diff --git a/vllm/engine/output_processor/stop_checker.py b/vllm/engine/output_processor/stop_checker.py
index 4b701f81504bb..a43c79b4ea8c9 100644
--- a/vllm/engine/output_processor/stop_checker.py
+++ b/vllm/engine/output_processor/stop_checker.py
@@ -19,6 +19,16 @@ def __init__(self, max_model_len: int,
         self._max_model_len = max_model_len
         self.get_tokenizer_for_seq = get_tokenizer_for_seq
 
+        # the position to start checking for repetition
+        self.repeat_start_from = 0
+
+        # the number of tokens repeated
+        self.repeated_count = 0
+        # the gap between the repeated tokens
+        self.repeated_gap = 0
+        # the repeated ngram that we already generated
+        self.repeated_total = 0
+
     def _get_max_model_len(self, lora_req: Optional[LoRARequest]):
         if lora_req and lora_req.long_lora_max_len:
             return lora_req.long_lora_max_len
@@ -88,6 +98,75 @@ def maybe_stop_sequence(
             seq.status = SequenceStatus.FINISHED_LENGTH_CAPPED
             return
 
+        # Check if the last ngram is repeated in the output text.
+        last_token = seq.output_text[-new_char_count:]
+        # start checking for repetition after the first 32 tokens
+        if seq.get_output_len() > 32 and self.check_ngram_repetition(
+                seq, sampling_params, last_token):
+            seq.status = SequenceStatus.FINISHED_REPEATED
+            return
+
+    def check_ngram_repetition(self, seq: Sequence,
+                               sampling_params: SamplingParams,
+                               last_token: str) -> bool:
+        """Check if the last ngram is repeated in the output text.
+        """
+
+        is_done = False
+        output_ids = seq.get_output_token_ids()
+        last_token_id = seq.get_last_token_id()
+        output_len = seq.get_output_len()
+
+        repeated_at = None
+        repeated_gap = None
+
+        for i, token in enumerate(output_ids[self.repeat_start_from:-1]):
+            if token == last_token_id:
+                repeated_at = self.repeat_start_from + i
+                repeated_gap = output_len - repeated_at
+
+        if repeated_at is not None:
+            self.repeated_count += 1
+            # token_str = self.tokenizer.convert_ids_to_tokens([last_token])[0]
+            # print(
+            #     f"\n==> token ({last_token}) at {output_len}\n"
+            #     f"==> repeat_at: {repeated_at}\n"
+            #     f"==> repeated_count: {self.repeated_count}\n"
+            #     f"==> repeated_gap: {repeated_gap}\n"
+            #     f"==> repeate_start_from: {self.repeat_start_from}"
+            # )
+
+            self.repeat_start_from = repeated_at
+
+        if repeated_at is None or repeated_gap != self.repeated_gap:
+            self.repeated_count = 0
+            self.repeated_gap = 0
+            self.repeated_total = 0
+
+        if repeated_gap is not None:
+            self.repeated_gap = repeated_gap
+
+        if self.repeated_count == self.repeated_gap and self.repeated_gap:
+            self.repeated_total += 1
+            self.repeated_count = 0
+
+            # print(f"==> repeated_total: {self.repeated_total}")
+
+            repeate_ngram_size = self.repeated_gap
+            # print(f'==> repeate_ngram_size: {repeate_ngram_size}')
+
+            if repeate_ngram_size == 1:
+                # single token repetition
+                is_done = self.repeated_total > 64
+            elif repeate_ngram_size > 64:
+                # paragraph repetition
+                is_done = self.repeated_total >= 4
+            else:
+                # short ngram repetition?
+                is_done = self.repeated_total >= 8
+
+        return is_done
+
     @staticmethod
     def check_stop_strings(
         output_text: str,
diff --git a/vllm/sequence.py b/vllm/sequence.py
index 5857f656dfc10..1e587b1b29d8a 100644
--- a/vllm/sequence.py
+++ b/vllm/sequence.py
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ class SequenceStatus(enum.IntEnum):
     FINISHED_LENGTH_CAPPED = 4
     FINISHED_ABORTED = 5
     FINISHED_IGNORED = 6
+    FINISHED_REPEATED = 7
 
     @staticmethod
     def is_finished(status: "SequenceStatus") -> bool:
@@ -83,6 +84,10 @@ def get_finished_reason(status: "SequenceStatus") -> Union[str, None]:
             # are longer than the model's length cap. Therefore, the stop
             # reason should also be "length" as in OpenAI API.
             finish_reason = "length"
+        elif status == SequenceStatus.FINISHED_REPEATED:
+            # The repeated sequences are the generated sequences appeared
+            # ngram repeated.
+            finish_reason = "ngram_repeat"
         else:
             finish_reason = None
         return finish_reason