diff --git a/ppcls/arch/backbone/legendary_models/swin_transformer.py b/ppcls/arch/backbone/legendary_models/swin_transformer.py
index a1c0906dcd60af898103f65bf409b9869063f561..412d76ba82c23f313c144d6cf22f16a68298a9f1 100644
--- a/ppcls/arch/backbone/legendary_models/swin_transformer.py
+++ b/ppcls/arch/backbone/legendary_models/swin_transformer.py
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ MODEL_URLS = {
 
 __all__ = list(MODEL_URLS.keys())
 
+# The following re-implementation of roll is inspired by
+# https://gitee.com/ascend/pytorch/blob/master/torch_npu/contrib/function/roll.py
+
 class RollWithIndexSelect(paddle.autograd.PyLayer):
     @staticmethod
     def forward(ctx, input1, index_fp, index_bp):
@@ -62,6 +65,7 @@ class RollWithIndexSelect(paddle.autograd.PyLayer):
 roll_with_index_select = RollWithIndexSelect.apply
 
 def get_roll_index(H, W, shifts, place):
+    # following tensors will be created on cpu place with npu custom device
     index = paddle.arange(0, H * W, dtype='int64').reshape([H, W]) # cpu
     index_fp = paddle.roll(index, shifts=shifts, axis=(0, 1)).reshape([-1]) # cpu
     index_bp = {i:idx for idx, i in enumerate(index_fp.numpy().tolist())}
@@ -85,7 +89,14 @@ class NpuRollWithIndexSelect():
         index_fp, index_bp = self.index_dict[key]
         return roll_with_index_select(x, index_fp, index_bp)
 
-roll = NpuRollWithIndexSelect() if 'npu' in paddle.device.get_all_custom_device_type() else paddle.roll
+roll = None
+
+def _lazy_init_roll(x):
+    global roll
+    if 'npu' in paddle.device.get_all_custom_device_type() and hasattr(x, '_place_str') and 'npu' in x._place_str:
+        roll = NpuRollWithIndexSelect()
+    else:
+        roll = paddle.roll
 
 class Mlp(nn.Layer):
     def __init__(self,
@@ -400,6 +411,9 @@ class SwinTransformerBlock(nn.Layer):
 
         # cyclic shift
         if self.shift_size > 0:
+            if roll is None:
+                _lazy_init_roll(x)
+
             shifted_x = roll(
                 x, shifts=(-self.shift_size, -self.shift_size), axis=(1, 2))
         else:
@@ -424,6 +438,9 @@ class SwinTransformerBlock(nn.Layer):
 
         # reverse cyclic shift
         if self.shift_size > 0:
+            if roll is None:
+                _lazy_init_roll(shifted_x)
+
             x = roll(
                 shifted_x,
                 shifts=(self.shift_size, self.shift_size),