Do 3.4.0 English models use floret vectors?

[kinghuang]

The release notes for spaCy 3.4.0 mention that the English pipelines have new word vectors, and link to spacy-vectors-builder. Does this mean that en_core_web_md and en_core_web_lg now have floret vectors? Or, are there separate en_core_news_md and en_core_news_lg models with floret vectors?

I'm not sure if the en_core_news_md and en_core_news_lg in the notes are a typo, or a separate set of models with floret vectors.

[polm]

Sorry this was confusing. The current English pipelines do not use floret vectors, including in 3.4. You can check whether a pipeline uses floret vectors with nlp.vocab.vectors.mode - it will be floret for floret vectors, or default for the standard style vectors that predate floret.

The blog post does include some English pipelines with floret vectors (and nothing else) for demonstration purposes, but they have names like en_vectors_floret - en_core_news is just a typo.

The updates to vectors in 3.4 were to fix long-standing issues like case sensitivity; see #2281.

[kinghuang]

Thanks for the clarification!