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FIX switch to binary_crossentropy if a binary problem #14869

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Fixes #14858.

Raise a warning and switch to binary_crossentropy if it's a binary classification problem and categorical_crossentropy is given.

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Thanks for the PR.

If the user specifies categorical_crossentropy on a binary classif problem, I think we should either:

  1. raise an error
  2. still use categorical_crossentropy but raise a warning "you're building 2 trees instead of 1 so just use 'binary_crossentropy' or even better, use 'auto' ".

I'm in favor of just raising an error (because we have the 'auto' option that just works). But I'm OK with option 2 as well. The current proposal is re-implementing the 'auto' logic but with a warning so I don't think we want that.

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Thanks!

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@ogrisel maybe you could have a look?

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ping @ogrisel or @glemaitre should be an easy one :)

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Apart of the comment raised by @thomasjpfan LGTM

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I pushed the fix and will merge when it is green

@glemaitre glemaitre merged commit 38af35d into scikit-learn:master Sep 20, 2019
@adrinjalali adrinjalali deleted the hgbt/crossentropy branch September 20, 2019 09:12
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HGBC with categorical_crossentropy fails silently on binary classification
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