EfficientSAM3 v0.2.0 — SAM3-LiteText

EfficientSAM3 — SAM3-LiteText (2026-02-18)

We’re releasing SAM3-LiteText, a highly efficient text encoder variant for SAM3.

• What’s new

  • SAM3-LiteText released! Reduces text encoder parameters by up to 88% with similar performance to the original text encoder.
  • Paper Released: arXiv:2602.12173 (PDF)
  • Code: Available in the sam3_litetext branch.

• Get the weights

  • Download from Hugging Face: Simon7108528/EfficientSAM3/tree/main/sam3_litetext

• Quick start

  • Checkout the branch: git checkout sam3_litetext
  • Install: pip install -e ".[stage1]"
  • Run inference with the new lite text encoders.