XGBoost with objective as binary:logistic returning only binary value

Question

I am training an xgboost model for binary classification using objective as 'binary:logistic'. The model should predict probability but it is outputting either 0 or 1. I want the model to output the probability. These are the parameters I am using Thanks a lot in advance!

Answer 1

How are you getting the predictions from your model? It is likely that the default predict method automatically converts the probability to a 0/1 prediction, and that there's a separate method to get the underlying probability (e.g. see the predict and predict_proba methods for the LogisticRegression in scikit-learn).