diff --git a/auto_round/compressors/base.py b/auto_round/compressors/base.py
index e09b0c2cf..37acf1767 100644
--- a/auto_round/compressors/base.py
+++ b/auto_round/compressors/base.py
@@ -2601,7 +2601,7 @@ def _get_loss(
             tmp_attention_mask = torch.cat(tmp_attention_mask, dim=0).to(device)
             tmp_attention_mask.unsqueeze_(-1)
             if self.amp:
-                with autocast(device_type=device.split(":")[0], dtype=self.amp_dtype):
+                with autocast(device_type=str(device).split(":")[0], dtype=self.amp_dtype):
                     loss = mse_loss(  # pylint: disable=not-callable
                         (output_q * tmp_attention_mask).to(torch.float32),
                         (current_output * tmp_attention_mask).to(torch.float32),
@@ -2614,7 +2614,7 @@ def _get_loss(
 
         else:
             if self.amp:
-                with autocast(device_type=device.split(":")[0], dtype=self.amp_dtype):
+                with autocast(device_type=str(device).split(":")[0], dtype=self.amp_dtype):
                     loss = mse_loss(  # pylint: disable=not-callable
                         output_q.to(torch.float32), current_output.to(torch.float32)
                     )
diff --git a/test/test_cpu/requirements.txt b/test/test_cpu/requirements.txt
index 1d229b030..d6f2c49d6 100644
--- a/test/test_cpu/requirements.txt
+++ b/test/test_cpu/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ addict
 modelscope
 gguf
 torchvision
-compressed-tensors
 parameterized
 numba
-tbb
\ No newline at end of file
+#TODO: (yiliu30) replace it with the release version
+llmcompressor @ git+https://github.com/vllm-project/llm-compressor.git@7b28d78
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/test_cpu/test_llmc_integration.py b/test/test_cpu/test_llmc_integration.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6dba09cfa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test_cpu/test_llmc_integration.py
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+import pytest
+import torch
+from compressed_tensors.quantization import QuantizationArgs, QuantizationScheme
+from llmcompressor import oneshot
+from llmcompressor.modifiers.autoround import AutoRoundModifier
+from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
+
+from auto_round.calib_dataset import get_dataset
+
+recipe_str = """
+quant_stage:
+    quant_modifiers:
+        AutoRoundModifier:
+            ignore: ["lm_head"]
+            iters: 1
+            config_groups:
+                group_0:
+                    targets:
+                        - "Linear"
+                    input_activations: null
+                    output_activations: null
+                    weights:
+                        num_bits: 4
+                        type: "int"
+                        symmetric: true
+                        strategy: group
+                        group_size: 128
+"""
+
+recipe_modifier_full = AutoRoundModifier(
+    ignore=["lm_head"],
+    iters=1,
+    config_groups={
+        "group_0": QuantizationScheme(
+            targets=["Linear"],
+            weights=QuantizationArgs(num_bits=4, strategy="group", group_size=128),
+        )
+    },
+)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "recipe",
+    [
+        recipe_str,
+        recipe_modifier_full,
+    ],
+)
+def test_oneshot_application(recipe, tmp_path):
+    output = tmp_path / "oneshot_output"
+    model = "TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0"
+    tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model)
+    dataset = get_dataset(
+        tokenizer=tokenizer,
+        seqlen=16,
+        nsamples=2,
+    )
+    device = "cuda:0" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
+
+    oneshot(
+        model=model,
+        dataset=dataset,
+        output_dir=output,
+        recipe=recipe,
+    )
+    model_loaded = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(output, device_map=device)
+
+    # Check that the model is quantized
+    # for compression_config - decompress() will attach a quantization_config
+    # to the model as we decompress right away
+    # for quantization_config - we have CompressedLinear which will only
+    # decompress on the forward pass and does not call decompress(). Results
+    # in a slightly different parameter tree to access the quant config
+    quantization_config = model_loaded.config.quantization_config.quantization_config
+    assert quantization_config is not None
+
+    # check config is set properly
+    assert "lm_head" in quantization_config.ignore
+    assert len(quantization_config.config_groups) == 1
+    quant_scheme = quantization_config.config_groups["group_0"]
+    assert isinstance(quant_scheme, QuantizationScheme)
+
+    weight_args = quantization_config.config_groups["group_0"].weights
+    assert isinstance(weight_args, QuantizationArgs)
+    assert weight_args.num_bits == 4
+
+    # Check a specific layer is quantized
+    targeted_linear_layer = model_loaded.model.layers[2].self_attn.q_proj
+    assert hasattr(targeted_linear_layer, "quantization_scheme")
+
+    # Check lm-head is not quantized
+    not_targeted = model_loaded.lm_head
+    assert not hasattr(not_targeted, "quantization_scheme")