diff --git a/cpp/include/cudf/detail/utilities/element_argminmax.cuh b/cpp/include/cudf/detail/utilities/element_argminmax.cuh
index 45b56278dba8..e6f2e79fc2e5 100644
--- a/cpp/include/cudf/detail/utilities/element_argminmax.cuh
+++ b/cpp/include/cudf/detail/utilities/element_argminmax.cuh
@@ -37,7 +37,9 @@ struct element_argminmax_fn {
   bool const has_nulls;
   bool const arg_min;
 
-  __device__ inline auto operator()(size_type const& lhs_idx, size_type const& rhs_idx) const
+  // The noinline attribute is due to the aggressive inlining of thrust::reduce_by_key
+  // resulting in very high compile times.
+  __noinline__ __device__ auto operator()(size_type const& lhs_idx, size_type const& rhs_idx) const
   {
     // The extra bounds checking is due to issue github.com/rapidsai/cudf/9156 and
     // github.com/NVIDIA/thrust/issues/1525