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Hugging Face Transformers library adds support for SAM-3 Lite-Text, replacing the heavy text encoder with a compact MobileCLIP student model trained via knowledge distillation, achieving 88% parameter reduction while maintaining performance.

We've added support for SAM-3 Lite-Text in the Transformers library! > replaces the heavy text encoder in SAM-3 with a compact MobileCLIP student > trained via knowledge distillation > maintains performance while reducing parameters by 88%
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We’ve added support for SAM-3 Lite-Text in the Transformers library! > replaces the heavy text encoder in SAM-3 with a compact MobileCLIP student > trained via knowledge distillation > maintains performance while reducing parameters by 88%

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