diff --git a/.readthedocs.yml b/.readthedocs.yml
index b5a35d92e..9ff9f6352 100644
--- a/.readthedocs.yml
+++ b/.readthedocs.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ build:
   tools:
     python: "3.12"
   apt_packages:
-    - openslide-tools
     - libopenjp2-7-dev
     - libopenjp2-tools
 
@@ -22,5 +21,7 @@ sphinx:
 # Optionally set the version of Python and requirements required to build your docs
 python:
   install:
-      - requirements: requirements/requirements.txt
+      # Install PyTorch CPU version first
+      - requirements: requirements/requirements_cpu.txt
       - requirements: docs/requirements.txt
+      - requirements: requirements/requirements.txt
diff --git a/requirements/requirements.txt b/requirements/requirements.txt
index 25eba7000..5a00e4d9c 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# torch installation
---extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu126; sys_platform != "darwin"
 aiohttp>=3.8.1
 albumentations>=1.3.0
 bokeh>=3.1.1, <3.6.0
diff --git a/requirements/requirements_cpu.txt b/requirements/requirements_cpu.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c4aa73ecf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements/requirements_cpu.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+--index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
+torch
+torchvision