diff --git a/paddle/fluid/API.spec b/paddle/fluid/API.spec
index 0a71f153434cc89b26d97e1e1fcfae6c2bc88566..96b38902e8e6c991dd155f14de29affb6223efd3 100644
--- a/paddle/fluid/API.spec
+++ b/paddle/fluid/API.spec
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ paddle.fluid.initializer.MSRAInitializer.__init__ ArgSpec(args=['self', 'uniform
 paddle.fluid.initializer.force_init_on_cpu ArgSpec(args=[], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=None)
 paddle.fluid.initializer.init_on_cpu ArgSpec(args=[], varargs='args', keywords='kwds', defaults=None)
 paddle.fluid.layers.fc ArgSpec(args=['input', 'size', 'num_flatten_dims', 'param_attr', 'bias_attr', 'act', 'is_test', 'name'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=(1, None, None, None, False, None))
-paddle.fluid.layers.embedding ArgSpec(args=['input', 'size', 'is_sparse', 'is_distributed', 'padding_idx', 'param_attr', 'dtype'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=(False, False, None, None, 'float32'))
+paddle.fluid.layers.embedding ArgSpec(args=['input', 'size', 'is_sparse', 'is_distributed', 'padding_idx', 'param_attr', 'dtype', 'remote_prefetch'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=(False, False, None, None, 'float32', False))
 paddle.fluid.layers.dynamic_lstm ArgSpec(args=['input', 'size', 'h_0', 'c_0', 'param_attr', 'bias_attr', 'use_peepholes', 'is_reverse', 'gate_activation', 'cell_activation', 'candidate_activation', 'dtype', 'name'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=(None, None, None, None, True, False, 'sigmoid', 'tanh', 'tanh', 'float32', None))
 paddle.fluid.layers.dynamic_lstmp ArgSpec(args=['input', 'size', 'proj_size', 'param_attr', 'bias_attr', 'use_peepholes', 'is_reverse', 'gate_activation', 'cell_activation', 'candidate_activation', 'proj_activation', 'dtype', 'name'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=(None, None, True, False, 'sigmoid', 'tanh', 'tanh', 'tanh', 'float32', None))
 paddle.fluid.layers.dynamic_gru ArgSpec(args=['input', 'size', 'param_attr', 'bias_attr', 'is_reverse', 'gate_activation', 'candidate_activation', 'h_0'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=(None, None, False, 'sigmoid', 'tanh', None))
diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/layers/nn.py b/python/paddle/fluid/layers/nn.py
index d62429e7a8c4b8704a4156ae1d0e31e0abad2f93..6b5a55a662a227d1c6b2fb3a8dcd8e9264e9fac9 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/layers/nn.py
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/layers/nn.py
@@ -285,10 +285,10 @@ def embedding(input,
               size,
               is_sparse=False,
               is_distributed=False,
-              remote_prefetch=False,
               padding_idx=None,
               param_attr=None,
-              dtype='float32'):
+              dtype='float32',
+              remote_prefetch=False):
     """
     **Embedding Layer**