diff --git a/mmcls/models/backbones/resnet.py b/mmcls/models/backbones/resnet.py
index 5e433da4..b8a60661 100644
--- a/mmcls/models/backbones/resnet.py
+++ b/mmcls/models/backbones/resnet.py
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ class ResNet(BaseBackbone):
                  norm_cfg=dict(type='BN', requires_grad=True),
                  norm_eval=False,
                  with_cp=False,
-                 zero_init_residual=False):
+                 zero_init_residual=True):
         super(ResNet, self).__init__()
         if depth not in self.arch_settings:
             raise KeyError(f'invalid depth {depth} for resnet')