diff --git a/backends/cadence/aot/remove_ops.py b/backends/cadence/aot/remove_ops.py
index d2251bd9c08..038a2192079 100644
--- a/backends/cadence/aot/remove_ops.py
+++ b/backends/cadence/aot/remove_ops.py
@@ -561,6 +561,7 @@ class Subgraph:
         exir_ops.edge.aten.mul.Tensor,
         exir_ops.edge.aten.mean.dim,
         exir_ops.edge.aten.cat.default,
+        exir_ops.edge.aten.hardtanh.default,
         exir_ops.edge.quantized_decomposed.quantize_per_tensor.default,
         exir_ops.edge.quantized_decomposed.dequantize_per_tensor.default,
     }