diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile.cpu b/docker/Dockerfile.cpu
index 67d3fb83a0275..eb3807ef0ca4e 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile.cpu
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile.cpu
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ FROM base AS vllm-test-deps
 
 WORKDIR /workspace/vllm
 
+# TODO: Update to 2.9.0 when there is a new build for intel_extension_for_pytorch for that version
 RUN --mount=type=bind,src=requirements/test.in,target=requirements/test.in \
     cp requirements/test.in requirements/cpu-test.in && \
     sed -i '/mamba_ssm/d' requirements/cpu-test.in && \
@@ -131,6 +132,9 @@ RUN --mount=type=bind,src=requirements/test.in,target=requirements/test.in \
       esac; \
     }; \
     remove_packages_not_supported_on_aarch64 && \
+    sed -i 's/^torch==.*/torch==2.8.0/g' requirements/cpu-test.in && \
+    sed -i 's/torchaudio.*/torchaudio/g' requirements/cpu-test.in && \
+    sed -i 's/torchvision.*/torchvision/g' requirements/cpu-test.in && \
     uv pip compile requirements/cpu-test.in -o requirements/cpu-test.txt --index-strategy unsafe-best-match --torch-backend cpu
 
 RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/uv \
diff --git a/requirements/cpu-build.txt b/requirements/cpu-build.txt
index 0c6fdd3b33cd1..81d429a5e5f8d 100644
--- a/requirements/cpu-build.txt
+++ b/requirements/cpu-build.txt
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ packaging>=24.2
 setuptools>=77.0.3,<81.0.0
 setuptools-scm>=8
 --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
-torch==2.9.0+cpu; platform_machine == "x86_64" or platform_machine == "s390x"
+torch==2.8.0+cpu; platform_machine == "x86_64" or platform_machine == "s390x"
 torch==2.9.0; platform_system == "Darwin"
-torch==2.9.0; platform_machine == "ppc64le" or platform_machine == "aarch64"
+torch==2.8.0; platform_machine == "ppc64le" or platform_machine == "aarch64"
 scons; platform_machine == "aarch64"    # needed to build Arm Compute Library (ACL)
 wheel
 jinja2>=3.1.6
diff --git a/requirements/cpu.txt b/requirements/cpu.txt
index 8c04d6d5ce1b0..e23d3286f3f78 100644
--- a/requirements/cpu.txt
+++ b/requirements/cpu.txt
@@ -7,17 +7,17 @@ numba == 0.61.2; platform_machine != "s390x" # Required for N-gram speculative d
 packaging>=24.2
 setuptools>=77.0.3,<81.0.0
 --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
-torch==2.9.0+cpu; platform_machine == "x86_64" or platform_machine == "s390x"
+torch==2.8.0+cpu; platform_machine == "x86_64" or platform_machine == "s390x"
 torch==2.9.0; platform_system == "Darwin"
-torch==2.9.0; platform_machine == "ppc64le" or platform_machine == "aarch64"
+torch==2.8.0; platform_machine == "ppc64le" or platform_machine == "aarch64"
 
 # required for the image processor of minicpm-o-2_6, this must be updated alongside torch
 torchaudio; platform_machine != "ppc64le" and platform_machine != "s390x"
-torchaudio==2.9.0; platform_machine == "ppc64le"
+torchaudio==2.8.0; platform_machine == "ppc64le"
 
 # required for the image processor of phi3v, this must be updated alongside torch
 torchvision; platform_machine != "ppc64le" and platform_machine != "s390x"
-torchvision==0.24.0; platform_machine == "ppc64le"
+torchvision==0.23.0; platform_machine == "ppc64le"
 datasets # for benchmark scripts
 
 # Intel Extension for PyTorch, only for x86_64 CPUs
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/qwen3_vl.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/qwen3_vl.py
index 52d31e70a8f05..39fe8336b84a1 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/qwen3_vl.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/qwen3_vl.py
@@ -1123,14 +1123,14 @@ class Qwen3LLMModel(Qwen3Model):
             assert intermediate_tensors is not None
             hidden_states = intermediate_tensors["hidden_states"]
             residual = intermediate_tensors["residual"]
-        
+
         aux_hidden_states = []
         for layer_idx, layer in islice(
             enumerate(self.layers), self.start_layer, self.end_layer
         ):
             if layer_idx in self.aux_hidden_state_layers:
                 aux_hidden_states.append(hidden_states + residual)
-            
+
             hidden_states, residual = layer(
                 positions,
                 hidden_states,