diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/DecisionTree.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/DecisionTree.scala
index dd766c12d28a4..2070fa7efd664 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/DecisionTree.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/DecisionTree.scala
@@ -738,12 +738,15 @@ object DecisionTree extends Serializable with Logging {
     val leftCount = leftImpurityCalculator.count
     val rightCount = rightImpurityCalculator.count
 
-    val totalCount = leftCount + rightCount
-    if (totalCount == 0) {
-      // Return arbitrary prediction.
-      return new InformationGainStats(0, topImpurity, topImpurity, topImpurity, 0)
+    // If left child or right child doesn't satisfy minimum instances per node,
+    // then this split is invalid, return invalid information gain stats
+    if ((leftCount < metadata.minInstancesPerNode) ||
+      (rightCount < metadata.minInstancesPerNode)) {
+      return InformationGainStats.invalidInformationGainStats
     }
 
+    val totalCount = leftCount + rightCount
+
     val parentNodeAgg = leftImpurityCalculator.copy
     parentNodeAgg.add(rightImpurityCalculator)
     // impurity of parent node
@@ -763,6 +766,9 @@ object DecisionTree extends Serializable with Logging {
     val rightWeight = rightCount / totalCount.toDouble
 
     val gain = impurity - leftWeight * leftImpurity - rightWeight * rightImpurity
+    if (gain < metadata.minInfoGain) {
+      return InformationGainStats.invalidInformationGainStats
+    }
 
     new InformationGainStats(gain, impurity, leftImpurity, rightImpurity, predict, prob)
   }
@@ -807,6 +813,9 @@ object DecisionTree extends Serializable with Logging {
               calculateGainForSplit(leftChildStats, rightChildStats, nodeImpurity, level, metadata)
             (splitIdx, gainStats)
           }.maxBy(_._2.gain)
+        if (bestFeatureGainStats == InformationGainStats.invalidInformationGainStats) {
+          (Split.noSplit, InformationGainStats.invalidInformationGainStats)
+        }
         (splits(featureIndex)(bestFeatureSplitIndex), bestFeatureGainStats)
       } else if (metadata.isUnordered(featureIndex)) {
         // Unordered categorical feature
@@ -820,6 +829,9 @@ object DecisionTree extends Serializable with Logging {
               calculateGainForSplit(leftChildStats, rightChildStats, nodeImpurity, level, metadata)
             (splitIndex, gainStats)
           }.maxBy(_._2.gain)
+        if (bestFeatureGainStats == InformationGainStats.invalidInformationGainStats) {
+          (Split.noSplit, InformationGainStats.invalidInformationGainStats)
+        }
         (splits(featureIndex)(bestFeatureSplitIndex), bestFeatureGainStats)
       } else {
         // Ordered categorical feature
@@ -891,6 +903,9 @@ object DecisionTree extends Serializable with Logging {
               calculateGainForSplit(leftChildStats, rightChildStats, nodeImpurity, level, metadata)
             (splitIndex, gainStats)
           }.maxBy(_._2.gain)
+        if (bestFeatureGainStats == InformationGainStats.invalidInformationGainStats) {
+          (Split.noSplit, InformationGainStats.invalidInformationGainStats)
+        }
         val categoriesForSplit =
           categoriesSortedByCentroid.map(_._1.toDouble).slice(0, bestFeatureSplitIndex + 1)
         val bestFeatureSplit =
diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/configuration/Strategy.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/configuration/Strategy.scala
index cfc8192a85abd..48b958fb95975 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/configuration/Strategy.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/configuration/Strategy.scala
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ class Strategy (
     val maxBins: Int = 100,
     val quantileCalculationStrategy: QuantileStrategy = Sort,
     val categoricalFeaturesInfo: Map[Int, Int] = Map[Int, Int](),
+    val minInstancesPerNode: Int = 0,
+    val minInfoGain: Double = 0.0,
     val maxMemoryInMB: Int = 128) extends Serializable {
 
   if (algo == Classification) {
diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/impl/DecisionTreeMetadata.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/impl/DecisionTreeMetadata.scala
index e95add7558bcf..5ceaa8154d11a 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/impl/DecisionTreeMetadata.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/impl/DecisionTreeMetadata.scala
@@ -45,7 +45,9 @@ private[tree] class DecisionTreeMetadata(
     val unorderedFeatures: Set[Int],
     val numBins: Array[Int],
     val impurity: Impurity,
-    val quantileStrategy: QuantileStrategy) extends Serializable {
+    val quantileStrategy: QuantileStrategy,
+    val minInstancesPerNode: Int,
+    val minInfoGain: Double) extends Serializable {
 
   def isUnordered(featureIndex: Int): Boolean = unorderedFeatures.contains(featureIndex)
 
@@ -127,7 +129,8 @@ private[tree] object DecisionTreeMetadata {
 
     new DecisionTreeMetadata(numFeatures, numExamples, numClasses, numBins.max,
       strategy.categoricalFeaturesInfo, unorderedFeatures.toSet, numBins,
-      strategy.impurity, strategy.quantileCalculationStrategy)
+      strategy.impurity, strategy.quantileCalculationStrategy,
+      strategy.minInstancesPerNode, strategy.minInfoGain)
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/model/InformationGainStats.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/model/InformationGainStats.scala
index fb12298e0f5d3..dce9d2ec8a5f2 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/model/InformationGainStats.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/model/InformationGainStats.scala
@@ -43,3 +43,8 @@ class InformationGainStats(
       .format(gain, impurity, leftImpurity, rightImpurity, predict, prob)
   }
 }
+
+
+private[tree] object InformationGainStats {
+  val invalidInformationGainStats = new InformationGainStats(Double.MinValue, -1.0, -1.0, -1.0, 0.0)
+}
diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/model/Split.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/model/Split.scala
index 50fb48b40de3d..da1aefb01c6ef 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/model/Split.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/model/Split.scala
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ package org.apache.spark.mllib.tree.model
 
 import org.apache.spark.annotation.DeveloperApi
 import org.apache.spark.mllib.tree.configuration.FeatureType.FeatureType
+import org.apache.spark.mllib.tree.configuration.FeatureType
+import org.apache.spark.mllib.tree.configuration.FeatureType.FeatureType
 
 /**
  * :: DeveloperApi ::
@@ -66,3 +68,7 @@ private[tree] class DummyHighSplit(feature: Int, featureType: FeatureType)
 private[tree] class DummyCategoricalSplit(feature: Int, featureType: FeatureType)
   extends Split(feature, Double.MaxValue, featureType, List())
 
+
+private[tree] object Split {
+  val noSplit = new Split(-1, Double.MinValue, FeatureType.Continuous, List())
+}
diff --git a/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/DecisionTreeSuite.scala b/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/DecisionTreeSuite.scala
index 8e556c917b2e7..bb3d1e03c69a4 100644
--- a/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/DecisionTreeSuite.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/DecisionTreeSuite.scala
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ import org.apache.spark.mllib.tree.configuration.FeatureType._
 import org.apache.spark.mllib.tree.configuration.Strategy
 import org.apache.spark.mllib.tree.impl.{DecisionTreeMetadata, TreePoint}
 import org.apache.spark.mllib.tree.impurity.{Entropy, Gini, Variance}
-import org.apache.spark.mllib.tree.model.{DecisionTreeModel, Node}
+import org.apache.spark.mllib.tree.model.{Split, DecisionTreeModel, Node}
 import org.apache.spark.mllib.util.LocalSparkContext
 
 
@@ -684,6 +684,45 @@ class DecisionTreeSuite extends FunSuite with LocalSparkContext {
     validateClassifier(model, arr, 0.6)
   }
 
+  test("split must satisfy min instances per node requirements") {
+    val arr = new Array[LabeledPoint](3)
+    arr(0) = new LabeledPoint(0.0, Vectors.sparse(2, Seq((0, 0.0))))
+    arr(1) = new LabeledPoint(1.0, Vectors.sparse(2, Seq((1, 1.0))))
+    arr(2) = new LabeledPoint(0.0, Vectors.sparse(2, Seq((0, 1.0))))
+
+    val input = sc.parallelize(arr)
+    val strategy = new Strategy(algo = Classification, impurity = Gini, maxDepth = 2,
+      numClassesForClassification = 2, minInstancesPerNode = 4)
+
+    val model = DecisionTree.train(input, strategy)
+    assert(model.topNode.isLeaf)
+    assert(model.topNode.predict == 0.0)
+    assert(model.topNode.split.get == Split.noSplit)
+    val predicts = input.map(p => model.predict(p.features)).collect()
+    predicts.foreach { predict =>
+      assert(predict == 0.0)
+    }
+  }
+
+  test("split must satisfy min info gain requirements") {
+    val arr = new Array[LabeledPoint](3)
+    arr(0) = new LabeledPoint(0.0, Vectors.sparse(2, Seq((0, 0.0))))
+    arr(1) = new LabeledPoint(1.0, Vectors.sparse(2, Seq((1, 1.0))))
+    arr(2) = new LabeledPoint(0.0, Vectors.sparse(2, Seq((0, 1.0))))
+
+    val input = sc.parallelize(arr)
+    val strategy = new Strategy(algo = Classification, impurity = Gini, maxDepth = 2,
+      numClassesForClassification = 2, minInfoGain = 1.0)
+
+    val model = DecisionTree.train(input, strategy)
+    assert(model.topNode.isLeaf)
+    assert(model.topNode.predict == 0.0)
+    assert(model.topNode.split.get == Split.noSplit)
+    val predicts = input.map(p => model.predict(p.features)).collect()
+    predicts.foreach { predict =>
+      assert(predict == 0.0)
+    }
+  }
 }
 
 object DecisionTreeSuite {