diff --git a/src/llamafactory/chat/vllm_engine.py b/src/llamafactory/chat/vllm_engine.py
index d2850a6e..34126adf 100644
--- a/src/llamafactory/chat/vllm_engine.py
+++ b/src/llamafactory/chat/vllm_engine.py
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 import uuid
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, AsyncGenerator, AsyncIterator, Dict, List, Optional, Sequence, Union
 
+from packaging import version
+
 from ..data import get_template_and_fix_tokenizer
 from ..extras.logging import get_logger
 from ..extras.misc import get_device_count
-from ..extras.packages import is_vllm_available
+from ..extras.packages import is_vllm_available, _get_package_version
 from ..model import load_config, load_tokenizer
 from ..model.model_utils.visual import LlavaMultiModalProjectorForYiVLForVLLM
 from .base_engine import BaseEngine, Response
@@ -14,10 +16,10 @@ if is_vllm_available():
     from vllm import AsyncEngineArgs, AsyncLLMEngine, RequestOutput, SamplingParams
     from vllm.lora.request import LoRARequest
 
-    try:
-        from vllm.multimodal import MultiModalData  # type: ignore (for vllm>=0.5.0)
-    except ImportError:
-        from vllm.sequence import MultiModalData  # for vllm<0.5.0
+    if _get_package_version("vllm") >= version.parse("0.5.0"):
+        from vllm.multimodal.image import ImagePixelData
+    else:
+        from vllm.sequence import MultiModalData
 
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
@@ -110,7 +112,10 @@ class VllmEngine(BaseEngine):
         if self.processor is not None and image is not None:  # add image features
             image_processor: "BaseImageProcessor" = getattr(self.processor, "image_processor")
             pixel_values = image_processor(image, return_tensors="pt")["pixel_values"]
-            multi_modal_data = MultiModalData(type=MultiModalData.Type.IMAGE, data=pixel_values)
+            if _get_package_version("vllm") >= version.parse("0.5.0"):
+                multi_modal_data = ImagePixelData(pixel_values)
+            else:
+                multi_modal_data = MultiModalData(type=MultiModalData.Type.IMAGE, data=pixel_values)
         else:
             multi_modal_data = None