diff --git a/frontend/src/api/k8s/inferenceServices.ts b/frontend/src/api/k8s/inferenceServices.ts
index fded27ccbc..0a5c4a8ca4 100644
--- a/frontend/src/api/k8s/inferenceServices.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/api/k8s/inferenceServices.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import { ContainerResources } from '~/types';
 import { AcceleratorProfileFormData } from '~/utilities/useAcceleratorProfileFormState';
 import { AcceleratorProfileState } from '~/utilities/useReadAcceleratorState';
 import { getModelServingProjects } from './projects';
-import { assemblePodSpecOptions } from './utils';
+import { assemblePodSpecOptions, parseCommandLine } from './utils';
 
 export const assembleInferenceService = (
   data: CreatingInferenceServiceObject,
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ export const assembleInferenceService = (
   const dataConnectionKey = secretKey || dataConnection;
 
   const nonEmptyArgs = servingRuntimeArgs?.filter(Boolean) || [];
+  // Ensure that we properly handle separating args
+  const splitArgs: string[] = nonEmptyArgs.flatMap(parseCommandLine);
   const nonEmptyEnvVars = servingRuntimeEnvVars?.filter((ev) => ev.name) || [];
 
   const updateInferenceService: InferenceServiceKind = inferenceService
@@ -87,7 +89,7 @@ export const assembleInferenceService = (
                       path,
                     },
                   }),
-              args: nonEmptyArgs,
+              args: splitArgs,
               env: nonEmptyEnvVars,
             },
           },
@@ -135,7 +137,7 @@ export const assembleInferenceService = (
                       path,
                     },
                   }),
-              args: nonEmptyArgs,
+              args: splitArgs,
               env: nonEmptyEnvVars,
             },
           },
diff --git a/frontend/src/api/k8s/utils.ts b/frontend/src/api/k8s/utils.ts
index 2399f3eca8..caec06914d 100644
--- a/frontend/src/api/k8s/utils.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/api/k8s/utils.ts
@@ -74,3 +74,24 @@ export const getshmVolume = (sizeLimit?: string): Volume => ({
   name: 'shm',
   emptyDir: { medium: 'Memory', ...(sizeLimit && { sizeLimit }) },
 });
+
+export const parseCommandLine = (input: string): string[] => {
+  const args: string[] = [];
+  const regex = /(?:[^\s"']+|"[^"]*"|'[^']*')+/g;
+  let match: RegExpExecArray | null;
+
+  while ((match = regex.exec(input)) !== null) {
+    let arg: string = match[0];
+
+    // Remove surrounding quotes if any
+    if (arg.startsWith('"') && arg.endsWith('"')) {
+      arg = arg.slice(1, -1).replace(/\\"/g, '"'); // Unescape double quotes
+    } else if (arg.startsWith("'") && arg.endsWith("'")) {
+      arg = arg.slice(1, -1); // Remove single quotes
+    }
+
+    args.push(arg);
+  }
+
+  return args;
+};