diff --git a/eng/Versions.props b/eng/Versions.props
index 3afb44aab2..05f6762584 100644
--- a/eng/Versions.props
+++ b/eng/Versions.props
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
     <MicrosoftCodeAnalysisAnalyzersVersion>3.3.0</MicrosoftCodeAnalysisAnalyzersVersion>
     <MicrosoftCodeAnalysisCSharpVersion>3.9.0</MicrosoftCodeAnalysisCSharpVersion>
     <MicrosoftDotNetInteractiveVersion>1.0.0-beta.23509.3</MicrosoftDotNetInteractiveVersion>
-    <MicrosoftMLOnnxRuntimeVersion>1.14.0</MicrosoftMLOnnxRuntimeVersion>
+    <MicrosoftMLOnnxRuntimeVersion>1.16.3</MicrosoftMLOnnxRuntimeVersion>
     <MlNetMklDepsVersion>0.0.0.12</MlNetMklDepsVersion>
     <!--  
 @("inteltbb.devel", "win", "2021.7.1.15305")
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.ML.OnnxTransformer/OnnxUtils.cs b/src/Microsoft.ML.OnnxTransformer/OnnxUtils.cs
index 154a3eeb6c..68d9290676 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.ML.OnnxTransformer/OnnxUtils.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.ML.OnnxTransformer/OnnxUtils.cs
@@ -299,7 +299,11 @@ private List<OnnxVariableInfo> GetOnnxVariablesFromMetadata(IReadOnlyDictionary<
                 else
                 {
                     // No user-specified shape is found, so the shape loaded from ONNX model file is used.
-                    info = new OnnxVariableInfo(name, meta.Dimensions.ToList(), meta.ElementType, dataViewType, caster);
+                    // If its not a tensor then its a Sequence or Map, dimensions should be null and type is always NamedOnnxValue.
+                    if (!meta.IsTensor)
+                        info = new OnnxVariableInfo(name, null, typeof(NamedOnnxValue), dataViewType, caster);
+                    else
+                        info = new OnnxVariableInfo(name, meta.Dimensions.ToList(), meta.ElementType, dataViewType, caster);
                 }
 
                 onnxVariableInfos.Add(info);
diff --git a/test/Microsoft.ML.AutoML.Tests/Microsoft.ML.AutoML.Tests.csproj b/test/Microsoft.ML.AutoML.Tests/Microsoft.ML.AutoML.Tests.csproj
index dff9aea4b5..1f5aecb7b0 100644
--- a/test/Microsoft.ML.AutoML.Tests/Microsoft.ML.AutoML.Tests.csproj
+++ b/test/Microsoft.ML.AutoML.Tests/Microsoft.ML.AutoML.Tests.csproj
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
     <PackageReference Include="FluentAssertions" Version="$(FluentAssertionVersion)" />
     <PackageReference Include="SciSharp.TensorFlow.Redist" Version="$(TensorFlowVersion)" />
     <PackageReference Include="System.Text.Json" Version="$(SystemTextJsonVersion)" />
+    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime" Version="$(MicrosoftMLOnnxRuntimeVersion)" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>