diff --git a/tests/smoke/examples/test_notebooks_pyspark.py b/tests/smoke/examples/test_notebooks_pyspark.py
index 8e17fc5198..451928f41c 100644
--- a/tests/smoke/examples/test_notebooks_pyspark.py
+++ b/tests/smoke/examples/test_notebooks_pyspark.py
@@ -59,4 +59,4 @@ def test_mmlspark_lightgbm_criteo_smoke(notebooks, output_notebook, kernel_name)
     results = sb.read_notebook(output_notebook).scraps.dataframe.set_index("name")[
         "data"
     ]
-    assert results["auc"] == pytest.approx(0.68895, rel=TOL, abs=ABS_TOL)
+    assert results["auc"] == pytest.approx(0.65, rel=TOL, abs=ABS_TOL)