[python-package] Remove output_margin from XGBClassifier.predict_proba argument list. #3343
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XGBClassifier.predict_proba
is to predict class probabilities, so it doesn't make sense to supportoutput_margin
. If users want to output margin, they can just usepredict(data, output_margin=True)
.Some users report misuse of this argument when calling
XGBClassifier.predict_proba
at #3308. If users setoutput_margin=True
when callingpredict_proba
by mistake, it will produce confused and meaningless result.For example, this is the correct result:
(This is binary classification, each column is the probability of the sample being of a given class)
And this is wrong result: