From f95e3f0edb8f04844dd02a2662eaeff4545380e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: BRIJ RAJ KISHORE <22271048+brijrajk@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:29:10 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] [Tests] Gate Step3VL under Transformers v5 (#44349)

Signed-off-by: brijrajk <22271048+brijrajk@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 tests/models/registry.py | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tests/models/registry.py b/tests/models/registry.py
index 8d6b45d479..cecd2d965a 100644
--- a/tests/models/registry.py
+++ b/tests/models/registry.py
@@ -1366,7 +1366,15 @@ _MULTIMODAL_EXAMPLE_MODELS = {
         "HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2-2.2B-Instruct"
     ),
     "Step3VLForConditionalGeneration": _HfExamplesInfo(
-        "stepfun-ai/step3", trust_remote_code=True
+        "stepfun-ai/step3",
+        trust_remote_code=True,
+        max_transformers_version="5.3",
+        transformers_version_reason={
+            "hf": (
+                "Transformers v5.4 removed the ignore_keys param from "
+                "validate_rope(); vLLM has vendored the config and is unaffected"
+            )
+        },
     ),
     "StepVLForConditionalGeneration": _HfExamplesInfo(
         "stepfun-ai/Step3-VL-10B", trust_remote_code=True