diff --git a/onnxruntime/core/providers/vitisai/imp/graph.cc b/onnxruntime/core/providers/vitisai/imp/graph.cc
index 4d6ad9c397fc3..028ee7fa8c5ce 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/core/providers/vitisai/imp/graph.cc
+++ b/onnxruntime/core/providers/vitisai/imp/graph.cc
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 
 #include "vaip/node.h"
 #include "vaip/node_arg.h"
-
+#include "./tensor_proto.h"
 namespace vaip {
 
 struct NodeEdgeT {
@@ -309,7 +309,14 @@ Model* model_clone(const Model& original_model, int64_t external_data_threshold)
       cloned_tensor->add_dims(dim);
       size = size * dim;
     }
-    if (size >= external_data_threshold) {
+    auto ORT_MEM_ADDR_tag = process_ext_address(*original_tensor);
+    if (!ORT_MEM_ADDR_tag.empty()) {
+      cloned_tensor->set_data_location(ONNX_NAMESPACE::TensorProto_DataLocation_EXTERNAL);
+      auto external_data = cloned_tensor->mutable_external_data();
+      auto p = external_data->Add();
+      *p->mutable_key() = "location";
+      *p->mutable_value() = std::string("<") + graph_ptr;
+    } else if (size >= external_data_threshold) {
       cloned_tensor->set_data_location(ONNX_NAMESPACE::TensorProto_DataLocation_EXTERNAL);
       auto external_data = cloned_tensor->mutable_external_data();
       auto p = external_data->Add();
diff --git a/onnxruntime/core/providers/vitisai/imp/tensor_proto.cc b/onnxruntime/core/providers/vitisai/imp/tensor_proto.cc
index bb942c69003a1..2f1478bf1326b 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/core/providers/vitisai/imp/tensor_proto.cc
+++ b/onnxruntime/core/providers/vitisai/imp/tensor_proto.cc
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 namespace vaip {
 using namespace onnxruntime;
 
-static gsl::span<const char> process_ext_address(const ONNX_NAMESPACE::TensorProto& tensor) {
+gsl::span<const char> process_ext_address(const ONNX_NAMESPACE::TensorProto& tensor) {
   auto tensor_proto = const_cast<ONNX_NAMESPACE::TensorProto*>(&tensor);
   auto file = std::string();
   uintptr_t offset = 0;
diff --git a/onnxruntime/core/providers/vitisai/imp/tensor_proto.h b/onnxruntime/core/providers/vitisai/imp/tensor_proto.h
index 73015d3411a54..a7c90ac18b44e 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/core/providers/vitisai/imp/tensor_proto.h
+++ b/onnxruntime/core/providers/vitisai/imp/tensor_proto.h
@@ -37,4 +37,5 @@ ONNX_NAMESPACE::TensorProto* tensor_proto_new_fp16(const std::string& name, cons
                                                    const std::vector<int16_t>& data);
 ONNX_NAMESPACE::TensorProto* tensor_proto_new_doubles(const std::string& name, const std::vector<int64_t>& shape,
                                                       const std::vector<double>& data);
+gsl::span<const char> process_ext_address(const ONNX_NAMESPACE::TensorProto& tensor);
 }  // namespace vaip