diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/classification/DecisionTreeClassifier.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/classification/DecisionTreeClassifier.scala
index 11d43d1b31fb1..d83df697a04a6 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/classification/DecisionTreeClassifier.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/classification/DecisionTreeClassifier.scala
@@ -209,6 +209,44 @@ class DecisionTreeClassificationModel private[ml] (
     rootNode.predictImpl(features).prediction
   }
 
+  override protected def predictRawColumn(features: Column): Column = {
+    val localRootNode = rootNode
+    udf((features: Vector) =>
+      DecisionTreeClassificationModel.predictRaw(features, localRootNode)
+    ).apply(features)
+  }
+
+  override protected def raw2probabilityColumn(rawPrediction: Column): Column = {
+    udf((rawPrediction: Vector) =>
+      DecisionTreeClassificationModel.raw2probability(rawPrediction)
+    ).apply(rawPrediction)
+  }
+
+  override protected def predictProbabilityColumn(features: Column): Column = {
+    val localRootNode = rootNode
+    udf((features: Vector) => {
+      val rawPrediction = DecisionTreeClassificationModel.predictRaw(features, localRootNode)
+      DecisionTreeClassificationModel.raw2probability(rawPrediction)
+    }).apply(features)
+  }
+
+  override protected def raw2predictionColumn(rawPrediction: Column): Column = {
+    if (isDefined(thresholds)) {
+      val localThresholds = getThresholds.clone()
+      udf((rawPrediction: Vector) => {
+        val probability = DecisionTreeClassificationModel.raw2probability(rawPrediction)
+        ProbabilisticClassificationModel.probability2prediction(probability, localThresholds)
+      }).apply(rawPrediction)
+    } else {
+      udf((rawPrediction: Vector) => rawPrediction.argmax.toDouble).apply(rawPrediction)
+    }
+  }
+
+  override protected def predictionColumn(features: Column): Column = {
+    val localRootNode = rootNode
+    udf((features: Vector) => localRootNode.predictImpl(features).prediction).apply(features)
+  }
+
   @Since("3.0.0")
   override def transformSchema(schema: StructType): StructType = {
     var outputSchema = super.transformSchema(schema)
@@ -223,7 +261,10 @@ class DecisionTreeClassificationModel private[ml] (
 
     val outputData = super.transform(dataset)
     if ($(leafCol).nonEmpty) {
-      val leafUDF = udf { features: Vector => predictLeaf(features) }
+      val localRootNode = rootNode
+      val leafUDF = udf { features: Vector =>
+        DecisionTreeModel.predictLeaf(features, localRootNode)
+      }
       outputData.withColumn($(leafCol), leafUDF(col($(featuresCol))),
         outputSchema($(leafCol)).metadata)
     } else {
@@ -233,7 +274,7 @@ class DecisionTreeClassificationModel private[ml] (
 
   @Since("3.0.0")
   override def predictRaw(features: Vector): Vector = {
-    Vectors.dense(rootNode.predictImpl(features).impurityStats.stats.clone())
+    DecisionTreeClassificationModel.predictRaw(features, rootNode)
   }
 
   override protected def raw2probabilityInPlace(rawPrediction: Vector): Vector = {
@@ -291,6 +332,16 @@ class DecisionTreeClassificationModel private[ml] (
 @Since("2.0.0")
 object DecisionTreeClassificationModel extends MLReadable[DecisionTreeClassificationModel] {
 
+  private def predictRaw(features: Vector, rootNode: Node): Vector = {
+    Vectors.dense(rootNode.predictImpl(features).impurityStats.stats.clone())
+  }
+
+  private def raw2probability(rawPrediction: Vector): Vector = {
+    val probability = rawPrediction.copy.toDense
+    ProbabilisticClassificationModel.normalizeToProbabilitiesInPlace(probability)
+    probability
+  }
+
   @Since("2.0.0")
   override def read: MLReader[DecisionTreeClassificationModel] =
     new DecisionTreeClassificationModelReader
diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/classification/ProbabilisticClassifier.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/classification/ProbabilisticClassifier.scala
index 2e3e681df9391..8be033d22db84 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/classification/ProbabilisticClassifier.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/classification/ProbabilisticClassifier.scala
@@ -194,7 +194,14 @@ abstract class ProbabilisticClassificationModel[
    * @note This method honors [[thresholds]] when they are set.
    */
   protected def probability2predictionColumn(probability: Column): Column = {
-    udf(probability2prediction _).apply(probability)
+    if (isDefined(thresholds)) {
+      val localThresholds = getThresholds.clone()
+      udf((probability: Vector) =>
+        ProbabilisticClassificationModel.probability2prediction(probability, localThresholds)
+      ).apply(probability)
+    } else {
+      udf((probability: Vector) => probability.argmax.toDouble).apply(probability)
+    }
   }
 
   /** @group setParam */
diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/regression/DecisionTreeRegressor.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/regression/DecisionTreeRegressor.scala
index 4a5c3b5790354..79339807a2b6b 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/regression/DecisionTreeRegressor.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/regression/DecisionTreeRegressor.scala
@@ -218,26 +218,33 @@ class DecisionTreeRegressionModel private[ml] (
   @Since("2.0.0")
   override def transform(dataset: Dataset[_]): DataFrame = {
     val outputSchema = transformSchema(dataset.schema, logging = true)
+    val localRootNode = rootNode
 
     var predictionColNames = Seq.empty[String]
     var predictionColumns = Seq.empty[Column]
 
     if ($(predictionCol).nonEmpty) {
-      val predictUDF = udf { features: Vector => predict(features) }
+      val predictUDF = udf { features: Vector =>
+        localRootNode.predictImpl(features).prediction
+      }
       predictionColNames :+= $(predictionCol)
       predictionColumns :+= predictUDF(col($(featuresCol)))
         .as($(predictionCol), outputSchema($(predictionCol)).metadata)
     }
 
     if (isDefined(varianceCol) && $(varianceCol).nonEmpty) {
-      val predictVarianceUDF = udf { features: Vector => predictVariance(features) }
+      val predictVarianceUDF = udf { features: Vector =>
+        localRootNode.predictImpl(features).impurityStats.calculate()
+      }
       predictionColNames :+= $(varianceCol)
       predictionColumns :+= predictVarianceUDF(col($(featuresCol)))
         .as($(varianceCol), outputSchema($(varianceCol)).metadata)
     }
 
     if ($(leafCol).nonEmpty) {
-      val leafUDF = udf { features: Vector => predictLeaf(features) }
+      val leafUDF = udf { features: Vector =>
+        DecisionTreeModel.predictLeaf(features, localRootNode)
+      }
       predictionColNames :+= $(leafCol)
       predictionColumns :+= leafUDF(col($(featuresCol)))
         .as($(leafCol), outputSchema($(leafCol)).metadata)
diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/tree/treeModels.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/tree/treeModels.scala
index 5f45cc3315621..70d5589ab7b6a 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/tree/treeModels.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/tree/treeModels.scala
@@ -94,9 +94,7 @@ private[spark] trait DecisionTreeModel {
    *         Leaves are indexed in pre-order from 0.
    */
   def predictLeaf(features: Vector): Double = {
-    val leaf = rootNode.predictImpl(features)
-    assert(leaf.leafIndex >= 0, "Leaf indices are not assigned.")
-    leaf.leafIndex.toDouble
+    DecisionTreeModel.predictLeaf(features, rootNode)
   }
 
   def getEstimatedSize(): Long = {
@@ -104,6 +102,15 @@ private[spark] trait DecisionTreeModel {
   }
 }
 
+private[spark] object DecisionTreeModel {
+
+  private[ml] def predictLeaf(features: Vector, rootNode: Node): Double = {
+    val leaf = rootNode.predictImpl(features)
+    assert(leaf.leafIndex >= 0, "Leaf indices are not assigned.")
+    leaf.leafIndex.toDouble
+  }
+}
+
 /**
  * Abstraction for models which are ensembles of decision trees
  * @tparam M  Type of tree model in this ensemble