diff --git a/ppdet/utils/checkpoint.py b/ppdet/utils/checkpoint.py
index 22bffff7e9130db2421d9ff9a68e8b893cc3f6e3..0a4650402b11cdfb12d000c40f89d7740d7571eb 100644
--- a/ppdet/utils/checkpoint.py
+++ b/ppdet/utils/checkpoint.py
@@ -141,6 +141,69 @@ def load_weight(model, weight, optimizer=None):
     return last_epoch
 
 
+def match_state_dict(model_state_dict, weight_state_dict):
+    """
+    Match between the model state dict and pretrained weight state dict.
+    Return the matched state dict.
+
+    The method supposes that all the names in pretrained weight state dict are
+    subclass of the names in models`, if the prefix 'backbone.' in pretrained weight
+    keys is stripped. And we could get the candidates for each model key. Then we 
+    select the name with the longest matched size as the final match result. For
+    example, the model state dict has the name of 
+    'backbone.res2.res2a.branch2a.conv.weight' and the pretrained weight as
+    name of 'res2.res2a.branch2a.conv.weight' and 'branch2a.conv.weight'. We
+    match the 'res2.res2a.branch2a.conv.weight' to the model key.
+    """
+
+    model_keys = sorted(model_state_dict.keys())
+    weight_keys = sorted(weight_state_dict.keys())
+
+    def match(a, b):
+        if a.startswith('backbone.res5'):
+            # In Faster RCNN, res5 pretrained weights have prefix of backbone, 
+            # however, the corresponding model weights have difficult prefix,
+            # bbox_head.
+            b = b.strip('backbone.')
+        return a == b or a.endswith("." + b)
+
+    match_matrix = np.zeros([len(model_keys), len(weight_keys)])
+    for i, m_k in enumerate(model_keys):
+        for j, w_k in enumerate(weight_keys):
+            if match(m_k, w_k):
+                match_matrix[i, j] = len(w_k)
+    max_id = match_matrix.argmax(1)
+    max_len = match_matrix.max(1)
+    max_id[max_len == 0] = -1
+    matched_keys = {}
+    result_state_dict = {}
+    for model_id, weight_id in enumerate(max_id):
+        if weight_id == -1:
+            continue
+        model_key = model_keys[model_id]
+        weight_key = weight_keys[weight_id]
+        weight_value = weight_state_dict[weight_key]
+        model_value_shape = list(model_state_dict[model_key].shape)
+
+        if list(weight_value.shape) != model_value_shape:
+            logger.info(
+                'The shape {} in pretrained weight {} is unmatched with '
+                'the shape {} in model {}. And the weight {} will not be '
+                'loaded'.format(weight_value.shape, weight_key,
+                                model_value_shape, model_key, weight_key))
+            continue
+
+        assert model_key not in result_state_dict
+        result_state_dict[model_key] = weight_value
+        if weight_key in matched_keys:
+            raise ValueError('Ambiguity weight {} loaded, it matches at least '
+                             '{} and {} in the model'.format(
+                                 weight_key, model_key, matched_keys[
+                                     weight_key]))
+        matched_keys[weight_key] = model_key
+    return result_state_dict
+
+
 def load_pretrain_weight(model, pretrain_weight):
     if is_url(pretrain_weight):
         pretrain_weight = get_weights_path_dist(pretrain_weight)
@@ -157,31 +220,7 @@ def load_pretrain_weight(model, pretrain_weight):
 
     weights_path = path + '.pdparams'
     param_state_dict = paddle.load(weights_path)
-    ignore_weights = set()
-
-    # hack: fit for faster rcnn. Pretrain weights contain prefix of 'backbone'
-    # while res5 module is located in bbox_head.head. Replace the prefix of
-    # res5 with 'bbox_head.head' to load pretrain weights correctly.
-    for k in param_state_dict.keys():
-        if 'backbone.res5' in k:
-            new_k = k.replace('backbone', 'bbox_head.head')
-            if new_k in model_dict.keys():
-                value = param_state_dict.pop(k)
-                param_state_dict[new_k] = value
-
-    for name, weight in param_state_dict.items():
-        if name in model_dict.keys():
-            if list(weight.shape) != list(model_dict[name].shape):
-                logger.info(
-                    '{} not used, shape {} unmatched with {} in model.'.format(
-                        name, weight.shape, list(model_dict[name].shape)))
-                ignore_weights.add(name)
-        else:
-            logger.info('Redundant weight {} and ignore it.'.format(name))
-            ignore_weights.add(name)
-
-    for weight in ignore_weights:
-        param_state_dict.pop(weight, None)
+    param_state_dict = match_state_dict(model_dict, param_state_dict)
 
     model.set_dict(param_state_dict)
     logger.info('Finish loading model weights: {}'.format(weights_path))