Fix early stopping behavior with MAPE metric (#7061)

2021-06-25 12:02:33 -07:00
parent 8fa32fdda2
commit dd4db347f3
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/python-package/xgboost/callback.py
+++ b/python-package/xgboost/callback.py
@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ class EarlyStopping(TrainingCallback):
            # user to decide.
            maximize_metrics = ('auc', 'aucpr', 'map', 'ndcg', 'auc@',
                                'aucpr@', 'map@', 'ndcg@')
-            if any(metric.startswith(x) for x in maximize_metrics):
+            if metric != 'mape' and any(metric.startswith(x) for x in maximize_metrics):
                self.maximize = True
            else:
                self.maximize = False