diff --git a/src/main/scala/com/microsoft/lightgbm/CSRUtils.scala b/src/main/scala/com/microsoft/lightgbm/CSRUtils.scala
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..be2b0f454b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/scala/com/microsoft/lightgbm/CSRUtils.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+// Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
+// Licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE in project root for information.
+
+package com.microsoft.ml.lightgbm
+
+/** Temporary class that accepts int32_t arrays instead of void pointer arguments.
+  * TODO: Need to generate a new lightGBM jar with utility to convert int array
+  * to void pointer and then remove this file.
+  */
+object CSRUtils {
+  // scalastyle:off parameter.number
+  def LGBM_DatasetCreateFromCSR(var0: SWIGTYPE_p_int, var1: Int, var2: SWIGTYPE_p_int, var3: SWIGTYPE_p_void,
+                                var4: Int, var5: Int, var6: Int,
+                                var7: Int, var8: String, var9: SWIGTYPE_p_void,
+                                var10: SWIGTYPE_p_p_void): Int = {
+    lightgbmlibJNI.LGBM_DatasetCreateFromCSR(SWIGTYPE_p_int.getCPtr(var0), var1, SWIGTYPE_p_int.getCPtr(var2),
+      SWIGTYPE_p_void.getCPtr(var3), var4, var5, var6,
+      var7, var8, SWIGTYPE_p_void.getCPtr(var9), SWIGTYPE_p_p_void.getCPtr(var10))
+  }
+  // scalastyle:on parameter.number
+}
diff --git a/src/main/scala/com/microsoft/ml/spark/lightgbm/LightGBMUtils.scala b/src/main/scala/com/microsoft/ml/spark/lightgbm/LightGBMUtils.scala
index 3c5e653515d..0383e0a6d29 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/com/microsoft/ml/spark/lightgbm/LightGBMUtils.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/com/microsoft/ml/spark/lightgbm/LightGBMUtils.scala
@@ -255,6 +255,29 @@ object LightGBMUtils {
     dataset
   }
 
+
+  def newDoubleArray(array: Array[Double]): (SWIGTYPE_p_void, SWIGTYPE_p_double) = {
+    val data = lightgbmlib.new_doubleArray(array.length)
+    array.zipWithIndex.foreach {
+      case (value, index) => lightgbmlib.doubleArray_setitem(data, index, value)
+    }
+    (lightgbmlib.double_to_voidp_ptr(data), data)
+  }
+
+  def newIntArray(array: Array[Int]): (SWIGTYPE_p_int, SWIGTYPE_p_int) = {
+    val data = lightgbmlib.new_intArray(array.length)
+    array.zipWithIndex.foreach {
+      case (value, index) => lightgbmlib.intArray_setitem(data, index, value)
+    }
+    (lightgbmlib.int_to_int32_t_ptr(data), data)
+  }
+
+  def intToPtr(value: Int): SWIGTYPE_p_long = {
+    val longPtr = lightgbmlib.new_longp()
+    lightgbmlib.longp_assign(longPtr, value)
+    longPtr
+  }
+
   /** Generates a sparse dataset in CSR format.
     *
     * @param sparseRows The rows of sparse vector.
@@ -264,21 +287,41 @@ object LightGBMUtils {
                             referenceDataset: Option[LightGBMDataset],
                             featureNamesOpt: Option[Array[String]],
                             trainParams: TrainParams): LightGBMDataset = {
-    val numCols = sparseRows(0).size
+    var values: Option[(SWIGTYPE_p_void, SWIGTYPE_p_double)] = None
+    var indexes: Option[(SWIGTYPE_p_int, SWIGTYPE_p_int)] = None
+    var indptrNative: Option[(SWIGTYPE_p_int, SWIGTYPE_p_int)] = None
+    try {
+      val valuesArray = sparseRows.flatMap(_.values)
+      values = Some(newDoubleArray(valuesArray))
+      val indexesArray = sparseRows.flatMap(_.indices)
+      indexes = Some(newIntArray(indexesArray))
+      val indptr = new Array[Int](sparseRows.length + 1)
+      sparseRows.zipWithIndex.foreach {
+        case (row, index) => indptr(index + 1) = indptr(index) + row.numNonzeros
+      }
+      indptrNative = Some(newIntArray(indptr))
+      val numCols = sparseRows(0).size
 
-    val datasetOutPtr = lightgbmlib.voidpp_handle()
-    val datasetParams = s"max_bin=${trainParams.maxBin} is_pre_partition=True " +
-      (if (trainParams.categoricalFeatures.isEmpty) ""
-       else s"categorical_feature=${trainParams.categoricalFeatures.mkString(",")}")
-    // Generate the dataset for features
-    LightGBMUtils.validate(lightgbmlib.LGBM_DatasetCreateFromCSRSpark(
-      sparseRows.asInstanceOf[Array[Object]],
-      sparseRows.length,
-      numCols, datasetParams, referenceDataset.map(_.datasetPtr).orNull,
-      datasetOutPtr),
-      "Dataset create")
-    val dataset = new LightGBMDataset(lightgbmlib.voidpp_value(datasetOutPtr))
-    dataset.setFeatureNames(featureNamesOpt, numCols)
-    dataset
+      val datasetOutPtr = lightgbmlib.voidpp_handle()
+      val datasetParams = "max_bin=255 is_pre_partition=True"
+      val dataInt32bitType = lightgbmlibConstants.C_API_DTYPE_INT32
+      val data64bitType = lightgbmlibConstants.C_API_DTYPE_FLOAT64
+      // Generate the dataset for features
+      LightGBMUtils.validate(CSRUtils.LGBM_DatasetCreateFromCSR(
+        indptrNative.get._1, dataInt32bitType,
+        indexes.get._1, values.get._1, data64bitType,
+        indptr.length, valuesArray.length,
+        numCols, datasetParams, referenceDataset.map(_.datasetPtr).orNull,
+        datasetOutPtr),
+        "Dataset create")
+      val dataset = new LightGBMDataset(lightgbmlib.voidpp_value(datasetOutPtr))
+      dataset.setFeatureNames(featureNamesOpt, numCols)
+      dataset
+    } finally {
+      // Delete the input rows
+      if (values.isDefined)  lightgbmlib.delete_doubleArray(values.get._2)
+      if (indexes.isDefined) lightgbmlib.delete_intArray(indexes.get._2)
+      if (indptrNative.isDefined) lightgbmlib.delete_intArray(indptrNative.get._2)
+    }
   }
 }