diff --git a/paddle/fluid/API.spec b/paddle/fluid/API.spec
index 68d68cd11e8639550686814db1ad736e95de33ef..df3497de209e3b6ede6986e1ac5f92c4427ca9bd 100644
--- a/paddle/fluid/API.spec
+++ b/paddle/fluid/API.spec
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ paddle.fluid.layers.psroi_pool (ArgSpec(args=['input', 'rois', 'output_channels'
 paddle.fluid.layers.teacher_student_sigmoid_loss (ArgSpec(args=['input', 'label', 'soft_max_up_bound', 'soft_max_lower_bound'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=(15.0, -15.0)), ('document', '2f6ff96864054a31aa4bb659c6722c99'))
 paddle.fluid.layers.huber_loss (ArgSpec(args=['input', 'label', 'delta'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=None), ('document', '431a4301c35032166ec029f7432c80a7'))
 paddle.fluid.layers.tree_conv (ArgSpec(args=['nodes_vector', 'edge_set', 'output_size', 'num_filters', 'max_depth', 'act', 'param_attr', 'bias_attr', 'name'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=(1, 2, 'tanh', None, None, None)), ('document', '34ea12ac9f10a65dccbc50100d12e607'))
-paddle.fluid.layers.npair_loss (ArgSpec(args=['anchor', 'positive', 'labels', 'l2_reg'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=(0.002,)), ('document', 'e5e0898611a1427339bb8895c24636df'))
+paddle.fluid.layers.npair_loss (ArgSpec(args=['anchor', 'positive', 'labels', 'l2_reg'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=(0.002,)), ('document', '46994d10276dd4cb803b4062b5d14329'))
 paddle.fluid.layers.data (ArgSpec(args=['name', 'shape', 'append_batch_size', 'dtype', 'lod_level', 'type', 'stop_gradient'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=(True, 'float32', 0, VarType.LOD_TENSOR, True)), ('document', '33bbd42027d872b3818b3d64ec52e139'))
 paddle.fluid.layers.open_files (ArgSpec(args=['filenames', 'shapes', 'lod_levels', 'dtypes', 'thread_num', 'buffer_size', 'pass_num', 'is_test'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=(None, None, 1, None)), ('document', 'b1ae2e1cc0750e58726374061ea90ecc'))
 paddle.fluid.layers.read_file (ArgSpec(args=['reader'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=None), ('document', 'b0a1c2fc51c27a106da28f3308c41f5e'))
diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/layer_helper_base.py b/python/paddle/fluid/layer_helper_base.py
index d4b38137e4e014d0244fe206bd964a304a291345..3504cb7935178f28369914ecbd93c24b82622b11 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/layer_helper_base.py
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/layer_helper_base.py
@@ -270,6 +270,9 @@ class LayerHelperBase(object):
         attr = copy.deepcopy(attr)
         if attr is None:
             attr = ParamAttr._to_attr(attr)
+        if not attr:
+            return None
+
         assert isinstance(attr, ParamAttr)
         suffix = 'b' if is_bias else 'w'
         if attr.name is None: