diff --git a/frontend/src/api/k8s/inferenceServices.ts b/frontend/src/api/k8s/inferenceServices.ts
index fded27ccbc..3fbff23997 100644
--- a/frontend/src/api/k8s/inferenceServices.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/api/k8s/inferenceServices.ts
@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ export const assembleInferenceService = (
   const dataConnectionKey = secretKey || dataConnection;
 
   const nonEmptyArgs = servingRuntimeArgs?.filter(Boolean) || [];
+  // If we have nonEmptyArgs, ensure that we properly handle separating args
+  let splitArgs: string[] = [];
+  if (nonEmptyArgs.length > 0) {
+    for (let i = 0; i < nonEmptyArgs.length; i++) {
+      splitArgs = splitArgs.concat(parseCommandLine(nonEmptyArgs[i]));
+    }
+  }
   const nonEmptyEnvVars = servingRuntimeEnvVars?.filter((ev) => ev.name) || [];
 
   const updateInferenceService: InferenceServiceKind = inferenceService
@@ -87,7 +94,7 @@ export const assembleInferenceService = (
                       path,
                     },
                   }),
-              args: nonEmptyArgs,
+              args: splitArgs,
               env: nonEmptyEnvVars,
             },
           },
@@ -135,7 +142,7 @@ export const assembleInferenceService = (
                       path,
                     },
                   }),
-              args: nonEmptyArgs,
+              args: splitArgs,
               env: nonEmptyEnvVars,
             },
           },
@@ -325,3 +332,25 @@ export const deleteInferenceService = (
       opts,
     ),
   );
+
+
+function parseCommandLine(input: string): string[] {
+  const args: string[] = [];
+  const regex = /(?:[^\s"']+|"[^"]*"|'[^']*')+/g;
+  let match: RegExpExecArray | null;
+
+  while ((match = regex.exec(input)) !== null) {
+    let arg: string = match[0];
+
+    // Remove surrounding quotes if any
+    if (arg.startsWith('"') && arg.endsWith('"')) {
+      arg = arg.slice(1, -1).replace(/\\"/g, '"'); // Unescape double quotes
+    } else if (arg.startsWith("'") && arg.endsWith("'")) {
+      arg = arg.slice(1, -1); // Remove single quotes
+    }
+
+    args.push(arg);
+  }
+
+  return args;
+}
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