diff --git a/tests/tokenizers_/test_registry.py b/tests/tokenizers_/test_registry.py
index 546f38b078d..9635e9963b5 100644
--- a/tests/tokenizers_/test_registry.py
+++ b/tests/tokenizers_/test_registry.py
@@ -1,15 +1,24 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+import json
 from pathlib import Path
+from types import SimpleNamespace
+from unittest.mock import patch
 
 import pytest
+from transformers import AutoConfig
+from transformers.models.auto.configuration_auto import CONFIG_MAPPING
 
 from vllm.tokenizers import TokenizerLike
 from vllm.tokenizers.registry import (
     TokenizerRegistry,
+    cached_get_tokenizer,
+    cached_resolve_tokenizer_args,
+    cached_tokenizer_from_config,
     get_tokenizer,
     resolve_tokenizer_args,
 )
+from vllm.transformers_utils.configs.qwen3_5_moe import Qwen3_5MoeConfig
 
 
 class TestTokenizer(TokenizerLike):
@@ -75,3 +84,58 @@ def test_customized_tokenizer():
     assert tokenizer.bos_token_id == 0
     assert tokenizer.eos_token_id == 1
     assert tokenizer.pad_token_id == 2
+
+
+def test_cached_tokenizer_from_config_registers_local_config(tmp_path: Path):
+    (tmp_path / "config.json").write_text(
+        json.dumps({"model_type": "qwen3_5_moe"}),
+        encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+
+    model_config = SimpleNamespace(
+        skip_tokenizer_init=False,
+        tokenizer=str(tmp_path),
+        runner_type="generate",
+        tokenizer_mode="hf",
+        tokenizer_revision=None,
+        trust_remote_code=True,
+        hf_config=Qwen3_5MoeConfig(),
+    )
+
+    registered_config = CONFIG_MAPPING._extra_content.pop("qwen3_5_moe", None)
+    cached_get_tokenizer.cache_clear()
+    cached_resolve_tokenizer_args.cache_clear()
+
+    try:
+
+        def fake_from_pretrained(path_or_repo_id: str, *args, **kwargs):
+            loaded_config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(
+                path_or_repo_id,
+                trust_remote_code=False,
+            )
+            assert isinstance(loaded_config, Qwen3_5MoeConfig)
+            return SimpleNamespace(is_fast=True)
+
+        with (
+            patch(
+                "vllm.tokenizers.registry.logger.debug_once",
+                lambda *args, **kwargs: None,
+            ),
+            patch(
+                "vllm.tokenizers.hf.AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained",
+                side_effect=fake_from_pretrained,
+            ),
+            patch(
+                "vllm.tokenizers.hf.get_cached_tokenizer",
+                side_effect=lambda tokenizer: tokenizer,
+            ),
+        ):
+            tokenizer = cached_tokenizer_from_config(model_config)
+
+        assert tokenizer.is_fast is True
+    finally:
+        cached_get_tokenizer.cache_clear()
+        cached_resolve_tokenizer_args.cache_clear()
+        CONFIG_MAPPING._extra_content.pop("qwen3_5_moe", None)
+        if registered_config is not None:
+            CONFIG_MAPPING._extra_content["qwen3_5_moe"] = registered_config
diff --git a/vllm/tokenizers/registry.py b/vllm/tokenizers/registry.py
index 213fe78c933..d928da3306e 100644
--- a/vllm/tokenizers/registry.py
+++ b/vllm/tokenizers/registry.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from typing_extensions import TypeVar, assert_never
 
 import vllm.envs as envs
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.transformers_utils.config import get_config
+from vllm.transformers_utils.config import _maybe_register_hf_config, get_config
 from vllm.transformers_utils.repo_utils import (
     any_pattern_in_repo_files,
     is_mistral_model_repo,
@@ -246,6 +246,8 @@ def cached_tokenizer_from_config(model_config: "ModelConfig", **kwargs):
     if model_config.skip_tokenizer_init:
         return None
 
+    _maybe_register_hf_config(getattr(model_config, "hf_config", None))
+
     return cached_get_tokenizer(
         model_config.tokenizer,
         runner_type=model_config.runner_type,
diff --git a/vllm/transformers_utils/config.py b/vllm/transformers_utils/config.py
index 21b5e7494d7..2d8a32ef3d5 100644
--- a/vllm/transformers_utils/config.py
+++ b/vllm/transformers_utils/config.py
@@ -141,6 +141,22 @@ _AUTO_CONFIG_KWARGS_OVERRIDES: dict[str, dict[str, Any]] = {
 }
 
 
+def _register_config_class(
+    model_type: str, config_class: type[PretrainedConfig]
+) -> None:
+    config_class.model_type = model_type
+    AutoConfig.register(model_type, config_class, exist_ok=True)
+
+
+def _maybe_register_hf_config(config: PretrainedConfig | None) -> None:
+    if config is None:
+        return
+
+    model_type = getattr(config, "model_type", None)
+    if isinstance(model_type, str) and model_type in _CONFIG_REGISTRY:
+        _register_config_class(model_type, _CONFIG_REGISTRY[model_type])
+
+
 def is_rope_parameters_nested(rope_parameters: dict[str, Any]) -> bool:
     """Check if rope_parameters is nested by layer types."""
     # Cannot be nested if rope_parameters is empty
@@ -244,8 +260,7 @@ class HFConfigParser(ConfigParserBase):
                 # in future calls to `from_pretrained` (e.g. from
                 # AutoTokenizer or AutoProcessor).
                 config_class = _CONFIG_REGISTRY[model_type]
-                config_class.model_type = model_type
-                AutoConfig.register(model_type, config_class, exist_ok=True)
+                _register_config_class(model_type, config_class)
                 # If the on-disk model_type differs from the overridden
                 # one, register under both so AutoConfig.from_pretrained
                 # returns the correct class regardless of what the
@@ -253,8 +268,7 @@ class HFConfigParser(ConfigParserBase):
                 if (
                     config_model_type := config_dict.get("model_type")
                 ) and config_model_type != model_type:
-                    config_class.model_type = config_model_type
-                    AutoConfig.register(config_model_type, config_class, exist_ok=True)
+                    _register_config_class(config_model_type, config_class)
                     config_class.model_type = model_type
                 # Now that it is registered, it is not considered remote code anymore
                 trust_remote_code = False