diff --git a/tensorflow/go/op/gradients.go b/tensorflow/go/op/gradients.go
index 2dce134d5f3..2397e40bf40 100644
--- a/tensorflow/go/op/gradients.go
+++ b/tensorflow/go/op/gradients.go
@@ -21,19 +21,14 @@ import tf "github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tensorflow/go"
 // Gradients adds gradients computation ops to the graph according to scope.
 //
 // Arguments:
-//  prefix: unique string prefix applied before the names of nodes added to the graph to
-//    compute gradients. If null, will use "Gradients".
 //  y: output of the function to derive
 //  x: inputs of the function for which partial derivatives are computed
 //  dx: if not null, the partial derivatives of some loss function L w.r.t. y
 //
 //  return the partial derivatives
-func Gradients(scope *Scope, prefix string, y []tf.Output, x []tf.Output, dx ...tf.Output) (output []tf.Output) {
+func Gradients(scope *Scope, y []tf.Output, x []tf.Output, dx ...tf.Output) (output []tf.Output) {
 	var err error
-	if prefix == "" {
-		prefix = "Gradients"
-	}
-	if output, err = scope.graph.AddGradients(scope.opName(scope.uniqueName(prefix)), y, x, dx); err != nil {
+	if output, err = scope.graph.AddGradients(scope.opName(scope.uniqueName("Gradients")), y, x, dx); err != nil {
 		scope.UpdateErr("Gradients", err)
 		return
 	}
diff --git a/tensorflow/go/op/gradients_test.go b/tensorflow/go/op/gradients_test.go
index 7d03fada745..2bcb3e88ebe 100644
--- a/tensorflow/go/op/gradients_test.go
+++ b/tensorflow/go/op/gradients_test.go
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ func TestAddGradients(t *testing.T) {
 		y2 = AddN(s.SubScope("y2"), []tf.Output{y0, x2})
 	)
 
-	grads0 := Gradients(s, "", []tf.Output{y1}, []tf.Output{x1})
+	grads0 := Gradients(s, []tf.Output{y1}, []tf.Output{x1})
 	if err := s.Err(); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ func TestAddGradients(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("Got DataType %v, wanted %v", grads0[0].DataType(), tf.Float)
 	}
 
-	grads1 := Gradients(s, "", []tf.Output{y2}, []tf.Output{x1, x2})
+	grads1 := Gradients(s, []tf.Output{y2}, []tf.Output{x1, x2})
 	if err := s.Err(); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ func TestAddGradientsSums(t *testing.T) {
 		y1 = Square(s.SubScope("y1"), y0)
 	)
 
-	grad := Gradients(s, "", []tf.Output{y0, y1}, []tf.Output{x})
+	grad := Gradients(s, []tf.Output{y0, y1}, []tf.Output{x})
 	if err := s.Err(); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ func TestAddGradientsWithInitialValues(t *testing.T) {
 		y1 = Square(s.SubScope("y1"), y0)
 	)
 
-	grads0 := Gradients(s, "", []tf.Output{y1}, []tf.Output{y0})
+	grads0 := Gradients(s, []tf.Output{y1}, []tf.Output{y0})
 	if err := s.Err(); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ func TestAddGradientsWithInitialValues(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("Got DataType %v, wanted %v", grads0[0].DataType(), tf.Float)
 	}
 
-	grads1 := Gradients(s, "", []tf.Output{y0}, []tf.Output{x}, grads0[0])
+	grads1 := Gradients(s, []tf.Output{y0}, []tf.Output{x}, grads0[0])
 	if err := s.Err(); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ func TestValidateGradientsNames(t *testing.T) {
 		y0 = Square(s.SubScope("y0"), x)
 	)
 
-	grads0 := Gradients(s, "", []tf.Output{y0}, []tf.Output{x})
+	grads0 := Gradients(s, []tf.Output{y0}, []tf.Output{x})
 	if err := s.Err(); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ func TestValidateGradientsNames(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("Got name %v, wanted started with Gradients/", grads0[0].Op.Name())
 	}
 
-	grads1 := Gradients(s, "", []tf.Output{y0}, []tf.Output{x})
+	grads1 := Gradients(s, []tf.Output{y0}, []tf.Output{x})
 	if err := s.Err(); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -206,28 +206,20 @@ func TestValidateGradientsNames(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("Got name %v, wanted started with Gradients_1/", grads1[0].Op.Name())
 	}
 
-	grads2 := Gradients(s, "more_gradients", []tf.Output{y0}, []tf.Output{x})
-	if err := s.Err(); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if !strings.HasPrefix(grads2[0].Op.Name(), "more_gradients/") {
-		t.Fatalf("Got name %v, wanted started with more_gradients/", grads2[0].Op.Name())
-	}
-
 	sub := s.SubScope("sub")
-	grads3 := Gradients(sub, "even_more_gradients", []tf.Output{y0}, []tf.Output{x})
+	grads3 := Gradients(sub, []tf.Output{y0}, []tf.Output{x})
 	if err := s.Err(); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	if !strings.HasPrefix(grads3[0].Op.Name(), "sub/even_more_gradients/") {
-		t.Fatalf("Got name %v, wanted started with sub/even_more_gradients/", grads3[0].Op.Name())
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(grads3[0].Op.Name(), "sub/Gradients/") {
+		t.Fatalf("Got name %v, wanted started with sub/Gradients/", grads3[0].Op.Name())
 	}
 
-	grads4 := Gradients(sub, "even_more_gradients", []tf.Output{y0}, []tf.Output{x})
+	grads4 := Gradients(sub, []tf.Output{y0}, []tf.Output{x})
 	if err := s.Err(); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	if !strings.HasPrefix(grads4[0].Op.Name(), "sub/even_more_gradients_1/") {
-		t.Fatalf("Got name %v, wanted started with sub/even_more_gradients_1/", grads4[0].Op.Name())
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(grads4[0].Op.Name(), "sub/Gradients_1/") {
+		t.Fatalf("Got name %v, wanted started with sub/Gradients_1/", grads4[0].Op.Name())
 	}
 }