src/metric/auc.cc:322: Check failed: auc <= local_area

[zhuwang46]

The error message occurred after changing nrounds from 32 to 33:
weight.txt

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library("xgboost")
data(agaricus.train, package='xgboost')
data(agaricus.test, package='xgboost')
dtrain <- with(agaricus.train, xgboost::xgb.DMatrix(data, label = label))
dtest <- with(agaricus.test, xgboost::xgb.DMatrix(data, label = label))
watchlist <- list(train = dtrain, eval = dtest)
param <- list(max_depth = 2, eta = 1, nthread = 2,
objective = "binary:logitraw", eval_metric = "auc")
weight <- read.table("weight.txt", header=FALSE)[,2]
summary(weight)
xgboost::setinfo(dtrain, 'weight', weight)

nrounds=32 ok

bst <- xgboost::xgb.train(params=param, data=dtrain, nrounds = 32, watchlist=watchlist, verbose=2)

nrounds=33 crashed

bst <- xgboost::xgb.train(params=param, data=dtrain, nrounds = 33, watchlist=watchlist, verbose=2)

[1] train-auc:0.962643 eval-auc:0.960373
[2] train-auc:0.985768 eval-auc:0.979930
[3] train-auc:0.998551 eval-auc:0.998518
[4] train-auc:0.999061 eval-auc:0.998943
[5] train-auc:0.999566 eval-auc:1.000000
[6] train-auc:0.999566 eval-auc:1.000000
[7] train-auc:0.999566 eval-auc:1.000000
[8] train-auc:0.999561 eval-auc:1.000000
[9] train-auc:0.999561 eval-auc:1.000000
[10] train-auc:0.999561 eval-auc:1.000000
[11] train-auc:0.999561 eval-auc:1.000000
[12] train-auc:0.999561 eval-auc:1.000000
[13] train-auc:0.999566 eval-auc:1.000000
[14] train-auc:0.999566 eval-auc:1.000000
[15] train-auc:0.999566 eval-auc:1.000000
[16] train-auc:0.999612 eval-auc:1.000000
[17] train-auc:0.999719 eval-auc:1.000000
[18] train-auc:0.999780 eval-auc:1.000000
[19] train-auc:0.999892 eval-auc:1.000000
[20] train-auc:0.999935 eval-auc:1.000000
[21] train-auc:0.999948 eval-auc:1.000000
[22] train-auc:0.999972 eval-auc:1.000000
[23] train-auc:0.999974 eval-auc:1.000000
[24] train-auc:0.999986 eval-auc:1.000000
[25] train-auc:0.999990 eval-auc:1.000000
[26] train-auc:0.999994 eval-auc:1.000000
[27] train-auc:0.999998 eval-auc:1.000000
[28] train-auc:0.999998 eval-auc:1.000000
[29] train-auc:0.999999 eval-auc:1.000000
[30] train-auc:0.999999 eval-auc:1.000000
[31] train-auc:1.000000 eval-auc:1.000000
[32] train-auc:1.000000 eval-auc:1.000000
Error in xgb.iter.eval(bst$handle, watchlist, iteration - 1, feval) :
[12:02:28] src/metric/auc.cc:322: Check failed: auc <= local_area (1.04939e+ 07 vs. 1.04939e+07) :
Stack trace:
[bt] (0) /home/zhu/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1/xgboost/libs/xgboost. so(+0x571ec) [0x7fe35d6571ec]
[bt] (1) /home/zhu/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1/xgboost/libs/xgboost. so(+0x8beb2) [0x7fe35d68beb2]
[bt] (2) /home/zhu/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1/xgboost/libs/xgboost. so(+0x22bda5) [0x7fe35d82bda5]
[bt] (3) /home/zhu/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1/xgboost/libs/xgboost. so(XGBoosterEvalOneIter+0x204) [0x7fe35d893cb4]
[bt] (4) /home/zhu/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1/xgboost/libs/xgboost. so(XGBoosterEvalOneIter_R+0x2d4) [0x7fe35d655ec4]
[bt] (5) /usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so(+0xfa1a4) [0x7fe3652a71a4]
[bt] (6) /usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so(+0x13b1c0) [0x7fe3652e81c0]
[bt] (7) /usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so(Rf_eval+0x180) [0x7fe3652f2700]
[bt] (8) /usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so(+0x14751f) [0x7fe3652f451f]

system information:
Ubuntu 18.04
packageVersion("xgboost")
[1] ‘1.7.7.1’

[trivialfis]

Apologies for the slow reply. Appears to be running into a floating error. Will try to open a PR for squashing the output auc