[Bugfix]Change the exception thrown by call_hf_processor from RuntimeError to ValueError (vllm-project#18181)

Abatom · gshtras · commit 393c960c6a48 · 2025-05-15T20:55:33.000Z
Signed-off-by: Abatom &lt;abzhonghua@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gregory Shtrasberg &lt;Gregory.Shtrasberg@amd.com&gt;
diff --git a/vllm/inputs/registry.py b/vllm/inputs/registry.py
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ def call_hf_processor(
             msg = (f"Failed to apply {type(hf_processor).__name__} "
                    f"on data={data} with kwargs={merged_kwargs}")
 
-            raise RuntimeError(msg) from exc
+            raise ValueError(msg) from exc
 
 
 class DummyData(NamedTuple):
