diff --git a/ultralytics/models/sam/sam3/decoder.py b/ultralytics/models/sam/sam3/decoder.py
index a1e1ad8a85..c1fbd838fd 100644
--- a/ultralytics/models/sam/sam3/decoder.py
+++ b/ultralytics/models/sam/sam3/decoder.py
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ class TransformerDecoder(nn.Module):
 
                 # clamp to mitigate numerical issues
                 if self.clamp_presence_logits:
-                    intermediate_layer_presence_logits.clamp(
+                    intermediate_layer_presence_logits.clamp_(
                         min=-self.clamp_presence_logit_max_val,
                         max=self.clamp_presence_logit_max_val,
                     )