ValueError: LabelBinarizer 'y' should be 1d
7 Dec 2025
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ValueError: LabelBinarizer y 1d
$ python -c "from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelBinarizer; import numpy as np; LabelBinarizer().fit(np.array([[0,1],[1,0]]))"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: y should be a 1d array
Why this happens
Provided labels are multi-dimensional.
Fix
Flatten to 1D labels.
Wrong code
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelBinarizer
import numpy as np
LabelBinarizer().fit(np.array([[0,1],[1,0]]))
Fixed code
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelBinarizer
import numpy as np
LabelBinarizer().fit(np.array([0,1,0,1]))