diff --git a/examples/images/vit/configs/vit_1d_tp2_ci.py b/examples/images/vit/configs/vit_1d_tp2_ci.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e491e4ada
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/images/vit/configs/vit_1d_tp2_ci.py
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+from colossalai.amp import AMP_TYPE
+
+# hyperparameters
+# BATCH_SIZE is as per GPU
+# global batch size = BATCH_SIZE x data parallel size
+BATCH_SIZE = 8
+LEARNING_RATE = 3e-3
+WEIGHT_DECAY = 0.3
+NUM_EPOCHS = 3
+WARMUP_EPOCHS = 1
+
+# model config
+IMG_SIZE = 224
+PATCH_SIZE = 16
+HIDDEN_SIZE = 32
+DEPTH = 2
+NUM_HEADS = 4
+MLP_RATIO = 4
+NUM_CLASSES = 10
+CHECKPOINT = False
+SEQ_LENGTH = (IMG_SIZE // PATCH_SIZE)**2 + 1    # add 1 for cls token
+
+USE_DDP = True
+TP_WORLD_SIZE = 2
+TP_TYPE = 'row'
+parallel = dict(tensor=dict(mode="1d", size=TP_WORLD_SIZE),)
+
+fp16 = dict(mode=AMP_TYPE.NAIVE)
+clip_grad_norm = 1.0
+gradient_accumulation = 2
+
+LOG_PATH = "./log_ci"
diff --git a/examples/images/vit/requirements.txt b/examples/images/vit/requirements.txt
index 137a69e80..1f69794eb 100644
--- a/examples/images/vit/requirements.txt
+++ b/examples/images/vit/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,8 @@
 colossalai >= 0.1.12
 torch >= 1.8.1
+numpy>=1.24.1
+timm>=0.6.12
+titans>=0.0.7
+tqdm>=4.61.2
+transformers>=4.25.1
+nvidia-dali-cuda110>=1.8.0 --extra-index-url https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/redist
diff --git a/examples/images/vit/test_ci.sh b/examples/images/vit/test_ci.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..41d25ee23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/images/vit/test_ci.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+export OMP_NUM_THREADS=4
+
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+# train
+colossalai run \
+--nproc_per_node 4 train.py \
+--config configs/vit_1d_tp2_ci.py \
+--dummy_data
diff --git a/examples/images/vit/train.py b/examples/images/vit/train.py
index de39801c7..0b4489244 100644
--- a/examples/images/vit/train.py
+++ b/examples/images/vit/train.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import torch.nn.functional as F
 from timm.models.vision_transformer import _create_vision_transformer
 from titans.dataloader.imagenet import build_dali_imagenet
 from tqdm import tqdm
+from vit import DummyDataLoader
 
 import colossalai
 from colossalai.core import global_context as gpc
@@ -56,8 +57,8 @@ def init_spec_func(model, tp_type):
 def train_imagenet():
 
     parser = colossalai.get_default_parser()
-    parser.add_argument('--from_torch', default=True, action='store_true')
-    parser.add_argument('--resume_from', default=False)
+    parser.add_argument('--resume_from', default=False, action='store_true')
+    parser.add_argument('--dummy_data', default=False, action='store_true')
 
     args = parser.parse_args()
     colossalai.launch_from_torch(config=args.config)
@@ -74,10 +75,22 @@ def train_imagenet():
             logger.log_to_file(log_path)
 
     logger.info('Build data loader', ranks=[0])
-    root = os.environ['DATA']
-    train_dataloader, test_dataloader = build_dali_imagenet(root,
-                                                            train_batch_size=gpc.config.BATCH_SIZE,
-                                                            test_batch_size=gpc.config.BATCH_SIZE)
+    if not args.dummy_data:
+        root = os.environ['DATA']
+        train_dataloader, test_dataloader = build_dali_imagenet(root,
+                                                                train_batch_size=gpc.config.BATCH_SIZE,
+                                                                test_batch_size=gpc.config.BATCH_SIZE)
+    else:
+        train_dataloader = DummyDataLoader(length=10,
+                                           batch_size=gpc.config.BATCH_SIZE,
+                                           category=gpc.config.NUM_CLASSES,
+                                           image_size=gpc.config.IMG_SIZE,
+                                           return_dict=False)
+        test_dataloader = DummyDataLoader(length=5,
+                                          batch_size=gpc.config.BATCH_SIZE,
+                                          category=gpc.config.NUM_CLASSES,
+                                          image_size=gpc.config.IMG_SIZE,
+                                          return_dict=False)
 
     logger.info('Build model', ranks=[0])
 
diff --git a/examples/images/vit/vit.py b/examples/images/vit/vit.py
index 14c870b39..f22e8ea90 100644
--- a/examples/images/vit/vit.py
+++ b/examples/images/vit/vit.py
@@ -32,21 +32,24 @@ class DummyDataGenerator(ABC):
 
 
 class DummyDataLoader(DummyDataGenerator):
-    batch_size = 4
-    channel = 3
-    category = 8
-    image_size = 224
+
+    def __init__(self, length=10, batch_size=4, channel=3, category=8, image_size=224, return_dict=True):
+        super().__init__(length)
+        self.batch_size = batch_size
+        self.channel = channel
+        self.category = category
+        self.image_size = image_size
+        self.return_dict = return_dict
 
     def generate(self):
         image_dict = {}
-        image_dict['pixel_values'] = torch.rand(DummyDataLoader.batch_size,
-                                                DummyDataLoader.channel,
-                                                DummyDataLoader.image_size,
-                                                DummyDataLoader.image_size,
-                                                device=get_current_device()) * 2 - 1
-        image_dict['label'] = torch.randint(DummyDataLoader.category, (DummyDataLoader.batch_size,),
+        image_dict['pixel_values'] = torch.rand(
+            self.batch_size, self.channel, self.image_size, self.image_size, device=get_current_device()) * 2 - 1
+        image_dict['label'] = torch.randint(self.category, (self.batch_size,),
                                             dtype=torch.int64,
                                             device=get_current_device())
+        if not self.return_dict:
+            return image_dict['pixel_values'], image_dict['label']
         return image_dict