diff --git a/distiller/quantization/range_linear.py b/distiller/quantization/range_linear.py
index e161f7f0849f3f265ca1c0e52592d40e9ea103b6..58b4a187d7afa1ab305599d14d94769d8492ac50 100644
--- a/distiller/quantization/range_linear.py
+++ b/distiller/quantization/range_linear.py
@@ -1407,6 +1407,10 @@ class NCFQuantAwareTrainQuantizer(QuantAwareTrainRangeLinearQuantizer):
                                                           per_channel_wts=per_channel_wts,
                                                           quantize_inputs=False)
 
+        # Remove 'quantize_inputs' from the metadata dict since this quantizer hard-codes it and doesn't
+        # actually take it as an argument
+        self.model.quantizer_metadata['params'].pop('quantize_inputs')
+
         self.replacement_factory[distiller.modules.EltwiseMult] = self.activation_replace_fn
         self.replacement_factory[distiller.modules.Concat] = self.activation_replace_fn
         self.replacement_factory[nn.Linear] = self.activation_replace_fn