diff --git a/.github/workflows/vllm_ascend_test.yaml b/.github/workflows/vllm_ascend_test.yaml
index 0c0deed9a0..b0220624e3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/vllm_ascend_test.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/vllm_ascend_test.yaml
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ jobs:
         VLLM_USE_MODELSCOPE: True
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        vllm_version: [main, v0.10.0]
+        vllm_version: [main]
     steps:
       - name: Install packages
         run: |
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ jobs:
       max-parallel: 2
       matrix:
         os: [linux-aarch64-a2-1]
-        vllm_version: [main, v0.10.0]
+        vllm_version: [main]
     name: singlecard e2e test
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     container:
@@ -185,9 +185,6 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
           pip install -v -e .
-          if [[ "${{ matrix.vllm_version }}" == "v0.10.0" ]]; then
-            pip install "transformers<4.54.0"
-          fi
 
       - name: Run e2e test
         env:
@@ -222,7 +219,7 @@ jobs:
       max-parallel: 2
       matrix:
         os: [linux-aarch64-a2-2]
-        vllm_version: [main, v0.10.0]
+        vllm_version: [main]
     name: multicard e2e test
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     container:
@@ -270,9 +267,6 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
           pip install -v -e .
-          if [[ "${{ matrix.vllm_version }}" == "v0.10.0" ]]; then
-            pip install "transformers<4.54.0"
-          fi
 
       - name: Run vllm-project/vllm-ascend test
         env:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/vllm_ascend_test_310p.yaml b/.github/workflows/vllm_ascend_test_310p.yaml
index 2bd1d2db87..a3d3cae94d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/vllm_ascend_test_310p.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/vllm_ascend_test_310p.yaml
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ jobs:
       max-parallel: 2
       matrix:
         os: [linux-aarch64-310p-1, linux-aarch64-310p-4]
-        vllm_version: [main, v0.10.0]
+        vllm_version: [main]
     name: 310p e2e test
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     container:
diff --git a/tests/ut/core/test_scheduler.py b/tests/ut/core/test_scheduler.py
index 74aa8b84da..b572629f66 100644
--- a/tests/ut/core/test_scheduler.py
+++ b/tests/ut/core/test_scheduler.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ def create_requests(
             request_id=f"{i}",
             prompt_token_ids=[i] * num_tokens,
             sampling_params=sampling_params,
-            multi_modal_inputs=mm_inputs,
+            multi_modal_kwargs=mm_inputs,
             multi_modal_placeholders=mm_position,
             multi_modal_hashes=None,
             eos_token_id=EOS_TOKEN_ID,
diff --git a/tests/ut/kv_connector/test_remote_decode_lifecycle.py b/tests/ut/kv_connector/test_remote_decode_lifecycle.py
index 0a337437d0..bf44c0fdc8 100644
--- a/tests/ut/kv_connector/test_remote_decode_lifecycle.py
+++ b/tests/ut/kv_connector/test_remote_decode_lifecycle.py
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
                                          create_model_runner_output,
                                          create_request, create_scheduler,
                                          create_vllm_config)
-from vllm_ascend.utils import vllm_version_is
 
 
 def test_basic_lifecycle():
@@ -103,13 +102,10 @@ def test_basic_lifecycle():
 
     # (3b): execute_model()
     model_runner_output = copy.deepcopy(EMPTY_MODEL_RUNNER_OUTPUT)
-    if vllm_version_is("0.10.0"):
-        model_runner_output.finished_sending = [request_id]
-    else:
-        from vllm.v1.worker.kv_connector_model_runner_mixin import \
-            KVConnectorOutput  # type: ignore  # noqa
-        model_runner_output.kv_connector_output = KVConnectorOutput(
-            finished_sending=[request_id])
+    from vllm.v1.worker.kv_connector_model_runner_mixin import \
+        KVConnectorOutput  # type: ignore  # noqa
+    model_runner_output.kv_connector_output = KVConnectorOutput(
+        finished_sending=[request_id])
 
     # (3c): update_from_output()
     scheduler.update_from_output(scheduler_output, model_runner_output)
@@ -164,13 +160,10 @@ def test_prefix_cache_lifecycle():
     scheduler_output = scheduler.schedule()
     scheduler.schedule()
     model_runner_output = copy.deepcopy(EMPTY_MODEL_RUNNER_OUTPUT)
-    if vllm_version_is("0.10.0"):
-        model_runner_output.finished_sending = [request_remote.request_id]
-    else:
-        from vllm.v1.worker.kv_connector_model_runner_mixin import \
-            KVConnectorOutput  # noqa
-        model_runner_output.kv_connector_output = KVConnectorOutput(
-            finished_sending=[request_remote.request_id])
+    from vllm.v1.worker.kv_connector_model_runner_mixin import \
+        KVConnectorOutput  # noqa
+    model_runner_output.kv_connector_output = KVConnectorOutput(
+        finished_sending=[request_remote.request_id])
     scheduler.update_from_output(scheduler_output, model_runner_output)
     _ = scheduler.schedule()
     assert_scheduler_empty(scheduler)
diff --git a/tests/ut/kv_connector/test_remote_prefill_lifecycle.py b/tests/ut/kv_connector/test_remote_prefill_lifecycle.py
index cb070ad74d..867dafb294 100644
--- a/tests/ut/kv_connector/test_remote_prefill_lifecycle.py
+++ b/tests/ut/kv_connector/test_remote_prefill_lifecycle.py
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
                                          create_model_runner_output,
                                          create_request, create_scheduler,
                                          create_vllm_config)
-from vllm_ascend.utils import vllm_version_is
 
 
 def test_basic_lifecycle():
@@ -91,13 +90,10 @@ def test_basic_lifecycle():
 
     # (2b): forward(): request finishes recv.
     model_runner_output = copy.deepcopy(EMPTY_MODEL_RUNNER_OUTPUT)
-    if vllm_version_is("0.10.0"):
-        model_runner_output.finished_recving = [request_id]
-    else:
-        from vllm.v1.worker.kv_connector_model_runner_mixin import \
-            KVConnectorOutput  # type: ignore  # noqa
-        model_runner_output.kv_connector_output = KVConnectorOutput(
-            finished_recving=[request_id])
+    from vllm.v1.worker.kv_connector_model_runner_mixin import \
+        KVConnectorOutput  # type: ignore  # noqa
+    model_runner_output.kv_connector_output = KVConnectorOutput(
+        finished_recving=[request_id])
 
     # (2c): update_from_output():
     engine_core_outputs = scheduler.update_from_output(scheduler_output,
@@ -211,13 +207,10 @@ def test_full_block_prompt():
     # # STEP (2): Recv.
     scheduler_output = scheduler.schedule()
     model_runner_output = copy.deepcopy(EMPTY_MODEL_RUNNER_OUTPUT)
-    if vllm_version_is("0.10.0"):
-        model_runner_output.finished_recving = [request_id]
-    else:
-        from vllm.v1.worker.kv_connector_model_runner_mixin import \
-            KVConnectorOutput  # type: ignore  # noqa
-        model_runner_output.kv_connector_output = KVConnectorOutput(
-            finished_recving=[request_id])
+    from vllm.v1.worker.kv_connector_model_runner_mixin import \
+        KVConnectorOutput  # type: ignore  # noqa
+    model_runner_output.kv_connector_output = KVConnectorOutput(
+        finished_recving=[request_id])
     scheduler.update_from_output(scheduler_output, model_runner_output)
     assert len(scheduler.waiting) == 1
     assert (request_id in scheduler.finished_recving_kv_req_ids)
diff --git a/tests/ut/kv_connector/utils.py b/tests/ut/kv_connector/utils.py
index 2c540b30f0..e696a7692f 100644
--- a/tests/ut/kv_connector/utils.py
+++ b/tests/ut/kv_connector/utils.py
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ def create_request(
         request_id=f"id-{request_id}",
         prompt_token_ids=prompt_token_ids,
         sampling_params=sampling_params,
-        multi_modal_inputs=None,
+        multi_modal_kwargs=None,
         multi_modal_placeholders=None,
         multi_modal_hashes=None,
         **({
@@ -187,19 +187,11 @@ def create_model_runner_output(
 
     # Make output data structure.
     extra_args = {}
-    if not vllm_version_is("0.10.0"):
-        from vllm.v1.worker.kv_connector_model_runner_mixin import \
-            KVConnectorOutput  # type: ignore  # noqa
-        kv_connector_output = KVConnectorOutput(
-            finished_sending=finished_sending,
-            finished_recving=finished_recving)
-        extra_args = {"kv_connector_output": kv_connector_output}
-    else:
-        extra_args = {
-            "finished_sending": finished_sending,
-            "finished_recving": finished_recving,
-        }
-
+    from vllm.v1.worker.kv_connector_model_runner_mixin import \
+        KVConnectorOutput  # type: ignore  # noqa
+    kv_connector_output = KVConnectorOutput(finished_sending=finished_sending,
+                                            finished_recving=finished_recving)
+    extra_args = {"kv_connector_output": kv_connector_output}
     return ModelRunnerOutput(
         req_ids=req_ids,
         req_id_to_index=req_id_to_index,
diff --git a/tests/ut/worker/test_input_batch.py b/tests/ut/worker/test_input_batch.py
index 7baee71226..685cf174a5 100644
--- a/tests/ut/worker/test_input_batch.py
+++ b/tests/ut/worker/test_input_batch.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ def mock_cached_request_state(req_id="1", prompt=[1, 2, 3], output=[4, 5, 6]):
     return CachedRequestState(
         req_id=req_id,
         prompt_token_ids=prompt,
-        mm_inputs=[],
+        mm_kwargs=[],
         mm_positions=[],
         sampling_params=SamplingParams(),
         pooling_params=None,
diff --git a/vllm_ascend/models/qwen2_5_vl.py b/vllm_ascend/models/qwen2_5_vl.py
index 4629f760eb..31ad2603a9 100644
--- a/vllm_ascend/models/qwen2_5_vl.py
+++ b/vllm_ascend/models/qwen2_5_vl.py
@@ -30,8 +30,7 @@
 from vllm.config import VllmConfig
 from vllm.distributed import parallel_state
 from vllm.distributed import utils as dist_utils
-from vllm.model_executor.layers.activation import (_ACTIVATION_REGISTRY,
-                                                   get_act_and_mul_fn)
+from vllm.model_executor.layers.activation import get_act_and_mul_fn
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.layernorm import RMSNorm
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.quantization import QuantizationConfig
 from vllm.model_executor.model_loader.weight_utils import default_weight_loader
@@ -43,8 +42,6 @@
 from vllm.model_executor.models.utils import maybe_prefix
 from vllm.multimodal import MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY
 
-from vllm_ascend.utils import vllm_version_is
-
 MIN_PAD_SIZE = 64  # min_size to pad weight
 MAX_PAD_SIZE = 128  # max_size to pad weight
 
@@ -202,8 +199,6 @@ def __init__(
         )
 
         act_fn = get_act_and_mul_fn(vision_config.hidden_act)
-        if vllm_version_is("0.10.0"):
-            act_fn = _ACTIVATION_REGISTRY[vision_config.hidden_act]
         self.blocks = nn.ModuleList([
             AscendQwen2_5_VisionBlock(
                 dim=self.hidden_size,
@@ -303,12 +298,9 @@ def load_weights(self, weights: Iterable[Tuple[str,
             ("qkv_proj", "q_proj", "q"),
             ("qkv_proj", "k_proj", "k"),
             ("qkv_proj", "v_proj", "v"),
+            ("mlp.gate_up_proj.", "mlp.gate_proj.", 0),
+            ("mlp.gate_up_proj.", "mlp.up_proj.", 1),
         ]
-        if not vllm_version_is("0.10.0"):
-            stacked_params_mapping.extend([
-                ("mlp.gate_up_proj.", "mlp.gate_proj.", 0),
-                ("mlp.gate_up_proj.", "mlp.up_proj.", 1),
-            ])
         params_dict = dict(self.named_parameters(remove_duplicate=False))
         loaded_params: Set[str] = set()
         for name, loaded_weight in weights:
diff --git a/vllm_ascend/models/qwen2_5_vl_without_padding.py b/vllm_ascend/models/qwen2_5_vl_without_padding.py
index 8877456a6d..8a1d92e146 100644
--- a/vllm_ascend/models/qwen2_5_vl_without_padding.py
+++ b/vllm_ascend/models/qwen2_5_vl_without_padding.py
@@ -30,8 +30,7 @@
 from vllm.config import VllmConfig
 from vllm.distributed import parallel_state
 from vllm.distributed import utils as dist_utils
-from vllm.model_executor.layers.activation import (_ACTIVATION_REGISTRY,
-                                                   get_act_and_mul_fn)
+from vllm.model_executor.layers.activation import get_act_and_mul_fn
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.layernorm import RMSNorm
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.quantization import QuantizationConfig
 from vllm.model_executor.models.qwen2_5_vl import (
@@ -43,7 +42,6 @@
 from vllm.multimodal import MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY
 
 from vllm_ascend.models.qwen2_5_vl import AscendQwen2_5_VisionRotaryEmbedding
-from vllm_ascend.utils import vllm_version_is
 
 
 class AscendQwen2_5_VisionAttention_Without_Padding(Qwen2_5_VisionAttention):
@@ -175,8 +173,6 @@ def __init__(
         )
 
         act_fn = get_act_and_mul_fn(vision_config.hidden_act)
-        if vllm_version_is("0.10.0"):
-            act_fn = _ACTIVATION_REGISTRY[vision_config.hidden_act]
         self.blocks = nn.ModuleList([
             AscendQwen2_5_VisionBlock_Without_Padding(
                 dim=self.hidden_size,
diff --git a/vllm_ascend/multistream/ms_split.py b/vllm_ascend/multistream/ms_split.py
index fd32a18abb..b7b356bed9 100644
--- a/vllm_ascend/multistream/ms_split.py
+++ b/vllm_ascend/multistream/ms_split.py
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ def model_input_split_v1_mla_attn(
     [block_table_pre,
      block_table_post] = split_attn_tensor_type(attn_metadata.block_tables,
                                                 seq_index)
-
+    assert attn_metadata.attn_mask is not None
     if attn_metadata.attn_state == AscendAttentionState.PrefillNoCache or attn_metadata.attn_state == AscendAttentionState.PrefillCacheHit:
         # the attn_mla kernel in torch npu only accept 128*128 attn mask
         attn_mask_pre = attn_mask_post = attn_metadata.attn_mask
diff --git a/vllm_ascend/patch/platform/__init__.py b/vllm_ascend/patch/platform/__init__.py
index c6512f5fb3..c0772a8722 100644
--- a/vllm_ascend/patch/platform/__init__.py
+++ b/vllm_ascend/patch/platform/__init__.py
@@ -14,12 +14,5 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-from vllm_ascend.utils import vllm_version_is
-
-# Import specific patches for different versions
-if vllm_version_is("0.10.0"):
-    from vllm_ascend.patch.platform import patch_0_10_0  # noqa: F401
-    from vllm_ascend.patch.platform import patch_common  # noqa: F401
-else:
-    from vllm_ascend.patch.platform import patch_common  # noqa: F401
-    from vllm_ascend.patch.platform import patch_main  # noqa: F401
+from vllm_ascend.patch.platform import patch_common  # noqa: F401
+from vllm_ascend.patch.platform import patch_main  # noqa: F401
diff --git a/vllm_ascend/patch/platform/patch_0_10_0/__init__.py b/vllm_ascend/patch/platform/patch_0_10_0/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 116c73c06c..0000000000
--- a/vllm_ascend/patch/platform/patch_0_10_0/__init__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-#
-# Copyright (c) 2025 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
-# This file is a part of the vllm-ascend project.
-#
-# 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.
-#
diff --git a/vllm_ascend/patch/worker/__init__.py b/vllm_ascend/patch/worker/__init__.py
index a3e572b0e6..d294f14eb3 100644
--- a/vllm_ascend/patch/worker/__init__.py
+++ b/vllm_ascend/patch/worker/__init__.py
@@ -15,12 +15,5 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 #
 
-from vllm_ascend.utils import vllm_version_is
-
-# Import specific patches for different versions
-if vllm_version_is("0.10.0"):
-    from vllm_ascend.patch.worker import patch_0_10_0  # noqa: F401
-    from vllm_ascend.patch.worker import patch_common  # noqa: F401
-else:
-    from vllm_ascend.patch.worker import patch_common  # noqa: F401
-    from vllm_ascend.patch.worker import patch_main  # noqa: F401
+from vllm_ascend.patch.worker import patch_common  # noqa: F401
+from vllm_ascend.patch.worker import patch_main  # noqa: F401
diff --git a/vllm_ascend/patch/worker/patch_0_10_0/__init__.py b/vllm_ascend/patch/worker/patch_0_10_0/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index d95e2e302d..0000000000
--- a/vllm_ascend/patch/worker/patch_0_10_0/__init__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-#
-# Copyright (c) 2025 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
-# This file is a part of the vllm-ascend project.
-#
-# 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.
-#
-
-import vllm_ascend.patch.worker.patch_0_10_0.patch_sampler_gather_logprobs  # noqa
diff --git a/vllm_ascend/patch/worker/patch_0_10_0/patch_sampler_gather_logprobs.py b/vllm_ascend/patch/worker/patch_0_10_0/patch_sampler_gather_logprobs.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 1e6b44ea8b..0000000000
--- a/vllm_ascend/patch/worker/patch_0_10_0/patch_sampler_gather_logprobs.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,87 +0,0 @@
-#
-# Copyright (c) 2025 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-# This file is a part of the vllm-ascend project.
-#
-# 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.
-#
-
-import torch
-from vllm.platforms import current_platform
-from vllm.v1.outputs import LogprobsTensors
-from vllm.v1.sample.sampler import Sampler
-
-
-@torch.compile(dynamic=True, backend=current_platform.simple_compile_backend)
-def batched_count_greater_than(x: torch.Tensor,
-                               values: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
-    """
-    Counts elements in each row of x that are greater than the corresponding
-    value in values.  Use torch.compile to generate an optimized kernel for
-    this function. otherwise, it will create additional copies of the input
-    tensors and cause memory issues.
-    Args:
-        x (torch.Tensor): A 2D tensor of shape (batch_size, n_elements).
-        values (torch.Tensor): A 2D tensor of shape (batch_size, 1).
-    Returns:
-        torch.Tensor: A 1D tensor of shape (batch_size,) with the counts.
-    """
-    return (x >= values).sum(-1)
-
-
-def gather_logprobs(
-    self,
-    logprobs: torch.Tensor,
-    num_logprobs: int,
-    token_ids: torch.Tensor,
-) -> LogprobsTensors:
-    """
-    Gather logprobs for topk and sampled/prompt token.
-
-    Args:
-        logprobs: (num tokens) x (vocab) tensor
-        num_logprobs: minimum number of logprobs to
-                    retain per token
-        token_ids: prompt tokens (if prompt logprobs)
-                    or sampled tokens (if sampled
-                    logprobs); 1D token ID tensor
-                    with (num tokens) elements
-                    Must be int64.
-
-    Returns:
-        Top-k int indices tensor, (num tokens) x (num_logprobs + 1)
-        Top-k float logprobs tensor, (num tokens) x (num_logprobs + 1)
-        Sampled token rank tensor, (num tokens)
-    """
-    assert token_ids.dtype == torch.int64
-    # Find the topK values.
-    topk_logprobs, topk_indices = torch.topk(logprobs, num_logprobs, dim=-1)
-
-    # Get with the logprob of the prompt or sampled token.
-    token_ids = token_ids.unsqueeze(-1)
-    token_logprobs = logprobs.gather(-1, token_ids)
-
-    # Compute the ranks of the actual token.
-    token_ranks = batched_count_greater_than(logprobs, token_logprobs)
-
-    # Concatenate together with the topk.
-    indices = torch.cat((token_ids, topk_indices), dim=1)
-    logprobs = torch.cat((token_logprobs, topk_logprobs), dim=1)
-
-    # Use int32 to reduce the tensor size.
-    indices = indices.to(torch.int32)
-
-    return LogprobsTensors(indices, logprobs, token_ranks)
-
-
-Sampler.gather_logprobs = gather_logprobs
diff --git a/vllm_ascend/worker/model_runner_v1.py b/vllm_ascend/worker/model_runner_v1.py
index a8355b3657..14f89bb5d6 100644
--- a/vllm_ascend/worker/model_runner_v1.py
+++ b/vllm_ascend/worker/model_runner_v1.py
@@ -51,11 +51,12 @@
 from vllm.model_executor.models.interfaces import supports_transcription
 from vllm.model_executor.models.interfaces_base import (
     VllmModelForPooling, is_pooling_model, is_text_generation_model)
-from vllm.multimodal.inputs import MultiModalKwargs, PlaceholderRange
-from vllm.multimodal.utils import group_mm_inputs_by_modality
+from vllm.multimodal.inputs import MultiModalKwargsItem, PlaceholderRange
+from vllm.multimodal.utils import group_mm_kwargs_by_modality
 from vllm.pooling_params import PoolingParams
 from vllm.sampling_params import SamplingType
 from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors
+from vllm.tasks import GenerationTask, SupportedTask
 from vllm.utils import (STR_DTYPE_TO_TORCH_DTYPE, DeviceMemoryProfiler,
                         LazyLoader, cdiv)
 from vllm.v1.kv_cache_interface import (FullAttentionSpec, KVCacheConfig,
@@ -66,6 +67,7 @@
 from vllm.v1.sample.metadata import SamplingMetadata
 from vllm.v1.spec_decode.metadata import SpecDecodeMetadata
 from vllm.v1.spec_decode.ngram_proposer import NgramProposer
+from vllm.v1.worker.kv_connector_model_runner_mixin import KVConnectorOutput
 from vllm.v1.worker.lora_model_runner_mixin import LoRAModelRunnerMixin
 from vllm.v1.worker.utils import (bind_kv_cache, gather_mm_placeholders,
                                   sanity_check_mm_encoder_outputs,
@@ -86,17 +88,11 @@
 from vllm_ascend.sample.rejection_sampler import AscendRejectionSampler
 from vllm_ascend.utils import (ACL_FORMAT_FRACTAL_ND, ACL_FORMAT_FRACTAL_NZ,
                                ProfileExecuteDuration, is_310p,
-                               maybe_converting_weight_acl_format,
-                               vllm_version_is)
+                               maybe_converting_weight_acl_format)
 from vllm_ascend.worker.eagle_proposer_v1 import EagleProposer
 from vllm_ascend.worker.mtp_proposer_v1 import MtpProposer
 from vllm_ascend.worker.npu_input_batch import CachedRequestState, InputBatch
 
-if not vllm_version_is("0.10.0"):
-    from vllm.tasks import GenerationTask, SupportedTask
-    from vllm.v1.worker.kv_connector_model_runner_mixin import \
-        KVConnectorOutput
-
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     import xgrammar as xgr  # type: ignore[import-untyped]
     from vllm.v1.core.sched.output import SchedulerOutput
@@ -479,7 +475,7 @@ def _update_states(self, scheduler_output: "SchedulerOutput") -> None:
             self.requests[req_id] = CachedRequestState(
                 req_id=req_id,
                 prompt_token_ids=new_req_data.prompt_token_ids,
-                mm_inputs=new_req_data.mm_inputs,
+                mm_kwargs=new_req_data.mm_kwargs,
                 mm_positions=new_req_data.mm_positions,
                 sampling_params=sampling_params,
                 pooling_params=new_req_data.pooling_params,
@@ -497,18 +493,20 @@ def _update_states(self, scheduler_output: "SchedulerOutput") -> None:
                 second_per_grid_ts = []
                 audio_feature_lengths = []
                 use_audio_in_video = False
-                for mm_input in self.requests[req_id].mm_inputs:
+
+                for item in self.requests[req_id].mm_kwargs:
+                    mm_input = item.require_data()
                     if mm_input.get("image_grid_thw") is not None:
-                        image_grid_thw.extend(
+                        image_grid_thw.append(
                             mm_input["image_grid_thw"].tolist())
                     if mm_input.get("video_grid_thw") is not None:
-                        video_grid_thw.extend(
+                        video_grid_thw.append(
                             mm_input["video_grid_thw"].tolist())
                     if mm_input.get("second_per_grid_ts") is not None:
-                        second_per_grid_ts.extend(
+                        second_per_grid_ts.append(
                             mm_input["second_per_grid_ts"])
                     if mm_input.get("audio_feature_lengths") is not None:
-                        audio_feature_lengths.extend(
+                        audio_feature_lengths.append(
                             mm_input["audio_feature_lengths"])
                     if mm_input.get("use_audio_in_video") is True:
                         use_audio_in_video = True
@@ -912,13 +910,13 @@ def _execute_mm_encoder(self, scheduler_output: "SchedulerOutput"):
             return
 
         # Batch the multi-modal inputs.
-        mm_inputs = list[MultiModalKwargs]()
+        mm_kwargs = list[MultiModalKwargsItem]()
         req_ids_pos = list[tuple[str, int, PlaceholderRange]]()
         for req_id, encoder_input_ids in scheduled_encoder_inputs.items():
             req_state = self.requests[req_id]
 
             for mm_input_id in encoder_input_ids:
-                mm_inputs.append(req_state.mm_inputs[mm_input_id])
+                mm_kwargs.append(req_state.mm_kwargs[mm_input_id])
                 req_ids_pos.append(
                     (req_id, mm_input_id, req_state.mm_positions[mm_input_id]))
 
@@ -929,14 +927,12 @@ def _execute_mm_encoder(self, scheduler_output: "SchedulerOutput"):
         # in the same batch while still being able to benefit from batching
         # multimodal inputs. The proper solution should be reordering the
         # encoder outputs.
-        grouped_mm_inputs_list = group_mm_inputs_by_modality(mm_inputs)
-
         encoder_outputs = []
-        for grouped_mm_inputs in grouped_mm_inputs_list:
-            batched_mm_inputs = MultiModalKwargs.batch(grouped_mm_inputs)
-            batched_mm_inputs = MultiModalKwargs.as_kwargs(batched_mm_inputs,
-                                                           device=self.device)
-
+        for _, num_items, mm_kwargs_group in group_mm_kwargs_by_modality(
+                mm_kwargs,
+                device=self.device,
+                pin_memory=True,
+        ):
             # Run the encoder.
             # `curr_group_outputs` is either of the following:
             # 1. A tensor of shape (num_items, feature_size, hidden_size)
@@ -945,11 +941,11 @@ def _execute_mm_encoder(self, scheduler_output: "SchedulerOutput"):
             # (feature_size, hidden_size) in case the feature size is dynamic
             # depending on the input multimodal items.
             curr_group_outputs = self.model.get_multimodal_embeddings(
-                **batched_mm_inputs)
+                **mm_kwargs_group)
 
             sanity_check_mm_encoder_outputs(
                 curr_group_outputs,
-                expected_num_items=len(grouped_mm_inputs),
+                expected_num_items=num_items,
             )
 
             for output in curr_group_outputs:
@@ -1604,12 +1600,7 @@ def _pool(
                 pooler_output.append(raw_output.data.cpu())
             else:
                 pooler_output.append(None)
-        extra_args = ({
-            "finished_sending": finished_sending,
-            "finished_recving": finished_recving
-        } if vllm_version_is("0.10.0") else {
-            "kv_connector_output": kv_connector_output
-        })
+        extra_args = ({"kv_connector_output": kv_connector_output})
 
         return ModelRunnerOutput(
             req_ids=self.input_batch.req_ids,
@@ -1645,15 +1636,14 @@ def execute_model(
              finished_recving) = (self._process_reqs(scheduler_output,
                                                      intermediate_tensors))
         kv_connector_output = None
-        if not vllm_version_is("0.10.0"):
-            if finished_sending is not None and finished_recving is not None:
-                kv_connector_output = KVConnectorOutput(
-                    finished_sending=finished_sending,
-                    finished_recving=finished_recving)
-            else:
-                kv_connector_output = None
-            finished_sending = None
-            finished_recving = None
+        if finished_sending is not None and finished_recving is not None:
+            kv_connector_output = KVConnectorOutput(
+                finished_sending=finished_sending,
+                finished_recving=finished_recving)
+        else:
+            kv_connector_output = None
+        finished_sending = None
+        finished_recving = None
         with ProfileExecuteDuration().capture_async("post process"):
             # Broadcast PP output for external_launcher (torchrun)
             # to make sure we are synced across pp ranks
@@ -1665,12 +1655,7 @@ def execute_model(
             if not get_pp_group().is_last_rank:
                 # For mid-pipeline stages, return the hidden states.
                 if not broadcast_pp_output:
-                    if kv_connector_output is not None:
-                        hidden_states.kv_connector_output = kv_connector_output
-                    else:
-                        #TODO: Remove this after we drop vllm v0.10.0
-                        hidden_states.finished_sending = finished_sending
-                        hidden_states.finished_recving = finished_recving
+                    hidden_states.kv_connector_output = kv_connector_output
                     return hidden_states
                 assert isinstance(hidden_states, IntermediateTensors)
                 get_pp_group().send_tensor_dict(
@@ -1815,12 +1800,7 @@ def execute_model(
             if has_kv_transfer_group():
                 get_kv_transfer_group().clear_connector_metadata()
 
-        extra_args = ({
-            "finished_sending": finished_sending,
-            "finished_recving": finished_recving
-        } if vllm_version_is("0.10.0") else {
-            "kv_connector_output": kv_connector_output
-        })
+        extra_args = ({"kv_connector_output": kv_connector_output})
 
         model_runner_output = ModelRunnerOutput(
             req_ids=self.input_batch.req_ids,
diff --git a/vllm_ascend/worker/npu_input_batch.py b/vllm_ascend/worker/npu_input_batch.py
index d0acd04cd0..9b8132cc87 100644
--- a/vllm_ascend/worker/npu_input_batch.py
+++ b/vllm_ascend/worker/npu_input_batch.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ class CachedRequestState:
 
     req_id: str
     prompt_token_ids: list[int]
-    mm_inputs: list[MultiModalKwargs]
+    mm_kwargs: list[MultiModalKwargs]
     mm_positions: list[PlaceholderRange]
     sampling_params: Optional[SamplingParams]
     pooling_params: Optional[PoolingParams]
diff --git a/vllm_ascend/worker/worker_v1.py b/vllm_ascend/worker/worker_v1.py
index dfde5499e9..19ef2ef70d 100644
--- a/vllm_ascend/worker/worker_v1.py
+++ b/vllm_ascend/worker/worker_v1.py
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 from vllm.logger import logger
 from vllm.lora.request import LoRARequest
 from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors
+from vllm.tasks import SupportedTask
 from vllm.utils import STR_DTYPE_TO_TORCH_DTYPE, GiB_bytes
 from vllm.v1.core.sched.output import SchedulerOutput
 from vllm.v1.kv_cache_interface import KVCacheConfig, KVCacheSpec
@@ -45,12 +46,9 @@
 from vllm_ascend.distributed.parallel_state import init_ascend_model_parallel
 from vllm_ascend.platform import NPUPlatform
 from vllm_ascend.utils import (init_ascend_soc_version, sleep_mode_enabled,
-                               try_register_lib, vllm_version_is)
+                               try_register_lib)
 from vllm_ascend.worker.model_runner_v1 import NPUModelRunner
 
-if not vllm_version_is("0.10.0"):
-    from vllm.tasks import SupportedTask
-
 
 class NPUWorker(WorkerBase):
 
@@ -209,26 +207,15 @@ def execute_model(
             if not has_kv_transfer_group():
                 return None
 
-            is_legacy = vllm_version_is("0.10.0")
-
-            if is_legacy:
-                finished_sending = output.finished_sending
-                finished_recving = output.finished_recving
-            else:
-                kv_connector_output = output.kv_connector_output
-                finished_sending = kv_connector_output.finished_sending
-                finished_recving = kv_connector_output.finished_recving
+            kv_connector_output = output.kv_connector_output
+            finished_sending = kv_connector_output.finished_sending
+            finished_recving = kv_connector_output.finished_recving
 
             if not finished_sending and not finished_recving:
                 return EMPTY_MODEL_RUNNER_OUTPUT
 
             new_output = copy.copy(EMPTY_MODEL_RUNNER_OUTPUT)
-
-            if is_legacy:
-                new_output.finished_sending = finished_sending
-                new_output.finished_recving = finished_recving
-            else:
-                new_output.kv_connector_output = kv_connector_output
+            new_output.kv_connector_output = kv_connector_output
             return new_output
 
         assert isinstance(output, ModelRunnerOutput)