Kernel dies when creating DMatrix

[avriiil]

My kernel dies without an error message when trying to create an XGBoost DMatrix using:

# Create the XGBoost DMatrix
dtrain = xgb.DMatrix(X_train, y_train)

I’ve tried the following without any luck:

• deleting libiomp5.dylib as per this thread
• including import os os.environ['KMP_DUPLICATE_LIB_OK']='True' at the top of the notebook as per this thread
• updating libomp using brew install libomp
• reinstalling my mambaforge package manager

I'm working on an M1 Macbook Pro and wonder if that might be the issue. My colleague is able to run this code without a problem on a non-M1 machine.

MRE

# create dummy data
d = {
  'y': [1, 0, 0, 1], 
  'x1': [1, 2, 3, 4],
  'x2': [5, 6, 7, 8],
  'x3': [9, 0, 1, 2]}

df = pd.DataFrame(data=d)
 
# create train/test splits
X, y = df.iloc[:, 1:], df["y"]
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(
X, y, test_size=0.25, shuffle=True, random_state=2)

# Create the XGBoost DMatrix
dtrain = xgb.DMatrix(X_train, y_train)

I'm working with:

• a 2020 M1 Macbook Pro
• Python: 3.9 / 3.8
• XGBoost: 1.4.2 / 1.2.0
• Pandas: 1.3.1
• Numpy: 1.21.2

I've followed the steps in this article to install xgboost (python and all dependencies through mambaforge, then xgboost from pip)

NOTE: I've tried downgrading XGBoost. v 1.2.0 creates the DMatrix but fails with the same behaviour (no error message, kernel dies) when calling xgb.train(params,dtrain).

Is this a known issue on M1? Is there a workaround?

[hcho3]

We do not officially support Apple Silicon (M1), in the sense that we have not tested XGBoost for it. Issues are expected.

[avriiil]

OK, thanks for the update @hcho3. Is there any roadmap for when you will be testing/rolling out support for XGboost on M1?

[trivialfis]

Not at the moment. Github action doesn't have M1 instance actions/runner-images#2187 and AFAIK none of the active maintainers has one.

[avriiil]

Ok, thanks for this. I will find another way to workaround it then. -- *Richard Pelgrim* +31 (0)6 374 807 31 code: github.com/rrpelgrim/portfolio blog: richardpelgrim.medium.com

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