diff --git a/tensorflow/core/api_def/base_api/api_def_ResourceSparseApplyFtrl.pbtxt b/tensorflow/core/api_def/base_api/api_def_ResourceSparseApplyFtrl.pbtxt
index f75272a63b1..b52e7f6ba6d 100644
--- a/tensorflow/core/api_def/base_api/api_def_ResourceSparseApplyFtrl.pbtxt
+++ b/tensorflow/core/api_def/base_api/api_def_ResourceSparseApplyFtrl.pbtxt
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ END
   description: <<END
 That is for rows we have grad for, we update var, accum and linear as follows:
 accum_new = accum + grad * grad
-linear += grad + (accum_new^(-lr_power) - accum^(-lr_power)) / lr * var
+linear += grad - (accum_new^(-lr_power) - accum^(-lr_power)) / lr * var
 quadratic = 1.0 / (accum_new^(lr_power) * lr) + 2 * l2
 var = (sign(linear) * l1 - linear) / quadratic if |linear| > l1 else 0.0
 accum = accum_new