diff --git a/mllib/pom.xml b/mllib/pom.xml
index a8cee3d51a780..4c8f34417ca65 100644
--- a/mllib/pom.xml
+++ b/mllib/pom.xml
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.scalanlp</groupId>
       <artifactId>breeze_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
-      <version>0.10</version>
+      <version>0.11.1</version>
       <exclusions>
         <!-- This is included as a compile-scoped dependency by jtransforms, which is
              a dependency of breeze. -->
diff --git a/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/classification/LogisticRegressionSuite.scala b/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/classification/LogisticRegressionSuite.scala
index d2b40f2cae020..aaa81da9e273c 100644
--- a/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/classification/LogisticRegressionSuite.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/classification/LogisticRegressionSuite.scala
@@ -372,8 +372,12 @@ class LogisticRegressionSuite extends FunSuite with MLlibTestSparkContext with M
     testRDD2.cache()
     testRDD3.cache()
 
+    val numIteration = 10
+
     val lrA = new LogisticRegressionWithLBFGS().setIntercept(true)
+    lrA.optimizer.setNumIterations(numIteration)
     val lrB = new LogisticRegressionWithLBFGS().setIntercept(true).setFeatureScaling(false)
+    lrB.optimizer.setNumIterations(numIteration)
 
     val modelA1 = lrA.run(testRDD1, initialWeights)
     val modelA2 = lrA.run(testRDD2, initialWeights)