[Bugfix][Core] Fix tekken edge case for mistral tokenizer

vllm/transformers_utils/tokenizers/mistral.py

@@ -175,10 +175,29 @@ def apply_chat_template(self,
 
     def convert_tokens_to_string(self, tokens: List[str]) -> str:
         if isinstance(self.tokenizer, Tekkenizer):
-            return "".join(t for t in tokens
-                           if t not in self.tokenizer._all_special_tokens)
+            tokens = [
+                t for t in tokens
+                if t not in self.tokenizer._all_special_tokens
+            ]
+
+            if any(isinstance(t, bytes) for t in tokens):
+                # we need to encode and decode all tokens again
+                shift = self.tokenizer.num_special_tokens
+                byte_tokens = [
+                    t.encode("utf-8") if not isinstance(t, bytes) else t
+                    for t in tokens
+                ]
+                ids = [
+                    self.tokenizer._tekken_token2id_nospecial[t] + shift
+                    for t in byte_tokens
+                ]
+                decoded = self.tokenizer.decode(ids)
+            else:
+                decoded = "".join(tokens)
         else:
-            return self.tokenizer.decode(tokens)  # type: ignore[arg-type]
+            decoded = self.tokenizer.decode(tokens)  # type: ignore[arg-type]
+
+        return decoded
 
     def decode(self, ids: Union[List[int], int]) -> str:
         if isinstance(ids, int):
@@ -200,4 +219,8 @@ def convert_ids_to_tokens(
                               self.tokenizer)
 
         tokens = [self.tokenizer.id_to_piece(id) for id in ids]
+
+        if tokens[-1] == "�":
+            tokens[-1] = self.tokenizer.id_to_byte_piece(ids[-1])
+
         return tokens