diff --git a/aten/src/ATen/Declarations.cwrap b/aten/src/ATen/Declarations.cwrap
index 35a3849404d32..c2103d20fd4ba 100644
--- a/aten/src/ATen/Declarations.cwrap
+++ b/aten/src/ATen/Declarations.cwrap
@@ -3568,6 +3568,19 @@
       kwarg_only: True
     - double p
 ]]
+[[
+  name: _cpu_bernoulli_
+  backends:
+    - CPU
+  cname: bernoulli
+  return: self
+  arguments:
+    - THTensor* self
+    - arg: THGenerator* generator
+      default: nullptr
+      kwarg_only: True
+    - double p
+]]
 [[
   name: _th_bernoulli
   types:
diff --git a/aten/src/ATen/native/Distributions.cpp b/aten/src/ATen/native/Distributions.cpp
index 1186c76a8be1e..4b7781057be9a 100644
--- a/aten/src/ATen/native/Distributions.cpp
+++ b/aten/src/ATen/native/Distributions.cpp
@@ -146,13 +146,7 @@ Tensor& bernoulli_(Tensor& self, const Tensor& p_, Generator* gen) {
 
 Tensor& bernoulli_(Tensor& self, double p, Generator* gen) {
   if (!self.is_cuda()) {
-    AT_DISPATCH_ALL_TYPES(self.type(), "bernoulli_", [&] {
-      THGenerator* generator = get_generator(gen);
-      std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(generator->mutex);
-      CPU_tensor_apply1<scalar_t>(self, [generator, p](scalar_t& ret_val) {
-        ret_val = (scalar_t)THRandom_bernoulli(generator, p);
-      });
-    });
+    self._cpu_bernoulli_(p, gen);
     return self;
   }
   Tensor probs = self.type().toScalarType(kDouble).tensor({}).fill_(p);
diff --git a/aten/src/TH/THGeneral.h.in b/aten/src/TH/THGeneral.h.in
index 16b55307f7205..b828737797e81 100644
--- a/aten/src/TH/THGeneral.h.in
+++ b/aten/src/TH/THGeneral.h.in
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@
 #include <stddef.h>
 #include <inttypes.h>
 
+#ifdef TH_BLAS_MKL
+#include <mkl_vsl.h>
+#endif
+
 #cmakedefine USE_BLAS
 #cmakedefine USE_LAPACK
 #cmakedefine BLAS_F2C
diff --git a/aten/src/TH/THTensorApply.h b/aten/src/TH/THTensorApply.h
index 55730b437a31d..8a14902616e2c 100644
--- a/aten/src/TH/THTensorApply.h
+++ b/aten/src/TH/THTensorApply.h
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@
     TYPE1 *rp = TENSOR1->storage->data<TYPE1>()+TENSOR1->storageOffset;                        \
     TYPE2 *tp = TENSOR2->storage->data<TYPE2>()+TENSOR2->storageOffset;                        \
     ptrdiff_t iter = 0;                                                                        \
-    if(tp != rp) {                                                                             \
+    if(tp != (TYPE2*)rp) {                                                                             \
       PRAGMA(ivdep) \
       PRAGMA( omp parallel for if (SIZE > OMP_THRESHOLD * 10) firstprivate(rp, tp)) \
       for (iter = 0; iter < SIZE; iter++) {                             \
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@
     TYPE2 *tp = TENSOR2->storage->data<TYPE2>()+TENSOR2->storageOffset;                                 \
     TYPE3 *srcp = TENSOR3->storage->data<TYPE3>()+TENSOR3->storageOffset;                               \
     ptrdiff_t iter = 0;\
-    if (rp != tp) { \
+    if(tp != (TYPE2*)rp) {                                                                             \
       PRAGMA(ivdep) \
       PRAGMA( omp parallel for if (SIZE > OMP_THRESHOLD * 10) )  \
       for (iter = 0; iter < SIZE; iter++) {\
diff --git a/aten/src/TH/generic/THTensorRandom.cpp b/aten/src/TH/generic/THTensorRandom.cpp
index 564c365804695..88f4e3c9daaa9 100644
--- a/aten/src/TH/generic/THTensorRandom.cpp
+++ b/aten/src/TH/generic/THTensorRandom.cpp
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 #define TH_GENERIC_FILE "generic/THTensorRandom.cpp"
 #else
 
+#ifdef _OPENMP
+#include <omp.h>
+#endif
+
+#include <cpuinfo.h>
+
 #include "THGenerator.hpp"
 
 void THTensor_(random)(THTensor *self, THGenerator *_generator)
@@ -51,10 +57,93 @@ void THTensor_(geometric)(THTensor *self, THGenerator *_generator, double p)
   TH_TENSOR_APPLY(real, self, *self_data = (real)THRandom_geometric(_generator, p););
 }
 
+#ifdef TH_BLAS_MKL
+#define BERNOULLI_OMP 800
+#define TH_OMP_OVERHEAD_THRESHOLD_COPY 20000
+
+void iBernoulli_generate_copy(THTensor *self, THGenerator *_generator, const double p)
+{
+  int64_t seed = THRandom_random(_generator);
+  int64_t n = THTensor_(nElement)(self);
+  int contig = THTensor_(isContiguous)(self);
+  int *tmp = NULL;
+  THIntTensor* intTensor = NULL;
+
+  if (contig) {
+#ifdef TH_REAL_IS_INT
+    tmp = THIntTensor_data(self);
+#else
+    tmp = (int*)THAlloc(n*sizeof(int));
+#endif
+  } else {
+    intTensor = THIntTensor_new();
+    THIntTensor_resizeNd(intTensor, self->nDimension, self->size, NULL);
+    tmp = THIntTensor_data(intTensor);
+  }
+
+#ifdef _OPENMP
+  size_t nthr = !omp_in_parallel() && n >= BERNOULLI_OMP ? omp_get_num_threads() : 1;
+#pragma omp parallel num_threads(nthr) firstprivate(nthr)
+  {
+    size_t tid = omp_get_thread_num();
+    int64_t seg_len_tmp = n / nthr;
+    int64_t line_index_offset = tid * seg_len_tmp;
+    int64_t line_seg_len = (tid == nthr - 1)? (n-line_index_offset) : seg_len_tmp;
+#else
+  {
+    int64_t line_index_offset = 0;
+    int64_t line_seg_len = n;
+#endif
+
+    if (line_seg_len > 0) {
+      VSLStreamStatePtr stream;
+      vslNewStream(&stream, VSL_BRNG_MCG31, seed);
+      vslSkipAheadStream(stream, line_index_offset);
+      viRngBernoulli(VSL_RNG_METHOD_BERNOULLI_ICDF, stream, line_seg_len,
+        tmp + line_index_offset, p);
+      vslDeleteStream(&stream);
+
+#ifndef TH_REAL_IS_INT
+      if (contig) {
+        real* self_seg = THTensor_(data)(self) + line_index_offset;
+        int* tmp_seg = tmp + line_index_offset;
+        THVector_(cvtFromInt)(self_seg, tmp_seg, line_seg_len);
+      }
+#endif
+    }
+  }
+
+  if(contig) {
+#ifndef TH_REAL_IS_INT
+    THFree(tmp);
+#endif
+  } else {
+#ifdef _OPENMP
+    TH_TENSOR_APPLY2_OMP(n, 1, 0, int, intTensor, real, self, *self_data = *intTensor_data;, TH_OMP_OVERHEAD_THRESHOLD_COPY)
+#else
+    TH_TENSOR_APPLY2(int, intTensor, real, self, *self_data = *intTensor_data;)
+#endif
+    THIntTensor_free(intTensor);
+  }
+
+}
+
+#endif
+
 void THTensor_(bernoulli)(THTensor *self, THGenerator *_generator, double p)
 {
+#ifdef TH_BLAS_MKL
+  if(cpuinfo_initialize() && cpuinfo_vendor_intel == cpuinfo_get_processor(0)->core->vendor) {
+    std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(_generator->mutex);
+    iBernoulli_generate_copy(self, _generator, p);
+  } else {
+    std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(_generator->mutex);
+    TH_TENSOR_APPLY(real, self, *self_data = (real)THRandom_bernoulli(_generator, p););
+  }
+#else
   std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(_generator->mutex);
   TH_TENSOR_APPLY(real, self, *self_data = (real)THRandom_bernoulli(_generator, p););
+#endif
 }
 
 void THTensor_(bernoulli_FloatTensor)(THTensor *self, THGenerator *_generator, THFloatTensor *p)
diff --git a/aten/src/TH/generic/THVector.h b/aten/src/TH/generic/THVector.h
index 887482c52867f..3a5c5c26fdc4f 100644
--- a/aten/src/TH/generic/THVector.h
+++ b/aten/src/TH/generic/THVector.h
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ TH_API void THVector_(normal_fill)(real *data,
                                    struct THGenerator *generator,
                                    const real mean,
                                    const real stddev);
+#ifndef TH_REAL_IS_INT
+TH_API void THVector_(cvtFromInt)(real *y, const int *x, const ptrdiff_t n);
+#endif
 
 #if defined(TH_REAL_IS_SHORT) || defined(TH_REAL_IS_INT) || defined(TH_REAL_IS_LONG)
 TH_API void THVector_(abs)(real *y, const real *x, const ptrdiff_t n);
diff --git a/aten/src/TH/generic/THVectorDefault.cpp b/aten/src/TH/generic/THVectorDefault.cpp
index 51652ffa01c8a..c77580761bbb8 100644
--- a/aten/src/TH/generic/THVectorDefault.cpp
+++ b/aten/src/TH/generic/THVectorDefault.cpp
@@ -130,6 +130,24 @@ void THVector_(divs_DEFAULT)(real *y, const real *x, const real c, const ptrdiff
     y[i] = x[i] / c;
 }
 
+#ifndef TH_REAL_IS_INT
+void THVector_(cvtFromInt_DEFAULT)(real *y, const int *x, const ptrdiff_t n)
+{
+  ptrdiff_t i = 0;
+
+  for(; i<n-4; i+=4)
+  {
+    y[i] = (real)x[i];
+    y[i+1] = (real)x[i+1];
+    y[i+2] = (real)x[i+2];
+    y[i+3] = (real)x[i+3];
+  }
+
+  for(; i < n; i++)
+    y[i] = (real)x[i];
+}
+#endif
+
 // Fills 16 normally distributed samples into data, interleaved with a
 // stride of 8, i.e. in order of ([0], [8]), ([1], [9]), ...
 static void THVector_(interleaved_normal_fill_16)(real *data,
diff --git a/aten/src/TH/generic/THVectorDispatch.cpp b/aten/src/TH/generic/THVectorDispatch.cpp
index 8ddecfc4f555e..bfc1fffdcc2d4 100644
--- a/aten/src/TH/generic/THVectorDispatch.cpp
+++ b/aten/src/TH/generic/THVectorDispatch.cpp
@@ -239,6 +239,29 @@ void THVector_(copy)(real *y, const real *x, const ptrdiff_t n) {
   THVector_(copy_DISPATCHPTR)(y, x, n);
 }
 
+#ifndef TH_REAL_IS_INT
+static void (*THVector_(cvtFromInt_DISPATCHPTR))(real *, const int *, const ptrdiff_t) = &THVector_(cvtFromInt_DEFAULT);
+static FunctionDescription THVector_(cvtFromInt_DISPATCHTABLE)[] = {
+  #if defined(USE_AVX)
+    #if defined(TH_REAL_IS_DOUBLE) || defined(TH_REAL_IS_FLOAT)
+      FUNCTION_IMPL(THVector_(cvtFromInt_AVX), SIMDExtension_AVX),
+    #endif
+  #endif
+  #if defined(USE_SSE2) || defined(USE_SSE3) || defined(USE_SSSE3) \
+          || defined(USE_SSE4_1) || defined(USE_SSE4_2)
+    #if defined(TH_REAL_IS_DOUBLE) || defined(TH_REAL_IS_FLOAT)
+      FUNCTION_IMPL(THVector_(cvtFromInt_SSE), SIMDExtension_SSE),
+    #endif
+  #endif
+
+
+  FUNCTION_IMPL(THVector_(cvtFromInt_DEFAULT), SIMDExtension_DEFAULT)
+};
+void THVector_(cvtFromInt)(real *y, const int *x, const ptrdiff_t n) {
+  THVector_(cvtFromInt_DISPATCHPTR)(y, x, n);
+}
+#endif
+
 static void (*THVector_(normal_fill_DISPATCHPTR))(real *, const int64_t, THGenerator *, const real, const real) = &THVector_(normal_fill_DEFAULT);
 static FunctionDescription THVector_(normal_fill_DISPATCHTABLE)[] = {
   #if defined(TH_REAL_IS_FLOAT) && defined(USE_AVX2)
@@ -290,6 +313,10 @@ struct THVector_(startup) {
     INIT_DISPATCH_PTR(copy);
     INIT_DISPATCH_PTR(normal_fill);
 
+#ifndef TH_REAL_IS_INT
+    INIT_DISPATCH_PTR(cvtFromInt);
+#endif
+
 #if defined(TH_REAL_IS_FLOAT) || defined(TH_REAL_IS_DOUBLE)
     INIT_DISPATCH_PTR(sigmoid);
 #endif
diff --git a/aten/src/TH/vector/AVX.cpp b/aten/src/TH/vector/AVX.cpp
index b7d5dd1d6470d..5fbc8bd806e65 100644
--- a/aten/src/TH/vector/AVX.cpp
+++ b/aten/src/TH/vector/AVX.cpp
@@ -271,4 +271,38 @@ void THFloatVector_adds_AVX(float *y, const float *x, const float c, const ptrdi
   }
 }
 
+void THFloatVector_cvtFromInt_AVX(float *y, const int *x, const ptrdiff_t n) {
+  ptrdiff_t i;
+  __m256i YMM0, YMM1;
+  __m256 YMM2, YMM3;
+  for (i=0; i<=((n)-16); i+=16) {
+    YMM0 = _mm256_loadu_si256((__m256i const*)(x+i));
+    YMM1 = _mm256_loadu_si256((__m256i const*)(x+i+8));
+    YMM2 = _mm256_cvtepi32_ps(YMM0);
+    YMM3 = _mm256_cvtepi32_ps(YMM1);
+    _mm256_storeu_ps(y+i, YMM2);
+    _mm256_storeu_ps(y+i+8, YMM3);
+  }
+  for (; i<(n); i++) {
+    y[i] = (float)x[i];
+  }
+}
+
+void THDoubleVector_cvtFromInt_AVX(double *y, const int *x, const ptrdiff_t n) {
+  ptrdiff_t i;
+  __m128i YMM0, YMM1;
+  __m256d YMM2, YMM3;
+  for (i=0; i<=((n)- 8); i+=8) {
+    YMM0 = _mm_loadu_si128((__m128i const*)(x+i));
+    YMM1 = _mm_loadu_si128((__m128i const*)(x+i+4));
+    YMM2 = _mm256_cvtepi32_pd(YMM0);
+    YMM3 = _mm256_cvtepi32_pd(YMM1);
+    _mm256_storeu_pd(y+i, YMM2);
+    _mm256_storeu_pd(y+i+4, YMM3);
+  }
+  for (; i<(n); i++) {
+    y[i] = (double)x[i];
+  }
+}
+
 #endif // defined(__AVX__)
diff --git a/aten/src/TH/vector/AVX.h b/aten/src/TH/vector/AVX.h
index 505678ae4a831..6fd183c6efd90 100644
--- a/aten/src/TH/vector/AVX.h
+++ b/aten/src/TH/vector/AVX.h
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ TH_API void THDoubleVector_cmul_AVX(double *z, const double *x, const double *y,
 TH_API void THDoubleVector_muls_AVX(double *y, const double *x, const double c, const ptrdiff_t n);
 TH_API void THDoubleVector_cadd_AVX(double *z, const double *x, const double *y, const double c, const ptrdiff_t n);
 TH_API void THDoubleVector_adds_AVX(double *y, const double *x, const double c, const ptrdiff_t n);
+TH_API void THDoubleVector_cvtFromInt_AVX(double *y, const int *x, const ptrdiff_t n);
 TH_API void THFloatVector_copy_AVX(float *y, const float *x, const ptrdiff_t n);
 TH_API void THFloatVector_fill_AVX(float *x, const float c, const ptrdiff_t n);
 TH_API void THFloatVector_cdiv_AVX(float *z, const float *x, const float *y, const ptrdiff_t n);
@@ -20,4 +21,5 @@ TH_API void THFloatVector_cmul_AVX(float *z, const float *x, const float *y, con
 TH_API void THFloatVector_muls_AVX(float *y, const float *x, const float c, const ptrdiff_t n);
 TH_API void THFloatVector_cadd_AVX(float *z, const float *x, const float *y, const float c, const ptrdiff_t n);
 TH_API void THFloatVector_adds_AVX(float *y, const float *x, const float c, const ptrdiff_t n);
+TH_API void THFloatVector_cvtFromInt_AVX(float *y, const int *x, const ptrdiff_t n);
 #endif
diff --git a/aten/src/TH/vector/SSE.cpp b/aten/src/TH/vector/SSE.cpp
index d026935ab0208..20d58936107a0 100644
--- a/aten/src/TH/vector/SSE.cpp
+++ b/aten/src/TH/vector/SSE.cpp
@@ -266,3 +266,38 @@ static void THFloatVector_divs_SSE(float *y, const float *x, const float c, cons
     y[i] = x[i] / c;
   }
 }
+
+static void THFloatVector_cvtFromInt_SSE(float *y, const int *x, const ptrdiff_t n) {
+  ptrdiff_t i;
+  __m128i YMM0, YMM1;
+  __m128 YMM2, YMM3;
+  for (i=0; i<=((n)-8); i+=8) {
+    YMM0 = _mm_loadu_si128((__m128i const*)(x+i));
+    YMM1 = _mm_loadu_si128((__m128i const*)(x+i+4));
+    YMM2 = _mm_cvtepi32_ps(YMM0);
+    YMM3 = _mm_cvtepi32_ps(YMM1);
+    _mm_storeu_ps(y+i, YMM2);
+    _mm_storeu_ps(y+i+4, YMM3);
+  }
+  for (; i<(n); i++) {
+    y[i] = (float)x[i];
+  }
+}
+
+static void THDoubleVector_cvtFromInt_SSE(double *y, const int *x, const ptrdiff_t n) {
+  ptrdiff_t i;
+  __m128i YMM0, YMM1;
+  __m128d YMM2, YMM3;
+  for (i=0; i<=((n)- 4); i+=4) {
+    YMM0 = _mm_loadu_si128((__m128i const*)(x+i));
+    YMM2 = _mm_cvtepi32_pd(YMM0);
+    YMM1 = _mm_srli_si128(YMM0, 8);
+    YMM3 = _mm_cvtepi32_pd(YMM1);
+    _mm_storeu_pd(y+i, YMM2);
+    _mm_storeu_pd(y+i+2, YMM3);
+  }
+  for (; i<(n); i++) {
+    y[i] = (double)x[i];
+  }
+}
+