Github user jkbradley commented on a diff in the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/12066#discussion_r61142716
  
    --- Diff: 
mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/classification/Classifier.scala ---
    @@ -115,7 +116,16 @@ abstract class ClassificationModel[FeaturesType, M <: 
ClassificationModel[Featur
             }
             predictUDF(col(getFeaturesCol))
           }
    -      outputData = outputData.withColumn(getPredictionCol, predUDF)
    +      // determine number of classes either from metadata if provided.
    +      val labelSchema = dataset.schema($(labelCol))
    +      // extract label metadata from label column if present, or create a 
nominal attribute
    +      // to output the number of labels
    +      val labelAttribute = Attribute.fromStructField(labelSchema) match {
    --- End diff --
    
    1.  This is why we try to keep the constructors private for as long as 
possible.  : )  But we could get around it by creating a ```private[ml]``` 
setter method which can set the labelAttribute after the model is created.
    2. You're right; I think that's a bug technically.  Here's a JIRA: 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-14926


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