diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/classification/MultilayerPerceptronClassifier.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/classification/MultilayerPerceptronClassifier.scala
index 7264a99b47eb1a87e47e5c164f4c4273b5cdbec2..88fe7cb4a6e0f0625e7a026f8fe8d04fb1082bfb 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/classification/MultilayerPerceptronClassifier.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/classification/MultilayerPerceptronClassifier.scala
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ object MultilayerPerceptronClassifier
  *
  * @param uid uid
  * @param layers array of layer sizes including input and output layers
- * @param weights vector of initial weights for the model that consists of the weights of layers
+ * @param weights the weights of layers
  * @return prediction model
  */
 @Since("1.5.0")
diff --git a/python/pyspark/ml/classification.py b/python/pyspark/ml/classification.py
index d1522d78faa0b692362144944b6e6e590d677b63..b4c01fd5c4ffb50ac26b03290690eac590722c41 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/ml/classification.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/ml/classification.py
@@ -1276,7 +1276,7 @@ class MultilayerPerceptronClassificationModel(JavaModel, JavaPredictionModel, Ja
     @since("2.0.0")
     def weights(self):
         """
-        vector of initial weights for the model that consists of the weights of layers.
+        the weights of layers.
         """
         return self._call_java("weights")