diff --git a/cpp/include/raft/sparse/distance/bin_distance.cuh b/cpp/include/raft/sparse/distance/bin_distance.cuh
index ef605e1fe0..ae5cbdf9d3 100644
--- a/cpp/include/raft/sparse/distance/bin_distance.cuh
+++ b/cpp/include/raft/sparse/distance/bin_distance.cuh
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ class jaccard_expanded_distances_t : public distances_t<value_t> {
 
 /**
  * Dice distance using the expanded form:
- * 1 - ((2 * sum(x_k * y_k)) / (sum(x_k)^2 + sum(y_k)^2))
+ * 1 - ((2 * sum(x_k * y_k)) / (sum(x_k) + sum(y_k)))
  */
 template <typename value_idx = int, typename value_t = float>
 class dice_expanded_distances_t : public distances_t<value_t> {
@@ -183,8 +183,10 @@ class dice_expanded_distances_t : public distances_t<value_t> {
       b_indices, b_data, config_->b_nnz, config_->a_nrows, config_->b_nrows,
       config_->handle, config_->allocator, config_->stream,
       [] __device__ __host__(value_t dot, value_t q_norm, value_t r_norm) {
-        value_t q_r_union = (q_norm * q_norm) + (r_norm * r_norm);
-        return (2 * dot) / q_r_union;
+        value_t q_r_union = q_norm + r_norm;
+        value_t dice = (2 * dot) / q_r_union;
+        bool both_empty = q_r_union == 0;
+        return 1 - ((!both_empty * dice) + both_empty);
       });
   }
 
diff --git a/cpp/include/raft/sparse/distance/distance.cuh b/cpp/include/raft/sparse/distance/distance.cuh
index c6ec40cb03..0cd0be11be 100644
--- a/cpp/include/raft/sparse/distance/distance.cuh
+++ b/cpp/include/raft/sparse/distance/distance.cuh
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ void pairwiseDistance(value_t *out,
       break;
     case raft::distance::DistanceType::DiceExpanded:
       dice_expanded_distances_t<value_idx, value_t>(input_config).compute(out);
+      break;
 
     default:
       THROW("Unsupported distance: %d", metric);