diff --git a/paddle/framework/var_desc.cc b/paddle/framework/var_desc.cc
index 44bd2363c83d01a2938c0c05ccd68e8db82ed86d..6d83e2e41126db0b3ac6fc1c86c9ed7fc4dfb39b 100644
--- a/paddle/framework/var_desc.cc
+++ b/paddle/framework/var_desc.cc
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ size_t VarDesc::GetTensorDescNum() const {
 }
 
 void VarDesc::SetShapes(
-    const std::vector<const std::vector<int64_t>> &multiple_dims) {
+    const std::vector<std::vector<int64_t>> &multiple_dims) {
   PADDLE_ENFORCE_EQ(multiple_dims.size(), GetTensorDescNum(),
                     "The number of given shapes(%d) doesn't equal to the "
                     "number of sub tensor.",
diff --git a/paddle/framework/var_desc.h b/paddle/framework/var_desc.h
index 862b9a5d807ae3b9147aae5aa47ec940b96a061e..72da2fbb0a66ec7ca8c0c274dc4273bfbfcf303e 100644
--- a/paddle/framework/var_desc.h
+++ b/paddle/framework/var_desc.h
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ class VarDesc {
 
   void SetShape(const std::vector<int64_t> &dims);
 
-  void SetShapes(const std::vector<const std::vector<int64_t>> &multiple_dims);
+  void SetShapes(const std::vector<std::vector<int64_t>> &multiple_dims);
 
   std::vector<int64_t> GetShape() const;