diff --git a/lib/Dialect/TensorAlgebra/Transforms/TCtoTTGT.cpp b/lib/Dialect/TensorAlgebra/Transforms/TCtoTTGT.cpp
index c383d1cd..1b4072c1 100644
--- a/lib/Dialect/TensorAlgebra/Transforms/TCtoTTGT.cpp
+++ b/lib/Dialect/TensorAlgebra/Transforms/TCtoTTGT.cpp
@@ -421,8 +421,11 @@ namespace
             MemRefType::get(lhsDims, lhsMemrefType.getElementType()), loc,
             rewriter);
         useLHSTranspose = true;
+        Value constantOp = rewriter.create<ConstantOp>(loc, rewriter.getF64FloatAttr(0.0));
+
+        rewriter.create<linalg::FillOp>(loc, constantOp, lhsAlloc);
         // TODO(gkestor): we might need this copy if we support update C[] += A[] * B[]
-        rewriter.create<linalg::TransposeOp>(loc, lhsMemref, lhsAlloc, llvm::ArrayRef<int64_t>(lhsOutPerm_int64));
+        // rewriter.create<linalg::TransposeOp>(loc, lhsMemref, lhsAlloc, llvm::ArrayRef<int64_t>(lhsOutPerm_int64));
       }
 
       RankedTensorType collapsedTensorType;