diff --git a/python/cuml/explainer/kernel_shap.pyx b/python/cuml/explainer/kernel_shap.pyx
index 6a2281e76e..eb312775e8 100644
--- a/python/cuml/explainer/kernel_shap.pyx
+++ b/python/cuml/explainer/kernel_shap.pyx
@@ -645,8 +645,13 @@ def _weighted_linear_regression(X,
         # from nonzero_inds and some additional arrays
         # nonzero_inds tells us which cols of X to use
         y = y - X[:, nonzero_inds[-1]] * (fx - expected_value)
-        Xw = cp.transpose(
-            cp.transpose(X[:, nonzero_inds[:-1]]) - X[:, nonzero_inds[-1]])
+        if len(nonzero_inds) == 1:
+            # when only one index is nonzero, use that column
+            Xw = X[:, nonzero_inds]
+        else:
+            Xw = cp.transpose(
+                    cp.transpose(
+                        X[:, nonzero_inds[:-1]]) - X[:, nonzero_inds[-1]])
 
         Xw = Xw * cp.sqrt(weights[:, cp.newaxis])
         y = y * cp.sqrt(weights)
diff --git a/python/cuml/test/explainer/test_explainer_kernel_shap.py b/python/cuml/test/explainer/test_explainer_kernel_shap.py
index 219801f384..ec6e6cce18 100644
--- a/python/cuml/test/explainer/test_explainer_kernel_shap.py
+++ b/python/cuml/test/explainer/test_explainer_kernel_shap.py
@@ -21,9 +21,11 @@
 import pytest
 import sklearn.neighbors
 
+from cuml import Lasso
 from cuml import KernelExplainer
 from cuml.common.import_utils import has_scipy
 from cuml.common.import_utils import has_shap
+from cuml.datasets import make_regression
 from cuml.test.conftest import create_synthetic_dataset
 from cuml.test.utils import ClassEnumerator
 from cuml.test.utils import get_shap_values
@@ -322,6 +324,18 @@ def test_l1_regularization(exact_shap_regression_dataset, l1_type):
     assert isinstance(nz, cp.ndarray)
 
 
+def test_typeerror_input():
+    X, y = make_regression(n_samples=100, n_features=10, random_state=10)
+    clf = Lasso()
+    clf.fit(X, y)
+    exp = KernelExplainer(model=clf.predict, data=X, nsamples=10)
+    try:
+        _ = exp.shap_values(X)
+        assert True
+    except TypeError:
+        assert False
+
+
 ###############################################################################
 #                                 Precomputed results                         #
 #                               and testing variables                         #