microsoft/FLAML

use_label_encoder warning with xgboost

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#1,120 opened on Jul 11, 2023

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Description

Currently, when using using flaml with xgboost, there is always a warning about

UserWarning: `use_label_encoder` is deprecated in 1.7.0.

As per discussion on xgboost forum use_label_encoder options should be removed it seems?

A quick search on the repo's source code yield: image

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Search for occurrences of 'use label encoder' in the FLAML source code and remove the parameter from xgboost calls.
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python
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