XGBoost crashing kernel in jupyter notebook

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I don't know how to make the XGBoost classifier work. I am running the code below on Jupyter notebook, and it always generates this message "The kernel appears to have died. It will restart automatically."

from xgboost import XGBClassifier
model = XGBClassifier()
model.fit(X, y)

There is no problem with importing the XGBClassifier, but it crashes upon fitting it to my data. X is a 502 by 33 all-numeric dataframe, y is the set of 0 or 1 labels for each row. Does anyone know what could be the problem here? I downloaded the newest version of XGBoost through pip3 install, and also through Conda install.

Thanks!

Did you try this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51164771/python-xgboost-kernel-died ? — Alessandro, Aug 09 '18 at 13:43

score 21 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 07 '18 at 17:31

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I was having similar problem. I solved it by installing an older version 0.80.

pip install xgboost==0.80

answered Nov 07 '18 at 17:31

Евгений Куприков

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Евгений , спасибо вам огромное! I've been trying to solve this issue for a few days in a row. I've even decided to move from my laptop's Jupyter to the Kaggle's one with the powerful GPU on it. Then I googled again and came across this answer which really solved my problem! Thanks a loooot! – Aidos Feb 03 '19 at 13:16
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I always love it when a _newer_ version of a library has some _critical_ error. Worked for me, thanks! – Jakub Langr Apr 10 '19 at 08:22
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This is so far the best solution, after wasting nearly 3 hours how to install xgboost from source – MGLondon Sep 21 '19 at 15:57

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 14 '19 at 00:59

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import os
os.environ['KMP_DUPLICATE_LIB_OK']='True'
from xgboost import XGBClassifier
model = XGBClassifier()
model.fit(X, y)

answered Jul 14 '19 at 00:59

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XGBoost crashing kernel in jupyter notebook

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