Forward compatibility of sklearn models saved with skops.io

[tachukao]

Are sklearn models saved with skops.io forward compatible? For example, if I have a model trained and saved with sklearn 1.0, would it still work in sklearn 1.1?

[adrinjalali]

The format doesn't fix the forward compatibility issue. scikit-learn internals change quite often, and there's nothing we can do about that, and when they change, setting the attributes from the old model won't work for new models.

But we should add this to our documentation.

[tachukao]

@adrinjalali thanks for the clarification!

[BenjaminBossan]

If more questions around this topic come up, feel free to re-open the issue.

[adrinjalali]

I think we can keep this issue open till we add it to our docs @BenjaminBossan