Index: mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/Vector/IR/VectorOps.h
===================================================================
--- mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/Vector/IR/VectorOps.h
+++ mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/Vector/IR/VectorOps.h
@@ -122,6 +122,10 @@
                                                bool force32BitVectorIndices,
                                                PatternBenefit benefit = 1);
 
+/// Collect a set of patterns that fold arithmetic extension on floating point
+/// into vector contract for the backends with native support.
+void populateFoldAirthExtensionPatterns(RewritePatternSet &patterns);
+
 /// Returns the integer type required for subscripts in the vector dialect.
 IntegerType getVectorSubscriptType(Builder &builder);
 
Index: mlir/lib/Dialect/Vector/Transforms/VectorTransforms.cpp
===================================================================
--- mlir/lib/Dialect/Vector/Transforms/VectorTransforms.cpp
+++ mlir/lib/Dialect/Vector/Transforms/VectorTransforms.cpp
@@ -1212,8 +1212,54 @@
   FilterConstraintType filter;
 };
 
+/// Pattern to fold arithmetic extensions on floating point data types into
+/// vector contraction operations. linalg.matmul introduces arithmetic
+/// extensions on its operands. Please mlir snippets below for more details.
+/// ```mlir
+///   "linalg.matmul"(%lhs, %rhs, %acc) ({
+///      ^bb0(%arg1: f16, %arg2: f16, %arg3: f32):
+///        %lhs_f32 = "arith.extf"(%arg1) : (f16) -> f32
+///        %rhs_f32 = "arith.extf"(%arg2) : (f16) -> f32
+///        %mul = "arith.mulf"(%lhs_f32, %rhs_f32) : (f32, f32) -> f32
+///        %acc = "arith.addf"(%arg3, %mul) : (f32, f32) -> f32
+///        "linalg.yield"(%acc) : (f32) -> ()
+///     })
+/// ```
+/// This restricts the native usage of mixed precision NVIDIA Ampere Tensor
+/// Cores, i.e, `mma.sync.*.f32.f16.f16.f32` and `mma.sync.*.f32.bf16.bf16.f32`.
+/// This pattern folds the arithmetic extensions into the vector contraction and
+/// enables the usage of native mixed precision Tensor Core instructions.
+struct FoldArithExtIntoContractionOp
+    : public OpRewritePattern<vector::ContractionOp> {
+  using OpRewritePattern::OpRewritePattern;
+
+  LogicalResult matchAndRewrite(vector::ContractionOp contractOp,
+                                PatternRewriter &rewriter) const override {
+
+    auto lhsDefOp = contractOp.getLhs().getDefiningOp<arith::ExtFOp>();
+    auto rhsDefOp = contractOp.getRhs().getDefiningOp<arith::ExtFOp>();
+
+    if (!lhsDefOp || !rhsDefOp) {
+      return rewriter.notifyMatchFailure(contractOp,
+                                         "no defining op on contract operands");
+    }
+
+    rewriter.replaceOpWithNewOp<vector::ContractionOp>(
+        contractOp, lhsDefOp->getOperand(0), rhsDefOp->getOperand(0),
+        contractOp.getAcc(), contractOp.getIndexingMapsAttr(),
+        contractOp.getIteratorTypesAttr());
+
+    return success();
+  }
+};
+
 } // namespace
 
+void mlir::vector::populateFoldAirthExtensionPatterns(
+    RewritePatternSet &patterns) {
+  patterns.add<FoldArithExtIntoContractionOp>(patterns.getContext());
+}
+
 void mlir::vector::populateVectorMaskMaterializationPatterns(
     RewritePatternSet &patterns, bool force32BitVectorIndices,
     PatternBenefit benefit) {
Index: mlir/test/Dialect/Vector/fold-arith-extf-into-vector-contract.mlir
===================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ mlir/test/Dialect/Vector/fold-arith-extf-into-vector-contract.mlir
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+// RUN: mlir-opt -split-input-file -test-fold-arith-extf-into-vector-contract-patterns %s | FileCheck %s
+
+
+// CHECK-DAG: #[[$map0:.*]] = affine_map<(d0, d1, d2) -> (d0, d2)>
+// CHECK-DAG: #[[$map1:.*]] = affine_map<(d0, d1, d2) -> (d2, d1)>
+// CHECK-DAG: #[[$map2:.*]] = affine_map<(d0, d1, d2) -> (d0, d1)>
+// CHECK-LABEL: func.func @fold_arith_extf_into_contract
+//  CHECK-SAME: (%[[ARG0:.*]]: vector<64x64xf16>, %[[ARG1:.*]]: vector<64x64xf16>, %[[ARG2:.*]]: vector<64x64xf32>)
+//  CHECK-NEXT:   %[[R:.+]] = vector.contract {indexing_maps = [#[[$map0]], #[[$map1]], #[[$map2]]],
+//  CHECK-SAME:   iterator_types = ["parallel", "parallel", "reduction"], kind = #vector.kind<add>}
+//  CHECK-SAME:   %[[ARG0]], %[[ARG1]], %[[ARG2]] : vector<64x64xf16>, vector<64x64xf16> into vector<64x64xf32>
+//  CHECK-NEXT:   return %[[R]] : vector<64x64xf32>
+func.func @fold_arith_extf_into_contract(%arg0: vector<64x64xf16>, %arg1: vector<64x64xf16>, %arg2: vector<64x64xf32>) -> vector<64x64xf32> {
+    %lhs_f32 = arith.extf %arg0 : vector<64x64xf16> to vector<64x64xf32>
+    %rhs_f32 = arith.extf %arg1 : vector<64x64xf16> to vector<64x64xf32>
+    %result = vector.contract {indexing_maps = [affine_map<(d0, d1, d2) -> (d0, d2)>, affine_map<(d0, d1, d2) -> (d2, d1)>, affine_map<(d0, d1, d2) -> (d0, d1)>], iterator_types = ["parallel", "parallel", "reduction"], kind = #vector.kind<add>} %lhs_f32, %rhs_f32, %arg2 : vector<64x64xf32>, vector<64x64xf32> into vector<64x64xf32>
+    return %result : vector<64x64xf32>
+}
Index: mlir/test/lib/Dialect/Vector/TestVectorTransforms.cpp
===================================================================
--- mlir/test/lib/Dialect/Vector/TestVectorTransforms.cpp
+++ mlir/test/lib/Dialect/Vector/TestVectorTransforms.cpp
@@ -709,6 +709,32 @@
   }
 };
 
+struct TestFoldAirthExtensionIntoVectorContractPatterns
+    : public PassWrapper<TestFoldAirthExtensionIntoVectorContractPatterns,
+                         OperationPass<func::FuncOp>> {
+  MLIR_DEFINE_EXPLICIT_INTERNAL_INLINE_TYPE_ID(
+      TestFoldAirthExtensionIntoVectorContractPatterns)
+
+  StringRef getArgument() const final {
+    return "test-fold-arith-extf-into-vector-contract-patterns";
+  }
+  StringRef getDescription() const final {
+    return "Test patterns that fold arithmetic extension ops into vector "
+           "contract ops";
+  }
+
+  void getDependentDialects(DialectRegistry &registry) const override {
+    registry.insert<arith::ArithDialect, func::FuncDialect,
+                    memref::MemRefDialect, scf::SCFDialect,
+                    tensor::TensorDialect, vector::VectorDialect>();
+  }
+
+  void runOnOperation() override {
+    RewritePatternSet patterns(&getContext());
+    populateFoldAirthExtensionPatterns(patterns);
+    (void)applyPatternsAndFoldGreedily(getOperation(), std::move(patterns));
+  }
+};
 } // namespace
 
 namespace mlir {
@@ -745,6 +771,8 @@
   PassRegistration<TestVectorGatherLowering>();
 
   PassRegistration<TestVectorTransferTensorSlicePatterns>();
+
+  PassRegistration<TestFoldAirthExtensionIntoVectorContractPatterns>();
 }
 } // namespace test
 } // namespace mlir