diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/managers/mm_utils.py b/python/sglang/srt/managers/mm_utils.py
index 13ca29c54..78a9762ee 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/managers/mm_utils.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/managers/mm_utils.py
@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@ Multi-modality utils
 """
 
 import hashlib
+import pickle
 from abc import abstractmethod
-from typing import Callable, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple
+from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, List, Literal, Optional, Tuple
 
 import numpy as np
 import torch
@@ -27,6 +28,130 @@ from sglang.utils import logger
 # propagation that can cause some log messages (like 'server is fired up') to not appear
 # in the console when multimodal support is enabled.
 
+# TODO(mick): nccl
+# cuda_ipc: for intranode tensor sharing
+TensorTransportMode = Literal["cuda_ipc", "auto", "default"]
+
+
+class TransportProxyTensor(torch.Tensor):
+    """
+    A convenient torch.Tensor subclass that carries extra metadata and supports
+    efficient inter-process communications
+    """
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def __new__(
+        cls,
+        data: torch.Tensor,
+        name: Optional[str] = None,
+        fields: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None,
+        transport_mode: TensorTransportMode = "default",
+        *args,
+        **kwargs,
+    ):
+
+        if not isinstance(data, torch.Tensor):
+            raise TypeError(
+                f"Input 'data' must be a torch.Tensor, but got {type(data)}"
+            )
+
+        instance = data.as_subclass(cls)
+
+        instance._metadata = {
+            "name": name,
+            "fields": fields if fields is not None else {},
+            "transport_mode": transport_mode,
+        }
+
+        return instance
+
+    def __getstate__(self):
+        """
+        Called during pickling. Implements the serialization logic.
+        """
+        # acquire all serialize metadata from _metadata
+        state = {
+            "metadata": self._metadata,
+            "tensor_data": None,
+            "ipc_extra": None,
+        }
+
+        transport_mode = self._metadata.get("transport_mode", "default")
+
+        if transport_mode == "cuda_ipc" and self.is_cuda:
+            try:
+                storage = self.untyped_storage()
+                handle = storage._share_cuda_()
+
+                state["ipc_extra"] = {
+                    "handle": handle,
+                    "shape": self.shape,
+                    "dtype": self.dtype,
+                    "stride": self.stride(),
+                    "device_index": self.device.index,
+                }
+                state["tensor_data"] = None
+            except Exception as e:
+                print_warning_once(
+                    f"Warning: Failed to get CUDA IPC handle ({e}). Falling back to default transport."
+                )
+                state["metadata"]["transport_mode"] = "default"
+                state["tensor_data"] = self.as_subclass(torch.Tensor)
+        else:
+            state["metadata"]["transport_mode"] = "default"
+            state["tensor_data"] = self.as_subclass(torch.Tensor)
+
+        return state
+
+    def __setstate__(self, state: Dict[str, Any]):
+        """
+        Called during unpickling. Implements the deserialization logic.
+        """
+        self._metadata = state["metadata"]
+
+        transport_mode = self._metadata.get("transport_mode", "default")
+
+        if transport_mode == "cuda_ipc" and state["ipc_extra"] is not None:
+            ipc_extra = state["ipc_extra"]
+            handle, shape, dtype, stride, source_device_index = (
+                ipc_extra["handle"],
+                ipc_extra["shape"],
+                ipc_extra["dtype"],
+                ipc_extra["stride"],
+                ipc_extra["device_index"],
+            )
+
+            try:
+                target_device = torch.device(f"cuda:{source_device_index}")
+                with torch.cuda.device(target_device):
+                    storage = torch.UntypedStorage._new_shared_cuda(*handle)
+                    reconstructed_tensor = torch.empty(
+                        0, dtype=dtype, device=target_device
+                    ).set_(storage, storage_offset=0, size=shape, stride=stride)
+                    self.set_(reconstructed_tensor)
+            except Exception as e:
+                print(f"Error: Failed to deserialize from CUDA IPC handle ({e}).")
+                raise e
+
+        elif state["tensor_data"] is not None:
+            self.set_(state["tensor_data"])
+        else:
+            raise pickle.UnpicklingError(
+                "Invalid state for TransportProxyTensor: no tensor data found."
+            )
+
+    @property
+    def name(self) -> Optional[str]:
+        return self._metadata.get("name")
+
+    @property
+    def fields(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        return self._metadata.get("fields", {})
+
+    @property
+    def transport_mode(self) -> TensorTransportMode:
+        return self._metadata.get("transport_mode", "default")
+
 
 class MultiModalityDataPaddingPattern:
     """
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/managers/multimodal_processor.py b/python/sglang/srt/managers/multimodal_processor.py
index 76679358a..51b6f3d92 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/managers/multimodal_processor.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/managers/multimodal_processor.py
@@ -12,18 +12,6 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 PROCESSOR_MAPPING = {}
 
 
-class DummyMultimodalProcessor(BaseMultimodalProcessor):
-    def __init__(self):
-        pass
-
-    async def process_mm_data_async(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        return None
-
-
-def get_dummy_processor():
-    return DummyMultimodalProcessor()
-
-
 def import_processors():
     package_name = "sglang.srt.multimodal.processors"
     package = importlib.import_module(package_name)
@@ -49,11 +37,12 @@ def import_processors():
 
 
 def get_mm_processor(
-    hf_config, server_args: ServerArgs, processor
+    hf_config, server_args: ServerArgs, processor, transport_mode
 ) -> BaseMultimodalProcessor:
     for model_cls, processor_cls in PROCESSOR_MAPPING.items():
         if model_cls.__name__ in hf_config.architectures:
-            return processor_cls(hf_config, server_args, processor)
+            return processor_cls(hf_config, server_args, processor, transport_mode)
+
     raise ValueError(
         f"No processor registered for architecture: {hf_config.architectures}.\n"
         f"Registered architectures: {[model_cls.__name__ for model_cls in PROCESSOR_MAPPING.keys()]}"
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/managers/schedule_batch.py b/python/sglang/srt/managers/schedule_batch.py
index ad8bcf119..283da3394 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/managers/schedule_batch.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/managers/schedule_batch.py
@@ -209,10 +209,11 @@ class MultimodalDataItem:
     hash: int = None
     pad_value: int = None
     offsets: Optional[list] = None
+
     # the raw features returned by processor, e.g. pixel_values or audio_features
     feature: Union[torch.Tensor, np.ndarray] = None
-
-    # the precomputed embeddings for the modality, e.g. image_emb for image, audio_emb for audio
+    # the precomputed embeddings, passed as final encoder embeddings
+    # One and only one of the feature and precomputed_embeddings will be empty
     precomputed_embeddings: Optional[Union[torch.Tensor, np.ndarray]] = None
 
     # Model-specific data stored in a dictionary
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/managers/tokenizer_manager.py b/python/sglang/srt/managers/tokenizer_manager.py
index 0f65fa925..77c805aac 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/managers/tokenizer_manager.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/managers/tokenizer_manager.py
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ from sglang.srt.managers.io_struct import (
     UpdateWeightsFromTensorReqInput,
     UpdateWeightsFromTensorReqOutput,
 )
+from sglang.srt.managers.mm_utils import TensorTransportMode
 from sglang.srt.managers.multimodal_processor import get_mm_processor, import_processors
 from sglang.srt.metrics.collector import TokenizerMetricsCollector
 from sglang.srt.sampling.sampling_params import SamplingParams
@@ -166,6 +167,16 @@ class ReqState:
     output_token_ids_logprobs_idx: List = dataclasses.field(default_factory=list)
 
 
+def _determine_tensor_transport_mode(server_args: ServerArgs) -> TensorTransportMode:
+    is_cross_node = server_args.dist_init_addr
+
+    if is_cross_node:
+        # Fallback to default CPU transport for multi-node
+        return "default"
+    else:
+        return "cuda_ipc"
+
+
 class TokenizerManager:
     """TokenizerManager is a process that tokenizes the text."""
 
@@ -216,12 +227,13 @@ class TokenizerManager:
                 revision=server_args.revision,
                 use_fast=not server_args.disable_fast_image_processor,
             )
+            transport_mode = _determine_tensor_transport_mode(self.server_args)
 
             # We want to parallelize the image pre-processing so we create an executor for it
             # We create mm_processor for any skip_tokenizer_init to make sure we still encode
             # images even with skip_tokenizer_init=False.
             self.mm_processor = get_mm_processor(
-                self.model_config.hf_config, server_args, _processor
+                self.model_config.hf_config, server_args, _processor, transport_mode
             )
 
             if server_args.skip_tokenizer_init:
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/base_processor.py b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/base_processor.py
index 3d548a19e..3f62a14d1 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/base_processor.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/base_processor.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import torch
 from PIL import Image
 from transformers import BaseImageProcessorFast
 
+from sglang.srt.managers.mm_utils import TransportProxyTensor
 from sglang.srt.managers.schedule_batch import Modality, MultimodalDataItem
 from sglang.srt.utils import load_audio, load_image, load_video, logger
 
@@ -142,11 +143,14 @@ class MultimodalSpecialTokens:
 class BaseMultimodalProcessor(ABC):
     models = []
 
-    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor):
+    def __init__(
+        self, hf_config, server_args, _processor, transport_mode, *args, **kwargs
+    ):
         self.hf_config = hf_config
         self._processor = _processor
         self.arch = hf_config.architectures[0]
         self.server_args = server_args
+        self.transport_mode = transport_mode
 
         # FIXME: not accurate, model and image specific
         self.NUM_TOKEN_PER_FRAME = 330
@@ -217,10 +221,6 @@ class BaseMultimodalProcessor(ABC):
             return_tensors="pt",
             **kwargs,
         )
-        if "pixel_values" in result and isinstance(
-            result["pixel_values"], torch.Tensor
-        ):
-            result["pixel_values"] = result["pixel_values"].to("cpu")
         return result
 
     @abstractmethod
@@ -500,7 +500,6 @@ class BaseMultimodalProcessor(ABC):
     ) -> List[MultimodalDataItem]:
         """Create mm_items directly from processor output."""
         items: dict[Modality, MultimodalDataItem] = {}
-
         for attr_name, value in data_dict.items():
             if attr_name == "input_ids":
                 continue
@@ -624,4 +623,19 @@ class BaseMultimodalProcessor(ABC):
                 mm_token_id=mm_token_id,
             )
 
+        # post-process
+        for item in all_collected_items:
+            # replace the feature tensor with a proxy
+            if isinstance(item.feature, torch.Tensor) and item.feature.is_cuda:
+                item.feature = TransportProxyTensor(
+                    transport_mode=self.transport_mode, data=item.feature
+                )
+            elif (
+                isinstance(item.precomputed_embeddings, torch.Tensor)
+                and item.precomputed_embeddings.is_cuda
+            ):
+                item.precomputed_embeddings = TransportProxyTensor(
+                    transport_mode=self.transport_mode, data=item.precomputed_embeddings
+                )
+
         return all_collected_items, input_ids, ret
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/clip.py b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/clip.py
index 0925212cb..19ff71e78 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/clip.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/clip.py
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ from sglang.srt.multimodal.processors.base_processor import (
 class ClipImageProcessor(BaseMultimodalProcessor):
     models = [CLIPModel]
 
-    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor):
-        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor)
+    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs)
         self.mm_tokens = MultimodalSpecialTokens(image_token="<image>").build(
             _processor
         )
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/deepseek_vl_v2.py b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/deepseek_vl_v2.py
index 9847929f7..b09402d0b 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/deepseek_vl_v2.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/deepseek_vl_v2.py
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ from sglang.srt.multimodal.processors.base_processor import (
 class DeepseekVL2ImageProcessor(BaseMultimodalProcessor):
     models = [DeepseekVL2ForCausalLM]
 
-    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor):
-        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor)
+    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs)
         self.mm_tokens = MultimodalSpecialTokens(
             image_token="<image>", image_token_id=self._processor.image_token_id
         ).build(_processor)
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/gemma3.py b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/gemma3.py
index 9abf172b2..cbfb45e84 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/gemma3.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/gemma3.py
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ from sglang.srt.multimodal.processors.base_processor import MultimodalSpecialTok
 class Gemma3SGLangImageProcessor(SGLangBaseProcessor):
     models = [Gemma3ForConditionalGeneration]
 
-    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor):
-        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor)
+    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs)
         self.IM_START_TOKEN_ID = hf_config.boi_token_index
         self.IM_END_TOKEN_ID = hf_config.eoi_token_index
         self.mm_tokens = MultimodalSpecialTokens(
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/gemma3n.py b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/gemma3n.py
index 938819d91..4bfbcaffa 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/gemma3n.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/gemma3n.py
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ class Gemma3nSGLangProcessor(SGLangBaseProcessor):
 
     models = [Gemma3nForConditionalGeneration]
 
-    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor):
-        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor)
+    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs)
 
         self.IM_START_TOKEN_ID = hf_config.boi_token_id
         self.IM_END_TOKEN_ID = hf_config.eoi_token_id
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/internvl.py b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/internvl.py
index 12823077f..234d57d35 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/internvl.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/internvl.py
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ from sglang.srt.multimodal.processors.base_processor import (
 class InternVLImageProcessor(BaseMultimodalProcessor):
     models = [InternVLChatModel]
 
-    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _image_processor):
-        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _image_processor)
+    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _image_processor, *args, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _image_processor, *args, **kwargs)
         image_size = hf_config.force_image_size or hf_config.vision_config.image_size
         patch_size = hf_config.vision_config.patch_size
 
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/janus_pro.py b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/janus_pro.py
index 4dd8c1a84..54d6c1978 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/janus_pro.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/janus_pro.py
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ from sglang.srt.multimodal.processors.base_processor import (
 class JanusProImageProcessor(BaseMultimodalProcessor):
     models = [MultiModalityCausalLM]
 
-    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor):
-        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor)
+    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs)
 
         self.mm_tokens = MultimodalSpecialTokens(
             image_token=_processor.image_token,
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/kimi_vl.py b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/kimi_vl.py
index 84c4a5133..541ed5c9e 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/kimi_vl.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/kimi_vl.py
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ from sglang.srt.multimodal.processors.base_processor import MultimodalSpecialTok
 class KimiVLImageProcessor(SGLangBaseProcessor):
     models = [KimiVLForConditionalGeneration]
 
-    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor):
-        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor)
+    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs)
         self.mm_tokens = MultimodalSpecialTokens(
             image_token="<|media_pad|>",
             # TODO: could we convert in MultimodalSpecialTokens?
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/llava.py b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/llava.py
index f4504ecea..5031dccbd 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/llava.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/llava.py
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ class LlavaImageProcessor(BaseMultimodalProcessor):
         LlavaMistralForCausalLM,
     ]
 
-    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor):
-        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor)
+    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs)
 
     @staticmethod
     def _process_single_image_task(
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ class LlavaMultimodalProcessor(BaseMultimodalProcessor):
             f"Cannot find corresponding multimodal processor registered in sglang for model type `{model_type}`"
         )
 
-    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor):
+    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs):
         assert hasattr(hf_config, "vision_config")
         assert hasattr(hf_config, "text_config")
         self.vision_config = hf_config.vision_config
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ class LlavaMultimodalProcessor(BaseMultimodalProcessor):
 
         if vision_type := getattr(self.vision_config, "model_type"):
             self.inner = self._get_sgl_processor_cls(vision_type)(
-                hf_config, server_args, _processor
+                hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs
             )
         else:
             raise ValueError(
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/minicpm.py b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/minicpm.py
index ed4f86511..9ddbf4fb6 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/minicpm.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/minicpm.py
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ from sglang.srt.multimodal.processors.base_processor import (
 class MiniCPMMultimodalProcessor(BaseMultimodalProcessor):
     models = [MiniCPMV, MiniCPMO]
 
-    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor):
-        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor)
+    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs)
         # Collect special token ids
         tokenizer = self._processor.tokenizer
         self.slice_start_id = getattr(tokenizer, "slice_start_id", None)
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ class MiniCPMMultimodalProcessor(BaseMultimodalProcessor):
         self.im_start_id = getattr(tokenizer, "im_start_id", None)
         self.im_end_id = getattr(tokenizer, "im_end_id", None)
         self.im_token_id = getattr(tokenizer, "unk_id", None)
-
         self.mm_tokens = MultimodalSpecialTokens(
             image_token="(<image>./</image>)",
             audio_token="(<audio>./</audio>)",
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/mlama.py b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/mlama.py
index dd3184452..432215a4f 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/mlama.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/mlama.py
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ from sglang.srt.multimodal.processors.base_processor import (
 class MllamaImageProcessor(BaseMultimodalProcessor):
     models = [MllamaForConditionalGeneration]
 
-    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor):
-        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor)
+    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs)
         self.mm_tokens = MultimodalSpecialTokens(
             image_token=self._processor.image_token,
             image_token_id=self._processor.image_token_id,
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/mllama4.py b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/mllama4.py
index 2d0eba2fd..fd22d3848 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/mllama4.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/mllama4.py
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ from sglang.srt.multimodal.processors.base_processor import (
 class Mllama4ImageProcessor(BaseMultimodalProcessor):
     models = [Llama4ForConditionalGeneration]
 
-    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor):
-        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor)
+    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs)
         self.vision_config = hf_config.vision_config
         self.text_config = hf_config.text_config
         self.boi_token_index = hf_config.boi_token_index
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/phi4mm.py b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/phi4mm.py
index 720e3c132..1487d2ca2 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/phi4mm.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/phi4mm.py
@@ -47,9 +47,9 @@ class Phi4MMProcessorAdapter(ProcessorMixin):
 class Phi4MMMultimodalProcessor(BaseMultimodalProcessor):
     models = [Phi4MMForCausalLM]
 
-    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor):
+    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs):
         self.processor = Phi4MMProcessorAdapter(_processor)
-        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, self.processor)
+        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, self.processor, *args, **kwargs)
 
         # the following CONSTANTS come from hugging-face microsoft/Phi-4-multimodal-instruct's processing_phi4mm.py file
         # ref: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-4-multimodal-instruct/blob/main/processing_phi4mm.py
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/pixtral.py b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/pixtral.py
index fdfd6bd62..af5cedec9 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/pixtral.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/pixtral.py
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ class PixtralProcessor(BaseMultimodalProcessor):
 
         return ncols, nrows
 
-    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor):
-        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor)
+    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs)
         self.IM_TOKEN_ID = getattr(
             hf_config, "image_token_index", PixtralVisionModel.DEFAULT_IMAGE_TOKEN_ID
         )
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/qwen_audio.py b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/qwen_audio.py
index 34d440375..b2bb38464 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/qwen_audio.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/qwen_audio.py
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ from sglang.srt.multimodal.processors.base_processor import (
 class Qwen2AudioMultimodalProcessor(BaseMultimodalProcessor):
     models = [Qwen2AudioForConditionalGeneration]
 
-    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor):
-        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor)
+    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs)
         self.AUDIO_TOKEN = "<|audio_bos|><|AUDIO|><|audio_eos|>"
         self.AUDIO_TOKEN_REGEX = re.compile(
             r"<\|audio_bos\|>(?:<\|AUDIO\|>)+<\|audio_eos\|>"
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/qwen_vl.py b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/qwen_vl.py
index 1b1de4369..f67f72b95 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/qwen_vl.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/qwen_vl.py
@@ -201,8 +201,8 @@ async def preprocess_video(
 class Qwen2_5VLImageProcessor(SGLangBaseProcessor):
     models = [Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration, Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration]
 
-    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor):
-        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor)
+    def __init__(self, hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs)
         # The regex that matches expanded image tokens.
         self.IM_START_TOKEN_ID = hf_config.vision_start_token_id
         self.IM_END_TOKEN_ID = hf_config.vision_end_token_id
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/vila.py b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/vila.py
index 7070dfe73..5f9586b6c 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/vila.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/multimodal/processors/vila.py
@@ -34,8 +34,10 @@ class VILAMultimodalProcessor(BaseMultimodalProcessor):
         hf_config: PretrainedConfig,
         server_args: ServerArgs,
         _processor: VILAProcessor,
+        *args,
+        **kwargs,
     ) -> None:
-        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor)
+        super().__init__(hf_config, server_args, _processor, *args, **kwargs)
         self.mm_tokens = MultimodalSpecialTokens(
             image_token=self._processor.tokenizer.image_token,
             image_token_id=hf_config.image_token_id,
diff --git a/python/sglang/utils.py b/python/sglang/utils.py
index 83c653232..b7600b1a6 100644
--- a/python/sglang/utils.py
+++ b/python/sglang/utils.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import traceback
 import urllib.request
 import weakref
 from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
+from functools import wraps
 from io import BytesIO
 from json import dumps
 from typing import Any, Callable, List, Optional, Tuple, Type, Union
@@ -28,6 +29,24 @@ from tqdm import tqdm
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
+def execute_once(func):
+    has_run = None
+
+    @wraps(func)
+    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
+        nonlocal has_run
+        if not has_run:
+            func(*args, **kwargs)
+            has_run = True
+
+    return wrapper
+
+
+@execute_once
+def info_once(message: str):
+    logger.info(message)
+
+
 def convert_json_schema_to_str(json_schema: Union[dict, str, Type[BaseModel]]) -> str:
     """Convert a JSON schema to a string.
     Parameters
diff --git a/test/srt/test_vlm_input_format.py b/test/srt/test_vlm_input_format.py
index 79625ee82..b2cf0073d 100644
--- a/test/srt/test_vlm_input_format.py
+++ b/test/srt/test_vlm_input_format.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ class VLMInputTestBase:
     model_path = None
     chat_template = None
     processor = None
-    visual = None  # Should be a callable for precomputed features
+    visual = None  # Should be a callable for precomputed embeddings
 
     @classmethod
     def setUpClass(cls):
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ class VLMInputTestBase:
 
     @classmethod
     def _init_visual(cls):
-        """Override in subclass to set up cls.visual as a callable for precomputed features."""
+        """Override in subclass to set up cls.visual as a callable for precomputed embeddings."""
         raise NotImplementedError
 
     def setUp(self):