diff --git a/paddle/phi/infermeta/unary.cc b/paddle/phi/infermeta/unary.cc
index 8cea16f770631ee309ba073c4b9d9f989f4c110a..e08f1769bef48e4808aef345cadb973612983887 100644
--- a/paddle/phi/infermeta/unary.cc
+++ b/paddle/phi/infermeta/unary.cc
@@ -3075,27 +3075,40 @@ void RepeatInterleaveInferMeta(const MetaTensor& x,
                                MetaTensor* out) {
   const auto& input_dim = x.dims();
   auto output_dim = phi::vectorize(input_dim);
+  auto n_dim = dim;
 
-  PADDLE_ENFORCE_EQ(
-      dim < input_dim.size() && dim >= (0 - input_dim.size()),
-      true,
+  if (n_dim < 0) n_dim += input_dim.size();
+
+  PADDLE_ENFORCE_LT(
+      dim,
+      input_dim.size(),
       phi::errors::OutOfRange(
           "Attr(dim) is out of range, It's expected "
-          "to be in range of [-%d, %d]. But received Attr(dim) = %d.",
-          input_dim.size(),
+          "to be in range of [%d, %d]. But received Attr(dim) = %d.",
+          -input_dim.size(),
           input_dim.size() - 1,
           dim));
-  PADDLE_ENFORCE_EQ(
-      repeats > 0,
-      true,
+  PADDLE_ENFORCE_GE(
+      dim,
+      (0 - input_dim.size()),
+      phi::errors::OutOfRange(
+          "Attr(dim) is out of range, It's expected "
+          "to be in range of [%d, %d]. But received Attr(dim) = %d.",
+          -input_dim.size(),
+          input_dim.size() - 1,
+          dim));
+
+  PADDLE_ENFORCE_GT(
+      repeats,
+      0,
       phi::errors::InvalidArgument("repeats should be larger than zero"));
 
-  PADDLE_ENFORCE_NE(out,
-                    nullptr,
-                    phi::errors::InvalidArgument(
-                        "repeat_interleave's output tensor can't be nullptr"));
+  PADDLE_ENFORCE_NOT_NULL(
+      out,
+      phi::errors::InvalidArgument(
+          "repeat_interleave's output tensor can't be nullptr"));
 
-  output_dim[dim] = input_dim[dim] * repeats;
+  output_dim[n_dim] = input_dim[n_dim] * repeats;
   out->set_dims(phi::make_ddim(output_dim));
   out->share_lod(x);
   out->set_dtype(x.dtype());
diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_repeat_interleave_op.py b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_repeat_interleave_op.py
index 90877a3047e2c9f52ce8a58a9d93675f57156d8f..4b5272c5a4bdfdd5ba4521c8da7ad2d961a02475 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_repeat_interleave_op.py
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_repeat_interleave_op.py
@@ -188,6 +188,26 @@ class TestIndexSelectAPI(unittest.TestCase):
         expect_out = np.repeat(self.data_zero_dim_x, repeats)
         np.testing.assert_allclose(expect_out, np.array(res), rtol=1e-05)
 
+        # case 4 negative axis:
+        with program_guard(Program(), Program()):
+            x = paddle.static.data(name='x', shape=[-1, 4], dtype='float32')
+            x.desc.set_need_check_feed(False)
+            index = paddle.static.data(
+                name='repeats_',
+                shape=[4],
+                dtype='int32',
+            )
+            index.desc.set_need_check_feed(False)
+            z = paddle.repeat_interleave(x, index, axis=-1)
+            exe = fluid.Executor(fluid.CPUPlace())
+            (res,) = exe.run(
+                feed={'x': self.data_x, 'repeats_': self.data_index},
+                fetch_list=[z.name],
+                return_numpy=False,
+            )
+        expect_out = np.repeat(self.data_x, self.data_index, axis=-1)
+        np.testing.assert_allclose(expect_out, np.array(res), rtol=1e-05)
+
     def test_dygraph_api(self):
         self.input_data()
         # case axis none