diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/columnar/InMemoryRelation.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/columnar/InMemoryRelation.scala
index c016fd52b611..14a4ac395c53 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/columnar/InMemoryRelation.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/columnar/InMemoryRelation.scala
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ case class InMemoryRelation(
   }
 
   override def doCanonicalize(): logical.LogicalPlan =
-    copy(output = output.map(QueryPlan.normalizeExpressions(_, cachedPlan.output)),
+    copy(output = output.map(QueryPlan.normalizeExpressions(_, output)),
       cacheBuilder,
       outputOrdering)
 
diff --git a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrameAggregateSuite.scala b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrameAggregateSuite.scala
index 0ab8926c016f..c0d7aa61e30c 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrameAggregateSuite.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrameAggregateSuite.scala
@@ -2157,6 +2157,21 @@ class DataFrameAggregateSuite extends QueryTest
 
     def createAggregate(df: DataFrame): DataFrame = df.groupBy("c0").agg(count("*"))
   }
+
+  test("SPARK-46779: Group by subquery with a cached relation") {
+    withTempView("data") {
+      sql(
+        """create or replace temp view data(c1, c2) as values
+          |(1, 2),
+          |(1, 3),
+          |(3, 7)""".stripMargin)
+      sql("cache table data")
+      val df = sql(
+        """select c1, (select count(*) from data d1 where d1.c1 = d2.c1), count(c2)
+          |from data d2 group by all""".stripMargin)
+      checkAnswer(df, Row(1, 2, 2) :: Row(3, 1, 1) :: Nil)
+    }
+  }
 }
 
 case class B(c: Option[Double])
diff --git a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/columnar/InMemoryRelationSuite.scala b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/columnar/InMemoryRelationSuite.scala
index 72b3a4bc1095..a5c5ec40af6f 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/columnar/InMemoryRelationSuite.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/columnar/InMemoryRelationSuite.scala
@@ -34,4 +34,11 @@ class InMemoryRelationSuite extends SparkFunSuite with SharedSparkSessionBase {
     assert(!relationCachedPlan.eq(clonedCachedPlan))
     assert(relationCachedPlan === clonedCachedPlan)
   }
+
+  test("SPARK-46779: InMemoryRelations with the same cached plan are semantically equivalent") {
+    val d = spark.range(1)
+    val r1 = InMemoryRelation(StorageLevel.MEMORY_ONLY, d.queryExecution, None)
+    val r2 = r1.withOutput(r1.output.map(_.newInstance()))
+    assert(r1.sameResult(r2))
+  }
 }