We're trying to make check_estimator more flexible ( https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/pull/8022) but this is certainly not something we had considered yet. Perhaps suggest it there?
Or for now we could just make the check pass if score_samples yields a TypeError with only X...
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