diff --git a/cpp/include/raft/sparse/linalg/degree.cuh b/cpp/include/raft/sparse/linalg/degree.cuh
index 9ce7321de0..dde811ee2d 100644
--- a/cpp/include/raft/sparse/linalg/degree.cuh
+++ b/cpp/include/raft/sparse/linalg/degree.cuh
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ template <typename T, typename nnz_type, typename outT>
 void coo_degree_scalar(
   const int* rows, const T* vals, nnz_type nnz, T scalar, outT* results, cudaStream_t stream = 0)
 {
-  detail::coo_degree_scalar<64>(rows, vals, (uint64_t)nnz, scalar, results, stream);
+  detail::coo_degree_scalar<64>(rows, vals, nnz, scalar, results, stream);
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/cpp/include/raft/sparse/linalg/detail/symmetrize.cuh b/cpp/include/raft/sparse/linalg/detail/symmetrize.cuh
index 0fb3b53962..b248de855d 100644
--- a/cpp/include/raft/sparse/linalg/detail/symmetrize.cuh
+++ b/cpp/include/raft/sparse/linalg/detail/symmetrize.cuh
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ RAFT_KERNEL coo_symmetrize_kernel(nnz_t* row_ind,
       // Note that if we did find a match, we don't need to
       // compute `res` on it here because it will be computed
       // in a different thread.
-      if (!found_match && cur_val != 0.0) {
+      if (!found_match && vals[idx] != 0.0) {
         orows[out_start_idx + row_nnz] = cur_col;
         ocols[out_start_idx + row_nnz] = cur_row;
         ovals[out_start_idx + row_nnz] = res;