diff --git a/nnvm/example/src/operator.cc b/nnvm/example/src/operator.cc
index 70063e4c4000..b27fe0b15635 100644
--- a/nnvm/example/src/operator.cc
+++ b/nnvm/example/src/operator.cc
@@ -98,7 +98,6 @@ NNVM_REGISTER_OP(__add_symbol__)
 NNVM_REGISTER_OP(exp)
 .describe("take exponential")
 .set_num_inputs(1)
-.attr("inplace_pair", std::make_pair(0, 0))
 .attr<FInferShape>("FInferShape", SameShape);
 
 NNVM_REGISTER_OP(cross_device_copy)
diff --git a/nnvm/tests/python/test_graph.py b/nnvm/tests/python/test_graph.py
index 787e0ae78e14..53714b1ae018 100644
--- a/nnvm/tests/python/test_graph.py
+++ b/nnvm/tests/python/test_graph.py
@@ -49,20 +49,6 @@ def test_infer_shape():
     assert g.json_attr('shape')[jnode_row_ptr[nindex["reshape1"]]] == [2, 4]
     assert g.json_attr('shape')[jnode_row_ptr[nindex["add1"]]] == [4, 2]
 
-def test_infer_shape():
-    x = sym.Variable('x', shape=(4, 2))
-    y = sym.add(x, x, name='add1')
-    y = sym.reshape(y, target=(2, 4), name="reshape1")
-    g = graph.create(y)
-    g._set_json_attr("shape_attr_key", "shape")
-    g = g.apply('InferShape')
-    jgraph = json.loads(g.apply('SaveJSON').json_attr('json'))
-    jnodes = jgraph['nodes']
-    jnode_row_ptr = jgraph['node_row_ptr']
-    nindex = {n['name']: i for i, n in enumerate(jnodes)}
-    assert g.json_attr('shape')[jnode_row_ptr[nindex["reshape1"]]] == [2, 4]
-    assert g.json_attr('shape')[jnode_row_ptr[nindex["add1"]]] == [4, 2]
-
 def test_infer_type():
     x = sym.Variable('x')
     y = sym.add(x, x, name='add1')