ImportError: cannot import name '_deprecate_positional_args' from 'sklearn.utils.validation'

Question

when I try to import deprecate_positional_args fuction from sklearn.utils.validation' I got this import error:

ImportError: cannot import name '_deprecate_positional_args' from 'sklearn.utils.validation'

The scikit-learn version is 0.21.3

Answer 1

I was facing the same error when running in a Jupyter environment. Was resolved by installing imbalanced-learn by running !pip install -U imbalanced-learn and then restarting the runtime. Restarting the runtime is the key here. If you don't restart, the error won't go.

Answer 2

I solved this problem by upgrading scikit-learn:

pip install --upgrade scikit-learn