can't fit a sparse matrix as training set using object.fit()

can't fit a sparse matrix as training set using object.fit()
and since the sparse matrix is [16000*3231961]. directly converting it to numpy array like is not practical.

Process to reproduce the issue

[ordered list the process to finding and recreating the issue, example below]

User creates a sparse matrix X and some array y, row number of X = length of y
User calls ReliefF fit(X,y)
ValueError: setting an array element with a sequence.