Github user sethah commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/8734#discussion_r50601582 --- Diff: mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/DecisionTreeSuite.scala --- @@ -331,12 +336,62 @@ class DecisionTreeSuite extends SparkFunSuite with MLlibTestSparkContext { assert(topNode.impurity !== -1.0) // set impurity and predict for child nodes - assert(topNode.leftNode.get.predict.predict === 0.0) - assert(topNode.rightNode.get.predict.predict === 1.0) + if (topNode.leftNode.get.predict.predict === 0.0) { + assert(topNode.rightNode.get.predict.predict === 1.0) + } else { + assert(topNode.leftNode.get.predict.predict === 1.0) + assert(topNode.rightNode.get.predict.predict === 0.0) + } assert(topNode.leftNode.get.impurity === 0.0) assert(topNode.rightNode.get.impurity === 0.0) } + test("Use soft prediction for binary classification with ordered categorical features") { --- End diff -- What is the goal of this test? I guessed that the goal would be to find a case where ordering by hard predictions produces a different (suboptimal) tree than ordering by soft predictions. However, I did a quick simulation for this dataset and the results I got were the same either way. Just wanted to clarify.
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