Github user MLnick commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/12663#discussion_r60959821 --- Diff: mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/classification/GBTClassifier.scala --- @@ -126,16 +126,8 @@ final class GBTClassifier @Since("1.4.0") ( override protected def train(dataset: Dataset[_]): GBTClassificationModel = { val categoricalFeatures: Map[Int, Int] = MetadataUtils.getCategoricalFeatures(dataset.schema($(featuresCol))) - val numClasses: Int = MetadataUtils.getNumClasses(dataset.schema($(labelCol))) match { - case Some(n: Int) => n - case None => throw new IllegalArgumentException("GBTClassifier was given input" + - s" with invalid label column ${$(labelCol)}, without the number of classes" + - " specified. See StringIndexer.") - // TODO: Automatically index labels: SPARK-7126 - } - require(numClasses == 2, - s"GBTClassifier only supports binary classification but was given numClasses = $numClasses") --- End diff -- This error message is somewhat more informative to users than https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/12663/files#diff-dfca98acb06778e7a51eb858829bd2a1R134, i.e. indicating that GBT only supports binary classification as of now. Perhaps we should preserve this somehow?
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