diff --git a/backends/vulkan/runtime/gen_vulkan_spv.py b/backends/vulkan/runtime/gen_vulkan_spv.py
index 39d023e7658..2ac7bb98608 100644
--- a/backends/vulkan/runtime/gen_vulkan_spv.py
+++ b/backends/vulkan/runtime/gen_vulkan_spv.py
@@ -721,6 +721,7 @@ def maybe_replace_u16vecn(self, input_text: str) -> str:
             return input_text
 
         input_text = input_text.replace("u16vec", "ivec")
+        input_text = input_text.replace("uint16_t", "int")
         return input_text
 
     def generateSPV(self, output_dir: str) -> Dict[str, str]: