diff --git a/.buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-cpu-test.sh b/.buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-cpu-test.sh
index 0a11935607e2..61aa7df13b4d 100644
--- a/.buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-cpu-test.sh
+++ b/.buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-cpu-test.sh
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ set -ex
 
 # allow to bind to different cores
 CORE_RANGE=${CORE_RANGE:-48-95}
+OMP_CORE_RANGE=${OMP_CORE_RANGE:-48-95}
 NUMA_NODE=${NUMA_NODE:-1}
 
 export CMAKE_BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL=32
@@ -23,10 +24,8 @@ numactl -C "$CORE_RANGE" -N "$NUMA_NODE" docker build --tag cpu-test-"$NUMA_NODE
 numactl -C "$CORE_RANGE" -N "$NUMA_NODE" docker build --build-arg VLLM_CPU_DISABLE_AVX512="true" --tag cpu-test-"$NUMA_NODE"-avx2 --target vllm-test -f docker/Dockerfile.cpu .
 
 # Run the image, setting --shm-size=4g for tensor parallel.
-docker run -itd --entrypoint /bin/bash -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface --cpuset-cpus="$CORE_RANGE"  \
- --cpuset-mems="$NUMA_NODE" --privileged=true -e HF_TOKEN --env VLLM_CPU_KVCACHE_SPACE=4 --shm-size=4g --name cpu-test-"$NUMA_NODE" cpu-test-"$NUMA_NODE"
-docker run -itd --entrypoint /bin/bash -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface --cpuset-cpus="$CORE_RANGE" \
- --cpuset-mems="$NUMA_NODE" --privileged=true -e HF_TOKEN --env VLLM_CPU_KVCACHE_SPACE=4 --shm-size=4g --name cpu-test-"$NUMA_NODE"-avx2 cpu-test-"$NUMA_NODE"-avx2
+docker run -itd --cpuset-cpus="$CORE_RANGE" --cpuset-mems="$NUMA_NODE" --entrypoint /bin/bash -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface --privileged=true -e HF_TOKEN --env VLLM_CPU_KVCACHE_SPACE=4 --env VLLM_CPU_OMP_THREADS_BIND="$OMP_CORE_RANGE" --shm-size=4g --name cpu-test-"$NUMA_NODE" cpu-test-"$NUMA_NODE"
+docker run -itd --cpuset-cpus="$CORE_RANGE" --cpuset-mems="$NUMA_NODE" --entrypoint /bin/bash -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface --privileged=true -e HF_TOKEN --env VLLM_CPU_KVCACHE_SPACE=4 --env VLLM_CPU_OMP_THREADS_BIND="$OMP_CORE_RANGE" --shm-size=4g --name cpu-test-"$NUMA_NODE"-avx2 cpu-test-"$NUMA_NODE"-avx2
 
 function cpu_tests() {
   set -e
@@ -56,7 +55,7 @@ function cpu_tests() {
   # Run AWQ test
   docker exec cpu-test-"$NUMA_NODE" bash -c "
     set -e
-    pytest -s -v \
+    VLLM_USE_V1=0 pytest -s -v \
     tests/quantization/test_ipex_quant.py"
 
   # Run chunked-prefill and prefix-cache test
@@ -68,8 +67,6 @@ function cpu_tests() {
   # online serving
   docker exec cpu-test-"$NUMA_NODE" bash -c "
     set -e
-    export VLLM_CPU_KVCACHE_SPACE=10 
-    export VLLM_CPU_OMP_THREADS_BIND=$1
     python3 -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server --model facebook/opt-125m --dtype half & 
     timeout 600 bash -c 'until curl localhost:8000/v1/models; do sleep 1; done' || exit 1
     python3 benchmarks/benchmark_serving.py \
@@ -89,4 +86,4 @@ function cpu_tests() {
 
 # All of CPU tests are expected to be finished less than 40 mins.
 export -f cpu_tests
-timeout 40m bash -c "cpu_tests $CORE_RANGE $NUMA_NODE"
+timeout 1h bash -c "cpu_tests $CORE_RANGE $NUMA_NODE"
diff --git a/docs/usage/v1_guide.md b/docs/usage/v1_guide.md
index a2321bf98900..7c4909cb5d91 100644
--- a/docs/usage/v1_guide.md
+++ b/docs/usage/v1_guide.md
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ This living user guide outlines a few known **important changes and limitations*
 | **NVIDIA** | <nobr>🚀 Natively Supported</nobr>         |
 | **AMD**    | <nobr>🚧 WIP</nobr>           |
 | **TPU**    | <nobr>🚧 WIP</nobr>           |
+| **CPU**    | <nobr>🚧 WIP</nobr>           |
+
 #### Feature / Model
 
 | Feature / Model | Status |
diff --git a/requirements/cpu.txt b/requirements/cpu.txt
index 1213301584ce..e43b44397752 100644
--- a/requirements/cpu.txt
+++ b/requirements/cpu.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 # Common dependencies
 -r common.txt
 
+numba == 0.60.0; python_version == '3.9' # v0.61 doesn't support Python 3.9. Required for N-gram speculative decoding
+numba == 0.61.2; python_version > '3.9'
+
 # Dependencies for CPUs
 packaging>=24.2
 setuptools>=77.0.3,<80.0.0
diff --git a/tests/kernels/attention/test_attention_selector.py b/tests/kernels/attention/test_attention_selector.py
index 435fe6225614..f3e64155703c 100644
--- a/tests/kernels/attention/test_attention_selector.py
+++ b/tests/kernels/attention/test_attention_selector.py
@@ -85,7 +85,10 @@ def test_env(
                        CpuPlatform()):
                 backend = get_attn_backend(16, torch.float16, torch.float16,
                                            block_size, False)
-            assert backend.get_name() == "TORCH_SDPA"
+            if use_v1:
+                assert backend.get_name() == "TORCH_SDPA_VLLM_V1"
+            else:
+                assert backend.get_name() == "TORCH_SDPA"
 
         elif device == "hip":
             with patch("vllm.attention.selector.current_platform",
diff --git a/tests/models/language/generation/test_common.py b/tests/models/language/generation/test_common.py
index ed9e54722514..f656f90c4bd3 100644
--- a/tests/models/language/generation/test_common.py
+++ b/tests/models/language/generation/test_common.py
@@ -87,7 +87,6 @@ AITER_MODEL_LIST = [
         pytest.param("bigcode/starcoder2-3b"),  # starcoder2
         pytest.param(
             "TitanML/tiny-mixtral",  # mixtral
-            marks=[pytest.mark.cpu_model],
         )
     ])
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("max_tokens", [32])
diff --git a/vllm/attention/backends/cpu_mla.py b/vllm/attention/backends/cpu_mla.py
index cf7883e121ab..793cb87b7434 100644
--- a/vllm/attention/backends/cpu_mla.py
+++ b/vllm/attention/backends/cpu_mla.py
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ class CPUMLAMetadataBuilder(AttentionMetadataBuilder[CPUMLAMetadata]):
             seq_lens_tensor=seq_lens_tensor,
             max_query_len=max_query_len,
             max_kv_len=max_kv_len,
-            query_start_loc=query_start_loc,
+            prefill_query_start_loc=query_start_loc,
             kv_start_loc=kv_start_loc,
             max_decode_seq_len=input_data.max_decode_seq_len,
             num_prefills=input_data.num_prefills,
@@ -264,8 +264,8 @@ class CPUMLAImpl(MLACommonImpl[CPUMLAMetadata]):
             key=k,
             value=v_padded,
             out=output,
-            seqlen_q=prefill_metadata.query_start_loc,
-            seqlen_k=prefill_metadata.query_start_loc,
+            seqlen_q=prefill_metadata.prefill_query_start_loc,
+            seqlen_k=prefill_metadata.prefill_query_start_loc,
             max_seqlen_q=prefill_metadata.max_query_len,
             max_seqlen_k=prefill_metadata.max_query_len,
             pdropout=0.0,
diff --git a/vllm/attention/backends/torch_sdpa.py b/vllm/attention/backends/torch_sdpa.py
index f3fb5adcf05c..23231c323f13 100644
--- a/vllm/attention/backends/torch_sdpa.py
+++ b/vllm/attention/backends/torch_sdpa.py
@@ -87,10 +87,13 @@ class TorchSDPAMetadata(AttentionMetadata, PagedAttentionMetadata):
     # For chunked prefill only
     max_query_len: Optional[int] = None
     max_kv_len: Optional[int] = None
-    query_start_loc: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
+    prefill_query_start_loc: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
     kv_start_loc: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
     prefill_block_tables: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
 
+    # For V1 logits index only
+    query_start_loc: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
+
     # Begin encoder attn & enc/dec cross-attn fields...
     # Encoder sequence lengths representation
     encoder_seq_lens: Optional[List[int]] = None
@@ -375,7 +378,7 @@ class TorchSDPAMetadataBuilder(AttentionMetadataBuilder[TorchSDPAMetadata]):
             seq_lens_tensor=seq_lens_tensor,
             max_query_len=max_query_len,
             max_kv_len=max_kv_len,
-            query_start_loc=query_start_loc,
+            prefill_query_start_loc=query_start_loc,
             kv_start_loc=kv_start_loc,
             max_decode_seq_len=input_data.max_decode_seq_len,
             num_prefills=input_data.num_prefills,
@@ -470,6 +473,11 @@ class TorchSDPABackendImpl(AttentionImpl[TorchSDPAMetadata]):
         Returns:
             shape = [num_tokens, num_heads * head_size]
         """
+
+        # For warming-up
+        if attn_metadata is None:
+            return query
+
         attn_type = self.attn_type
         if (attn_type == AttentionType.ENCODER
                 and (not attn_metadata.is_all_encoder_attn_metadata_set)):
@@ -537,8 +545,8 @@ class TorchSDPABackendImpl(AttentionImpl[TorchSDPAMetadata]):
 
         output = torch.empty_like(query)
         if prefill_meta := attn_metadata.prefill_metadata:
-            assert attn_metadata.seq_lens is not None
             if not prefill_meta.prefill_metadata.chunked_prefill:  # type: ignore
+                assert attn_metadata.seq_lens is not None
                 self._run_sdpa_forward(output,
                                        query,
                                        key,
@@ -555,7 +563,7 @@ class TorchSDPABackendImpl(AttentionImpl[TorchSDPAMetadata]):
                     query[:prefill_meta.num_prefill_tokens, :, :],
                     key_cache,
                     value_cache,
-                    prefill_meta.query_start_loc,
+                    prefill_meta.prefill_query_start_loc,
                     prefill_meta.kv_start_loc,
                     prefill_meta.max_query_len,
                     prefill_meta.max_kv_len,
diff --git a/vllm/compilation/wrapper.py b/vllm/compilation/wrapper.py
index 8c8d0b5cb229..2a261c84c3fc 100644
--- a/vllm/compilation/wrapper.py
+++ b/vllm/compilation/wrapper.py
@@ -41,11 +41,16 @@ class TorchCompileWrapperWithCustomDispatcher:
             # compiling the forward method
 
             backend = vllm_config.compilation_config.init_backend(vllm_config)
+            options = None
+            if isinstance(backend, str) and backend == "inductor":
+                options = get_current_vllm_config(
+                ).compilation_config.inductor_compile_config
 
             compiled_callable = torch.compile(
                 self.forward,
                 fullgraph=envs.VLLM_TEST_DYNAMO_FULLGRAPH_CAPTURE,
-                backend=backend)
+                backend=backend,
+                options=options)
 
         self.compiled_callable = compiled_callable
         self.original_code_object = self.__class__.forward.__code__
diff --git a/vllm/engine/arg_utils.py b/vllm/engine/arg_utils.py
index 2197d44ca825..b1c4b27a0ca4 100644
--- a/vllm/engine/arg_utils.py
+++ b/vllm/engine/arg_utils.py
@@ -1399,6 +1399,7 @@ class EngineArgs:
             "FLASHINFER",
             "FLASHINFER_VLLM_V1",
             "ROCM_AITER_MLA",
+            "TORCH_SDPA_VLLM_V1",
         ]
         if (envs.is_set("VLLM_ATTENTION_BACKEND")
                 and envs.VLLM_ATTENTION_BACKEND not in V1_BACKENDS):
@@ -1431,7 +1432,8 @@ class EngineArgs:
 
         # Non-[CUDA, TPU] may be supported on V1, but off by default for now.
         v0_hardware = not any(
-            (current_platform.is_cuda(), current_platform.is_tpu()))
+            (current_platform.is_cuda(), current_platform.is_tpu(),
+             current_platform.is_cpu()))
         if v0_hardware and _warn_or_fallback(  # noqa: SIM103
                 current_platform.device_name):
             return False
diff --git a/vllm/platforms/cpu.py b/vllm/platforms/cpu.py
index 2739f5c8c690..265959d626e0 100644
--- a/vllm/platforms/cpu.py
+++ b/vllm/platforms/cpu.py
@@ -57,7 +57,10 @@ class CpuPlatform(Platform):
             logger.info("Using CPU MLA backend.")
             return "vllm.attention.backends.cpu_mla.CPUMLABackend"
         logger.info("Using Torch SDPA backend.")
-        return "vllm.attention.backends.torch_sdpa.TorchSDPABackend"
+        if use_v1:
+            return "vllm.v1.attention.backends.cpu_attn.TorchSDPABackend"
+        else:
+            return "vllm.attention.backends.torch_sdpa.TorchSDPABackend"
 
     @classmethod
     def get_device_total_memory(cls, device_id: int = 0) -> int:
@@ -81,6 +84,8 @@ class CpuPlatform(Platform):
         if not model_config.enforce_eager:
             model_config.enforce_eager = True
 
+        model_config.disable_cascade_attn = True
+
         cache_config = vllm_config.cache_config
 
         ipex_available = find_spec("intel_extension_for_pytorch") is not None
@@ -128,7 +133,8 @@ class CpuPlatform(Platform):
                 f" {kv_cache_space}, expect a positive integer value.")
 
         parallel_config = vllm_config.parallel_config
-        if (parallel_config.distributed_executor_backend is not None
+        if (parallel_config.world_size > 1
+                and parallel_config.distributed_executor_backend is not None
                 and parallel_config.distributed_executor_backend != "mp"):
             logger.warning(("%s is not supported on CPU, fallback to mp "
                             "distributed executor backend."),
@@ -141,7 +147,38 @@ class CpuPlatform(Platform):
                 parallel_config.sd_worker_cls = \
                     "vllm.worker.cpu_worker.CPUWorker"
             else:
-                parallel_config.worker_cls = "vllm.worker.cpu_worker.CPUWorker"
+                if envs.VLLM_USE_V1:
+                    parallel_config.worker_cls = \
+                        "vllm.v1.worker.cpu_worker.CPUWorker"
+                else:
+                    parallel_config.worker_cls = \
+                        "vllm.worker.cpu_worker.CPUWorker"
+
+        # Note: workaround for v1 gpu_model_runner
+        from vllm.config import CompilationLevel
+        vllm_config.compilation_config.cudagraph_capture_sizes = []
+
+        compilation_config = vllm_config.compilation_config
+        if (envs.VLLM_USE_V1 and vllm_config.compilation_config.level
+                == CompilationLevel.PIECEWISE):
+            compilation_config.level = CompilationLevel.DYNAMO_ONCE
+            compilation_config.backend = "eager"
+            compilation_config.custom_ops += ["none"]
+            compilation_config.inductor_compile_config.update({
+                "dce":
+                True,
+                "size_asserts":
+                False,
+                "nan_asserts":
+                False,
+                "memory_planning":
+                True,
+                "epilogue_fusion":
+                True,
+            })
+
+        if vllm_config.lora_config is not None:
+            compilation_config.level = CompilationLevel.NO_COMPILATION
 
         assert vllm_config.device_config.device_type == "cpu"
 
@@ -149,6 +186,12 @@ class CpuPlatform(Platform):
         # Environment variables for CPU executor
         #
 
+        os.environ["VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD"] = "spawn"
+
+        # Note: to avoid the error 'nthreads cannot be larger than environment
+        #  variable "NUMEXPR_MAX_THREADS" (64)'.
+        os.environ["NUMEXPR_MAX_THREADS"] = str(len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)))
+
         # Set default threads num for OpenMP parallel
         os.environ["OMP_NUM_THREADS"] = str(torch.get_num_threads())
 
@@ -171,13 +214,6 @@ class CpuPlatform(Platform):
         # To hint IPEX uses shared memory based AllReduce
         os.environ["LOCAL_WORLD_SIZE"] = str(
             vllm_config.parallel_config.tensor_parallel_size)
-        if sys.platform == "darwin" and \
-                envs.VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD == "fork":
-            if os.environ.get('VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD', None) is None:
-                logger.warning(
-                    "Default to spawn method on MacOS. If this is not desired,"
-                    " set VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD to fork explicitly.")
-                os.environ['VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD'] = 'spawn'
 
         if vllm_config.model_config and vllm_config.model_config.use_mla:
             logger.info(
@@ -204,3 +240,14 @@ class CpuPlatform(Platform):
         Get device specific communicator class for distributed communication.
         """
         return "vllm.distributed.device_communicators.cpu_communicator.CpuCommunicator"  # noqa
+
+    @classmethod
+    def supports_structured_output(cls) -> bool:
+        return True
+
+    @classmethod
+    def supports_v1(cls, model_config) -> bool:
+        """Returns whether the current platform can support v1 for the supplied
+        model configuration.
+        """
+        return True
diff --git a/vllm/v1/attention/backends/cpu_attn.py b/vllm/v1/attention/backends/cpu_attn.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d7a580c2883c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vllm/v1/attention/backends/cpu_attn.py
@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+import numpy as np
+import torch
+
+from vllm.attention.backends.abstract import AttentionMetadata
+from vllm.attention.backends.torch_sdpa import (TorchSDPABackendImpl,
+                                                TorchSDPAMetadata)
+from vllm.attention.backends.utils import CommonAttentionState
+from vllm.attention.ops.ipex_attn import PagedAttention
+from vllm.v1.attention.backends.utils import CommonAttentionMetadata
+from vllm.v1.core.sched.output import SchedulerOutput
+from vllm.v1.kv_cache_interface import AttentionSpec
+from vllm.v1.worker.block_table import BlockTable
+from vllm.v1.worker.cpu_model_runner import CPUModelRunner
+from vllm.v1.worker.gpu_input_batch import InputBatch
+
+
+class TorchSDPABackend:
+    accept_output_buffer: bool = False
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def get_name() -> str:
+        return "TORCH_SDPA_VLLM_V1"
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def get_impl_cls() -> type["TorchSDPABackendImpl"]:
+        return TorchSDPABackendImpl
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def get_metadata_cls() -> type["AttentionMetadata"]:
+        return TorchSDPAMetadata
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def get_state_cls() -> type["CommonAttentionState"]:
+        return CommonAttentionState
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def get_builder_cls() -> type["TorchSDPAMetadataBuilderV1"]:
+        return TorchSDPAMetadataBuilderV1
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def get_kv_cache_shape(
+        num_blocks: int,
+        block_size: int,
+        num_kv_heads: int,
+        head_size: int,
+    ) -> tuple[int, ...]:
+        return PagedAttention.get_kv_cache_shape(num_blocks, block_size,
+                                                 num_kv_heads, head_size)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def use_cascade_attention(*args, **kwargs) -> bool:
+        return False
+
+
+class TorchSDPAMetadataBuilderV1:
+
+    def __init__(self, runner: CPUModelRunner, kv_cache_spec: AttentionSpec,
+                 block_table: BlockTable) -> None:
+        self.runner = runner
+        self.block_table = block_table
+
+        # For reorder
+        self.reorder_prompt_req_index_list = np.empty(self.runner.max_num_reqs,
+                                                      dtype=np.int64)
+        self.reorder_decode_req_index_list = np.empty(self.runner.max_num_reqs,
+                                                      dtype=np.int64)
+        self.num_prompt_req: int = 0
+
+        self.seq_start_loc_cpu = torch.zeros(
+            runner.max_num_reqs + 1,
+            dtype=torch.int32,
+            device="cpu",
+        )
+        self.seq_start_loc_np = self.seq_start_loc_cpu.numpy()
+
+    def reorder_batch(self, input_batch: InputBatch,
+                      scheduler_output: SchedulerOutput) -> bool:
+        prompt_list_idx = 0
+        decode_list_idx = 0
+        for req_index in range(input_batch.num_reqs):
+            if input_batch.num_computed_tokens_cpu[
+                    req_index] < input_batch.num_prompt_tokens[req_index]:
+                # prompt stage
+                self.reorder_prompt_req_index_list[prompt_list_idx] = req_index
+                prompt_list_idx += 1
+            else:
+                # decode stage
+                self.reorder_decode_req_index_list[decode_list_idx] = req_index
+                decode_list_idx += 1
+        assert decode_list_idx + prompt_list_idx == input_batch.num_reqs
+
+        # Update prompt requests number
+        self.num_prompt_req = prompt_list_idx
+
+        reorder_req_num = 0
+        for req_index in range(decode_list_idx):
+            if self.reorder_decode_req_index_list[req_index] < prompt_list_idx:
+                reorder_req_num += 1
+            else:
+                break
+
+        if reorder_req_num == 0:
+            return False
+
+        reorder_prompt_list = (
+            self.reorder_prompt_req_index_list[:prompt_list_idx]
+            [-reorder_req_num:])
+        reorder_decode_list = (
+            self.reorder_decode_req_index_list[:decode_list_idx]
+            [:reorder_req_num])
+        assert reorder_decode_list.size == reorder_prompt_list.size
+
+        for idx in range(reorder_req_num):
+            prompt_req_index = reorder_prompt_list[idx].item()
+            decode_req_index = reorder_decode_list[idx].item()
+            input_batch.swap_states(prompt_req_index, decode_req_index)
+
+        return True
+
+    def build(self, num_reqs: int, num_actual_tokens: int, max_query_len: int,
+              common_prefix_len: int,
+              common_attn_metadata: CommonAttentionMetadata):
+        runner = self.runner
+        block_table = self.block_table
+        seq_lens_np = runner.seq_lens_np[:num_reqs]
+        num_prompt_req = self.num_prompt_req
+        max_prefill_seq_len = seq_lens_np[:num_prompt_req].max().item(
+        ) if num_prompt_req > 0 else 0
+        max_decode_seq_len = seq_lens_np[num_prompt_req:num_reqs].max().item(
+        ) if num_prompt_req < num_reqs else 0
+        self.seq_start_loc_np[0] = 0
+        np.cumsum(seq_lens_np, out=self.seq_start_loc_np[1:num_reqs + 1])
+        num_prefill_tokens = runner.query_start_loc_np[num_prompt_req].item()
+        num_decode_tokens = runner.query_start_loc_np[num_reqs].item(
+        ) - num_prefill_tokens
+        slot_mapping = block_table.slot_mapping_cpu[:num_actual_tokens].long()
+        block_table_tensor = block_table.get_device_tensor()
+        attn_metadata = TorchSDPAMetadata(
+            num_prefills=num_prompt_req,
+            num_prefill_tokens=num_prefill_tokens,
+            num_decode_tokens=num_decode_tokens,
+            slot_mapping=slot_mapping,
+            seq_lens_tensor=runner.
+            seq_lens_cpu[num_prompt_req:num_reqs],  # decode
+            max_decode_seq_len=max_decode_seq_len,  # decode
+            block_tables=block_table_tensor[num_prompt_req:num_reqs],  # decode
+            chunked_prefill=True,
+            max_query_len=max_query_len,
+            max_kv_len=max_prefill_seq_len,
+            prefill_query_start_loc=runner.
+            query_start_loc_cpu[:num_prompt_req + 1],  # prefill
+            kv_start_loc=self.seq_start_loc_cpu[:num_prompt_req +
+                                                1],  # prefill
+            prefill_block_tables=block_table_tensor[:
+                                                    num_prompt_req],  # prefill
+            query_start_loc=runner.query_start_loc_cpu[:num_reqs +
+                                                       1],  # for logits index
+            multi_modal_placeholder_index_maps=None,
+            enable_kv_scales_calculation=False,
+        )
+
+        return attn_metadata
diff --git a/vllm/v1/worker/cpu_model_runner.py b/vllm/v1/worker/cpu_model_runner.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..607cfc0ef69c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vllm/v1/worker/cpu_model_runner.py
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+from contextlib import contextmanager
+from typing import Any
+
+import torch
+
+from vllm.config import VllmConfig
+from vllm.logger import init_logger
+from vllm.model_executor.model_loader import get_model
+from vllm.v1.worker.gpu_model_runner import GPUModelRunner
+
+logger = init_logger(__name__)
+
+
+class CPUModelRunner(GPUModelRunner):
+
+    def __init__(self, vllm_config: VllmConfig, device: torch.device):
+        super().__init__(vllm_config, device)
+
+        assert device == torch.device("cpu")
+        assert self.speculative_config is None, "spec decode is not supported."
+
+        self.use_cuda_graph = False
+        self.cascade_attn_enabled = False
+
+        self._postprocess_tenosrs()
+
+    def _postprocess_tenosrs(self) -> None:
+        # Note: replace device tensors with cpu tensors
+        def replace_tensor(obj: Any, cpu_attr_name: str,
+                           device_attr_name) -> None:
+            cpu_tensor = getattr(obj, cpu_attr_name, None)
+            device_tensor = getattr(obj, device_attr_name, None)
+            if cpu_tensor is not None and device_tensor is not None:
+                assert isinstance(cpu_tensor, torch.Tensor)
+                assert isinstance(device_tensor, torch.Tensor)
+                setattr(obj, device_attr_name, cpu_tensor)
+
+        for k, v in vars(self).items():
+            if k.endswith("_cpu") and isinstance(v, torch.Tensor):
+                replace_tensor(self, k, k[:-4])
+
+        for k, v in vars(self.input_batch).items():
+            if k.endswith("_cpu_tensor") and isinstance(v, torch.Tensor):
+                replace_tensor(self.input_batch, k, k[:-11])
+
+        for k, v in vars(self.input_batch.block_table).items():
+            if k.endswith("_cpu") and isinstance(v, torch.Tensor):
+                replace_tensor(self.input_batch.block_table, k, k[:-4])
+
+    def load_model(self) -> None:
+        logger.info("Starting to load model %s...", self.model_config.model)
+        self.model = get_model(vllm_config=self.vllm_config)
+
+        if self.lora_config:
+            self.model = self.load_lora_model(self.model, self.model_config,
+                                              self.scheduler_config,
+                                              self.lora_config, self.device)
+
+    def warming_up_model(self) -> None:
+        logger.info("Warming up model for the compilation...")
+        # Only generate graph for the generic shape
+        self._dummy_run(max(16, self.max_num_reqs))
+        logger.info("Warming up done.")
+
+    def _init_device_properties(self) -> None:
+        pass
+
+    def _sync_device(self) -> None:
+        pass
+
+
+@contextmanager
+def _set_global_compilation_settings():
+    import torch._inductor.config
+
+    # Note: The CPPGEMM backend requires freezing parameters.
+    freezing_value = torch._inductor.config.freezing
+    torch._inductor.config.freezing = True
+    # Note: workaround for "ValueError: fast mode: can't pickle cyclic objects
+    # including object type dict"
+    force_disable_caches = torch._inductor.config.force_disable_caches
+    torch._inductor.config.force_disable_caches = True
+    yield
+    torch._inductor.config.freezing = freezing_value
+    torch._inductor.config.force_disable_caches = force_disable_caches
diff --git a/vllm/v1/worker/cpu_worker.py b/vllm/v1/worker/cpu_worker.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0b710b7bc203
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vllm/v1/worker/cpu_worker.py
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+import os
+from typing import Optional
+
+import torch
+
+from vllm import envs
+from vllm.config import VllmConfig
+from vllm.distributed.parallel_state import get_pp_group, get_tp_group
+from vllm.logger import init_logger
+from vllm.model_executor.utils import set_random_seed
+from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors
+from vllm.v1.core.sched.output import SchedulerOutput
+from vllm.v1.outputs import ModelRunnerOutput
+from vllm.v1.worker.cpu_model_runner import CPUModelRunner
+from vllm.v1.worker.gpu_worker import (Worker,
+                                       init_worker_distributed_environment)
+
+logger = init_logger(__name__)
+
+
+class CPUWorker(Worker):
+
+    def __init__(self,
+                 vllm_config: VllmConfig,
+                 local_rank: int,
+                 rank: int,
+                 distributed_init_method: str,
+                 is_driver_worker: bool = False):
+        super().__init__(vllm_config,
+                         local_rank,
+                         rank,
+                         distributed_init_method,
+                         is_driver_worker=is_driver_worker)
+
+        self.parallel_config.disable_custom_all_reduce = True
+
+    def init_device(self):
+        # Setup OpenMP threads affinity.
+        omp_cpuids = envs.VLLM_CPU_OMP_THREADS_BIND
+        if omp_cpuids == "all":
+            self.local_omp_cpuid = "all"
+        else:
+            self.local_omp_cpuid = omp_cpuids.split("|")[self.rank]
+            ret = torch.ops._C_utils.init_cpu_threads_env(self.local_omp_cpuid)
+            if ret:
+                logger.info(ret)
+
+        # Note: unique identifier for creating allreduce shared memory
+        os.environ["VLLM_DIST_IDENT"] = self.distributed_init_method.split(
+            ":")[-1]
+        # Initialize the distributed environment.
+        init_worker_distributed_environment(self.vllm_config, self.rank,
+                                            self.distributed_init_method,
+                                            self.local_rank, "gloo")
+        # Set random seed.
+        set_random_seed(self.model_config.seed)
+
+        # Construct the model runner
+        self.model_runner: CPUModelRunner = CPUModelRunner(
+            self.vllm_config, torch.device("cpu"))
+
+    def sleep(self, level: int = 1) -> None:
+        logger.warning("sleep mode is not supported on CPU, ignore it.")
+        pass
+
+    def wake_up(self, tags: Optional[list[str]] = None) -> None:
+        logger.warning("sleep mode is not supported on CPU, ignore it.")
+        pass
+
+    def determine_available_memory(self) -> int:
+        return self.cache_config.cpu_kvcache_space_bytes  # type: ignore
+
+    def compile_or_warm_up_model(self) -> None:
+        # Reset the seed to ensure that the random state is not affected by
+        # the model initialization and profiling.
+        set_random_seed(self.model_config.seed)
+        self.model_runner.warming_up_model()
+
+    @torch.inference_mode()
+    def execute_model(
+        self,
+        scheduler_output: "SchedulerOutput",
+    ) -> Optional[ModelRunnerOutput]:
+        intermediate_tensors = None
+        if not get_pp_group().is_first_rank:
+            intermediate_tensors = IntermediateTensors(
+                get_pp_group().recv_tensor_dict(
+                    all_gather_group=get_tp_group()))
+
+        output = self.model_runner.execute_model(scheduler_output,
+                                                 intermediate_tensors)
+
+        if not get_pp_group().is_last_rank:
+            assert isinstance(output, IntermediateTensors)
+            get_pp_group().send_tensor_dict(output.tensors,
+                                            all_gather_group=get_tp_group())
+            return None
+
+        assert isinstance(output, ModelRunnerOutput)
+        return output if self.is_driver_worker else None
diff --git a/vllm/v1/worker/gpu_model_runner.py b/vllm/v1/worker/gpu_model_runner.py
index 6a566a602b19..6ea6bb020ed7 100644
--- a/vllm/v1/worker/gpu_model_runner.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/worker/gpu_model_runner.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import copy
 import gc
 import time
 import weakref
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Optional, Union
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Optional, Union
 
 import numpy as np
 import torch
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors
 from vllm.utils import (STR_DTYPE_TO_TORCH_DTYPE, DeviceMemoryProfiler,
                         GiB_bytes, LazyLoader, async_tensor_h2d, cdiv,
                         check_use_alibi, is_pin_memory_available)
-from vllm.v1.attention.backends.flash_attn import FlashAttentionMetadata
 from vllm.v1.attention.backends.utils import CommonAttentionMetadata
 from vllm.v1.core.encoder_cache_manager import compute_encoder_budget
 from vllm.v1.kv_cache_interface import (AttentionSpec, FullAttentionSpec,
@@ -203,8 +202,7 @@ class GPUModelRunner(LoRAModelRunnerMixin):
                 self.vllm_config.compilation_config.cudagraph_capture_sizes))
 
         # Cache the device properties.
-        self.device_properties = torch.cuda.get_device_properties(self.device)
-        self.num_sms = self.device_properties.multi_processor_count
+        self._init_device_properties()
 
         # Persistent buffers for CUDA graphs.
         self.input_ids = torch.zeros(self.max_num_tokens,
@@ -315,6 +313,17 @@ class GPUModelRunner(LoRAModelRunnerMixin):
                 self.input_batch, scheduler_output)
         return batch_reordered
 
+    # Note: used for model runner override.
+    def _init_device_properties(self) -> None:
+        """Initialize attributes from torch.cuda.get_device_properties
+        """
+        self.device_properties = torch.cuda.get_device_properties(self.device)
+        self.num_sms = self.device_properties.multi_processor_count
+
+    # Note: used for model runner override.
+    def _sync_device(self) -> None:
+        torch.cuda.synchronize()
+
     def _update_states(self, scheduler_output: "SchedulerOutput") -> None:
         """Update the cached states and the persistent batch with the scheduler
         output.
@@ -538,8 +547,7 @@ class GPUModelRunner(LoRAModelRunnerMixin):
     def _prepare_inputs(
         self,
         scheduler_output: "SchedulerOutput",
-    ) -> tuple[dict[str, FlashAttentionMetadata], torch.Tensor,
-               Optional[SpecDecodeMetadata]]:
+    ) -> tuple[dict[str, Any], torch.Tensor, Optional[SpecDecodeMetadata]]:
         total_num_scheduled_tokens = scheduler_output.total_num_scheduled_tokens
         assert total_num_scheduled_tokens > 0
         num_reqs = self.input_batch.num_reqs
@@ -652,7 +660,7 @@ class GPUModelRunner(LoRAModelRunnerMixin):
         common_attn_metadata = CommonAttentionMetadata(
             query_start_loc=query_start_loc, seq_lens=seq_lens)
 
-        attn_metadata: dict[str, FlashAttentionMetadata] = {}
+        attn_metadata: dict[str, Any] = {}
         # Prepare the attention metadata for each KV cache group and make layers
         # in the same group share the same metadata.
         for kv_cache_group_id, kv_cache_group_spec in enumerate(
@@ -1710,7 +1718,7 @@ class GPUModelRunner(LoRAModelRunnerMixin):
 
         # Must synchronize the non-blocking GPU->CPU transfers.
         if prompt_logprobs_dict:
-            torch.cuda.synchronize()
+            self._sync_device()
 
         return prompt_logprobs_dict
 
@@ -1740,7 +1748,7 @@ class GPUModelRunner(LoRAModelRunnerMixin):
                                         dtype=np.int32)
 
         if skip_attn:
-            attn_metadata: Optional[dict[str, FlashAttentionMetadata]] = None
+            attn_metadata: Optional[dict[str, Any]] = None
         else:
             query_start_loc = self.query_start_loc[:num_reqs + 1]
             seq_lens = self.seq_lens[:num_reqs]
@@ -1964,7 +1972,7 @@ class GPUModelRunner(LoRAModelRunnerMixin):
             sampler_output = self._dummy_sampler_run(hidden_states)
         else:
             sampler_output = None
-        torch.cuda.synchronize()
+        self._sync_device()
         del hidden_states, sampler_output
         self.encoder_cache.clear()
         gc.collect()
diff --git a/vllm/v1/worker/gpu_worker.py b/vllm/v1/worker/gpu_worker.py
index f36cf5d5c319..3bf3b2221a44 100644
--- a/vllm/v1/worker/gpu_worker.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/worker/gpu_worker.py
@@ -342,13 +342,14 @@ def init_worker_distributed_environment(
     rank: int,
     distributed_init_method: Optional[str] = None,
     local_rank: int = -1,
+    backend: str = "nccl",
 ) -> None:
     """Initialize the distributed environment."""
     parallel_config = vllm_config.parallel_config
     set_custom_all_reduce(not parallel_config.disable_custom_all_reduce)
 
     init_distributed_environment(parallel_config.world_size, rank,
-                                 distributed_init_method, local_rank)
+                                 distributed_init_method, local_rank, backend)
 
     ensure_model_parallel_initialized(parallel_config.tensor_parallel_size,
                                       parallel_config.pipeline_parallel_size)