diff --git a/torchrec/distributed/embedding_lookup.py b/torchrec/distributed/embedding_lookup.py
index b575a3457..1c6377ddc 100644
--- a/torchrec/distributed/embedding_lookup.py
+++ b/torchrec/distributed/embedding_lookup.py
@@ -130,6 +130,9 @@ def __init__(
         def _create_lookup(
             config: GroupedEmbeddingConfig,
         ) -> BaseEmbedding:
+            for table in config.embedding_tables:
+                if table.compute_kernel == EmbeddingComputeKernel.FUSED_UVM_CACHING:
+                    self._need_prefetch = True
             if config.compute_kernel == EmbeddingComputeKernel.DENSE:
                 return BatchedDenseEmbedding(
                     config=config,
@@ -149,6 +152,7 @@ def _create_lookup(
 
         super().__init__()
         self._emb_modules: nn.ModuleList = nn.ModuleList()
+        self._need_prefetch: bool = False
         for config in grouped_configs:
             self._emb_modules.append(_create_lookup(config))
 
@@ -169,6 +173,34 @@ def _create_lookup(
 
         self.grouped_configs = grouped_configs
 
+    def prefetch(
+        self,
+        sparse_features: KeyedJaggedTensor,
+        forward_stream: Optional[torch.cuda.Stream] = None,
+    ) -> None:
+        if not self._need_prefetch:
+            return
+        if len(self._emb_modules) > 0:
+            assert sparse_features is not None
+            features_by_group = sparse_features.split(
+                self._feature_splits,
+            )
+            for emb_op, features in zip(self._emb_modules, features_by_group):
+                if (
+                    isinstance(emb_op.emb_module, SplitTableBatchedEmbeddingBagsCodegen)
+                    and not emb_op.emb_module.prefetch_pipeline
+                ):
+                    logging.error(
+                        "Invalid setting on SplitTableBatchedEmbeddingBagsCodegen modules. prefetch_pipeline must be set to True.\n"
+                        "If you don’t turn on prefetch_pipeline, cache locations might be wrong in backward and can cause wrong results.\n"
+                    )
+                if hasattr(emb_op.emb_module, "prefetch"):
+                    emb_op.emb_module.prefetch(
+                        indices=features.values(),
+                        offsets=features.offsets(),
+                        forward_stream=forward_stream,
+                    )
+
     def forward(
         self,
         sparse_features: KeyedJaggedTensor,