diff --git a/python/llm/src/ipex_llm/__init__.py b/python/llm/src/ipex_llm/__init__.py
index 748a1b3d74f..a796dcbfb9d 100644
--- a/python/llm/src/ipex_llm/__init__.py
+++ b/python/llm/src/ipex_llm/__init__.py
@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@
 import types
 
 # Default is false, set to true to auto importing Intel Extension for PyTorch.
+USE_NPU = os.getenv("BIGDL_USE_NPU", 'False').lower() in ('true', '1', 't')
 BIGDL_IMPORT_IPEX = os.getenv("BIGDL_IMPORT_IPEX", 'True').lower() in ('true', '1', 't')
+BIGDL_IMPORT_IPEX = not USE_NPU and BIGDL_IMPORT_IPEX
 if BIGDL_IMPORT_IPEX:
     # Import Intel Extension for PyTorch as ipex if XPU version is installed
     from .utils.ipex_importer import ipex_importer
diff --git a/python/llm/src/ipex_llm/transformers/npu_model.py b/python/llm/src/ipex_llm/transformers/npu_model.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3c2977d9777
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/llm/src/ipex_llm/transformers/npu_model.py
@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+#
+# Copyright 2016 The BigDL Authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+import warnings
+import torch
+import transformers
+from typing import List
+from unittest.mock import patch
+from transformers.dynamic_module_utils import get_imports
+
+import intel_npu_acceleration_library as npu_lib
+from intel_npu_acceleration_library.dtypes import int8, int4
+
+from ipex_llm.utils.common.log4Error import invalidInputError
+
+
+def patch_flash_attn_import(filename: str) -> List[str]:
+    """Work around for https://huggingface.co/microsoft/phi-1_5/discussions/72."""
+    imports = get_imports(filename)
+    if "flash_attn" in imports:
+        imports.remove("flash_attn")
+    return imports
+
+
+def ignore_argument(kwargs: dict, key: 'str'):
+    arg = kwargs.pop(key, None)
+    if arg is not None:
+        warnings.warn(f"argument `{key}={arg}` will be ignored")
+
+
+class _BaseAutoModelClass:
+    HF_MODEL = None
+
+    @classmethod
+    @patch("transformers.dynamic_module_utils.get_imports", patch_flash_attn_import)
+    def from_pretrained(cls,
+                        *args,
+                        **kwargs):
+        """
+        Load a model from a directory or the HF Hub. Use load_in_low_bit parameter to convert
+        model to low-bit format, like int4 and int8.
+        The loaded model will run supported OPs on NPU, then run other OPs on CPU.
+
+        Three new arguments are added to extend Hugging Face's from_pretrained method as follows:
+        :param load_in_low_bit: str value, options are ``'sym_int4'``, ``'sym_int8'``, ``'fp32'``.
+                                Relevant low bit optimizations will be applied to the model.
+        :return: a model instance
+        """
+        if kwargs.get('device_map', None) not in [None, 'cpu', 'auto']:
+            warnings.warn("`device_map` will be ignored")
+        kwargs['device_map'] = 'cpu'
+
+        low_bit = kwargs.pop('load_in_low_bit', None)
+        low_bit_to_dtype_map = {
+            'sym_int4': int4,
+            'sym_int8': int8,
+            'fp32': torch.float,
+        }
+        if low_bit is not None:
+            dtype = low_bit_to_dtype_map[low_bit]
+        else:
+            dtype = kwargs.get('torch_dtype', torch.float)
+            dtype = torch.float if dtype == 'auto' else dtype
+        invalidInputError(dtype in low_bit_to_dtype_map.values(),
+                          f"unsupported dtype: {dtype}, "
+                          "only `sym_int4`, `sym_int8`, `fp32` are supported")
+
+        kwargs["low_cpu_mem_usage"] = True
+
+        # ignore following arguments
+        ignore_argument(kwargs, "model_hub")
+        ignore_argument(kwargs, "lightweight_bmm")
+        ignore_argument(kwargs, "load_in_4bit")
+        ignore_argument(kwargs, "load_in_8bit")
+        ignore_argument(kwargs, "imatrix")
+        ignore_argument(kwargs, "mixed_precision")
+        ignore_argument(kwargs, "cpu_embedding")
+        ignore_argument(kwargs, "embedding_qtype")
+        ignore_argument(kwargs, "optimize_model")
+        ignore_argument(kwargs, "modules_to_not_convert")
+        ignore_argument(kwargs, "quantization_config")
+        ignore_argument(kwargs, "speculative")
+        ignore_argument(kwargs, "pipeline_parallel_stages")
+
+        model = cls.HF_Model.from_pretrained(*args, **kwargs)
+        model = npu_lib.compile(model, dtype, False)
+
+        return model
+
+
+class AutoModelForCausalLM(_BaseAutoModelClass):
+    HF_Model = transformers.AutoModelForCausalLM
+
+
+class AutoModel(_BaseAutoModelClass):
+    HF_Model = transformers.AutoModel
+
+
+class AutoModelForSpeechSeq2Seq(_BaseAutoModelClass):
+    HF_Model = transformers.AutoModelForSpeechSeq2Seq
+
+
+class AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM(_BaseAutoModelClass):
+    HF_Model = transformers.AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM
+
+
+class AutoModelForSequenceClassification(_BaseAutoModelClass):
+    HF_Model = transformers.AutoModelForSequenceClassification
+
+
+class AutoModelForMaskedLM(_BaseAutoModelClass):
+    HF_Model = transformers.AutoModelForMaskedLM
+
+
+class AutoModelForQuestionAnswering(_BaseAutoModelClass):
+    HF_Model = transformers.AutoModelForQuestionAnswering
+
+
+class AutoModelForNextSentencePrediction(_BaseAutoModelClass):
+    HF_Model = transformers.AutoModelForNextSentencePrediction
+
+
+class AutoModelForMultipleChoice(_BaseAutoModelClass):
+    HF_Model = transformers.AutoModelForMultipleChoice
+
+
+class AutoModelForTokenClassification(_BaseAutoModelClass):
+    HF_Model = transformers.AutoModelForTokenClassification