diff --git a/cpp/src/neighbors/ivf_pq/ivf_pq_build.cuh b/cpp/src/neighbors/ivf_pq/ivf_pq_build.cuh
index 50f9564ca5..c562ca9e00 100644
--- a/cpp/src/neighbors/ivf_pq/ivf_pq_build.cuh
+++ b/cpp/src/neighbors/ivf_pq/ivf_pq_build.cuh
@@ -67,6 +67,14 @@ using namespace cuvs::spatial::knn::detail;  // NOLINT
 
 using internal_extents_t = int64_t;  // The default mdspan extent type used internally.
 
+inline cuvs::distance::DistanceType coarse_clustering_metric(
+  cuvs::distance::DistanceType metric) noexcept
+{
+  return metric == cuvs::distance::DistanceType::InnerProduct
+           ? cuvs::distance::DistanceType::L2Expanded
+           : metric;
+}
+
 /**
  * @brief Compute residual vectors from the source dataset given by selected indices.
  *
@@ -1112,7 +1120,7 @@ void extend(raft::resources const& handle,
       auto centers_view = raft::make_device_matrix_view<const float, internal_extents_t>(
         cluster_centers.data(), n_clusters, index->dim());
       cuvs::cluster::kmeans::balanced_params kmeans_params;
-      kmeans_params.metric = index->metric();
+      kmeans_params.metric = coarse_clustering_metric(index->metric());
       cuvs::cluster::kmeans::predict(
         handle, kmeans_params, batch_data_view, centers_view, batch_labels_view);
       vec_batches.prefetch_next_batch();
@@ -1323,7 +1331,7 @@ auto build(raft::resources const& handle,
       cluster_centers, impl->n_lists(), impl->dim());
     cuvs::cluster::kmeans::balanced_params kmeans_params;
     kmeans_params.n_iters = params.kmeans_n_iters;
-    kmeans_params.metric  = static_cast<cuvs::distance::DistanceType>((int)impl->metric());
+    kmeans_params.metric  = coarse_clustering_metric(impl->metric());
 
     if (impl->metric() == distance::DistanceType::CosineExpanded) {
       raft::linalg::row_normalize<raft::linalg::L2Norm>(
diff --git a/cpp/src/neighbors/ivf_pq/ivf_pq_transform.cuh b/cpp/src/neighbors/ivf_pq/ivf_pq_transform.cuh
index b5ea8afab4..e0032a4ac5 100644
--- a/cpp/src/neighbors/ivf_pq/ivf_pq_transform.cuh
+++ b/cpp/src/neighbors/ivf_pq/ivf_pq_transform.cuh
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ void transform_batch(raft::resources const& res,
 
   // Compute the labels for each vector
   cuvs::cluster::kmeans::balanced_params kmeans_params;
-  kmeans_params.metric = index.metric();
+  kmeans_params.metric = coarse_clustering_metric(index.metric());
 
   cuvs::cluster::kmeans_balanced::predict(
     res, kmeans_params, dataset, cluster_centers, output_labels, utils::mapping<float>{});