I recommend following the instructions of the official documentation. And as I see, there is no direct upgrade guide available.
https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/upgrade
First upgrade your project to 5.2, then to 5.3 and eventually to 5.4. But others are welcome to prove me wrong.
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