[Core] Drop overly aggressive whisper assertion #25408
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This assertion is causing a failure in a legitimate configuration. The assertion isn't as valuable anymore since whisper is the only encoder-decoder model left in vLLM. It made more sense we had all of the other models that were still supoprted in V0. Closes vllm-project#25318 Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <[email protected]>
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This pull request removes an assertion that was restrictively checking for 'whisper' in the model name for encoder-decoder models. This change is intended to support custom-named or fine-tuned Whisper models. While this addresses the immediate issue, it also removes a safeguard that prevents non-Whisper models from using Whisper-specific logic, which could lead to silent failures or incorrect behavior. My review suggests replacing the removed assertion with a warning to better balance flexibility and safety, alerting users to potential incompatibilities without blocking execution.
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This assertion is causing a failure in a legitimate configuration. The
assertion isn't as valuable anymore since whisper is the only
encoder-decoder model left in vLLM. It made more sense we had all of
the other models that were still supoprted in V0.
Closes #25318
Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant [email protected]