diff --git a/tests/metrics/test_verification_decision_trees.py b/tests/metrics/test_verification_decision_trees.py
index 02ddef54b7..4f8588a0cd 100644
--- a/tests/metrics/test_verification_decision_trees.py
+++ b/tests/metrics/test_verification_decision_trees.py
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ def test_LightGBM(self):
             "verbose": 0,
         }
 
-        model = lightgbm.train(parameters, train_data, valid_sets=test_data, num_boost_round=2, early_stopping_rounds=1)
+        model = lightgbm.train(parameters, train_data, valid_sets=test_data, num_boost_round=2)
 
         classifier = LightGBMClassifier(model=model)