diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_cross_entropy_loss.py b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_cross_entropy_loss.py
index 6a0d955040f353113598e63a52ab2989b79b8506..c4be262e93029cf47efcbc67482d4481838b39f0 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_cross_entropy_loss.py
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_cross_entropy_loss.py
@@ -1208,7 +1208,7 @@ class CrossEntropyLoss(unittest.TestCase):
             self.assertIsNotNone(static_ret)
         with fluid.dygraph.guard():
             cross_entropy_loss = paddle.nn.loss.CrossEntropyLoss(
-                weight=fluid.dygraph.to_variable(weight_np), reduction='mean')
+                weight=fluid.dygraph.to_variable(weight_np), reduction='mean', axis=1)
             dy_ret = cross_entropy_loss(
                 fluid.dygraph.to_variable(input_np),
                 fluid.dygraph.to_variable(label_np))