Models trained using ColossalAI may include these tensors in
+                # the checkpoint. Skip them.
+                continue
+            for key_to_modify, new_key in _KEYS_TO_MODIFY_MAPPING.items():
+                if key_to_modify in name:
+                    name = name.replace(key_to_modify, new_key)
+            use_default_weight_loading = False
+            if "vision" in name:
+                if self.vision_tower is not None:
+                    # We only do sharding for language model and
+                    # not vision model for now.
+                    use_default_weight_loading = True
+            else:
+                for (param_name, weight_name,
+                     shard_id) in stacked_params_mapping:
+                    if weight_name not in name:
+                        continue
+                    # We have mlp.experts[0].gate_proj in the checkpoint.
+                    # Since we handle the experts below in expert_params_mapping,
+                    # we need to skip here BEFORE we update the name, otherwise
+                    # name will be updated to mlp.experts[0].gate_up_proj, which
+                    # will then be updated below in expert_params_mapping
+                    # for mlp.experts[0].gate_gate_up_proj, which breaks load.
+                    if (("mlp.experts." in name) and name not in params_dict):
+                        continue
+                    name = name.replace(weight_name, param_name)
+                    # Skip loading extra bias for GPTQ models.
+                    if name.endswith(".bias") and name not in params_dict:
+                        continue
+
+                    if is_pp_missing_parameter(name, self):
+                        continue
+
+                    param = params_dict[name]
+                    weight_loader = param.weight_loader
+                    weight_loader(param, loaded_weight, shard_id, **kwargs)
+                    break
+                else:
+                    for idx, (param_name, weight_name, expert_id,
+                              shard_id) in enumerate(expert_params_mapping):
+                        if weight_name not in name:
+                            continue
+                        name = name.replace(weight_name, param_name)
+
+                        if is_pp_missing_parameter(name, self):
+                            continue
+
+                        param = params_dict[name]
+                        weight_loader = param.weight_loader
+                        weight_loader(param,
+                                      loaded_weight,
+                                      name,
+                                      expert_id=expert_id,
+                                      shard_id=shard_id,
+                                      **kwargs)
+                        break
+                    else:
+                        use_default_weight_loading = True
+            if use_default_weight_loading:
+                # Skip loading extra bias for GPTQ models.
+                if name.endswith(".bias") and name not in params_dict:
+                    continue
+                # Remapping the name of FP8 kv-scale.
+                name = maybe_remap_kv_scale_name(name, params_dict)
+                if name is None:
+                    continue
+
+                if is_pp_missing_parameter(name, self):
+                    continue
+
+                param = params_dict[name]
+                weight_loader = getattr(param, "weight_loader",
+                                        default_weight_loader)
+                weight_loader(param, loaded_weight, **kwargs)
+
+
+def get_spec_layer_idx_from_weight_name(config: DeepseekV2Config,
+                                        weight_name: str) -> Optional[int]:
+    if hasattr(config,
+               "num_nextn_predict_layers") and (config.num_nextn_predict_layers
+                                                > 0):
+        layer_idx = config.num_hidden_layers
+        for i in range(config.num_nextn_predict_layers):
+            if weight_name.startswith(f"model.layers.{layer_idx+i}."):
+                return layer_idx + i
+    return None
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/moonvit.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/moonvit.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c367d90f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/moonvit.py
@@ -0,0 +1,628 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# ruff: noqa: E501
+# Adapted from https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct/blob/main/modeling_kimi_vl.py
+# This file is meant to be used in kimi_vl.py only
+# Copyright 2025 The Moonshot AI Team, DeepSeek-AI, and HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# The code is based on llava (llava/modeling_llava.py) and DeepSeek-V3 (DeepSeek-V3/modeling_deepseek.py), but modified for KimiVL.
+#
+# Licensing Information:
+# - Code derived from llava (llava/modeling_llava.py) and DeepSeek-V3 (DeepSeek-V3/modeling_deepseek.py) is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
+# - Other parts of the code are licensed under the MIT License.
+#
+# Apache License, Version 2.0:
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+# MIT License:
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+# of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+# in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+# to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+# copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+# furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+# copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+#
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+# AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+# LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+# OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+# SOFTWARE.
+import math
+from copy import deepcopy
+from functools import cached_property
+from typing import List, Optional, Sequence, Tuple, Union
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+from transformers.activations import ACT2FN, PytorchGELUTanh
+from transformers.modeling_utils import PreTrainedModel
+from transformers.utils import is_flash_attn_2_available
+
+from vllm.transformers_utils.configs.moonvit import MoonViTConfig
+
+if is_flash_attn_2_available():
+    from flash_attn import flash_attn_varlen_func
+else:
+    flash_attn_varlen_func = None
+
+
+def multihead_attention(
+    q: torch.Tensor,
+    k: torch.Tensor,
+    v: torch.Tensor,
+    q_cu_seqlens: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+    k_cu_seqlens: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+):
+    """Multi-head attention using flash attention 2.
+
+    Args:
+        q, k, v: tensor of shape (batch_size, seqlen, num_heads, head_dim),
+            or (tot_seqlens, num_heads, head_dim) if packing.
+        q_cu_seqlens (torch.Tensor): cumulative sequence lengths of q.
+            The first element should be 0 and the last element should be q.shape[0].
+        k_cu_seqlens (torch.Tensor): cumulative sequence lengths of k.
+            The first element should be 0 and the last element should be k.shape[0].
+
+    Returns:
+        output: shape (batch_size, seqlen, dim) or (tot_seqlens, dim) if packing,
+            where dim = num_heads * head_dim
+    """
+    # Unified format legal check
+    assert q.dim() == k.dim() == v.dim() == 3, "q, k, v must have 3 dims"
+    assert q_cu_seqlens[-1] == q.shape[
+        0], "q_cu_seqlens must sum to q.shape[0]"
+    assert (k_cu_seqlens[-1] == k.shape[0] ==
+            v.shape[0]), "k_cu_seqlens must sum to k.shape[0]"
+    assert q.dtype in [
+        torch.bfloat16,
+        torch.float16,
+    ], f"unsupported dtype {q.dtype} for multihead attn"
+
+    max_seqlen_q = (q_cu_seqlens[1:] - q_cu_seqlens[:-1]).max().item()
+    max_seqlen_k = (k_cu_seqlens[1:] - k_cu_seqlens[:-1]).max().item()
+    attn_out = flash_attn_varlen_func(
+        q,
+        k,
+        v,
+        q_cu_seqlens,
+        k_cu_seqlens,
+        max_seqlen_q,
+        max_seqlen_k,
+        causal=False,
+    )
+    attn_out = attn_out.flatten(start_dim=-2)
+
+    return attn_out
+
+
+def sdpa_attention(
+    q: torch.Tensor,
+    k: torch.Tensor,
+    v: torch.Tensor,
+    q_cu_seqlens: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+    k_cu_seqlens: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """SDPA attention.
+
+    Args:
+        q, k, v: tensor of shape (batch_size, seqlen, num_heads, head_dim),
+            or (tot_seqlens, num_heads, head_dim) if packing.
+    """
+    seq_length = q.shape[0]
+    attention_mask = torch.zeros([1, seq_length, seq_length],
+                                 device=q.device,
+                                 dtype=torch.bool)
+    for i in range(1, len(q_cu_seqlens)):
+        attention_mask[
+            ...,
+            q_cu_seqlens[i - 1]:q_cu_seqlens[i],
+            q_cu_seqlens[i - 1]:q_cu_seqlens[i],
+        ] = True
+    q = q.transpose(0, 1)
+    k = k.transpose(0, 1)
+    v = v.transpose(0, 1)
+    attn_output = F.scaled_dot_product_attention(q,
+                                                 k,
+                                                 v,
+                                                 attention_mask,
+                                                 dropout_p=0.0)
+    attn_output = attn_output.transpose(0, 1)
+    attn_output = attn_output.reshape(seq_length, -1)
+    return attn_output
+
+
+VL_VISION_ATTENTION_FUNCTIONS = {
+    "flash_attention_2": multihead_attention,
+    "sdpa": sdpa_attention,
+}
+
+
+def _apply_rope_input_validation(x, freqs_cis):
+    assert x.ndim == freqs_cis.ndim + 1, (x.shape, freqs_cis.shape)
+    assert x.shape[:-2] == freqs_cis.shape[:-1], (x.shape, freqs_cis.shape)
+    assert x.shape[-1] == 2 * freqs_cis.shape[-1], (x.shape, freqs_cis.shape)
+    assert freqs_cis.dtype == torch.complex64, freqs_cis.dtype
+
+
+def apply_rope(xq: torch.Tensor, xk: torch.Tensor,
+               freqs_cis: torch.Tensor) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+    """
+    Args: (The leading dimensions of all inputs should be the same)
+        xq: query, tensor of shape (..., num_heads, head_dim)
+        xk: key, tensor of shape (..., num_heads, head_dim)
+        freqs_cis: tensor of shape (..., head_dim/2), dtype=torch.complex64. It contains the precomputed cis(freqs) for each position in the 2D grid.
+    Returns:
+        xq_out, xk_out: tensors of shape (..., num_heads, head_dim)
+    """
+    _apply_rope_input_validation(xq, freqs_cis)
+    _apply_rope_input_validation(xk, freqs_cis)
+
+    freqs_cis = freqs_cis.unsqueeze(-2)  # ..., 1, head_dim/2
+    # ..., num_heads, head_dim/2
+    xq_ = torch.view_as_complex(xq.float().view(*xq.shape[:-1], -1, 2))
+    xk_ = torch.view_as_complex(xk.float().view(*xq.shape[:-1], -1, 2))
+    xq_out = torch.view_as_real(xq_ * freqs_cis).flatten(
+        -2)  # ..., num_heads, head_dim
+    xk_out = torch.view_as_real(xk_ * freqs_cis).flatten(
+        -2)  # ..., num_heads, head_dim
+    return xq_out.type_as(xq), xk_out.type_as(xk)
+
+
+class Learnable2DInterpPosEmb(nn.Module):
+
+    def __init__(self,
+                 height: int,
+                 width: int,
+                 dim: int,
+                 interpolation_mode: str = "bicubic") -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        self.height = height
+        self.width = width
+        self.interpolation_mode = interpolation_mode
+        self.weight = nn.Parameter(torch.empty(height, width, dim))
+        self.reset_parameters()
+
+    def reset_parameters(self):
+        nn.init.normal_(self.weight)
+
+    def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor, grid_hws: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        pos_embs = []
+        for shape in grid_hws.tolist():
+            if shape == self.weight.shape[:-1]:
+                pos_embs.append(self.weight.flatten(end_dim=1))
+            else:
+                pos_embs.append(
+                    F.interpolate(
+                        self.weight.permute((2, 0, 1)).unsqueeze(0),
+                        size=shape,
+                        mode=self.interpolation_mode,
+                    ).squeeze(0).permute((1, 2, 0)).flatten(end_dim=1))
+        out = x + torch.cat(pos_embs)
+        return out
+
+
+class MoonVisionPatchEmbed(nn.Module):
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        out_dim: int,
+        in_dim: int = 3,
+        patch_size: Union[int, Tuple[int, int]] = (14, 14),
+        pos_emb_height: int = 14,
+        pos_emb_width: int = 14,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        assert isinstance(
+            patch_size,
+            (int, Sequence)), f"Invalid patch_size type: {type(patch_size)}"
+        if isinstance(patch_size, int):
+            patch_size = (patch_size, patch_size)
+        assert (len(patch_size) == 2
+                ), f"Expected patch_size to be a tuple of 2, got {patch_size}"
+        self.patch_size = patch_size
+
+        self.proj = nn.Conv2d(in_dim,
+                              out_dim,
+                              kernel_size=patch_size,
+                              stride=patch_size)
+
+        self.pos_emb = Learnable2DInterpPosEmb(height=pos_emb_height,
+                                               width=pos_emb_width,
+                                               dim=out_dim)
+
+    def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor, grid_hw: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """
+        Args:
+            x (L, Channels): input tensor
+            grid_hw (N, 2): grid height and width
+
+        Returns:
+            (L, Cout) tensor
+        """
+        x = self.proj(x).view(x.size(0), -1)
+        # apply positional embedding
+        x = self.pos_emb(x, grid_hw)
+        return x
+
+
+class Rope2DPosEmb(nn.Module):
+    """2D rotary position embedding with multi-resolution support.
+
+    This class is intended to be used in the following way:
+    1. Before training, create an instance of Rope2DPosEmb. This instance will hold the precomputed cis.
+    2. Before each forward pass, call `get_freqs_cis_by_*` to get the `freqs_cis` tensor for this iteration.
+    3. During the forward pass, pass the `freqs_cis` tensor to each attention layer, and call `apply` just before each attention operation.
+        The rope is shared across all attention layers and all heads.
+
+    Refs:
+    - RoFormer: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09864
+    - VisionLLaMA: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00522
+    - https://github.com/Meituan-AutoML/VisionLLaMA/blob/main/dit/models.py
+
+    Args:
+        dim (int): usually the multi-head attention dimension, should be divisible by 4 (TODO: relax this constraint if needed)
+        max_height (int): the maximum height of the 2D grid
+        max_width (int): the maximum width of the 2D grid
+        theta_base (float): the base of the theta
+        device (str): the device to store the precomputed cis
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self,
+                 dim: int,
+                 max_height: int,
+                 max_width: int,
+                 theta_base=10000,
+                 device="cuda"):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.dim = dim
+        assert self.dim % 4 == 0, "dim must be divisible by 4"
+        self.max_height = max_height
+        self.max_width = max_width
+        self.theta_base = theta_base
+        self.device = device
+
+    def extra_repr(self):
+        return f"dim={self.dim}, max_height={self.max_height}, max_width={self.max_width}, theta_base={self.theta_base}"
+
+    @cached_property
+    def precomputed_freqs_cis(self) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """Calculate the cis(freqs) for each position in the 2D grid.
+
+        Return: complex tensor of shape (max_height, max_width, dim//2) and value:
+            height axis: ret[h, w, 2*i] = cis(h * theta_base**(-4*i/dim))
+            weight axis: ret[h, w, 2*i+1] = cis(w * theta_base**(-4*i/dim))   with (i in [0, dim//4))
+            note: `cis` is a mathematical notation defined by cis x = cos x + i sin x,
+        """
+        N = self.max_height * self.max_width
+        flat_pos = torch.arange(0, N).float().to(self.device)
+        x_pos = flat_pos % self.max_width
+        y_pos = flat_pos // self.max_width
+        dim_range = (torch.arange(0, self.dim,
+                                  4)[:(self.dim // 4)].float().to(self.device)
+                     )  # C/4
+        freqs = 1.0 / (self.theta_base**(dim_range / self.dim))
+        x_freqs = torch.outer(x_pos, freqs).float()  # N, C/4
+        y_freqs = torch.outer(y_pos, freqs).float()  # N, C/4
+        x_cis = torch.polar(torch.ones_like(x_freqs), x_freqs)  # N, C/4
+        y_cis = torch.polar(torch.ones_like(y_freqs), y_freqs)  # N, C/4
+        # N, C/4, 2
+        freqs_cis = torch.cat(
+            [x_cis.unsqueeze(dim=-1),
+             y_cis.unsqueeze(dim=-1)], dim=-1)
+        # max_height, max_width, C/2
+        freqs_cis = freqs_cis.reshape(self.max_height, self.max_width, -1)
+        return freqs_cis
+
+    def get_freqs_cis_by_seqlens(self, grid_hws: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """
+        Args:
+            grid_hws (torch.Tensor): containing list of (height, width) or (t, height, width) tuples.
+        Returns:
+            freqs_cis: tensor of shape (sum(t * height * width), dim//2)
+        """
+        shapes = grid_hws.tolist()
+        assert all(1 <= h <= self.max_height and 1 <= w <= self.max_width
+                   for h, w in shapes), (
+                       shapes,
+                       self.max_height,
+                       self.max_width,
+                   )
+        freqs_cis = torch.cat(
+            [
+                self.precomputed_freqs_cis[:h, :w].reshape(-1, self.dim // 2)
+                for h, w in shapes
+            ],
+            dim=0,
+        )
+        return freqs_cis
+
+    def get_freqs_cis_by_idx(self, pos_idx: torch.Tensor,
+                             pos_idx_mask: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """
+        Args:
+            pos_idx: tensor of shape (..., 2), It contains the (h, w) position indices of each 2D token.
+            pos_idx_mask: a mask of shape (...), the leading dimensions should be the same as pos_idx.
+                Rope will only be applied to the tokens with True mask. `freqs_cis` for the tokens with False mask with be ones.
+        Return:
+            freqs_cis: tensor of shape (..., dim//2)
+        """
+        assert (pos_idx.shape[:-1] == pos_idx_mask.shape
+                and pos_idx.shape[-1] == 2 and pos_idx.ndim
+                == pos_idx_mask.ndim + 1), (pos_idx.shape, pos_idx_mask.shape)
+        assert pos_idx_mask.dtype == torch.bool, pos_idx_mask.dtype
+
+        shp = pos_idx_mask.shape + (self.dim // 2, )  # ..., head_dim/2
+        freqs_cis = torch.ones(shp, dtype=torch.complex64,
+                               device=self.device)  # ..., head_dim/2
+        freqs_cis[pos_idx_mask] = self.precomputed_freqs_cis[pos_idx[
+            ..., 0][pos_idx_mask], pos_idx[..., 1][pos_idx_mask]]
+        return freqs_cis
+
+
+class MLP2(nn.Module):
+    """
+    Args:
+        dims: [in_dim, hidden_dim, out_dim]
+        bias: whether to use bias in linear layer.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, dims: list[int], activation, bias=True):
+        super().__init__()
+        assert len(dims) == 3
+        self.fc0 = nn.Linear(dims[0], dims[1], bias=bias)
+        self.fc1 = nn.Linear(dims[1], dims[2], bias=bias)
+        self.activation = activation
+        for m in [self.fc0, self.fc1]:
+            nn.init.trunc_normal_(m.weight, std=math.sqrt(2 / m.in_features))
+            if m.bias is not None:
+                nn.init.zeros_(m.bias)
+
+    def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        x = self.fc0(x)
+        x = self.activation(x)
+        return self.fc1(x)
+
+
+class MoonVitEncoderLayer(nn.Module):
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        num_heads: int,
+        hidden_dim: int,
+        mlp_dim: int,
+        *,
+        attn_implementation: str = "sdpa",
+        activation=F.gelu,
+        attn_bias: bool = False,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.num_heads = num_heads
+        self.hidden_dim = hidden_dim
+        self.hidden_size_per_attention_head = self.hidden_dim // self.num_heads
+        self.attn_implementation = attn_implementation
+        # use fa2 in vllm by default
+        if is_flash_attn_2_available():
+            self.attn_implementation = "flash_attention_2"
+
+        self.norm0 = nn.LayerNorm(hidden_dim)
+        self.norm1 = nn.LayerNorm(hidden_dim)
+        self.mlp = MLP2([hidden_dim, mlp_dim, hidden_dim], activation)
+        self.wqkv = nn.Linear(hidden_dim, hidden_dim * 3, bias=attn_bias)
+        self.wo = nn.Linear(hidden_dim, hidden_dim, bias=attn_bias)
+
+    def attention_qkvpacked(
+        self,
+        x: torch.Tensor,
+        cu_seqlens: torch.Tensor,
+        rope_freqs_cis: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+    ):
+        """
+        Args:
+            x (torch.Tensor): (batch_size, seqlen, hidden_dim)
+            cu_seqlens (torch.Tensor):
+        """
+        xqkv = self.wqkv(x)
+
+        qkv_shape = xqkv.size()[:-1] + (
+            3,
+            self.num_heads,
+            self.hidden_size_per_attention_head,
+        )
+        # xqkv: (batch_size, seqlen, 3, nheads, headdim)
+        xqkv = xqkv.view(*qkv_shape)
+        xq, xk, xv = torch.unbind(xqkv, dim=-3)
+
+        xq, xk = apply_rope(xq, xk, rope_freqs_cis)
+
+        attn_func = VL_VISION_ATTENTION_FUNCTIONS[self.attn_implementation]
+        attn_out = attn_func(xq,
+                             xk,
+                             xv,
+                             q_cu_seqlens=cu_seqlens,
+                             k_cu_seqlens=cu_seqlens)
+
+        attn_out = self.wo(attn_out)
+        return attn_out
+
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
+        cu_seqlens: torch.Tensor,
+        rope_freqs_cis: Union[torch.Tensor, None] = None,
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """
+        Args:
+            hidden_states: non-packed (B, N, D) or packed (L, D). if non-packed, seqlens should be None, if packed, seqlens should be set
+
+        Returns:
+            output: same shape of input, non-packed (B, N, D) for non-packed input, (L, D) for packed input
+        """
+        residual = hidden_states
+        hidden_states = self.norm0(hidden_states)
+        attn_out = self.attention_qkvpacked(hidden_states,
+                                            cu_seqlens,
+                                            rope_freqs_cis=rope_freqs_cis)
+        hidden_states = residual + attn_out
+
+        residual = hidden_states
+        hidden_states = self.mlp(self.norm1(hidden_states))
+        hidden_states = residual + hidden_states
+        return hidden_states
+
+
+class MoonVitEncoder(nn.Module):
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        hidden_dim: int,
+        num_layers: int,
+        block_cfg: dict,
+    ) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+
+        self.rope_2d = Rope2DPosEmb(
+            block_cfg["hidden_dim"] // block_cfg["num_heads"], 512, 512)
+        self.blocks = nn.ModuleList(
+            [MoonVitEncoderLayer(**block_cfg) for _ in range(num_layers)])
+        self.final_layernorm = nn.LayerNorm(hidden_dim)
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
+                grid_hw: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        rope_freqs_cis = self.rope_2d.get_freqs_cis_by_seqlens(
+            grid_hws=grid_hw)
+
+        lengths = torch.cat((
+            torch.zeros(1, device=hidden_states.device, dtype=grid_hw.dtype),
+            grid_hw[:, 0] * grid_hw[:, 1],
+        ))
+        cu_seqlens = lengths.cumsum(dim=0, dtype=torch.int32)
+
+        for _, block in enumerate(self.blocks):
+            hidden_states = block(hidden_states,
+                                  cu_seqlens,
+                                  rope_freqs_cis=rope_freqs_cis)
+
+        hidden_states = self.final_layernorm(hidden_states)
+
+        return hidden_states
+
+
+def patch_merger(
+        x: torch.Tensor,
+        grid_hw: torch.Tensor,
+        merge_kernel_size: list[int, int] = (2, 2),
+) -> List[torch.Tensor]:
+    d_model = x.size(-1)
+
+    outputs = []
+    pre_sum = 0
+    for x_shape in grid_hw.tolist():
+        height, width = x_shape[0], x_shape[1]
+        # Get the current sequence
+        seq = x[pre_sum:pre_sum + height * width]
+        # Reshape along self.merge_kernel_size and concat to the last dimension
+        kernel_height, kernel_width = merge_kernel_size
+        new_height, new_width = height // kernel_height, width // kernel_width
+        reshaped_seq = seq.view(new_height, kernel_height, new_width,
+                                kernel_width, d_model)
+        reshaped_seq = reshaped_seq.permute(0, 2, 1, 3, 4).contiguous()
+        padded_seq = reshaped_seq.view(new_height * new_width,
+                                       kernel_height * kernel_width, -1)
+        outputs.append(padded_seq)
+        pre_sum += height * width
+
+    return outputs
+
+
+class MoonVitVLProjector(nn.Module):
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        in_channels: int,
+        merge_kernel_size: list[int, int],
+        hidden_act: str = "gelu",
+        ln_eps: float = 1e-5,
+        out_dim: int = 4096,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.hidden_size = in_channels * merge_kernel_size[
+            0] * merge_kernel_size[1]
+
+        self.pre_norm = nn.nn.LayerNorm(in_channels, eps=ln_eps)
+        self.linear_1 = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size,
+                                  self.hidden_size,
+                                  bias=True)
+        self.act = ACT2FN[hidden_act]
+        self.linear_2 = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size, out_dim, bias=True)
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        hidden_states = self.pre_norm(hidden_states).view(-1, self.hidden_size)
+        hidden_states = self.linear_1(hidden_states)
+        hidden_states = self.act(hidden_states)
+        hidden_states = self.linear_2(hidden_states)
+        return hidden_states
+
+
+class MoonVitPretrainedModel(PreTrainedModel):
+    config_class = MoonViTConfig
+    model_type = "moonvit"
+    _no_split_modules = ["PackingTransformer"]
+    _supports_flash_attn_2 = True
+    _supports_sdpa = True
+
+    def __init__(self, config: MoonViTConfig, *inputs, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(config, *inputs, **kwargs)
+        config = deepcopy(config)
+        self.merge_kernel_size = config.merge_kernel_size
+        self.patch_size = config.patch_size
+        self.patch_embed = MoonVisionPatchEmbed(
+            out_dim=config.hidden_size,
+            patch_size=config.patch_size,
+            pos_emb_height=config.init_pos_emb_height,
+            pos_emb_width=config.init_pos_emb_width,
+        )
+
+        self.encoder = MoonVitEncoder(
+            hidden_dim=config.hidden_size,
+            num_layers=config.num_hidden_layers,
+            block_cfg={
+                "num_heads": config.num_attention_heads,
+                "hidden_dim": config.hidden_size,
+                "mlp_dim": config.intermediate_size,
+                "activation": PytorchGELUTanh(),
+                "attn_bias": True,
+                "attn_implementation": config._attn_implementation,
+            },
+        )
+
+    def forward(self, pixel_values: torch.Tensor,
+                grid_hw: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """
+        Args:
+            pixel_values (torch.Tensor): The input pixel values.
+            grid_hw (torch.Tensor): The grid height and width.
+
+        Returns:
+            torch.Tensor: The output tokens.
+        """
+        hidden_states = self.patch_embed(pixel_values, grid_hw)
+        hidden_states = self.encoder(hidden_states, grid_hw)
+        hidden_states = patch_merger(hidden_states,
+                                     grid_hw,
+                                     merge_kernel_size=self.merge_kernel_size)
+        return hidden_states
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/registry.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/registry.py
index 0d13d699..b345113e 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/registry.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/registry.py
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ _MULTIMODAL_MODELS = {
     "InternVLChatModel": ("internvl", "InternVLChatModel"),
     "Idefics3ForConditionalGeneration":("idefics3","Idefics3ForConditionalGeneration"),
     "SmolVLMForConditionalGeneration": ("smolvlm","SmolVLMForConditionalGeneration"),  # noqa: E501
+    "KimiVLForConditionalGeneration": ("kimi_vl", "KimiVLForConditionalGeneration"),  # noqa: E501
     "LlavaForConditionalGeneration": ("llava", "LlavaForConditionalGeneration"),
     "LlavaNextForConditionalGeneration": ("llava_next", "LlavaNextForConditionalGeneration"),  # noqa: E501
     "LlavaNextVideoForConditionalGeneration": ("llava_next_video", "LlavaNextVideoForConditionalGeneration"),  # noqa: E501
diff --git a/vllm/transformers_utils/config.py b/vllm/transformers_utils/config.py
index fe0319c9..f37605be 100644
--- a/vllm/transformers_utils/config.py
+++ b/vllm/transformers_utils/config.py
@@ -33,12 +33,13 @@ from vllm.transformers_utils.configs import (ChatGLMConfig, Cohere2Config,
                                              EAGLEConfig, ExaoneConfig,
                                              H2OVLChatConfig,
                                              InternVLChatConfig, JAISConfig,
-                                             MedusaConfig, MllamaConfig,
-                                             MLPSpeculatorConfig, MPTConfig,
-                                             NemotronConfig, NVLM_D_Config,
-                                             Olmo2Config, RWConfig,
-                                             SkyworkR1VChatConfig, SolarConfig,
-                                             Telechat2Config, UltravoxConfig)
+                                             KimiVLConfig, MedusaConfig,
+                                             MllamaConfig, MLPSpeculatorConfig,
+                                             MPTConfig, NemotronConfig,
+                                             NVLM_D_Config, Olmo2Config,
+                                             RWConfig, SkyworkR1VChatConfig,
+                                             SolarConfig, Telechat2Config,
+                                             UltravoxConfig)
 # yapf: enable
 from vllm.transformers_utils.utils import check_gguf_file
 from vllm.utils import resolve_obj_by_qualname
@@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ _CONFIG_REGISTRY: Dict[str, Type[PretrainedConfig]] = {
     "cohere2": Cohere2Config,
     "dbrx": DbrxConfig,
     "deepseek_vl_v2": DeepseekVLV2Config,
+    "kimi_vl": KimiVLConfig,
     "mpt": MPTConfig,
     "RefinedWeb": RWConfig,  # For tiiuae/falcon-40b(-instruct)
     "RefinedWebModel": RWConfig,  # For tiiuae/falcon-7b(-instruct)
diff --git a/vllm/transformers_utils/configs/__init__.py b/vllm/transformers_utils/configs/__init__.py
index 53699341..739eea5c 100644
--- a/vllm/transformers_utils/configs/__init__.py
+++ b/vllm/transformers_utils/configs/__init__.py
@@ -13,9 +13,11 @@ from vllm.transformers_utils.configs.falcon import RWConfig
 from vllm.transformers_utils.configs.h2ovl import H2OVLChatConfig
 from vllm.transformers_utils.configs.internvl import InternVLChatConfig
 from vllm.transformers_utils.configs.jais import JAISConfig
+from vllm.transformers_utils.configs.kimi_vl import KimiVLConfig
 from vllm.transformers_utils.configs.medusa import MedusaConfig
 from vllm.transformers_utils.configs.mllama import MllamaConfig
 from vllm.transformers_utils.configs.mlp_speculator import MLPSpeculatorConfig
+from vllm.transformers_utils.configs.moonvit import MoonViTConfig
 from vllm.transformers_utils.configs.mpt import MPTConfig
 from vllm.transformers_utils.configs.nemotron import NemotronConfig
 from vllm.transformers_utils.configs.nvlm_d import NVLM_D_Config
@@ -40,6 +42,8 @@ __all__ = [
     "ExaoneConfig",
     "MllamaConfig",
     "MLPSpeculatorConfig",
+    "MoonViTConfig",
+    "KimiVLConfig",
     "NemotronConfig",
     "NVLM_D_Config",
     "Olmo2Config",
diff --git a/vllm/transformers_utils/configs/kimi_vl.py b/vllm/transformers_utils/configs/kimi_vl.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..97ff44bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vllm/transformers_utils/configs/kimi_vl.py
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# Adapted from https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct/blob/main/configuration_kimi_vl.py
+from typing import Optional, Union
+
+from transformers.configuration_utils import PretrainedConfig
+
+from vllm.transformers_utils.configs.deepseek_vl2 import DeepseekV2Config
+from vllm.transformers_utils.configs.moonvit import MoonViTConfig
+
+
+class KimiVLConfig(PretrainedConfig):
+    model_type = "kimi_vl"
+
+    def __init__(self,
+                 vision_config: Optional[Union[dict, MoonViTConfig]] = None,
+                 text_config: Optional[Union[dict, DeepseekV2Config]] = None,
+                 ignore_index: int = -100,
+                 media_placeholder_token_id: int = 163605,
+                 pad_token_id: int = 0,
+                 **kwargs):
+        if vision_config is None:
+            vision_config = MoonViTConfig()
+        elif isinstance(vision_config, dict):
+            vision_config = MoonViTConfig(**vision_config)
+        self.vision_config = vision_config
+
+        if text_config is None:
+            text_config = DeepseekV2Config()
+        elif isinstance(text_config, dict):
+            text_config = DeepseekV2Config(**text_config)
+        self.text_config = text_config
+
+        self.ignore_index = ignore_index
+        self.media_placeholder_token_id = media_placeholder_token_id
+
+        super().__init__(pad_token_id=pad_token_id, **kwargs)
diff --git a/vllm/transformers_utils/configs/moonvit.py b/vllm/transformers_utils/configs/moonvit.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a2b4059a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vllm/transformers_utils/configs/moonvit.py
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# Adapted from https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct/blob/main/configuration_kimi_vl.py
+from transformers.configuration_utils import PretrainedConfig
+
+
+class MoonViTConfig(PretrainedConfig):
+    model_type = "moonvit"
+
+    def __init__(
+            self,
+            patch_size: int = 14,
+            init_pos_emb_height: int = 64,
+            init_pos_emb_width: int = 64,
+            num_attention_heads: int = 16,
+            num_hidden_layers: int = 27,
+            hidden_size: int = 1152,
+            intermediate_size: int = 4304,
+            merge_kernel_size: tuple[int, int] = (2, 2),
+            **kwargs,
+    ):
+        super().__init__(**kwargs)
+        self.patch_size = patch_size
+        # Positional embedding config
+        self.init_pos_emb_height = init_pos_emb_height
+        self.init_pos_emb_width = init_pos_emb_width
+        # Transformer config
+        self.num_hidden_layers = num_hidden_layers
+        self.num_attention_heads = num_attention_heads
+        self.hidden_size = hidden_size
+        self.intermediate_size = intermediate_size
+        # Patch merger config
+        self.merge_kernel_size = merge_kernel_size
diff --git a/vllm/v1/worker/gpu_model_runner.py b/vllm/v1/worker/gpu_model_runner.py
index 70e8bd75..c3d84ab3 100644
--- a/vllm/v1/worker/gpu_model_runner.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/worker/gpu_model_runner.py
@@ -997,13 +997,6 @@ class GPUModelRunner(LoRAModelRunnerMixin):
             # Return empty ModelRunnerOutput if there's no work to do.
             return EMPTY_MODEL_RUNNER_OUTPUT
 
-        if self.is_multimodal_model:
-            # Run the multimodal encoder if any.
-            self._execute_mm_encoder(scheduler_output)
-            mm_embeds = self._gather_mm_embeddings(scheduler_output)
-        else:
-            mm_embeds = []
-
         # Prepare the decoder inputs.
         attn_metadata, logits_indices, spec_decode_metadata = (
             self._prepare_inputs(scheduler_output))
@@ -1019,6 +1012,15 @@ class GPUModelRunner(LoRAModelRunnerMixin):
             num_input_tokens = num_scheduled_tokens
         attn_metadata.num_input_tokens = num_input_tokens
 
+        # _prepare_inputs may reorder the batch, so we must gather multi
+        # modal outputs after that to ensure the correct order
+        if self.is_multimodal_model:
+            # Run the multimodal encoder if any.
+            self._execute_mm_encoder(scheduler_output)
+            mm_embeds = self._gather_mm_embeddings(scheduler_output)
+        else:
+            mm_embeds = []
+
         if self.is_multimodal_model:
             # NOTE(woosuk): To unify token ids and soft tokens (vision
             # embeddings), we always use embeddings (rather than token ids)