diff --git a/onnxruntime/core/optimizer/graph_transformer_utils.cc b/onnxruntime/core/optimizer/graph_transformer_utils.cc
index fe972c1ecf..8118775930 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/core/optimizer/graph_transformer_utils.cc
+++ b/onnxruntime/core/optimizer/graph_transformer_utils.cc
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
 #include "core/optimizer/reshape_fusion.h"
 #include "core/optimizer/attention_fusion.h"
 #include "core/mlas/inc/mlas.h"
-#include "core/session/inference_session.h"
 
 namespace onnxruntime {