The latest spaCy versions have better performance and compatibility for GPU acceleration on Apple devices, but I have an existing project that depends on spaCy 3.1.4 and some of the specific behavior of the 3.1.0 models (web lg, web trf). Would it be possible to port the old models from source to work with newer versions of spaCy (e.g. 3.5) so I could get the same behavior and results, or do I need to use the model that comes with the respective spaCy version? (This would be on a mac M1, and the advantage is that newer versions of spaCy started supporting Metal Performance Shaders.) Continue reading...
