diff --git a/paddle/fluid/imperative/layer.cc b/paddle/fluid/imperative/layer.cc
index 0d850ee162bd893398bcdf3ddfbcb942236b2800..26e7830265ea6baa1bec620076fea4a9e495cfda 100644
--- a/paddle/fluid/imperative/layer.cc
+++ b/paddle/fluid/imperative/layer.cc
@@ -100,26 +100,6 @@ class Autograd {
   }
 };
 
-void CreateVariable(const std::string& name, const framework::DDim& dim,
-                    float val, bool random_name, framework::Variable* var) {
-  if (var->IsInitialized()) return;
-
-  std::string varname = name;
-  if (random_name) {
-    std::mt19937 rng;
-    rng.seed(std::random_device()());
-    std::uniform_int_distribution<std::mt19937::result_type> dist6(
-        1, std::numeric_limits<int>::max());
-    int id = dist6(rng);
-    varname = string::Sprintf("%s@%d", varname, id);
-  }
-
-  VLOG(3) << "creating var " << varname;
-  framework::LoDTensor* tensor = var->GetMutable<framework::LoDTensor>();
-  float* data = tensor->mutable_data<float>(dim, platform::CPUPlace());
-  std::fill(data, data + tensor->numel(), val);
-}
-
 framework::LoDTensor& VarBase::Grad() {
   VLOG(3) << "get var grad " << var_desc_->Name();
   return *grads_->GetMutable<framework::LoDTensor>();
diff --git a/paddle/fluid/imperative/layer.h b/paddle/fluid/imperative/layer.h
index 6225edea775857ef59c1ccea66cc01b9a197e10f..ae4e8e0f8a39dca79a3f5fd031b64e48cb6fc735 100644
--- a/paddle/fluid/imperative/layer.h
+++ b/paddle/fluid/imperative/layer.h
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ class PreparedOp {
   static PreparedOp Prepare(const framework::RuntimeContext& ctx,
                             const framework::OperatorWithKernel& op,
                             const platform::Place& place) {
-    framework::Scope dummy_scope;
     platform::DeviceContextPool& pool = platform::DeviceContextPool::Instance();
     auto* dev_ctx = pool.Get(place);
 
@@ -52,7 +51,7 @@ class PreparedOp {
     framework::OperatorWithKernel::OpKernelMap& kernels = kernels_iter->second;
 
     auto expected_kernel_key = op.GetExpectedKernelType(
-        framework::ExecutionContext(op, dummy_scope, *dev_ctx, ctx));
+        framework::ExecutionContext(op, framework::Scope(), *dev_ctx, ctx));
     VLOG(3) << "expected_kernel_key:" << expected_kernel_key;
 
     auto kernel_iter = kernels.find(expected_kernel_key);