Error Loading Spacy pickle model to gpu

[rajeshmore1]

I am trying to load spacy pickled model using spacy.load("path/model.pkl") as I wanted to use gpu.

spacy.prefer_gpu()
spacy.load("path/model.pkl")

Above code giving me error.
OSError: [E050] Can't find model '<spacy.lang.en.English object at 0x7e8e7d13ef20>'. It doesn't seem to be a Python package or a valid path to a data directory.

The data type of the model is spacy.lang.en.English, despite this I am getting error. Could you please suggest - how to use gpu to load the model to gpu and how to use it efficiently for inference?

Your Environment

• Operating System: Windows
• Python Version Used: 3.9
• spaCy Version Used: spacy_transformers==1.3.3, spacy==3.6.1
• Environment Information:

[svlandeg]

Do you get the same error without the spacy.prefer_gpu() command?

[rajeshmore1]

Hi Team, Thank you for the suggestion. The following approach worked in my case.

I had model in .pkl format. I converted the model into spacy compatible format by using to_disk function. ,( .pkl file converted into multiple folder structure which was spacy gpu compatible) Aftar that I followed the same procedure that you recommended. Thank you.