diff --git a/docs/source/design/multimodal/multimodal_index.rst b/docs/source/design/multimodal/multimodal_index.rst
index e112b43aade5e..30f543abc20c7 100644
--- a/docs/source/design/multimodal/multimodal_index.rst
+++ b/docs/source/design/multimodal/multimodal_index.rst
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Base Classes
 
 .. autodata:: vllm.multimodal.MultiModalDataDict
 
-.. autoclass:: vllm.multimodal.MultiModalInputs
+.. autoclass:: vllm.multimodal.MultiModalKwargs
     :members:
     :show-inheritance:
 
diff --git a/tests/models/decoder_only/vision_language/mm_processor_kwargs/test_qwen.py b/tests/models/decoder_only/vision_language/mm_processor_kwargs/test_qwen.py
index 6ae8a6a704b0a..e6ed87fc8ea08 100644
--- a/tests/models/decoder_only/vision_language/mm_processor_kwargs/test_qwen.py
+++ b/tests/models/decoder_only/vision_language/mm_processor_kwargs/test_qwen.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 from PIL.Image import Image
 
 from vllm.inputs import InputContext, token_inputs
-from vllm.multimodal.base import MultiModalInputs
+from vllm.multimodal.base import MultiModalKwargs
 from vllm.multimodal.utils import cached_get_tokenizer
 
 from .....conftest import IMAGE_ASSETS
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ def test_input_mapper_valid_mm_data(input_mapper_for_qwen,
     mapped_img_data = input_mapper_for_qwen(qwen_vl_context, img_data)
     # Ensure that we get the appropriately shaped pixel_values
     # for images and image embeddings, respectively.
-    assert isinstance(mapped_img_data, MultiModalInputs)
+    assert isinstance(mapped_img_data, MultiModalKwargs)
     assert "pixel_values" in mapped_img_data
     assert mapped_img_data["pixel_values"].shape == expected_shape
 
diff --git a/tests/multimodal/test_base.py b/tests/multimodal/test_base.py
index 68d05de904ba8..bfaf2cdeaa8d4 100644
--- a/tests/multimodal/test_base.py
+++ b/tests/multimodal/test_base.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import torch
 
-from vllm.multimodal.base import MultiModalInputs, NestedTensors
+from vllm.multimodal.base import MultiModalKwargs, NestedTensors
 
 
 def assert_nested_tensors_equal(expected: NestedTensors,
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ def assert_nested_tensors_equal(expected: NestedTensors,
             assert_nested_tensors_equal(expected_item, actual_item)
 
 
-def assert_multimodal_inputs_equal(expected: MultiModalInputs,
-                                   actual: MultiModalInputs):
+def assert_multimodal_inputs_equal(expected: MultiModalKwargs,
+                                   actual: MultiModalKwargs):
     assert set(expected.keys()) == set(actual.keys())
     for key in expected:
         assert_nested_tensors_equal(expected[key], actual[key])
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ def assert_multimodal_inputs_equal(expected: MultiModalInputs,
 
 def test_multimodal_input_batch_single_tensor():
     t = torch.rand([1, 2])
-    result = MultiModalInputs.batch([{"image": t}])
+    result = MultiModalKwargs.batch([{"image": t}])
     assert_multimodal_inputs_equal(result, {"image": t.unsqueeze(0)})
 
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ def test_multimodal_input_batch_multiple_tensors():
     a = torch.rand([1, 1, 2])
     b = torch.rand([1, 1, 2])
     c = torch.rand([1, 1, 2])
-    result = MultiModalInputs.batch([{"image": a}, {"image": b}, {"image": c}])
+    result = MultiModalKwargs.batch([{"image": a}, {"image": b}, {"image": c}])
     assert_multimodal_inputs_equal(result, {"image": torch.stack([a, b, c])})
 
 
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ def test_multimodal_input_batch_multiple_heterogeneous_tensors():
     a = torch.rand([1, 2, 2])
     b = torch.rand([1, 3, 2])
     c = torch.rand([1, 4, 2])
-    result = MultiModalInputs.batch([{"image": a}, {"image": b}, {"image": c}])
+    result = MultiModalKwargs.batch([{"image": a}, {"image": b}, {"image": c}])
     assert_multimodal_inputs_equal(result, {"image": [a, b, c]})
 
 
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ def test_multimodal_input_batch_nested_tensors():
     a = torch.rand([2, 3])
     b = torch.rand([2, 3])
     c = torch.rand([2, 3])
-    result = MultiModalInputs.batch([{
+    result = MultiModalKwargs.batch([{
         "image": [a]
     }, {
         "image": [b]
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ def test_multimodal_input_batch_heterogeneous_lists():
     a = torch.rand([1, 2, 3])
     b = torch.rand([1, 2, 3])
     c = torch.rand([1, 2, 3])
-    result = MultiModalInputs.batch([{"image": [a, b]}, {"image": [c]}])
+    result = MultiModalKwargs.batch([{"image": [a, b]}, {"image": [c]}])
     assert_multimodal_inputs_equal(
         result,
         {"image": [torch.stack([a, b]), c.unsqueeze(0)]})
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ def test_multimodal_input_batch_multiple_batchable_lists():
     b = torch.rand([1, 2, 3])
     c = torch.rand([1, 2, 3])
     d = torch.rand([1, 2, 3])
-    result = MultiModalInputs.batch([{"image": [a, b]}, {"image": [c, d]}])
+    result = MultiModalKwargs.batch([{"image": [a, b]}, {"image": [c, d]}])
     assert_multimodal_inputs_equal(
         result,
         {"image": torch.stack([torch.stack([a, b]),
@@ -88,8 +88,8 @@ def test_multimodal_input_batch_mixed_stacking_depths():
     b = torch.rand([1, 3, 3])
     c = torch.rand([1, 4, 3])
 
-    result = MultiModalInputs.batch([{"image": [a, b]}, {"image": [c]}])
+    result = MultiModalKwargs.batch([{"image": [a, b]}, {"image": [c]}])
     assert_multimodal_inputs_equal(result, {"image": [[a, b], c.unsqueeze(0)]})
 
-    result = MultiModalInputs.batch([{"image": [a]}, {"image": [b, c]}])
+    result = MultiModalKwargs.batch([{"image": [a]}, {"image": [b, c]}])
     assert_multimodal_inputs_equal(result, {"image": [a.unsqueeze(0), [b, c]]})
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/chatglm.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/chatglm.py
index 032fa82ab93cd..eb9c3e3ae785d 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/chatglm.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/chatglm.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 from vllm.model_executor.model_loader.weight_utils import default_weight_loader
 from vllm.model_executor.models.glm4_vision_encoder import EVA2CLIPModel
 from vllm.model_executor.sampling_metadata import SamplingMetadata
-from vllm.multimodal import MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY, MultiModalInputs
+from vllm.multimodal import MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY, MultiModalKwargs
 from vllm.multimodal.base import MultiModalData
 from vllm.multimodal.utils import cached_get_tokenizer
 from vllm.sequence import (VLLM_TOKEN_ID_ARRAY_TYPE, IntermediateTensors,
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ def mm_input_mapper_for_glmv(
         raise
     pixel_values = raw_batch_data['images']
 
-    return MultiModalInputs({'pixel_values': pixel_values})
+    return MultiModalKwargs({'pixel_values': pixel_values})
 
 
 def merge_glm_vision_embeddings(
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/fuyu.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/fuyu.py
index 3db82a898159b..653d5d60ea178 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/fuyu.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/fuyu.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 from vllm.model_executor.models.persimmon import PersimmonForCausalLM
 from vllm.model_executor.sampling_metadata import SamplingMetadata
 from vllm.multimodal import MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY
-from vllm.multimodal.base import MultiModalInputs
+from vllm.multimodal.base import MultiModalKwargs
 from vllm.multimodal.image import cached_get_image_processor
 from vllm.multimodal.utils import (cached_get_tokenizer,
                                    consecutive_placeholder_ranges)
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ def input_mapper_for_fuyu(ctx: InputContext, data: object):
         ])
 
     # image has been processed with prompt in input processor
-    return MultiModalInputs({"pixel_values": data})
+    return MultiModalKwargs({"pixel_values": data})
 
 
 @MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY.register_image_input_mapper(input_mapper_for_fuyu)
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/h2ovl.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/h2ovl.py
index 43242fe370ba2..767171dad7c7b 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/h2ovl.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/h2ovl.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
                          token_inputs)
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.quantization import QuantizationConfig
 from vllm.multimodal import MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY
-from vllm.multimodal.base import MultiModalInputs
+from vllm.multimodal.base import MultiModalKwargs
 from vllm.multimodal.utils import cached_get_tokenizer
 from vllm.utils import is_list_of
 
@@ -324,12 +324,12 @@ def input_mapper(
         data: object,
         *,
         max_dynamic_patch: Optional[int] = None,
-    ) -> MultiModalInputs:
+    ) -> MultiModalKwargs:
 
         # NOTE: Preprocessing for the image data is done in the
         # 'input_processor' function during actual inference.
         if isinstance(data, dict):
-            return MultiModalInputs(data)
+            return MultiModalKwargs(data)
 
         # The section below is only used with dummy data during
         # memory profiling.
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ def input_mapper(
             pixel_values = [image_pixel_values_mapper(img) for img in data]
 
         else:
-            return MultiModalInputs({"image_embeds": data})
+            return MultiModalKwargs({"image_embeds": data})
         model_config = ctx.model_config
         tokenizer = cached_get_tokenizer(
             model_config.tokenizer,
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ def input_mapper(
             return_tensors="pt",
         )[0]
 
-        return MultiModalInputs({
+        return MultiModalKwargs({
             "pixel_values": pixel_values,
             "image_token_id": image_token_id
         })
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/idefics3.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/idefics3.py
index e4c98f22fb16f..db3771dc11e51 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/idefics3.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/idefics3.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.sampler import Sampler, SamplerOutput
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.vocab_parallel_embedding import ParallelLMHead
 from vllm.model_executor.sampling_metadata import SamplingMetadata
-from vllm.multimodal import MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY, MultiModalInputs
+from vllm.multimodal import MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY, MultiModalKwargs
 from vllm.multimodal.image import cached_get_image_processor
 from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors, SequenceData
 from vllm.transformers_utils.processor import cached_get_processor
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ def input_mapper_for_idefics3(
         logger.error("Failed to process image (%s)", data)
         raise
 
-    return MultiModalInputs(batch_data)
+    return MultiModalKwargs(batch_data)
 
 
 def _resize_output_size(height: int,
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/internvl.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/internvl.py
index bb9d38889a175..335b11d293acd 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/internvl.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/internvl.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
                                                    InternVisionPatchModel)
 from vllm.model_executor.sampling_metadata import SamplingMetadata
 from vllm.multimodal import MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY
-from vllm.multimodal.base import MultiModalInputs
+from vllm.multimodal.base import MultiModalKwargs
 from vllm.multimodal.utils import cached_get_tokenizer
 from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors
 from vllm.utils import is_list_of
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ def input_mapper(
             # we can't stack here because images may have different num_patches
             data = [image_pixel_values_mapper(img) for img in data]
         else:
-            return MultiModalInputs({"image_embeds": data})
+            return MultiModalKwargs({"image_embeds": data})
         model_config = ctx.model_config
         tokenizer = cached_get_tokenizer(
             model_config.tokenizer,
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ def input_mapper(
                                           add_special_tokens=False,
                                           return_tensors="pt")[0]
 
-        return MultiModalInputs({
+        return MultiModalKwargs({
             "pixel_values": data,
             "image_token_id": image_token_id
         })
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/minicpmv.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/minicpmv.py
index 4ffe33bb6ce41..f8006095e2eb2 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/minicpmv.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/minicpmv.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 from vllm.model_executor.models.utils import LLMWrapper
 from vllm.model_executor.sampling_metadata import SamplingMetadata
 from vllm.multimodal import MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY
-from vllm.multimodal.base import MultiModalInputs
+from vllm.multimodal.base import MultiModalKwargs
 from vllm.multimodal.image import cached_get_image_processor
 from vllm.multimodal.utils import cached_get_tokenizer
 from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors, SequenceData
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ def input_mapper_for_minicpmv(ctx: InputContext, data: object):
             batch_data["slice_start_id"] = data[0]["slice_start_id"]
             batch_data["slice_end_id"] = data[0]["slice_end_id"]
 
-    return MultiModalInputs(batch_data)
+    return MultiModalKwargs(batch_data)
 
 
 class MiniCPMVBaseModel(nn.Module, SupportsMultiModal, SupportsPP):
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/mllama.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/mllama.py
index d442ffe3c1fb1..18e38daadc93a 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/mllama.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/mllama.py
@@ -1162,7 +1162,7 @@ def sample(
 
     def _parse_and_validate_image_input(self, **kwargs: object):
         # tensor with the same shape will be batched together by
-        # MultiModalInputs.batch, so pixel_values here can be:
+        # MultiModalKwargs.batch, so pixel_values here can be:
         #   - List[List[torch.Tensor]]:
         #       with shape (num_tiles, 3, image_res, image_res)
         #   - List[torch.Tensor]:
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/molmo.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/molmo.py
index 3a50923de3741..5f2f61cc610b3 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/molmo.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/molmo.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.vocab_parallel_embedding import (
     ParallelLMHead, VocabParallelEmbedding)
 from vllm.model_executor.model_loader.weight_utils import default_weight_loader
-from vllm.multimodal import MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY, MultiModalInputs
+from vllm.multimodal import MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY, MultiModalKwargs
 from vllm.multimodal.utils import cached_get_tokenizer
 from vllm.sequence import (VLLM_TOKEN_ID_ARRAY_TYPE, IntermediateTensors,
                            SequenceData)
@@ -866,7 +866,7 @@ def image_input_mapper_for_molmo(
     ctx: InputContext,
     data: object,
 ):
-    return MultiModalInputs(data)
+    return MultiModalKwargs(data)
 
 
 def dummy_data_for_molmo(ctx: InputContext, seq_len: int,
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/pixtral.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/pixtral.py
index facf1969b9479..de935fc420472 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/pixtral.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/pixtral.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 from vllm.model_executor.models.utils import merge_multimodal_embeddings
 from vllm.model_executor.sampling_metadata import SamplingMetadata
 from vllm.multimodal import MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY
-from vllm.multimodal.base import MultiModalInputs
+from vllm.multimodal.base import MultiModalKwargs
 from vllm.multimodal.utils import (cached_get_tokenizer,
                                    consecutive_placeholder_ranges)
 from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors, SequenceData
@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ def dummy_data_for_pixtral(ctx: InputContext, seq_len: int,
 
 
 def input_mapper_for_pixtral(ctx: InputContext,
-                             data: object) -> MultiModalInputs:
-    """Maps the input data to its MultiModalInputs (if any).
+                             data: object) -> MultiModalKwargs:
+    """Maps the input data to its MultiModalKwargs (if any).
 
     Args:
         ctx: Context of the loaded model.
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ def input_mapper_for_pixtral(ctx: InputContext,
             to pixel_values in .forward() for a visual QWenLMHeadModel model.
 
     Returns:
-        MultiModalInputs containing the stacked normalized images tensor or
+        MultiModalKwargs containing the stacked normalized images tensor or
         image embeddings.
     """
     # Early exit if we have provided an image to a language only Qwen model
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ def input_mapper_for_pixtral(ctx: InputContext,
                                                     dtype=torch.float16)
         images.append(image)
 
-    return MultiModalInputs({"images": images})
+    return MultiModalKwargs({"images": images})
 
 
 def input_processor_for_pixtral(ctx: InputContext, inputs: DecoderOnlyInputs):
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/qwen.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/qwen.py
index c91c2caa3d519..1db7e2ba1cc12 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/qwen.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/qwen.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 from vllm.model_executor.models.module_mapping import MultiModelKeys
 from vllm.model_executor.sampling_metadata import SamplingMetadata
 from vllm.multimodal import MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY
-from vllm.multimodal.base import MultiModalInputs
+from vllm.multimodal.base import MultiModalKwargs
 from vllm.multimodal.utils import cached_get_tokenizer
 from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors, SequenceData
 from vllm.utils import is_list_of
@@ -722,8 +722,8 @@ def input_processor_for_qwen(ctx: InputContext,
                         multi_modal_data=multi_modal_data)
 
 
-def input_mapper_for_qwen(ctx: InputContext, data: object) -> MultiModalInputs:
-    """Maps the input data to its MultiModalInputs (if any).
+def input_mapper_for_qwen(ctx: InputContext, data: object) -> MultiModalKwargs:
+    """Maps the input data to its MultiModalKwargs (if any).
 
     Args:
         ctx: Context of the loaded model.
@@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ def input_mapper_for_qwen(ctx: InputContext, data: object) -> MultiModalInputs:
             to pixel_values in .forward() for a visual QWenLMHeadModel model.
 
     Returns:
-        MultiModalInputs containing the stacked normalized images tensor or
+        MultiModalKwargs containing the stacked normalized images tensor or
         image embeddings.
     """
     # Early exit if we have provided an image to a language only Qwen model
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ def input_mapper_for_qwen(ctx: InputContext, data: object) -> MultiModalInputs:
         logger.warning(
             "Images were provided but this model has no visual config; "
             "multimodal inputs will not be forwarded to the model.")
-        return MultiModalInputs()
+        return MultiModalKwargs()
 
     model_config = ctx.model_config
     tokenizer = cached_get_tokenizer(
@@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ def input_mapper_for_qwen(ctx: InputContext, data: object) -> MultiModalInputs:
             data = [data]
         transformed_images = [transform(datum) for datum in data]
         pixel_values = torch.stack(transformed_images, dim=0)
-    return MultiModalInputs({"pixel_values": pixel_values})
+    return MultiModalKwargs({"pixel_values": pixel_values})
 
 
 def build_normalization_transform(image_size: int) -> transforms.Compose:
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/qwen2_audio.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/qwen2_audio.py
index 54a7085f69ba9..18cf45b3939f7 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/qwen2_audio.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/qwen2_audio.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
     default_weight_loader, maybe_remap_kv_scale_name)
 from vllm.model_executor.models.qwen2 import Qwen2Model
 from vllm.model_executor.sampling_metadata import SamplingMetadata
-from vllm.multimodal import MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY, MultiModalInputs
+from vllm.multimodal import MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY, MultiModalKwargs
 from vllm.multimodal.utils import consecutive_placeholder_ranges
 from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors, SequenceData
 
@@ -221,13 +221,13 @@ def input_processor_for_qwen2_audio(
 def input_mapper_for_qwen2_audio(
     ctx: InputContext,
     multi_modal_data: Union[np.ndarray, List[np.ndarray]],
-) -> MultiModalInputs:
+) -> MultiModalKwargs:
     """Input mapper for Qwen2-Audio."""
     if not isinstance(multi_modal_data, list):
         multi_modal_data = [multi_modal_data]
 
     if len(multi_modal_data) == 0:
-        return MultiModalInputs()
+        return MultiModalKwargs()
 
     processor = cached_get_processor(ctx.model_config.model)
     audio_feature_extractor = processor.feature_extractor
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ def input_mapper_for_qwen2_audio(
         logger.error("Failed to process audio (%s)", multi_modal_data)
         raise
 
-    return MultiModalInputs(batch_data)
+    return MultiModalKwargs(batch_data)
 
 
 @INPUT_REGISTRY.register_dummy_data(dummy_data_for_qwen2_audio)
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/qwen2_vl.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/qwen2_vl.py
index 0e820cf123139..8073c5f4b2fd2 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/qwen2_vl.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/qwen2_vl.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 from vllm.model_executor.model_loader.weight_utils import default_weight_loader
 from vllm.model_executor.models.qwen2 import Qwen2Model
 from vllm.multimodal import (MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY, MultiModalDataDict,
-                             MultiModalInputs)
+                             MultiModalKwargs)
 from vllm.multimodal.base import MultiModalData
 from vllm.multimodal.image import cached_get_image_processor
 from vllm.multimodal.utils import cached_get_tokenizer
@@ -576,10 +576,10 @@ def mm_input_mapper_for_qwen2_vl(
     *,
     min_pixels: Optional[int] = None,
     max_pixels: Optional[int] = None,
-) -> MultiModalInputs:
+) -> MultiModalKwargs:
     """Input mapper for Qwen2-VL."""
     if data_type_key == "image" and isinstance(data, dict):
-        return MultiModalInputs({
+        return MultiModalKwargs({
             "image_embeds": data.get("image_embeds"),
             "image_grid_thw": data.get("image_grid_thw"),
         })
@@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ def mm_input_mapper_for_qwen2_vl(
         logger.error("Failed to process image (%s)", data)
         raise
 
-    return MultiModalInputs(batch_data)
+    return MultiModalKwargs(batch_data)
 
 
 image_input_mapper_for_qwen2_vl = partial(mm_input_mapper_for_qwen2_vl,
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/ultravox.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/ultravox.py
index 3a343986a9345..1b870f34deed2 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/ultravox.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/ultravox.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.sampler import SamplerOutput, get_sampler
 from vllm.model_executor.model_loader.loader import DefaultModelLoader
 from vllm.model_executor.sampling_metadata import SamplingMetadata
-from vllm.multimodal import (MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY, MultiModalInputs,
+from vllm.multimodal import (MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY, MultiModalKwargs,
                              NestedTensors)
 from vllm.multimodal.utils import (cached_get_tokenizer,
                                    consecutive_placeholder_ranges,
@@ -116,11 +116,11 @@ def input_mapper_for_ultravox(ctx: InputContext, data: object):
         data = [data]
 
     if len(data) == 0:
-        return MultiModalInputs()
+        return MultiModalKwargs()
 
     # If the audio inputs are embeddings, no need for preprocessing
     if is_list_of(data, torch.Tensor, check="all"):
-        return MultiModalInputs({"audio_embeds": data})
+        return MultiModalKwargs({"audio_embeds": data})
 
     audio_features = []
     for audio_input in data:
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ def input_mapper_for_ultravox(ctx: InputContext, data: object):
         # Remove the batch dimension because we're wrapping it in a list.
         audio_features.append(single_audio_features.squeeze(0))
 
-    return MultiModalInputs({"audio_features": audio_features})
+    return MultiModalKwargs({"audio_features": audio_features})
 
 
 def input_processor_for_ultravox(ctx: InputContext, inputs: DecoderOnlyInputs):
diff --git a/vllm/multimodal/__init__.py b/vllm/multimodal/__init__.py
index 53da2badb9b98..14911853abc73 100644
--- a/vllm/multimodal/__init__.py
+++ b/vllm/multimodal/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 from .base import (BatchedTensorInputs, MultiModalDataBuiltins,
-                   MultiModalDataDict, MultiModalInputs,
+                   MultiModalDataDict, MultiModalKwargs,
                    MultiModalPlaceholderDict, MultiModalPlaceholderMap,
                    MultiModalPlugin, NestedTensors)
 from .registry import MultiModalRegistry
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
     "BatchedTensorInputs",
     "MultiModalDataBuiltins",
     "MultiModalDataDict",
-    "MultiModalInputs",
+    "MultiModalKwargs",
     "MultiModalPlaceholderDict",
     "MultiModalPlaceholderMap",
     "MultiModalPlugin",
@@ -25,3 +25,18 @@
     "MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY",
     "MultiModalRegistry",
 ]
+
+
+def __getattr__(name: str):
+    import warnings
+
+    if name == "MultiModalInputs":
+        msg = ("MultiModalInputs has been renamed to MultiModalKwargs. "
+               "The original name will take another meaning in an upcoming "
+               "version.")
+
+        warnings.warn(DeprecationWarning(msg), stacklevel=2)
+
+        return MultiModalKwargs
+
+    raise AttributeError(f"module {__name__!r} has no attribute {name!r}")
diff --git a/vllm/multimodal/audio.py b/vllm/multimodal/audio.py
index 04d71826f29fa..e71ae5feec1c6 100644
--- a/vllm/multimodal/audio.py
+++ b/vllm/multimodal/audio.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 from vllm.inputs.registry import InputContext
-from vllm.multimodal.base import MultiModalInputs, MultiModalPlugin
+from vllm.multimodal.base import MultiModalKwargs, MultiModalPlugin
 
 
 class AudioPlugin(MultiModalPlugin):
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ def get_data_key(self) -> str:
         return "audio"
 
     def _default_input_mapper(self, ctx: InputContext, data: object,
-                              **mm_processor_kwargs) -> MultiModalInputs:
+                              **mm_processor_kwargs) -> MultiModalKwargs:
         raise NotImplementedError("There is no default audio input mapper")
 
     def _default_max_multimodal_tokens(self, ctx: InputContext) -> int:
diff --git a/vllm/multimodal/base.py b/vllm/multimodal/base.py
index 26c94cf2d0b20..fa514d3fcb3b7 100644
--- a/vllm/multimodal/base.py
+++ b/vllm/multimodal/base.py
@@ -30,15 +30,15 @@
 BatchedTensorInputs: TypeAlias = Dict[str, NestedTensors]
 """
 A dictionary containing nested tensors which have been batched via
-:meth:`MultiModalInputs.batch`.
+:meth:`MultiModalKwargs.batch`.
 """
 
 
-class _MultiModalInputsBase(UserDict[str, NestedTensors]):
+class _MultiModalKwargsBase(UserDict[str, NestedTensors]):
     pass
 
 
-class MultiModalInputs(_MultiModalInputsBase):
+class MultiModalKwargs(_MultiModalKwargsBase):
     """
     A dictionary that represents the keyword arguments to
     :meth:`~torch.nn.Module.forward`.
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ def _try_stack(nested_tensors: NestedTensors) -> NestedTensors:
         if isinstance(nested_tensors, (int, float)):
             return torch.tensor(nested_tensors)
 
-        stacked = [MultiModalInputs._try_stack(t) for t in nested_tensors]
+        stacked = [MultiModalKwargs._try_stack(t) for t in nested_tensors]
         if not is_list_of(stacked, torch.Tensor, check="all"):
             # Only tensors (not lists) can be stacked.
             return stacked
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ def _try_stack(nested_tensors: NestedTensors) -> NestedTensors:
         return torch.stack(tensors_)
 
     @staticmethod
-    def batch(inputs_list: List["MultiModalInputs"]) -> BatchedTensorInputs:
+    def batch(inputs_list: List["MultiModalKwargs"]) -> BatchedTensorInputs:
         """
         Batch multiple inputs together into a dictionary.
 
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ def batch(inputs_list: List["MultiModalInputs"]) -> BatchedTensorInputs:
                 item_lists[k].append(v)
 
         return {
-            k: MultiModalInputs._try_stack(item_list)
+            k: MultiModalKwargs._try_stack(item_list)
             for k, item_list in item_lists.items()
         }
 
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ class PlaceholderRange(TypedDict):
 """
 
 MultiModalInputMapper = Callable[[InputContext, MultiModalData[object]],
-                                 MultiModalInputs]
+                                 MultiModalKwargs]
 """
 Return a dictionary to be passed as keyword arguments to
 :meth:`~torch.nn.Module.forward`. This is similar in concept to tokenizers
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ def _default_input_mapper(
         ctx: InputContext,
         data: MultiModalData[object],
         **mm_processor_kwargs,
-    ) -> MultiModalInputs:
+    ) -> MultiModalKwargs:
         """
         Return a dictionary to be passed as keyword arguments to
         :meth:`~torch.nn.Module.forward`. This is similar in concept to
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ def map_input(
         model_config: "ModelConfig",
         data: MultiModalData[object],
         mm_processor_kwargs: Dict[str, Any],
-    ) -> MultiModalInputs:
+    ) -> MultiModalKwargs:
         """
         Transform the data into a dictionary of model inputs using the
         input mapper registered for that model.
@@ -585,3 +585,18 @@ def index_map(self) -> "IndexMap":
 
         return MultiModalPlaceholderMap.IndexMap(src=src_indices,
                                                  dest=dest_indices)
+
+
+def __getattr__(name: str):
+    import warnings
+
+    if name == "MultiModalInputs":
+        msg = ("MultiModalInputs has been renamed to MultiModalKwargs. "
+               "The original name will take another meaning in an upcoming "
+               "version.")
+
+        warnings.warn(DeprecationWarning(msg), stacklevel=2)
+
+        return MultiModalKwargs
+
+    raise AttributeError(f"module {__name__!r} has no attribute {name!r}")
diff --git a/vllm/multimodal/image.py b/vllm/multimodal/image.py
index 3f6bb6c8338d2..589b46266b08d 100644
--- a/vllm/multimodal/image.py
+++ b/vllm/multimodal/image.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 from vllm.transformers_utils.processor import get_image_processor
 from vllm.utils import is_list_of
 
-from .base import MultiModalData, MultiModalInputs, MultiModalPlugin
+from .base import MultiModalData, MultiModalKwargs, MultiModalPlugin
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from vllm.config import ModelConfig
@@ -43,12 +43,12 @@ def _default_input_mapper(
         ctx: InputContext,
         data: MultiModalData[object],
         **mm_processor_kwargs,
-    ) -> MultiModalInputs:
+    ) -> MultiModalKwargs:
         model_config = ctx.model_config
 
         # Processed by input processor
         if isinstance(data, BatchFeature):
-            return MultiModalInputs(data.data)
+            return MultiModalKwargs(data.data)
 
         # PIL image
         if isinstance(data, Image.Image) or is_list_of(data, Image.Image):
@@ -78,11 +78,11 @@ def _default_input_mapper(
                     type(image_processor).__name__)
                 raise
 
-            return MultiModalInputs(batch_data)
+            return MultiModalKwargs(batch_data)
 
         # Image embedding
         elif isinstance(data, torch.Tensor) or is_list_of(data, torch.Tensor):
-            return MultiModalInputs({"image_embeds": data})
+            return MultiModalKwargs({"image_embeds": data})
 
         raise TypeError(f"Invalid image type: {type(data)}")
 
diff --git a/vllm/multimodal/registry.py b/vllm/multimodal/registry.py
index bce2f4c6abe5b..b844c9e1c2e89 100644
--- a/vllm/multimodal/registry.py
+++ b/vllm/multimodal/registry.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
 
 from .audio import AudioPlugin
-from .base import (MultiModalDataDict, MultiModalInputMapper, MultiModalInputs,
+from .base import (MultiModalDataDict, MultiModalInputMapper, MultiModalKwargs,
                    MultiModalPlugin, MultiModalTokensCalc, NestedTensors)
 from .image import ImagePlugin
 from .video import VideoPlugin
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ def map_input(
         model_config: "ModelConfig",
         data: MultiModalDataDict,
         mm_processor_kwargs: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None,
-    ) -> MultiModalInputs:
+    ) -> MultiModalKwargs:
         """
         Apply an input mapper to the data passed to the model.
 
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ def map_input(
 
                 merged_dict[input_key] = input_tensor
 
-        return MultiModalInputs(merged_dict)
+        return MultiModalKwargs(merged_dict)
 
     def create_input_mapper(self, model_config: "ModelConfig"):
         """
diff --git a/vllm/multimodal/video.py b/vllm/multimodal/video.py
index 40a92fed28c87..a518270974f92 100644
--- a/vllm/multimodal/video.py
+++ b/vllm/multimodal/video.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 from vllm.transformers_utils.tokenizer import get_tokenizer
 from vllm.utils import is_list_of
 
-from .base import MultiModalData, MultiModalInputs
+from .base import MultiModalData, MultiModalKwargs
 from .image import ImagePlugin
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ def _default_input_mapper(
         ctx: InputContext,
         data: MultiModalData[object],
         **mm_processor_kwargs,
-    ) -> MultiModalInputs:
+    ) -> MultiModalKwargs:
         model_config = ctx.model_config
 
         if isinstance(data, list) and len(data) == 1:
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ def _default_input_mapper(
                 logger.error("Failed to process video (%s)", data)
                 raise
 
-            return MultiModalInputs(batch_data)
+            return MultiModalKwargs(batch_data)
 
         raise TypeError(f"Invalid video type: {type(data)}")
 
diff --git a/vllm/spec_decode/draft_model_runner.py b/vllm/spec_decode/draft_model_runner.py
index 6330ac027db74..cd4d7eb0e6e4e 100644
--- a/vllm/spec_decode/draft_model_runner.py
+++ b/vllm/spec_decode/draft_model_runner.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
         "CUDA and ROCm flash attention backend.") from err
 
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.multimodal import MultiModalInputs
+from vllm.multimodal import MultiModalKwargs
 from vllm.sequence import ExecuteModelRequest, IntermediateTensors
 from vllm.worker.model_runner import (ModelInputForGPUWithSamplingMetadata,
                                       ModelRunner)
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ def execute_model(
                     kv_caches=kv_caches,
                     attn_metadata=model_input.attn_metadata,
                     intermediate_tensors=intermediate_tensors,
-                    **MultiModalInputs.as_kwargs(multi_modal_kwargs,
+                    **MultiModalKwargs.as_kwargs(multi_modal_kwargs,
                                                  device=self.device),
                     **kwargs,
                 )
diff --git a/vllm/worker/cpu_enc_dec_model_runner.py b/vllm/worker/cpu_enc_dec_model_runner.py
index 8ebbf6db939bc..994af7c5a455f 100644
--- a/vllm/worker/cpu_enc_dec_model_runner.py
+++ b/vllm/worker/cpu_enc_dec_model_runner.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 from vllm.attention import AttentionMetadata
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.sampler import SamplerOutput
-from vllm.multimodal import MultiModalInputs
+from vllm.multimodal import MultiModalKwargs
 from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors, SequenceGroupMetadata
 from vllm.utils import make_tensor_with_pad
 from vllm.worker.cpu_model_runner import (CPUModelRunner,
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ def execute_model(
             kv_caches,
             "attn_metadata":
             model_input.attn_metadata,
-            **MultiModalInputs.as_kwargs(model_input.multi_modal_kwargs or {},
+            **MultiModalKwargs.as_kwargs(model_input.multi_modal_kwargs or {},
                                          device=self.device),
             "intermediate_tensors":
             intermediate_tensors,
diff --git a/vllm/worker/cpu_model_runner.py b/vllm/worker/cpu_model_runner.py
index 26a15ed645c43..1590184d6f831 100644
--- a/vllm/worker/cpu_model_runner.py
+++ b/vllm/worker/cpu_model_runner.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.sampler import SamplerOutput
 from vllm.model_executor.model_loader import get_model
 from vllm.multimodal import (MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY, BatchedTensorInputs,
-                             MultiModalInputs, MultiModalPlaceholderMap)
+                             MultiModalKwargs, MultiModalPlaceholderMap)
 from vllm.sequence import (IntermediateTensors, SequenceData,
                            SequenceGroupMetadata)
 from vllm.utils import make_tensor_with_pad
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ def _prepare_prompt(
 
         slot_mapping: List[int] = []
         seq_lens: List[int] = []
-        multi_modal_inputs_list: List[MultiModalInputs] = []
+        multi_model_kwargs_list: List[MultiModalKwargs] = []
         multi_modal_placeholder_maps: Dict[
             str,
             MultiModalPlaceholderMap] = defaultdict(MultiModalPlaceholderMap)
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ def _prepare_prompt(
                     ._compute_multi_modal_input(
                         seq_group_metadata, seq_data, computed_len,
                     seq_group_metadata.mm_processor_kwargs)
-                multi_modal_inputs_list.append(mm_kwargs)
+                multi_model_kwargs_list.append(mm_kwargs)
                 for modality, placeholder_map in placeholder_maps.items():
                     multi_modal_placeholder_maps[modality].extend(
                         placeholder_map)
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ def _prepare_prompt(
             multi_modal_placeholder_index_maps=placeholder_index_maps,
         )
 
-        multi_modal_kwargs = MultiModalInputs.batch(multi_modal_inputs_list)
+        multi_modal_kwargs = MultiModalKwargs.batch(multi_model_kwargs_list)
 
         return (input_tokens, input_positions, attn_metadata, seq_lens,
                 multi_modal_kwargs)
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ def execute_model(
             kv_caches,
             "attn_metadata":
             model_input.attn_metadata,
-            **MultiModalInputs.as_kwargs(model_input.multi_modal_kwargs or {},
+            **MultiModalKwargs.as_kwargs(model_input.multi_modal_kwargs or {},
                                          device=self.device),
             "intermediate_tensors":
             intermediate_tensors,
diff --git a/vllm/worker/embedding_model_runner.py b/vllm/worker/embedding_model_runner.py
index ff288d5ca1512..37cfcbf13d7a3 100644
--- a/vllm/worker/embedding_model_runner.py
+++ b/vllm/worker/embedding_model_runner.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 from vllm.forward_context import set_forward_context
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
 from vllm.model_executor.pooling_metadata import PoolingMetadata
-from vllm.multimodal import MultiModalInputs
+from vllm.multimodal import MultiModalKwargs
 from vllm.pooling_params import PoolingParams
 from vllm.sequence import (IntermediateTensors, PoolerOutput, SequenceData,
                            SequenceGroupMetadata)
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ def execute_model(
                 kv_caches=kv_caches,
                 attn_metadata=model_input.attn_metadata,
                 intermediate_tensors=intermediate_tensors,
-                **MultiModalInputs.as_kwargs(multi_modal_kwargs,
+                **MultiModalKwargs.as_kwargs(multi_modal_kwargs,
                                              device=self.device))
 
         if (self.observability_config is not None
diff --git a/vllm/worker/enc_dec_model_runner.py b/vllm/worker/enc_dec_model_runner.py
index 90a43196084ea..008e0c9745994 100644
--- a/vllm/worker/enc_dec_model_runner.py
+++ b/vllm/worker/enc_dec_model_runner.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 from vllm.model_executor import SamplingMetadata
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.sampler import SamplerOutput
 from vllm.model_executor.model_loader.utils import get_architecture_class_name
-from vllm.multimodal import (MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY, MultiModalInputs,
+from vllm.multimodal import (MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY, MultiModalKwargs,
                              MultiModalRegistry)
 from vllm.sampling_params import SamplingParams
 from vllm.sequence import (IntermediateTensors, PoolerOutput,
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ def execute_model(
                 kv_caches=kv_caches,
                 attn_metadata=model_input.attn_metadata,
                 intermediate_tensors=intermediate_tensors,
-                **MultiModalInputs.as_kwargs(multi_modal_kwargs,
+                **MultiModalKwargs.as_kwargs(multi_modal_kwargs,
                                              device=self.device),
                 **seqlen_agnostic_kwargs)
 
diff --git a/vllm/worker/hpu_model_runner.py b/vllm/worker/hpu_model_runner.py
index 7e9b2bd13b48a..92d6552b2f428 100644
--- a/vllm/worker/hpu_model_runner.py
+++ b/vllm/worker/hpu_model_runner.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.sampler import SamplerOutput
 from vllm.model_executor.model_loader import get_model
 from vllm.multimodal import (MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY, BatchedTensorInputs,
-                             MultiModalInputs)
+                             MultiModalKwargs)
 from vllm.sampling_params import SamplingParams
 from vllm.sequence import (IntermediateTensors, SequenceData,
                            SequenceGroupMetadata)
@@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ def _prepare_prompt(
         context_lens: List[int] = []
         query_lens: List[int] = []
         prefix_block_tables: List[List[int]] = []
-        multi_modal_inputs_list: List[MultiModalInputs] = []
+        multi_model_kwargs_list: List[MultiModalKwargs] = []
 
         if len(seq_group_metadata_list) == 0:
             return PreparePromptMetadata.empty()
@@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ def _prepare_prompt(
             mm_data = seq_group_metadata.multi_modal_data
             if mm_data:
                 mm_kwargs = self.multi_modal_input_mapper(mm_data)
-                multi_modal_inputs_list.append(mm_kwargs)
+                multi_model_kwargs_list.append(mm_kwargs)
 
             if seq_group_metadata.block_tables is None:
                 # During memory profiling, the block tables are not initialized
@@ -876,7 +876,7 @@ def _prepare_prompt(
             multi_modal_placeholder_index_maps=
             None  # FIXME(kzawora): mutli-modality will not work here
         )
-        multi_modal_kwargs = MultiModalInputs.batch(multi_modal_inputs_list)
+        multi_modal_kwargs = MultiModalKwargs.batch(multi_model_kwargs_list)
 
         return PreparePromptMetadata(input_tokens=input_tokens,
                                      input_positions=input_positions,
diff --git a/vllm/worker/model_runner.py b/vllm/worker/model_runner.py
index a1ec2e85be7b8..e1446192ce3d6 100644
--- a/vllm/worker/model_runner.py
+++ b/vllm/worker/model_runner.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 from vllm.model_executor.models import supports_lora, supports_multimodal
 from vllm.model_executor.models.utils import set_cpu_offload_max_bytes
 from vllm.multimodal import (MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY, BatchedTensorInputs,
-                             MultiModalInputs, MultiModalPlaceholderMap,
+                             MultiModalKwargs, MultiModalPlaceholderMap,
                              MultiModalRegistry)
 from vllm.platforms import current_platform
 from vllm.prompt_adapter.layers import PromptAdapterMapping
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ def __init__(
             prompt_adapter_request: Optional[PromptAdapterRequest] = None,
 
             # Multi-modal inputs.
-            multi_modal_inputs: Optional[MultiModalInputs] = None,
+            multi_model_kwargs: Optional[MultiModalKwargs] = None,
             multi_modal_placeholder_maps: Optional[Dict[
                 str, MultiModalPlaceholderMap]] = None,
 
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ def __init__(
                     prompt_adapter_prompt_mapping or [])
 
             self.prompt_adapter_request = prompt_adapter_request
-            self.multi_modal_inputs = multi_modal_inputs
+            self.multi_model_kwargs = multi_model_kwargs
             self.multi_modal_placeholder_maps = multi_modal_placeholder_maps
             self.prefix_cache_hit = prefix_cache_hit
 
@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ def _compute_multi_modal_input(self, inter_data: InterDataForSeqGroup,
         mm_kwargs = self.multi_modal_input_mapper(
             mm_data,
             mm_processor_kwargs=seq_group_metadata.mm_processor_kwargs)
-        inter_data.multi_modal_inputs = mm_kwargs
+        inter_data.multi_model_kwargs = mm_kwargs
         inter_data.multi_modal_placeholder_maps = placeholder_maps
 
         # special processing for mrope position deltas.
@@ -935,11 +935,11 @@ def build(self) -> ModelInputForGPU:
             )
 
         # Multi-modal data.
-        multi_modal_inputs_list = [
-            data.multi_modal_inputs for data in self.inter_data_list
-            if data.multi_modal_inputs is not None
+        multi_model_kwargs_list = [
+            data.multi_model_kwargs for data in self.inter_data_list
+            if data.multi_model_kwargs is not None
         ]
-        multi_modal_kwargs = MultiModalInputs.batch(multi_modal_inputs_list)
+        multi_modal_kwargs = MultiModalKwargs.batch(multi_model_kwargs_list)
 
         return self.model_input_cls(
             input_tokens=input_tokens_tensor,
@@ -1649,7 +1649,7 @@ def execute_model(
                 kv_caches=kv_caches,
                 attn_metadata=model_input.attn_metadata,
                 intermediate_tensors=intermediate_tensors,
-                **MultiModalInputs.as_kwargs(multi_modal_kwargs,
+                **MultiModalKwargs.as_kwargs(multi_modal_kwargs,
                                              device=self.device),
                 **seqlen_agnostic_kwargs)
 
diff --git a/vllm/worker/neuron_model_runner.py b/vllm/worker/neuron_model_runner.py
index 2da22cbfc7cb5..0ed33e435aa2f 100644
--- a/vllm/worker/neuron_model_runner.py
+++ b/vllm/worker/neuron_model_runner.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.sampler import SamplerOutput
 from vllm.model_executor.model_loader.neuron import get_neuron_model
 from vllm.multimodal import (MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY, BatchedTensorInputs,
-                             MultiModalInputs)
+                             MultiModalKwargs)
 from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors, SequenceGroupMetadata
 from vllm.utils import is_pin_memory_available, make_tensor_with_pad
 from vllm.worker.model_runner_base import ModelRunnerBase, ModelRunnerInputBase
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ def _prepare_prompt(
         input_block_ids: List[int] = []
 
         seq_lens: List[int] = []
-        multi_modal_inputs_list: List[MultiModalInputs] = []
+        multi_model_kwargs_list: List[MultiModalKwargs] = []
         for seq_group_metadata in seq_group_metadata_list:
             assert seq_group_metadata.is_prompt
             seq_ids = list(seq_group_metadata.seq_data.keys())
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ def _prepare_prompt(
                     mm_data,
                     mm_processor_kwargs=seq_group_metadata.mm_processor_kwargs,
                 )
-                multi_modal_inputs_list.append(mm_kwargs)
+                multi_model_kwargs_list.append(mm_kwargs)
 
         max_seq_len = max(seq_lens)
         assert max_seq_len > 0
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ def _prepare_prompt(
                                        dtype=torch.long,
                                        device=self.device)
 
-        multi_modal_kwargs = MultiModalInputs.batch(multi_modal_inputs_list)
+        multi_modal_kwargs = MultiModalKwargs.batch(multi_model_kwargs_list)
 
         return (input_tokens, input_positions, input_block_ids, seq_lens,
                 multi_modal_kwargs)
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ def execute_model(
             input_ids=model_input.input_tokens,
             positions=model_input.input_positions,
             input_block_ids=model_input.input_block_ids,
-            **MultiModalInputs.as_kwargs(model_input.multi_modal_kwargs or {},
+            **MultiModalKwargs.as_kwargs(model_input.multi_modal_kwargs or {},
                                          device=self.device),
         )
 
diff --git a/vllm/worker/openvino_model_runner.py b/vllm/worker/openvino_model_runner.py
index c9c87ea748081..378e1e06039b2 100644
--- a/vllm/worker/openvino_model_runner.py
+++ b/vllm/worker/openvino_model_runner.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.sampler import SamplerOutput
 from vllm.model_executor.model_loader.openvino import get_model
 from vllm.multimodal import (MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY, BatchedTensorInputs,
-                             MultiModalInputs, MultiModalPlaceholderMap)
+                             MultiModalKwargs, MultiModalPlaceholderMap)
 from vllm.sequence import SequenceGroupMetadata
 from vllm.worker.model_runner_base import ModelRunnerBase
 
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ def _prepare_model_input(
         seq_lens: List[int] = []
         past_lens: List[int] = []
         query_lens: List[int] = []
-        multi_modal_inputs_list: List[MultiModalInputs] = []
+        multi_model_kwargs_list: List[MultiModalKwargs] = []
         multi_modal_placeholder_maps: Dict[
             str,
             MultiModalPlaceholderMap] = defaultdict(MultiModalPlaceholderMap)
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ def _prepare_model_input(
                         mm_data,
                         mm_processor_kwargs=seq_group_metadata.
                         mm_processor_kwargs)
-                    multi_modal_inputs_list.append(mm_kwargs)
+                    multi_model_kwargs_list.append(mm_kwargs)
 
                     for modality, placeholder_map in placeholder_maps.items():
                         multi_modal_placeholder_maps[modality].extend(
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ def _prepare_model_input(
             multi_modal_placeholder_index_maps=placeholder_index_maps,
         )
 
-        multi_modal_kwargs = MultiModalInputs.batch(multi_modal_inputs_list)
+        multi_modal_kwargs = MultiModalKwargs.batch(multi_model_kwargs_list)
 
         return ModelInput(
             input_tokens,
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ def execute_model(
             kv_caches,
             "attn_metadata":
             attn_metadata,
-            **MultiModalInputs.as_kwargs(multi_modal_kwargs or {},
+            **MultiModalKwargs.as_kwargs(multi_modal_kwargs or {},
                                          device=self.device),
         }
 
diff --git a/vllm/worker/xpu_model_runner.py b/vllm/worker/xpu_model_runner.py
index bae8b469767b2..c9e637c057979 100644
--- a/vllm/worker/xpu_model_runner.py
+++ b/vllm/worker/xpu_model_runner.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.sampler import SamplerOutput
 from vllm.model_executor.model_loader import get_model
 from vllm.multimodal import (MULTIMODAL_REGISTRY, BatchedTensorInputs,
-                             MultiModalInputs, MultiModalPlaceholderMap,
+                             MultiModalKwargs, MultiModalPlaceholderMap,
                              MultiModalRegistry)
 from vllm.sampling_params import SamplingParams
 from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors, SequenceGroupMetadata
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ def _prepare_prompt(
         input_positions: List[int] = []
         slot_mapping: List[int] = []
         seq_lens: List[int] = []
-        multi_modal_inputs_list: List[MultiModalInputs] = []
+        multi_model_kwargs_list: List[MultiModalKwargs] = []
         multi_modal_placeholder_maps: Dict[
             str,
             MultiModalPlaceholderMap] = defaultdict(MultiModalPlaceholderMap)
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ def _prepare_prompt(
                     .from_seq_group(seq_group_metadata, positions_range)
 
                 mm_kwargs = self.runner.multi_modal_input_mapper(mm_data)
-                multi_modal_inputs_list.append(mm_kwargs)
+                multi_model_kwargs_list.append(mm_kwargs)
 
                 for modality, placeholder_map in placeholder_maps.items():
                     multi_modal_placeholder_maps[modality].extend(
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ def _prepare_prompt(
             block_tables=torch.tensor([], device=self.device, dtype=torch.int),
         )
 
-        multi_modal_kwargs = MultiModalInputs.batch(multi_modal_inputs_list)
+        multi_modal_kwargs = MultiModalKwargs.batch(multi_model_kwargs_list)
 
         return (input_tokens, input_positions, attn_metadata, seq_lens,
                 multi_modal_kwargs)
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ def execute_model(
             kv_caches=kv_caches,
             attn_metadata=model_input.attn_metadata,
             intermediate_tensors=intermediate_tensors,
-            **MultiModalInputs.as_kwargs(model_input.multi_modal_kwargs or {},
+            **MultiModalKwargs.as_kwargs(model_input.multi_modal_kwargs or {},
                                          device=self.device))
         # Compute the logits in the last pipeline stage.
         if not get_pp_group().is_last_rank: