[Bugfix] use right truncation for non-generative tasks (vllm-project#…

…12050)

Signed-off-by: Joe Runde <Joseph.Runde@ibm.com>

tests/entrypoints/llm/test_encode.py

@@ -105,3 +105,10 @@ def test_multiple_pooling_params(llm: LLM):
     # pooling_params is None, default params should be applied
     outputs = llm.encode(PROMPTS, pooling_params=None)
     assert len(PROMPTS) == len(outputs)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip_global_cleanup
+def test_right_side_truncation(llm: LLM):
+    # Embeddings models should truncate the end of the prompt
+    tokenizer = llm.get_tokenizer()
+    assert tokenizer.truncation_side == "right"

vllm/config.py

@@ -357,6 +357,10 @@ def __init__(self,
         supported_tasks, task = self._resolve_task(task, self.hf_config)
         self.supported_tasks = supported_tasks
         self.task: Final = task
+        if self.task in ("draft", "generate"):
+            self.truncation_side = "left"
+        else:
+            self.truncation_side = "right"
 
         self.pooler_config = self._init_pooler_config(override_pooler_config)
         self.logits_processor_pattern = logits_processor_pattern

vllm/transformers_utils/tokenizer_group/__init__.py

@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ def init_tokenizer_from_configs(model_config: ModelConfig,
                        max_input_length=None,
                        tokenizer_mode=model_config.tokenizer_mode,
                        trust_remote_code=model_config.trust_remote_code,
-                       revision=model_config.tokenizer_revision)
+                       revision=model_config.tokenizer_revision,
+                       truncation_side=model_config.truncation_side)
 
     return get_tokenizer_group(parallel_config.tokenizer_pool_config,
                                **init_kwargs)