diff --git a/paddle/fluid/operators/CMakeLists.txt b/paddle/fluid/operators/CMakeLists.txt
index de4f23515d8591f28b80ad00322365f8cdce768b..a824fec1e4d2a02c5d7a2d5d375cc0d2e6992b80 100644
--- a/paddle/fluid/operators/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/paddle/fluid/operators/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ if (WITH_GPU)
     SET(OP_HEADER_DEPS ${OP_HEADER_DEPS} cub)
 endif()
 
-register_operators(EXCLUDES warpctc_op conv_fusion_op DEPS ${OP_HEADER_DEPS})
+register_operators(EXCLUDES warpctc_op conv_fusion_op lookup_table_op DEPS ${OP_HEADER_DEPS})
 
 # warpctc_op needs cudnn 7 above
 if (WITH_GPU AND NOT WIN32)
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ else()
     op_library(warpctc_op DEPS dynload_warpctc sequence_padding sequence_scale)
 endif()
 
+op_library(lookup_table_op DEPS parameter_prefetch)
+
 set(COMMON_OP_DEPS ${OP_HEADER_DEPS})
 
 set(COMMON_OP_DEPS ${COMMON_OP_DEPS} selected_rows_functor selected_rows lod_tensor maxouting unpooling pooling lod_rank_table context_project sequence_pooling executor)
diff --git a/paddle/fluid/operators/lookup_table_op.h b/paddle/fluid/operators/lookup_table_op.h
index 69cae78b7059a7c34fd07bb34883ee34a2010297..335e4adafa89ccfd3fc2d5fd9adf57524a4cf4e4 100644
--- a/paddle/fluid/operators/lookup_table_op.h
+++ b/paddle/fluid/operators/lookup_table_op.h
@@ -23,8 +23,12 @@ limitations under the License. */
 #include "paddle/fluid/framework/selected_rows.h"
 #include "paddle/fluid/operators/math/blas.h"
 
+#ifdef PADDLE_WITH_DISTRIBUTE
+
 #include "paddle/fluid/operators/distributed/parameter_prefetch.h"
 
+#endif
+
 namespace paddle {
 namespace operators {
 
@@ -43,44 +47,64 @@ class LookupTableKernel : public framework::OpKernel<T> {
     auto *output_t = context.Output<LoDTensor>("Out");  // float tensor
     auto *table_var = context.InputVar("W");
 
-    int64_t padding_idx = context.Attr<int64_t>("padding_idx");
-    int64_t *ids = const_cast<int64_t *>(ids_t->data<int64_t>());
-    int64_t ids_numel = ids_t->numel();
-
-    if (table_var->IsType<LoDTensor>()) {
-      auto *table_t = context.Input<LoDTensor>("W");
-      int64_t row_number = table_t->dims()[0];
-      int64_t row_width = table_t->dims()[1];
-
-      auto *table = table_t->data<T>();
-      auto *output = output_t->mutable_data<T>(context.GetPlace());
-
-      for (int64_t i = 0; i < ids_numel; ++i) {
-        if (padding_idx != kNoPadding && ids[i] == padding_idx) {
-          memset(output + i * row_width, 0, row_width * sizeof(T));
-        } else {
-          PADDLE_ENFORCE_LT(ids[i], row_number);
-          PADDLE_ENFORCE_GE(ids[i], 0, "ids %d", i);
-          memcpy(output + i * row_width, table + ids[i] * row_width,
-                 row_width * sizeof(T));
+    auto id_name = context.Inputs("Ids").front();
+    auto out_name = context.Outputs("Out").front();
+    auto table_name = context.Inputs("W").front();
+    auto epmap = context.Attr<std::vector<std::string>>("epmap");
+    auto height_sections =
+        context.Attr<std::vector<int64_t>>("height_sections");
+
+    if (!epmap.empty()) {
+// if emap is not empty, then the paramter will be fetched from remote parameter
+// server
+#ifdef PADDLE_WITH_DISTRIBUTE
+      operators::distributed::prefetch(id_name, out_name, table_name, epmap,
+                                       height_sections, context);
+#else
+      PADDLE_THROW(
+          "paddle is not compiled with distribute support, can not do "
+          "parameter prefetch!");
+#endif
+    } else {
+      int64_t padding_idx = context.Attr<int64_t>("padding_idx");
+      int64_t *ids = const_cast<int64_t *>(ids_t->data<int64_t>());
+      int64_t ids_numel = ids_t->numel();
+
+      if (table_var->IsType<LoDTensor>()) {
+        auto *table_t = context.Input<LoDTensor>("W");
+        int64_t row_number = table_t->dims()[0];
+        int64_t row_width = table_t->dims()[1];
+
+        auto *table = table_t->data<T>();
+        auto *output = output_t->mutable_data<T>(context.GetPlace());
+
+        for (int64_t i = 0; i < ids_numel; ++i) {
+          if (padding_idx != kNoPadding && ids[i] == padding_idx) {
+            memset(output + i * row_width, 0, row_width * sizeof(T));
+          } else {
+            PADDLE_ENFORCE_LT(ids[i], row_number);
+            PADDLE_ENFORCE_GE(ids[i], 0, "ids %d", i);
+            memcpy(output + i * row_width, table + ids[i] * row_width,
+                   row_width * sizeof(T));
+          }
         }
-      }
-    } else if (table_var->IsType<SelectedRows>()) {
-      const auto &table_t = table_var->Get<SelectedRows>();
-      int64_t row_width = table_t.value().dims()[1];
-      const auto *table = table_t.value().data<T>();
-      auto *output = output_t->mutable_data<T>(context.GetPlace());
-
-      auto blas = math::GetBlas<platform::CPUDeviceContext, T>(context);
-      for (int64_t i = 0; i < ids_numel; ++i) {
-        if (padding_idx != kNoPadding && ids[i] == padding_idx) {
-          memset(output + i * row_width, 0, row_width * sizeof(T));
-        } else {
-          PADDLE_ENFORCE_GE(ids[i], 0);
-          auto id_index = table_t.Index(ids[i]);
-          PADDLE_ENFORCE_GE(id_index, 0, "the input key should be exists.");
-          blas.VCOPY(row_width, table + id_index * row_width,
-                     output + i * row_width);
+      } else if (table_var->IsType<SelectedRows>()) {
+        const auto &table_t = table_var->Get<SelectedRows>();
+        int64_t row_width = table_t.value().dims()[1];
+        const auto *table = table_t.value().data<T>();
+        auto *output = output_t->mutable_data<T>(context.GetPlace());
+
+        auto blas = math::GetBlas<platform::CPUDeviceContext, T>(context);
+        for (int64_t i = 0; i < ids_numel; ++i) {
+          if (padding_idx != kNoPadding && ids[i] == padding_idx) {
+            memset(output + i * row_width, 0, row_width * sizeof(T));
+          } else {
+            PADDLE_ENFORCE_GE(ids[i], 0);
+            auto id_index = table_t.Index(ids[i]);
+            PADDLE_ENFORCE_GE(id_index, 0, "the input key should be exists.");
+            blas.VCOPY(row_width, table + id_index * row_width,
+                       output + i * row_width);
+          }
         }
       }
     }