diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/SparseTensor/Pipelines/SparseTensorPipelines.cpp b/mlir/lib/Dialect/SparseTensor/Pipelines/SparseTensorPipelines.cpp
index e58503d508ce..ab4d90ec745d 100644
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/SparseTensor/Pipelines/SparseTensorPipelines.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/SparseTensor/Pipelines/SparseTensorPipelines.cpp
@@ -31,8 +31,9 @@
 
 void mlir::sparse_tensor::buildSparsifier(OpPassManager &pm,
                                           const SparsifierOptions &options) {
-  // Rewrite named linalg ops into generic ops.
+  // Rewrite named linalg ops into generic ops and apply fusion.
   pm.addNestedPass<func::FuncOp>(createLinalgGeneralizeNamedOpsPass());
+  pm.addNestedPass<func::FuncOp>(createLinalgElementwiseOpFusionPass());
 
   // Sparsification and bufferization mini-pipeline.
   pm.addPass(createSparsificationAndBufferizationPass(