diff --git a/cpp/src/metrics/pairwise_distance.cu b/cpp/src/metrics/pairwise_distance.cu
index 1928091c33..7a05e9b63d 100644
--- a/cpp/src/metrics/pairwise_distance.cu
+++ b/cpp/src/metrics/pairwise_distance.cu
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2019-2022, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
+ * Copyright (c) 2019-2023, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
 #include <raft/core/handle.hpp>
 #include <raft/distance/distance.cuh>
 #include <raft/distance/specializations.cuh>
-#include <raft/sparse/distance/common.h>
 #include <raft/sparse/distance/distance.cuh>
 
 namespace ML {
@@ -164,23 +163,18 @@ void pairwiseDistance_sparse(const raft::handle_t& handle,
                              raft::distance::DistanceType metric,
                              float metric_arg)
 {
-  raft::sparse::distance::distances_config_t<value_idx, value_t> dist_config(handle);
+  auto out = raft::make_device_matrix_view<value_t, value_idx>(dist, y_nrows, x_nrows);
 
-  dist_config.b_nrows   = x_nrows;
-  dist_config.b_ncols   = n_cols;
-  dist_config.b_nnz     = x_nnz;
-  dist_config.b_indptr  = x_indptr;
-  dist_config.b_indices = x_indices;
-  dist_config.b_data    = x;
+  auto x_structure = raft::make_device_compressed_structure_view<value_idx, value_idx, value_idx>(
+    x_indptr, x_indices, x_nrows, n_cols, x_nnz);
+  auto x_csr_view = raft::make_device_csr_matrix_view<const value_t>(x, x_structure);
 
-  dist_config.a_nrows   = y_nrows;
-  dist_config.a_ncols   = n_cols;
-  dist_config.a_nnz     = y_nnz;
-  dist_config.a_indptr  = y_indptr;
-  dist_config.a_indices = y_indices;
-  dist_config.a_data    = y;
+  auto y_structure = raft::make_device_compressed_structure_view<value_idx, value_idx, value_idx>(
+    y_indptr, y_indices, y_nrows, n_cols, y_nnz);
+  auto y_csr_view = raft::make_device_csr_matrix_view<const value_t>(y, y_structure);
 
-  raft::sparse::distance::pairwiseDistance(dist, dist_config, metric, metric_arg);
+  raft::sparse::distance::pairwise_distance(
+    handle, y_csr_view, x_csr_view, out, metric, metric_arg);
 }
 
 void pairwiseDistance_sparse(const raft::handle_t& handle,