diff --git a/.buildkite/ci_config.yaml b/.buildkite/ci_config.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..199c33159fde
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/ci_config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+name: vllm_ci
+job_dirs:
+  - ".buildkite/test_areas"
+  - ".buildkite/image_build"
+run_all_patterns:
+  - "docker/Dockerfile"
+  - "CMakeLists.txt"
+  - "requirements/common.txt"
+  - "requirements/cuda.txt"
+  - "requirements/build.txt"
+  - "requirements/test.txt"
+  - "setup.py"
+  - "csrc/"
+  - "cmake/"
+run_all_exclude_patterns:
+  - "docker/Dockerfile."
+  - "csrc/cpu/"
+  - "csrc/rocm/"
+  - "cmake/hipify.py"
+  - "cmake/cpu_extension.cmake"
+registries: public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7
+repositories:
+  main: "vllm-ci-postmerge-repo"
+  premerge: "vllm-ci-test-repo"
diff --git a/.buildkite/image_build/image_build.sh b/.buildkite/image_build/image_build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..9a2384e524b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/image_build/image_build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+if [[ $# -lt 8 ]]; then
+  echo "Usage: $0 <registry> <repo> <commit> <branch> <vllm_use_precompiled> <vllm_merge_base_commit> <cache_from> <cache_to>"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+REGISTRY=$1
+REPO=$2
+BUILDKITE_COMMIT=$3
+BRANCH=$4
+VLLM_USE_PRECOMPILED=$5
+VLLM_MERGE_BASE_COMMIT=$6
+CACHE_FROM=$7
+CACHE_TO=$8
+
+# authenticate with AWS ECR
+aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin $REGISTRY
+aws ecr get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin 936637512419.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
+
+# docker buildx 
+docker buildx create --name vllm-builder --driver docker-container --use
+docker buildx inspect --bootstrap
+docker buildx ls
+
+# skip build if image already exists
+if [[ -z $(docker manifest inspect $REGISTRY/$REPO:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT) ]]; then
+  echo "Image not found, proceeding with build..."
+else
+  echo "Image found"
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+if [[ "${VLLM_USE_PRECOMPILED:-0}" == "1" ]]; then
+  merge_base_commit_build_args="--build-arg VLLM_MERGE_BASE_COMMIT=${VLLM_MERGE_BASE_COMMIT}"
+else
+  merge_base_commit_build_args=""
+fi
+
+# build
+docker buildx build --file docker/Dockerfile \
+  --build-arg max_jobs=16 \
+  --build-arg buildkite_commit=$BUILDKITE_COMMIT \
+  --build-arg USE_SCCACHE=1 \
+  --build-arg TORCH_CUDA_ARCH_LIST="8.0 8.9 9.0 10.0" \
+  --build-arg FI_TORCH_CUDA_ARCH_LIST="8.0 8.9 9.0a 10.0a" \
+  --build-arg VLLM_USE_PRECOMPILED="${VLLM_USE_PRECOMPILED:-0}" \
+  ${merge_base_commit_build_args} \
+  --cache-from type=registry,ref=${CACHE_FROM},mode=max \
+  --cache-to type=registry,ref=${CACHE_TO},mode=max \
+  --tag ${REGISTRY}/${REPO}:${BUILDKITE_COMMIT} \
+  $( [[ "${BRANCH}" == "main" ]] && echo "--tag ${REGISTRY}/${REPO}:latest" ) \
+  --push \
+  --target test \
+  --progress plain .
diff --git a/.buildkite/image_build/image_build.yaml b/.buildkite/image_build/image_build.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2632634922a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/image_build/image_build.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+group: Abuild
+steps:
+  - label: ":docker: Build image"
+    key: image-build
+    depends_on: []
+    commands:
+    - .buildkite/image_build/image_build.sh $REGISTRY $REPO $BUILDKITE_COMMIT $BRANCH $VLLM_USE_PRECOMPILED $VLLM_MERGE_BASE_COMMIT $CACHE_FROM $CACHE_TO
+    env:
+      DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
+    retry:
+      automatic:
+        - exit_status: -1  # Agent was lost
+          limit: 2
+        - exit_status: -10  # Agent was lost
+          limit: 2
+
+  - label: ":docker: Build CPU image"
+    key: image-build-cpu
+    depends_on: []
+    commands:
+    - .buildkite/image_build/image_build_cpu.sh $REGISTRY $REPO $BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+    env:
+      DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
+    retry:
+      automatic:
+        - exit_status: -1  # Agent was lost
+          limit: 2
+        - exit_status: -10  # Agent was lost
+          limit: 2
+
+  - label: ":docker: Build HPU image"
+    soft_fail: true
+    depends_on: []
+    key: image-build-hpu
+    commands:
+    - .buildkite/image_build/image_build_hpu.sh $REGISTRY $REPO $BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+    env:
+      DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
+    retry:
+      automatic:
+        - exit_status: -1  # Agent was lost
+          limit: 2
+        - exit_status: -10  # Agent was lost
+          limit: 2
+  
+  - label: ":docker: Build CPU arm64 image"
+    key: cpu-arm64-image-build
+    depends_on: []
+    optional: true
+    commands:
+    - .buildkite/image_build/image_build_cpu_arm64.sh $REGISTRY $REPO $BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+    env:
+      DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
+    retry:
+      automatic:
+        - exit_status: -1  # Agent was lost
+          limit: 2
+        - exit_status: -10  # Agent was lost
+          limit: 2
diff --git a/.buildkite/image_build/image_build_cpu.sh b/.buildkite/image_build/image_build_cpu.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..a69732f43098
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/image_build/image_build_cpu.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+if [[ $# -lt 3 ]]; then
+  echo "Usage: $0 <registry> <repo> <commit>"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+REGISTRY=$1
+REPO=$2
+BUILDKITE_COMMIT=$3
+
+# authenticate with AWS ECR
+aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin $REGISTRY
+
+# skip build if image already exists
+if [[ -z $(docker manifest inspect $REGISTRY/$REPO:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cpu) ]]; then
+  echo "Image not found, proceeding with build..."
+else
+  echo "Image found"
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+# build
+docker build --file docker/Dockerfile.cpu \
+  --build-arg max_jobs=16 \
+  --build-arg buildkite_commit=$BUILDKITE_COMMIT \
+  --build-arg VLLM_CPU_AVX512BF16=true \
+  --build-arg VLLM_CPU_AVX512VNNI=true \
+  --build-arg VLLM_CPU_AMXBF16=true \
+  --tag $REGISTRY/$REPO:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cpu \
+  --target vllm-test \
+  --progress plain .
+
+# push
+docker push $REGISTRY/$REPO:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cpu
diff --git a/.buildkite/image_build/image_build_cpu_arm64.sh b/.buildkite/image_build/image_build_cpu_arm64.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..615298b6555b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/image_build/image_build_cpu_arm64.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+if [[ $# -lt 3 ]]; then
+  echo "Usage: $0 <registry> <repo> <commit>"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+REGISTRY=$1
+REPO=$2
+BUILDKITE_COMMIT=$3
+
+# authenticate with AWS ECR
+aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin $REGISTRY
+
+# skip build if image already exists
+if [[ -z $(docker manifest inspect $REGISTRY/$REPO:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cpu) ]]; then
+  echo "Image not found, proceeding with build..."
+else
+  echo "Image found"
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+# build
+docker build --file docker/Dockerfile.cpu \
+  --build-arg max_jobs=16 \
+  --build-arg buildkite_commit=$BUILDKITE_COMMIT \
+  --tag $REGISTRY/$REPO:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cpu \
+  --target vllm-test \
+  --progress plain .
+
+# push
+docker push $REGISTRY/$REPO:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cpu
diff --git a/.buildkite/image_build/image_build_hpu.sh b/.buildkite/image_build/image_build_hpu.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..192447ef4577
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/image_build/image_build_hpu.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+if [[ $# -lt 3 ]]; then
+  echo "Usage: $0 <registry> <repo> <commit>"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+REGISTRY=$1
+REPO=$2
+BUILDKITE_COMMIT=$3
+
+# authenticate with AWS ECR
+aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin $REGISTRY
+
+# skip build if image already exists
+if [[ -z $(docker manifest inspect $REGISTRY/$REPO:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-hpu) ]]; then
+  echo "Image not found, proceeding with build..."
+else
+  echo "Image found"
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+# build
+docker build \
+  --file tests/pytorch_ci_hud_benchmark/Dockerfile.hpu \
+  --build-arg max_jobs=16 \
+  --build-arg buildkite_commit=$BUILDKITE_COMMIT \
+  --tag $REGISTRY/$REPO:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-hpu \
+  --progress plain \
+  https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-gaudi.git
+
+# push
+docker push $REGISTRY/$REPO:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-hpu
diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/attention.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/attention.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6e444eae14c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/attention.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+group: Attention
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: V1 attention (H100)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  gpu: h100
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/v1/attention
+    - tests/v1/attention
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s v1/attention
+
+- label: V1 attention (B200)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  gpu: b200
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/v1/attention
+    - tests/v1/attention
+  commands:
+    - VLLM_DISABLE_FLASHINFER_PREFILL=1 pytest -v -s v1/attention # TODO: FI prefill is bugged and causes incorrectness, fix this
diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/basic_correctness.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/basic_correctness.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..759d2b535871
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/basic_correctness.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+group: Basic Correctness
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: Basic Correctness
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/basic_correctness/test_basic_correctness
+  - tests/basic_correctness/test_cpu_offload
+  - tests/basic_correctness/test_cumem.py
+  commands:
+  - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
+  - pytest -v -s basic_correctness/test_cumem.py
+  - pytest -v -s basic_correctness/test_basic_correctness.py
+  - pytest -v -s basic_correctness/test_cpu_offload.py
diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/benchmarks.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/benchmarks.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..574b642d407b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/benchmarks.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+group: Benchmarks
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: Benchmarks
+  timeout_in_minutes: 20
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/.buildkite"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - benchmarks/
+  commands:
+  - bash scripts/run-benchmarks.sh
+
+- label: Benchmarks CLI Test
+  timeout_in_minutes: 20
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/benchmarks/
+  commands:
+  - pytest -v -s benchmarks/
diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/compile.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/compile.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0ba00925a483
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/compile.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+group: Compile
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: Fusion and Compile Tests (B200)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 40
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
+  gpu: b200
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - csrc/quantization/fp4/
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/utils/flashinfer_utils.py
+  - vllm/v1/attention/backends/flashinfer.py
+  - vllm/v1/worker/
+  - vllm/v1/cudagraph_dispatcher.py
+  - vllm/compilation/
+  # can affect pattern matching
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/layernorm.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/activation.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/input_quant_fp8.py
+  - tests/compile/test_fusion_attn.py
+  - tests/compile/test_silu_mul_quant_fusion.py
+  - tests/compile/distributed/test_fusion_all_reduce.py
+  - tests/compile/distributed/test_fusions_e2e.py
+  - tests/compile/fullgraph/test_full_graph.py
+  commands:
+    - nvidia-smi
+    - pytest -v -s tests/compile/test_fusion_attn.py
+    - pytest -v -s tests/compile/test_silu_mul_quant_fusion.py
+    # this runner has 2 GPUs available even though num_gpus=2 is not set
+    - pytest -v -s tests/compile/distributed/test_fusion_all_reduce.py
+    # Limit to Inductor partition, no custom ops, and allreduce & attn fusion to reduce running time
+    # Wrap with quotes to escape yaml
+    - "pytest -v -s tests/compile/distributed/test_fusions_e2e.py::test_tp2_attn_quant_allreduce_rmsnorm -k 'True and not +quant_fp8 and not +rms_norm'"
+    # test_fp8_kv_scale_compile requires FlashAttention (not supported on default L4/L40)
+    - pytest -v -s tests/compile/fullgraph/test_full_graph.py::test_fp8_kv_scale_compile
+
+- label: Fusion E2E (2 GPUs)(B200)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 40
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
+  gpu: b200
+  optional: true
+  num_gpus: 2
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - csrc/quantization/fp4/
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/utils/flashinfer_utils.py
+  - vllm/v1/attention/backends/flashinfer.py
+  - vllm/compilation/
+  # can affect pattern matching
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/layernorm.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/activation.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/input_quant_fp8.py
+  - tests/compile/distributed/test_fusions_e2e.py
+  commands:
+    - nvidia-smi
+    # Run all e2e fusion tests
+    - pytest -v -s tests/compile/distributed/test_fusions_e2e.py
+
diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/cuda.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/cuda.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..50c0c338c243
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/cuda.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+group: CUDA
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: Platform Tests (CUDA)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 15
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/cuda
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s cuda/test_cuda_context.py
+
+- label: Cudagraph
+  timeout_in_minutes: 20
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - tests/v1/cudagraph
+  - vllm/v1/cudagraph_dispatcher.py
+  - vllm/config/compilation.py
+  - vllm/compilation
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s v1/cudagraph/test_cudagraph_dispatch.py
+    - pytest -v -s v1/cudagraph/test_cudagraph_mode.py
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/distributed.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/distributed.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..57756aae4808
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/distributed.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,200 @@
+group: Distributed
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: Distributed Comm Ops
+  timeout_in_minutes: 20
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  num_gpus: 2
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/distributed
+  - tests/distributed
+  commands:
+  - pytest -v -s distributed/test_comm_ops.py
+  - pytest -v -s distributed/test_shm_broadcast.py
+  - pytest -v -s distributed/test_shm_buffer.py
+  - pytest -v -s distributed/test_shm_storage.py
+
+- label: Distributed (2 GPUs)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 90
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  num_gpus: 2
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/compilation/
+  - vllm/distributed/
+  - vllm/engine/
+  - vllm/executor/
+  - vllm/worker/worker_base.py
+  - vllm/v1/engine/
+  - vllm/v1/worker/
+  - tests/compile/fullgraph/test_basic_correctness.py
+  - tests/compile/test_wrapper.py
+  - tests/distributed/
+  - tests/entrypoints/llm/test_collective_rpc.py
+  - tests/v1/distributed
+  - tests/v1/entrypoints/openai/test_multi_api_servers.py
+  - tests/v1/shutdown
+  - tests/v1/worker/test_worker_memory_snapshot.py
+  commands:
+  # https://github.com/NVIDIA/nccl/issues/1838
+  - export NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0
+  - TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_async_llm_dp.py
+  - TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_eagle_dp.py
+  - TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_external_lb_dp.py
+  - DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/entrypoints/openai/test_multi_api_servers.py
+  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/llm/test_collective_rpc.py
+  - pytest -v -s ./compile/fullgraph/test_basic_correctness.py
+  - pytest -v -s ./compile/test_wrapper.py
+  - VLLM_TEST_SAME_HOST=1 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 distributed/test_same_node.py | grep 'Same node test passed'
+  - VLLM_TEST_SAME_HOST=1 VLLM_TEST_WITH_DEFAULT_DEVICE_SET=1 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 distributed/test_same_node.py | grep 'Same node test passed'
+  - pytest -v -s distributed/test_sequence_parallel.py
+  - CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1 pytest -v -s v1/shutdown
+  - pytest -v -s v1/worker/test_worker_memory_snapshot.py
+
+- label: Distributed Tests (4 GPUs)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 50
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  num_gpus: 4
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/distributed/
+  - tests/distributed/test_utils
+  - tests/distributed/test_pynccl
+  - tests/distributed/test_events
+  - tests/compile/fullgraph/test_basic_correctness.py
+  - examples/offline_inference/rlhf.py
+  - examples/offline_inference/rlhf_colocate.py
+  - tests/examples/offline_inference/data_parallel.py
+  - tests/v1/distributed
+  - tests/v1/engine/test_engine_core_client.py
+  - tests/distributed/test_symm_mem_allreduce.py
+  commands:
+  # https://github.com/NVIDIA/nccl/issues/1838
+  - export NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0
+  # test with torchrun tp=2 and external_dp=2
+  - torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 distributed/test_torchrun_example.py
+  # test with torchrun tp=2 and pp=2
+  - PP_SIZE=2 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 distributed/test_torchrun_example.py
+  # test with torchrun tp=4 and dp=1
+  - TP_SIZE=4 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 distributed/test_torchrun_example_moe.py
+  # test with torchrun tp=2, pp=2 and dp=1
+  - PP_SIZE=2 TP_SIZE=2 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 distributed/test_torchrun_example_moe.py
+  # test with torchrun tp=1 and dp=4 with ep
+  - DP_SIZE=4 ENABLE_EP=1 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 distributed/test_torchrun_example_moe.py
+  # test with torchrun tp=2 and dp=2 with ep
+  - TP_SIZE=2 DP_SIZE=2 ENABLE_EP=1 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 distributed/test_torchrun_example_moe.py
+  # test with internal dp
+  - python3 ../examples/offline_inference/data_parallel.py --enforce-eager
+  - TP_SIZE=2 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_async_llm_dp.py
+  - TP_SIZE=2 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_eagle_dp.py
+  - TP_SIZE=2 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_external_lb_dp.py
+  - TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=4 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_internal_lb_dp.py
+  - TP_SIZE=1 DP_SIZE=4 pytest -v -s v1/distributed/test_hybrid_lb_dp.py
+  - pytest -v -s v1/engine/test_engine_core_client.py::test_kv_cache_events_dp
+  - pytest -v -s distributed/test_utils.py
+  - pytest -v -s compile/fullgraph/test_basic_correctness.py
+  - pytest -v -s distributed/test_pynccl.py
+  - pytest -v -s distributed/test_events.py
+  - pytest -v -s distributed/test_symm_mem_allreduce.py
+  # TODO: create a dedicated test section for multi-GPU example tests
+  # when we have multiple distributed example tests
+  - cd ../examples/offline_inference
+  - VLLM_ALLOW_INSECURE_SERIALIZATION=1 python3 rlhf.py
+  - VLLM_ALLOW_INSECURE_SERIALIZATION=1 RAY_DEDUP_LOGS=0 python3 rlhf_colocate.py
+
+- label: Distributed Tests (8 GPUs)(H100)
+  optional: true
+  timeout_in_minutes: 10
+  gpu: h100
+  num_gpus: 8
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - examples/offline_inference/torchrun_dp_example.py
+  - vllm/config/parallel.py
+  - vllm/distributed/
+  - vllm/v1/engine/llm_engine.py
+  - vllm/v1/executor/uniproc_executor.py
+  - vllm/v1/worker/gpu_worker.py
+  commands:
+  # https://github.com/NVIDIA/nccl/issues/1838
+  - export NCCL_CUMEM_HOST_ENABLE=0
+  # test with torchrun tp=2 and dp=4 with ep
+  - torchrun --nproc-per-node=8 ../examples/offline_inference/torchrun_dp_example.py --tp-size=2 --pp-size=1 --dp-size=4 --enable-ep
+
+- label: Distributed Tests (4 GPUs)(A100)
+  gpu: a100
+  optional: true
+  num_gpus: 4
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  commands:
+  # NOTE: don't test llama model here, it seems hf implementation is buggy
+  # see https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/5689 for details
+  - pytest -v -s distributed/test_custom_all_reduce.py
+  - torchrun --nproc_per_node=2 distributed/test_ca_buffer_sharing.py
+  - TARGET_TEST_SUITE=A100 pytest basic_correctness/ -v -s -m 'distributed(num_gpus=2)'
+  - pytest -v -s -x lora/test_mixtral.py
+
+- label: Distributed Tests (2 GPUs)(H200)
+  gpu: h200
+  optional: true
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
+  num_gpus: 2
+  commands:
+    - VLLM_TEST_CLEAN_GPU_MEMORY=1 pytest -v -s tests/compile/distributed/test_async_tp.py
+    - pytest -v -s tests/compile/distributed/test_sequence_parallelism.py
+    - pytest -v -s tests/compile/distributed/test_fusion_all_reduce.py
+    - VLLM_TEST_CLEAN_GPU_MEMORY=1 pytest -v -s tests/compile/distributed/test_fusions_e2e.py -k 'not Llama-4'
+    - VLLM_TEST_CLEAN_GPU_MEMORY=1pytest -v -s tests/distributed/test_sequence_parallel.py
+    - pytest -v -s tests/distributed/test_context_parallel.py
+    - CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=1,2 VLLM_ALL2ALL_BACKEND=deepep_high_throughput VLLM_USE_DEEP_GEMM=1 VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG python3 examples/offline_inference/data_parallel.py --model Qwen/Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B --tp-size=1  --dp-size=2 --max-model-len 2048
+    - pytest -v -s tests/v1/distributed/test_dbo.py
+
+- label: Distributed Tests (2 GPUs)(B200)
+  gpu: b200
+  optional: true
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
+  num_gpus: 2
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s tests/distributed/test_context_parallel.py
+    - pytest -v -s tests/distributed/test_nccl_symm_mem_allreduce.py
+    - pytest -v -s tests/v1/distributed/test_dbo.py
+
+- label: 2 Node Test (4 GPUs)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  num_gpus: 2
+  num_nodes: 2
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/distributed/
+  - vllm/engine/
+  - vllm/executor/
+  - vllm/model_executor/models/
+  - tests/distributed/
+  - tests/examples/offline_inference/data_parallel.py
+  commands:
+    - ./.buildkite/scripts/run-multi-node-test.sh /vllm-workspace/tests 2 2 public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-postmerge-repo:0bec63fa317e1fbd62e19b0fc31c43c81bf89077 "VLLM_TEST_SAME_HOST=0 torchrun --nnodes 2 --nproc-per-node=2 --rdzv_backend=c10d --rdzv_endpoint=192.168.10.10 distributed/test_same_node.py | grep 'Same node test passed' && NUM_NODES=2 torchrun --nnodes 2 --nproc-per-node=2 --rdzv_backend=c10d --rdzv_endpoint=192.168.10.10 distributed/test_node_count.py | grep 'Node count test passed' && python3 ../examples/offline_inference/data_parallel.py --dp-size=2 --tp-size=1 --node-size=2 --node-rank=0 --master-addr=192.168.10.10 --master-port=12345 --enforce-eager --trust-remote-code && VLLM_MULTI_NODE=1 pytest -v -s distributed/test_multi_node_assignment.py && VLLM_MULTI_NODE=1 pytest -v -s distributed/test_pipeline_parallel.py" "VLLM_TEST_SAME_HOST=0 torchrun --nnodes 2 --nproc-per-node=2 --rdzv_backend=c10d --rdzv_endpoint=192.168.10.10 distributed/test_same_node.py | grep 'Same node test passed' && NUM_NODES=2 torchrun --nnodes 2 --nproc-per-node=2 --rdzv_backend=c10d --rdzv_endpoint=192.168.10.10 distributed/test_node_count.py | grep 'Node count test passed' && python3 ../examples/offline_inference/data_parallel.py --dp-size=2 --tp-size=1 --node-size=2 --node-rank=1 --master-addr=192.168.10.10 --master-port=12345 --enforce-eager --trust-remote-code"
+
+- label: Distributed NixlConnector PD accuracy (4 GPUs)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  num_gpus: 4
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl_connector.py
+    - tests/v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/
+  commands:
+    - uv pip install --system -r /vllm-workspace/requirements/kv_connectors.txt
+    - bash v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/tp_config_sweep_accuracy_test.sh
+
+- label: Pipeline + Context Parallelism (4 GPUs))
+  timeout_in_minutes: 60
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  num_gpus: 4
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/distributed/
+  - vllm/engine/
+  - vllm/executor/
+  - vllm/model_executor/models/
+  - tests/distributed/
+  commands:
+  - pytest -v -s distributed/test_pp_cudagraph.py
+  - pytest -v -s distributed/test_pipeline_parallel.py
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diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/e2e_integration.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/e2e_integration.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..817b995574bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/e2e_integration.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+group: E2E Integration
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: DeepSeek V2-Lite Accuracy
+  timeout_in_minutes: 60
+  gpu: h100
+  optional: true
+  num_gpus: 4
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace"
+  commands:
+  - bash .buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/deepseek_v2_lite_ep_eplb.sh 0.25 200 8010
+
+- label: Qwen3-30B-A3B-FP8-block Accuracy
+  timeout_in_minutes: 60
+  gpu: h100
+  optional: true
+  num_gpus: 4
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace"
+  commands:
+  - bash .buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/qwen30b_a3b_fp8_block_ep_eplb.sh 0.8 200 8020
+
+- label: Prime-RL Integration (2 GPUs)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  optional: true
+  num_gpus: 2
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - .buildkite/scripts/run-prime-rl-test.sh
+  commands:
+    - bash .buildkite/scripts/run-prime-rl-test.sh
diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/engine.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/engine.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a028e0e4af4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/engine.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+group: Engine
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: Engine
+  timeout_in_minutes: 15
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/engine
+  - tests/test_sequence
+  - tests/test_config
+  - tests/test_logger
+  - tests/test_vllm_port
+  commands:
+  - pytest -v -s engine test_sequence.py test_config.py test_logger.py test_vllm_port.py
+
+- label: V1 e2e + engine
+  timeout_in_minutes: 45
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/
+    - tests/v1
+  commands:
+    # TODO: accuracy does not match, whether setting
+    # VLLM_USE_FLASHINFER_SAMPLER or not on H100.
+    - pytest -v -s v1/e2e
+    - pytest -v -s v1/engine
diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/entrypoints.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/entrypoints.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0a789be943f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/entrypoints.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+group: Entrypoints
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: Entrypoints Unit Tests  
+  timeout_in_minutes: 10
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/entrypoints
+  - tests/entrypoints/
+  commands:
+  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers
+  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/ --ignore=entrypoints/llm --ignore=entrypoints/openai --ignore=entrypoints/offline_mode --ignore=entrypoints/test_chat_utils.py  --ignore=entrypoints/pooling
+
+- label: Entrypoints Integration (LLM)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 40
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/entrypoints/llm
+  - tests/entrypoints/offline_mode
+  commands:
+  - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
+  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/llm --ignore=entrypoints/llm/test_generate.py --ignore=entrypoints/llm/test_collective_rpc.py
+  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/llm/test_generate.py # it needs a clean process
+  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/offline_mode # Needs to avoid interference with other tests
+
+- label: Entrypoints Integration (API Server)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 130
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/entrypoints/openai
+  - tests/entrypoints/test_chat_utils
+  commands:
+  - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
+  - PYTHONPATH=/vllm-workspace pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai/test_collective_rpc.py # PYTHONPATH is needed to import custom Worker extension
+  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai --ignore=entrypoints/openai/test_chat_with_tool_reasoning.py --ignore=entrypoints/openai/test_oot_registration.py --ignore=entrypoints/openai/test_tensorizer_entrypoint.py --ignore=entrypoints/openai/correctness/ --ignore=entrypoints/openai/test_collective_rpc.py --ignore=entrypoints/openai/tool_parsers/
+  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/test_chat_utils.py
+
+
+- label: Entrypoints Integration (Pooling)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 50
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/entrypoints/pooling
+  commands:
+  - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
+  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/pooling
+
+
+- label: Entrypoints V1
+  timeout_in_minutes: 50
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/
+    - tests/v1
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s v1/entrypoints
+
+- label: OpenAI API Correctness
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - csrc/
+  - vllm/entrypoints/openai/
+  - vllm/model_executor/models/whisper.py
+  commands: # LMEval+Transcription WER check
+  - pytest -s entrypoints/openai/correctness/
diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/expert_parallelism.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/expert_parallelism.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..feb8252148c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/expert_parallelism.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+group: Expert Parallelism
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: EPLB Algorithm
+  timeout_in_minutes: 15
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/distributed/eplb
+  - tests/distributed/test_eplb_algo.py
+  commands:
+  - pytest -v -s distributed/test_eplb_algo.py
+
+- label: EPLB Execution
+  timeout_in_minutes: 20
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  num_gpus: 4
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/distributed/eplb
+  - tests/distributed/test_eplb_execute.py
+  commands:
+  - pytest -v -s distributed/test_eplb_execute.py
+  - pytest -v -s distributed/test_eplb_spec_decode.py
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diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/kernels.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/kernels.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7ca099516d64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/kernels.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+group: Kernels
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: Kernels Core Operation Test
+  timeout_in_minutes: 75
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - csrc/
+  - tests/kernels/core
+  - tests/kernels/test_top_k_per_row.py
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s kernels/core kernels/test_top_k_per_row.py
+
+- label: Kernels Attention Test %N
+  timeout_in_minutes: 35
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - csrc/attention/
+  - vllm/attention
+  - vllm/v1/attention
+  - tests/kernels/attention
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s kernels/attention --shard-id=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB --num-shards=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB_COUNT
+  parallelism: 2
+
+- label: Kernels Quantization Test %N
+  timeout_in_minutes: 90
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - csrc/quantization/
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization
+  - tests/kernels/quantization
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s kernels/quantization --shard-id=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB --num-shards=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB_COUNT
+  parallelism: 2
+
+- label: Kernels MoE Test %N
+  timeout_in_minutes: 60
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - csrc/quantization/cutlass_w8a8/moe/
+  - csrc/moe/
+  - tests/kernels/moe
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/
+  - vllm/distributed/device_communicators/
+  - vllm/envs.py
+  - vllm/config
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s kernels/moe --shard-id=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB --num-shards=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB_COUNT
+  parallelism: 2
+
+- label: Kernels Mamba Test
+  timeout_in_minutes: 45
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - csrc/mamba/
+  - tests/kernels/mamba
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/mamba/ops
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s kernels/mamba
+
+- label: Kernels DeepGEMM Test (H100)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 45
+  gpu: h100
+  num_gpus: 1
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - tools/install_deepgemm.sh
+  - vllm/utils/deep_gemm.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization
+  - tests/kernels/quantization/test_block_fp8.py
+  - tests/kernels/moe/test_deepgemm.py
+  - tests/kernels/moe/test_batched_deepgemm.py
+  - tests/kernels/attention/test_deepgemm_attention.py
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s kernels/quantization/test_block_fp8.py -k deep_gemm
+    - pytest -v -s kernels/moe/test_deepgemm.py
+    - pytest -v -s kernels/moe/test_batched_deepgemm.py
+    - pytest -v -s kernels/attention/test_deepgemm_attention.py
+
+- label: Kernels (B200)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
+  gpu: b200
+  # optional: true
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - csrc/quantization/fp4/
+  - csrc/attention/mla/
+  - csrc/quantization/cutlass_w8a8/moe/
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/cutlass_moe.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/flashinfer_cutlass_moe.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/flashinfer_cutlass_prepare_finalize.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/utils/flashinfer_utils.py
+  - vllm/v1/attention/backends/flashinfer.py
+  - vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/cutlass_mla.py
+  - vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/flashinfer_mla.py
+  - vllm/platforms/cuda.py
+  - vllm/attention/selector.py
+  commands:
+    - nvidia-smi
+    - python3 examples/offline_inference/basic/chat.py
+    # Attention
+    # num_heads2 broken by https://github.com/flashinfer-ai/flashinfer/issues/1353
+    - pytest -v -s tests/kernels/attention/test_attention_selector.py
+    - pytest -v -s tests/kernels/attention/test_flashinfer.py -k 'not num_heads2'
+    - pytest -v -s tests/kernels/attention/test_flashinfer_trtllm_attention.py
+    - pytest -v -s tests/kernels/attention/test_cutlass_mla_decode.py
+    - pytest -v -s tests/kernels/attention/test_flashinfer_mla_decode.py
+    # Quantization
+    - pytest -v -s tests/kernels/quantization/test_cutlass_scaled_mm.py -k 'fp8'
+    - pytest -v -s tests/kernels/quantization/test_nvfp4_quant.py
+    - pytest -v -s tests/kernels/quantization/test_silu_mul_nvfp4_quant.py
+    - pytest -v -s tests/kernels/quantization/test_nvfp4_scaled_mm.py
+    - pytest -v -s tests/kernels/quantization/test_flashinfer_scaled_mm.py
+    - pytest -v -s tests/kernels/quantization/test_flashinfer_nvfp4_scaled_mm.py
+    - pytest -v -s tests/kernels/quantization/test_nvfp4_qutlass.py
+    - pytest -v -s tests/kernels/quantization/test_mxfp4_qutlass.py
+    - pytest -v -s tests/kernels/moe/test_nvfp4_moe.py
+    - pytest -v -s tests/kernels/moe/test_ocp_mx_moe.py
+    - pytest -v -s tests/kernels/moe/test_flashinfer.py
+    - pytest -v -s tests/kernels/moe/test_cutedsl_moe.py
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diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/lm_eval.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/lm_eval.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9af43e0c375a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/lm_eval.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+group: LM Eval
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: LM Eval Small Models
+  timeout_in_minutes: 75
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - csrc/
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization
+  autorun_on_main: true
+  commands:
+  - pytest -s -v evals/gsm8k/test_gsm8k_correctness.py --config-list-file=configs/models-small.txt --tp-size=1
+
+- label: LM Eval Large Models (4 GPUs)(A100)
+  gpu: a100
+  optional: true
+  num_gpus: 4
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/.buildkite/lm-eval-harness"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - csrc/
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization
+  commands:
+  - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
+  - pytest -s -v test_lm_eval_correctness.py --config-list-file=configs/models-large.txt --tp-size=4
+
+- label: LM Eval Large Models (4 GPUs)(H100)
+  gpu: h100
+  optional: true
+  num_gpus: 4
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/.buildkite/lm-eval-harness"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - csrc/
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization
+  commands:
+    - export VLLM_USE_DEEP_GEMM=0  # We found Triton is faster than DeepGEMM for H100
+    - pytest -s -v test_lm_eval_correctness.py --config-list-file=configs/models-large-hopper.txt --tp-size=4
+
+- label: LM Eval Small Models (B200)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 120
+  gpu: b200
+  optional: true
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - csrc/
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization
+  commands:
+  - pytest -s -v evals/gsm8k/test_gsm8k_correctness.py --config-list-file=configs/models-blackwell.txt --tp-size=1
diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/lora.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/lora.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..809b4138f44b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/lora.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+group: LoRA
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: LoRA %N
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/lora
+  - tests/lora
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s lora --shard-id=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB --num-shards=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB_COUNT --ignore=lora/test_chatglm3_tp.py --ignore=lora/test_llama_tp.py --ignore=lora/test_llm_with_multi_loras.py --ignore=lora/test_olmoe_tp.py --ignore=lora/test_deepseekv2_tp.py --ignore=lora/test_gptoss_tp.py --ignore=lora/test_qwen3moe_tp.py
+  parallelism: 4
+
+
+- label: LoRA TP (Distributed)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  num_gpus: 4
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/lora
+  - tests/lora
+  commands:
+    # FIXIT: find out which code initialize cuda before running the test
+    # before the fix, we need to use spawn to test it
+    - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
+    # There is some Tensor Parallelism related processing logic in LoRA that
+    # requires multi-GPU testing for validation.
+    - pytest -v -s -x lora/test_chatglm3_tp.py
+    - pytest -v -s -x lora/test_llama_tp.py
+    - pytest -v -s -x lora/test_llm_with_multi_loras.py
+    - pytest -v -s -x lora/test_olmoe_tp.py
+    - pytest -v -s -x lora/test_gptoss_tp.py
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diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/misc.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/misc.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e4182005bb45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/misc.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+group: Miscellaneous
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: V1 Others
+  timeout_in_minutes: 60
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/
+    - tests/v1
+  commands:
+    - uv pip install --system -r /vllm-workspace/requirements/kv_connectors.txt
+    # split the test to avoid interference
+    - pytest -v -s -m 'not cpu_test' v1/core
+    - pytest -v -s v1/executor
+    - pytest -v -s v1/kv_offload
+    - pytest -v -s v1/sample
+    - pytest -v -s v1/logits_processors
+    - pytest -v -s v1/worker
+    - pytest -v -s v1/spec_decode
+    - pytest -v -s -m 'not cpu_test' v1/kv_connector/unit
+    - pytest -v -s -m 'not cpu_test' v1/metrics
+    - pytest -v -s v1/test_oracle.py
+    - pytest -v -s v1/test_request.py
+    - pytest -v -s v1/test_outputs.py
+    # Integration test for streaming correctness (requires special branch).
+    - pip install -U git+https://github.com/robertgshaw2-redhat/lm-evaluation-harness.git@streaming-api
+    - pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai/correctness/test_lmeval.py::test_lm_eval_accuracy_v1_engine
+
+- label: V1 Others (CPU)
+  depends_on: ~
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/
+    - tests/v1
+  no_gpu: true
+  commands:
+    # split the test to avoid interference
+    - pytest -v -s -m 'cpu_test' v1/core
+    - pytest -v -s v1/structured_output
+    - pytest -v -s v1/test_serial_utils.py
+    - pytest -v -s -m 'cpu_test' v1/kv_connector/unit
+    - pytest -v -s -m 'cpu_test' v1/metrics
+
+- label: Regression
+  timeout_in_minutes: 20
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/test_regression
+  commands:
+  - pip install modelscope
+  - pytest -v -s test_regression.py
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests" # optional
+
+- label: Examples
+  timeout_in_minutes: 45
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/examples"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/entrypoints
+  - examples/
+  commands:
+    - pip install tensorizer # for tensorizer test
+    - python3 offline_inference/basic/generate.py --model facebook/opt-125m
+    - python3 offline_inference/basic/generate.py --model meta-llama/Llama-2-13b-chat-hf --cpu-offload-gb 10
+    - python3 offline_inference/basic/chat.py
+    - python3 offline_inference/prefix_caching.py
+    - python3 offline_inference/llm_engine_example.py
+    - python3 offline_inference/audio_language.py --seed 0
+    - python3 offline_inference/vision_language.py --seed 0
+    - python3 offline_inference/vision_language_pooling.py --seed 0
+    - python3 offline_inference/vision_language_multi_image.py --seed 0
+    - python3 others/tensorize_vllm_model.py --model facebook/opt-125m serialize --serialized-directory /tmp/ --suffix v1 && python3 others/tensorize_vllm_model.py --model facebook/opt-125m deserialize --path-to-tensors /tmp/vllm/facebook/opt-125m/v1/model.tensors
+    - python3 offline_inference/encoder_decoder_multimodal.py --model-type whisper --seed 0
+    - python3 offline_inference/basic/classify.py
+    - python3 offline_inference/basic/embed.py
+    - python3 offline_inference/basic/score.py
+    - python3 offline_inference/spec_decode.py --test --method eagle --num_spec_tokens 3 --dataset-name hf --dataset-path philschmid/mt-bench --num-prompts 80 --temp 0 --top-p 1.0 --top-k -1 --tp 1 --enable-chunked-prefill --max-model-len 2048
+    # https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/26682 uses slightly more memory in PyTorch 2.9+ causing this test to OOM in 1xL4 GPU
+    - python3 offline_inference/spec_decode.py --test --method eagle3 --num_spec_tokens 3 --dataset-name hf --dataset-path philschmid/mt-bench --num-prompts 80 --temp 0 --top-p 1.0 --top-k -1 --tp 1 --enable-chunked-prefill --max-model-len 1536
+
+- label: Metrics, Tracing (2 GPUs)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 20
+  num_gpus: 2
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/v1/tracing
+  commands:
+  - "pip install \
+      'opentelemetry-sdk>=1.26.0' \
+      'opentelemetry-api>=1.26.0' \
+      'opentelemetry-exporter-otlp>=1.26.0' \
+      'opentelemetry-semantic-conventions-ai>=0.4.1'"
+  - pytest -v -s v1/tracing
+
+- label: Python-only Installation
+  depends_on: ~
+  timeout_in_minutes: 20
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - tests/standalone_tests/python_only_compile.sh
+  - setup.py
+  commands:
+  - bash standalone_tests/python_only_compile.sh
+
+- label: Async Engine, Inputs, Utils, Worker
+  timeout_in_minutes: 50
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/multimodal
+  - tests/utils_
+  commands:
+  - pytest -v -s -m 'not cpu_test' multimodal
+  - pytest -v -s utils_
+
+- label: Async Engine, Inputs, Utils, Worker, Config (CPU)
+  depends_on: ~
+  timeout_in_minutes: 20
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/test_inputs.py
+  - tests/test_outputs.py
+  - tests/multimodal
+  - tests/standalone_tests/lazy_imports.py
+  - tests/tokenizers_
+  - tests/transformers_utils
+  - tests/config
+  no_gpu: true
+  commands:
+  - python3 standalone_tests/lazy_imports.py
+  - pytest -v -s test_inputs.py
+  - pytest -v -s test_outputs.py
+  - pytest -v -s -m 'cpu_test' multimodal
+  - pytest -v -s tokenizers_
+  - pytest -v -s transformers_utils
+  - pytest -v -s config
+
+- label: GPT-OSS Eval (B200)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 60
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
+  gpu: b200
+  optional: true
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - tests/evals/gpt_oss
+  - vllm/model_executor/models/gpt_oss.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/mxfp4.py
+  - vllm/v1/attention/backends/flashinfer.py
+  commands:
+    - uv pip install --system 'gpt-oss[eval]==0.0.5'
+    - pytest -s -v tests/evals/gpt_oss/test_gpqa_correctness.py --model openai/gpt-oss-20b --metric 0.58
diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/model_executor.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/model_executor.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..996c8bb8b780
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/model_executor.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+group: Model Executor
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: Model Executor
+  timeout_in_minutes: 35
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/engine/arg_utils.py
+  - vllm/config/model.py
+  - vllm/model_executor
+  - tests/model_executor
+  - tests/entrypoints/openai/test_tensorizer_entrypoint.py
+  commands:
+    - apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl libsodium23
+    - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
+    - pytest -v -s model_executor
+    - pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai/test_tensorizer_entrypoint.py
diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/models_basic.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/models_basic.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..39a5d51c4883
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/models_basic.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+group: Models - Basic
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: Basic Models Tests (Initialization)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 45
+  mirror_hardwares: [amdexperimental]
+  torch_nightly: true
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/models/test_initialization.py
+  commands:
+    # Run a subset of model initialization tests
+    - pytest -v -s models/test_initialization.py::test_can_initialize_small_subset
+
+- label: Basic Models Tests (Extra Initialization) %N
+  timeout_in_minutes: 45
+  mirror_hardwares: [amdexperimental]
+  torch_nightly: true
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/model_executor/models/
+  - tests/models/test_initialization.py
+  commands:
+    # Only when vLLM model source is modified - test initialization of a large
+    # subset of supported models (the complement of the small subset in the above
+    # test.) Also run if model initialization test file is modified
+    - pytest -v -s models/test_initialization.py -k 'not test_can_initialize_small_subset' --num-shards=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB_COUNT --shard-id=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB
+  parallelism: 2
+
+- label: Basic Models Tests (Other)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 45
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/models/test_transformers.py
+  - tests/models/test_registry.py
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s models/test_transformers.py models/test_registry.py
+
+- label: Basic Models Test (Other CPU) # 5min
+  timeout_in_minutes: 10
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/models/test_utils.py
+  - tests/models/test_vision.py
+  no_gpu: true
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s models/test_utils.py models/test_vision.py
+
+- label: Transformers Nightly Models
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
+  optional: true
+  soft_fail: true
+  commands:
+    - pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers
+    - pytest -v -s tests/models/test_initialization.py
+    - pytest -v -s tests/models/test_transformers.py
+    - pytest -v -s tests/models/multimodal/processing/
+    - pytest -v -s tests/models/multimodal/test_mapping.py
+    - python3 examples/offline_inference/basic/chat.py
+    - python3 examples/offline_inference/vision_language.py --model-type qwen2_5_vl
+    # Whisper needs spawn method to avoid deadlock
+    - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn python3 examples/offline_inference/audio_language.py --model-type whisper
diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/models_distributed.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/models_distributed.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b6bfbf2ddab4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/models_distributed.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+group: Models - Distributed
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: Distributed Model Tests (2 GPUs)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 50
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  num_gpus: 2
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/model_executor/model_loader/sharded_state_loader.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/models/
+  - tests/basic_correctness/
+  - tests/model_executor/model_loader/test_sharded_state_loader.py
+  - tests/models/
+  commands:
+  - TARGET_TEST_SUITE=L4 pytest basic_correctness/ -v -s -m 'distributed(num_gpus=2)'
+  - CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1 pytest -v -s model_executor/model_loader/test_sharded_state_loader.py
+  # Avoid importing model tests that cause CUDA reinitialization error
+  - pytest models/test_transformers.py -v -s -m 'distributed(num_gpus=2)'
+  - pytest models/language -v -s -m 'distributed(num_gpus=2)'
+  - pytest models/multimodal -v -s -m 'distributed(num_gpus=2)' --ignore models/multimodal/generation/test_whisper.py
+  - VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest models/multimodal/generation/test_whisper.py -v -s -m 'distributed(num_gpus=2)'
diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/models_language.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/models_language.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f70192c4ebc0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/models_language.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+group: Models - Language
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: Language Models Tests (Standard)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 25
+  mirror_hardwares: [amdexperimental]
+  torch_nightly: true
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/models/language
+  commands:
+    # Test standard language models, excluding a subset of slow tests
+    - pip freeze | grep -E 'torch'
+    - pytest -v -s models/language -m 'core_model and (not slow_test)'
+
+- label: Language Models Tests (Extra Standard) %N
+  timeout_in_minutes: 45
+  mirror_hardwares: [amdexperimental]
+  torch_nightly: true
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/model_executor/models/
+  - tests/models/language/pooling/test_embedding.py
+  - tests/models/language/generation/test_common.py
+  - tests/models/language/pooling/test_classification.py
+  commands:
+    # Shard slow subset of standard language models tests. Only run when model
+    # source is modified, or when specified test files are modified
+    - pip freeze | grep -E 'torch'
+    - pytest -v -s models/language -m 'core_model and slow_test' --num-shards=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB_COUNT --shard-id=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB
+  parallelism: 2
+
+- label: Language Models Tests (Hybrid) %N
+  timeout_in_minutes: 75
+  mirror_hardwares: [amdexperimental]
+  torch_nightly: true
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/models/language/generation
+  commands:
+    # Install fast path packages for testing against transformers
+    # Note: also needed to run plamo2 model in vLLM
+    - uv pip install --system --no-build-isolation 'git+https://github.com/state-spaces/mamba@v2.2.5'
+    - uv pip install --system --no-build-isolation 'git+https://github.com/Dao-AILab/causal-conv1d@v1.5.2'
+    # Shard hybrid language model tests
+    - pytest -v -s models/language/generation -m hybrid_model --num-shards=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB_COUNT --shard-id=$$BUILDKITE_PARALLEL_JOB
+  parallelism: 2
+
+- label: Language Models Test (Extended Generation) # 80min
+  timeout_in_minutes: 110
+  mirror_hardwares: [amdexperimental]
+  optional: true
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/models/language/generation
+  commands:
+    # Install fast path packages for testing against transformers
+    # Note: also needed to run plamo2 model in vLLM
+    - uv pip install --system --no-build-isolation 'git+https://github.com/state-spaces/mamba@v2.2.5'
+    - uv pip install --system --no-build-isolation 'git+https://github.com/Dao-AILab/causal-conv1d@v1.5.2'
+    - pytest -v -s models/language/generation -m '(not core_model) and (not hybrid_model)'
+
+- label: Language Models Test (PPL)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 110
+  mirror_hardwares: [amdexperimental]
+  optional: true
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/models/language/generation_ppl_test
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s models/language/generation_ppl_test
+
+- label: Language Models Test (Extended Pooling)  # 36min
+  timeout_in_minutes: 50
+  mirror_hardwares: [amdexperimental]
+  optional: true
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/models/language/pooling
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s models/language/pooling -m 'not core_model'
+
+- label: Language Models Test (MTEB)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 110
+  mirror_hardwares: [amdexperimental]
+  optional: true
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/models/language/pooling_mteb_test
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s models/language/pooling_mteb_test
diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/models_multimodal.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/models_multimodal.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fc24068c20a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/models_multimodal.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+group: Models - Multimodal
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: Multi-Modal Models (Standard) # 60min
+  timeout_in_minutes: 80
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/models/multimodal
+  commands:
+    - pip install git+https://github.com/TIGER-AI-Lab/Mantis.git
+    - pip freeze | grep -E 'torch'
+    - pytest -v -s models/multimodal -m core_model --ignore models/multimodal/generation/test_whisper.py --ignore models/multimodal/processing
+    - cd .. && VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn pytest -v -s tests/models/multimodal/generation/test_whisper.py -m core_model  # Otherwise, mp_method="spawn" doesn't work
+
+- label: Multi-Modal Processor Test (CPU)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 60
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/models/multimodal
+  no_gpu: true
+  commands:
+    - pip install git+https://github.com/TIGER-AI-Lab/Mantis.git
+    - pytest -v -s models/multimodal/processing --ignore models/multimodal/processing/test_tensor_schema.py
+
+- label: Multi-Modal Processor # 44min
+  timeout_in_minutes: 60
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/models/multimodal
+  commands:
+    - pip install git+https://github.com/TIGER-AI-Lab/Mantis.git
+    - pytest -v -s models/multimodal/processing/test_tensor_schema.py
+
+- label: Multi-Modal Accuracy Eval (Small Models) # 50min
+  timeout_in_minutes: 70
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/.buildkite/lm-eval-harness"
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/multimodal/
+  - vllm/inputs/
+  - vllm/v1/core/
+  commands:
+  - pytest -s -v test_lm_eval_correctness.py --config-list-file=configs/models-mm-small.txt --tp-size=1
+
+- label: Multi-Modal Models (Extended) 1
+  optional: true
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/models/multimodal
+  commands:
+    - pip install git+https://github.com/TIGER-AI-Lab/Mantis.git
+    - pytest -v -s models/multimodal -m 'not core_model' --ignore models/multimodal/generation/test_common.py --ignore models/multimodal/processing
+
+- label: Multi-Modal Models (Extended) 2
+  optional: true
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/models/multimodal
+  commands:
+    - pip install git+https://github.com/TIGER-AI-Lab/Mantis.git
+    - pytest -v -s models/multimodal/generation/test_common.py -m 'split(group=0) and not core_model'
+
+- label: Multi-Modal Models (Extended) 3
+  optional: true
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/models/multimodal
+  commands:
+    - pip install git+https://github.com/TIGER-AI-Lab/Mantis.git
+    - pytest -v -s models/multimodal/generation/test_common.py -m 'split(group=1) and not core_model'
+
+# This test is used only in PR development phase to test individual models and should never run on main
+- label: Custom Models
+  optional: true
+  commands:
+    - echo 'Testing custom models...'
+    # PR authors can temporarily add commands below to test individual models
+    # e.g. pytest -v -s models/encoder_decoder/vision_language/test_mllama.py
+    # *To avoid merge conflicts, remember to REMOVE (not just comment out) them before merging the PR*
diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/plugins.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/plugins.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..60c179aa098e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/plugins.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+group: Plugins
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: Plugin Tests (2 GPUs)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 60
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  num_gpus: 2
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/plugins/
+  - tests/plugins/
+  commands:
+  # begin platform plugin and general plugin tests, all the code in-between runs on dummy platform
+  - pip install -e ./plugins/vllm_add_dummy_platform
+  - pytest -v -s plugins_tests/test_platform_plugins.py
+  - pip uninstall vllm_add_dummy_platform -y
+  # end platform plugin tests
+  # begin io_processor plugins test, all the code in between uses the prithvi_io_processor plugin
+  - pip install -e ./plugins/prithvi_io_processor_plugin
+  - pytest -v -s plugins_tests/test_io_processor_plugins.py
+  - pip uninstall prithvi_io_processor_plugin -y
+  # end io_processor plugins test
+  # begin stat_logger plugins test
+  - pip install -e ./plugins/vllm_add_dummy_stat_logger
+  - pytest -v -s plugins_tests/test_stats_logger_plugins.py
+  - pip uninstall dummy_stat_logger -y
+  # end stat_logger plugins test
+  # other tests continue here:
+  - pytest -v -s plugins_tests/test_scheduler_plugins.py
+  - pip install -e ./plugins/vllm_add_dummy_model
+  - pytest -v -s distributed/test_distributed_oot.py
+  - pytest -v -s entrypoints/openai/test_oot_registration.py # it needs a clean process
+  - pytest -v -s models/test_oot_registration.py # it needs a clean process
+  - pytest -v -s plugins/lora_resolvers # unit tests for in-tree lora resolver plugins
diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/pytorch.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/pytorch.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..703c82eb1a91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/pytorch.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+group: PyTorch
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: PyTorch Compilation Unit Tests
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/
+    - tests/compile
+  commands:
+  # Run unit tests defined directly under compile/,
+  # not including subdirectories, which are usually heavier
+  # tests covered elsewhere.
+  # Use `find` to launch multiple instances of pytest so that
+  # they do not suffer from https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/28965
+  - "find compile/ -maxdepth 1 -name 'test_*.py' -exec pytest -s -v {} \\;"
+
+- label: PyTorch Fullgraph Smoke Test
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/compile
+  commands:
+  # Run smoke tests under fullgraph directory, except test_full_graph.py
+  # as it is a heavy test that is covered in other steps.
+  # Use `find` to launch multiple instances of pytest so that
+  # they do not suffer from https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/28965
+  - "find compile/fullgraph/ -name 'test_*.py' -not -name 'test_full_graph.py' -exec pytest -s -v {} \\;"
+
+- label: PyTorch Fullgraph
+  timeout_in_minutes: 40
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/compile
+  commands:
+    # fp8 kv scales not supported on sm89, tested on Blackwell instead
+  - pytest -v -s compile/fullgraph/test_full_graph.py -k 'not test_fp8_kv_scale_compile'
+    # Limit to no custom ops to reduce running time
+    # Wrap with quotes to escape yaml and avoid starting -k string with a -
+  - "pytest -v -s compile/distributed/test_fusions_e2e.py -k 'TRITON and not +quant_fp8 and not Llama-4'"
+
+- label: Pytorch Nightly Dependency Override Check # 2min
+  # if this test fails, it means the nightly torch version is not compatible with some
+  # of the dependencies. Please check the error message and add the package to whitelist
+  # in /vllm/tools/pre_commit/generate_nightly_torch_test.py
+  soft_fail: true
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - requirements/nightly_torch_test.txt
+  commands:
+  - bash standalone_tests/pytorch_nightly_dependency.sh
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diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/quantization.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/quantization.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..02a836b90bdf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/quantization.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+group: Quantization
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: Quantization
+  timeout_in_minutes: 90
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - csrc/
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization
+  - tests/quantization
+  commands:
+  # temporary install here since we need nightly, will move to requirements/test.in
+  # after torchao 0.12 release, and pin a working version of torchao nightly here
+
+  # since torchao nightly is only compatible with torch nightly currently
+  # https://github.com/pytorch/ao/issues/2919, we'll have to skip new torchao tests for now
+  # we can only upgrade after this is resolved
+  # TODO(jerryzh168): resolve the above comment
+  - uv pip install --system torchao==0.13.0 --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu129
+  - uv pip install --system conch-triton-kernels
+  - VLLM_TEST_FORCE_LOAD_FORMAT=auto pytest -v -s quantization/ --ignore quantization/test_blackwell_moe.py
+
+- label: Quantized MoE Test (B200)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 60
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/"
+  gpu: b200
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - tests/quantization/test_blackwell_moe.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/models/deepseek_v2.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/models/gpt_oss.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/models/llama4.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/compressed_tensors
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/modelopt.py
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/mxfp4.py
+  - vllm/v1/attention/backends/flashinfer.py
+  commands:
+    - pytest -s -v tests/quantization/test_blackwell_moe.py
diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/samplers.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/samplers.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ad377148fd07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/samplers.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+group: Samplers
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: Samplers Test
+  timeout_in_minutes: 75
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/model_executor/layers
+  - vllm/sampling_metadata.py
+  - tests/samplers
+  - tests/conftest.py
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s samplers
+    - VLLM_USE_FLASHINFER_SAMPLER=1 pytest -v -s samplers
diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/tool_use.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/tool_use.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7040cd1d253b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/tool_use.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+group: Tool use
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: OpenAI-Compatible Tool Use
+  timeout_in_minutes: 35
+  mirror_hardwares: [amdexperimental]
+  fast_check: false
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/
+    - tests/tool_use
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s -m 'not cpu_test' tool_use
+
+- label: OpenAI-Compatible Tool Use (CPU)
+  depends_on: ~
+  timeout_in_minutes: 10
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/
+    - tests/tool_use
+  no_gpu: true
+  commands:
+    - pytest -v -s -m 'cpu_test' tool_use
diff --git a/.buildkite/test_areas/weight_loading.yaml b/.buildkite/test_areas/weight_loading.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..cfc5bb20fe7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/test_areas/weight_loading.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+group: Weight Loading
+depends_on: 
+  - image-build
+steps:
+- label: Weight Loading Multiple GPU  # 33min
+  timeout_in_minutes: 45
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  num_gpus: 2
+  optional: true
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/weight_loading
+  commands:
+    - bash weight_loading/run_model_weight_loading_test.sh -c weight_loading/models.txt
+
+- label: Weight Loading Multiple GPU - Large Models # optional
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  num_gpus: 2
+  gpu: a100
+  optional: true
+  source_file_dependencies:
+  - vllm/
+  - tests/weight_loading
+  commands:
+    - bash weight_loading/run_model_weight_loading_test.sh -c weight_loading/models-large.txt