LibrePicoSAM3 - third-party attribution
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The PicoSAM3 architecture in this directory is a native LibreYOLO port from:

    Project:  PicoSAM3
    Upstream: https://github.com/pbonazzi/picosam3
    Commit:   1b03949e43472953bb0021685c7fc3f5fdf48fde
    License:  Apache License 2.0

The default checkpoint is downloaded from the LibreYOLO Hugging Face mirror
(`LibreYOLO/LibrePicoSAM3`), converted with unchanged tensor values from
`pietrobonazzi/picosam3` revision af49e4322b6b7cf448499fee5c073d4576f59444
under Apache-2.0. Only PicoSAM3_SAM3_student_best.pt matches the ported
architecture. The published epoch-1 artifacts contain an older architecture
and are deliberately rejected.

Upstream records SAM 2.1 and SAM 3 as distillation teachers. LibreYOLO does not
vendor or redistribute either teacher implementation or teacher checkpoint in
this family. No cctorch-derived source is used by this port.
