diff --git a/.github/workflows/vllm_ascend_test_pr_light.yaml b/.github/workflows/vllm_ascend_test_pr_light.yaml
index e2ba3566b75..4bb5006df44 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/vllm_ascend_test_pr_light.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/vllm_ascend_test_pr_light.yaml
@@ -119,9 +119,8 @@ jobs:
           TORCH_DEVICE_BACKEND_AUTOLOAD: 0
         run: |
           export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/Ascend/ascend-toolkit/latest/x86_64-linux/devlib
+          # Remove these ignores after multimodal refactor is done
           pytest -sv --cov --cov-report=xml:unittests-coverage.xml tests/ut \
-            --ignore tests/ut/torchair/models/test_torchair_deepseek_mtp.py \
-            --ignore tests/ut/torchair/models/test_torchair_deepseek_v2.py \
             --ignore tests/ut/models/test_qwen2_vl.py \
             --ignore tests/ut/models/test_qwen2_5_vl.py \
             --ignore tests/ut/models/test_qwen2_5_vl_without_padding.py
diff --git a/tests/ut/attention/test_mla_v1.py b/tests/ut/attention/test_mla_v1.py
index 57ac54c1bd3..2083ef840d4 100644
--- a/tests/ut/attention/test_mla_v1.py
+++ b/tests/ut/attention/test_mla_v1.py
@@ -454,12 +454,20 @@ def setUp(self):
         "vllm_ascend.attention.mla_v1.get_decode_context_model_parallel_world_size"
     )
     @patch("vllm_ascend.attention.mla_v1.get_ascend_config")
-    def test_build_prefix_no_cache_metadata(self, mock_get_ascend_config,
+    @patch("vllm_ascend.attention.mla_v1.torch.zeros", wraps=torch.zeros)
+    @patch("torch.Tensor.npu", new=lambda self: self)
+    @patch("torch.npu.is_available")
+    def test_build_prefix_no_cache_metadata(self, mock_npu_available,
+                                            mock_zeros, mock_get_ascend_config,
                                             mock_dcp_world_size):
-        if not torch.npu.is_available():
-            self.skipTest("NPU not available, skipping NPU-dependent tests")
+        mock_npu_available.return_value = False
         mock_dcp_world_size.return_value = 1
 
+        def zeros_override(*args, **kwargs):
+            kwargs.pop('pin_memory', None)
+            return mock_zeros._mock_wraps(*args, **kwargs)
+
+        mock_zeros.side_effect = zeros_override
         common_attn_metadata = AscendCommonAttentionMetadata(
             query_start_loc=torch.tensor([0, 3, 7]),
             query_start_loc_cpu=torch.tensor([0, 3, 7]),
@@ -506,12 +514,21 @@ def test_build_prefix_no_cache_metadata(self, mock_get_ascend_config,
         "vllm_ascend.attention.mla_v1.get_decode_context_model_parallel_world_size"
     )
     @patch("vllm_ascend.attention.mla_v1.get_ascend_config")
-    def test_build_chunked_prefix_metadata(self, mock_get_ascend_config,
+    @patch("vllm_ascend.attention.mla_v1.torch.zeros", wraps=torch.zeros)
+    @patch("torch.Tensor.npu", new=lambda self: self)
+    @patch("torch.npu.is_available")
+    def test_build_chunked_prefix_metadata(self, mock_npu_available,
+                                           mock_zeros, mock_get_ascend_config,
                                            mock_dcp_world_size):
-        if not torch.npu.is_available():
-            self.skipTest("NPU not available, skipping NPU-dependent tests")
+        mock_npu_available.return_value = False
         mock_dcp_world_size.return_value = 1
 
+        def zeros_override(*args, **kwargs):
+            kwargs.pop('pin_memory', None)
+            return mock_zeros._mock_wraps(*args, **kwargs)
+
+        mock_zeros.side_effect = zeros_override
+
         common_attn_metadata = AscendCommonAttentionMetadata(
             query_start_loc=torch.tensor([0, 2, 5, 9]),
             query_start_loc_cpu=torch.tensor([0, 2, 5, 9]),