diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
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+# Ultralytics 🚀 AGPL-3.0 License - https://ultralytics.com/license
+
+[build-system]
+# Define the build dependencies and backend for packaging
+requires = ["setuptools>=70", "wheel"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+# Basic project metadata
+name = "mobileclip"
+version = "0.1.0"
+description = "MobileCLIP"
+authors = [
+    {name = "Apple"}
+]
+readme = "README.md"  # Points to README.md for long description
+requires-python = ">=3.8"  # Supports Python>=3.8
+keywords = ["Ultralytics", "Mobile", "CLIP", "pretrained"]  # Keywords for PyPI search
+
+# Project classifiers for PyPI
+classifiers = [
+    "Development Status :: 3 - Alpha",
+    "Intended Audience :: Education",
+    "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13",
+    "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering",
+    "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence",
+    "Topic :: Software Development",
+    "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries",
+    "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules"
+]
+
+# Core package dependencies
+dependencies = [
+    "open-clip-torch>=2.20.0", # Open-source implementation of CLIP
+    "timm>=0.9.5",            # PyTorch Image Models
+]
+
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+full = [
+    "clip-benchmark>=1.4.0",  # Benchmarking tools for CLIP models
+    "datasets",               # Hugging Face datasets library
+    "torch>=2.1.0",           # PyTorch deep learning framework
+    "torchvision>=0.16.0"     # Computer vision library for PyTorch
+]
+
+[project.urls]
+# Project URLs for PyPI page
+Homepage = "https://github.com/apple/ml-mobileclip"
+
+[tool.setuptools]
+# Package discovery configuration
+packages = {find = {include = ["mobileclip*"]}}  # Auto-discover all mobileclip packages
+include-package-data = true  # Include non-Python files from MANIFEST.in
+
+[tool.setuptools.data-files]
+# Additional data files to include in the distribution
+"model-config" = ["mobileclip/configs/*"]  # Model configuration files
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
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-clip-benchmark>=1.4.0
-datasets
-open-clip-torch>=2.20.0
-timm>=0.9.5
-torch>=2.1.0
-torchvision>=0.16.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
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-#
-# For licensing see accompanying LICENSE file.
-# Copyright (C) 2024 Apple Inc. All Rights Reserved.
-#
-import os
-from codecs import open
-from os import path
-
-from setuptools import find_packages, setup
-
-here = path.abspath(path.dirname(__file__))
-
-with open(path.join(here, "README.md"), encoding="utf-8") as f:
-    long_description = f.read()
-
-
-def _read_reqs(relpath):
-    fullpath = path.join(path.dirname(__file__), relpath)
-    with open(fullpath) as f:
-        return [s.strip() for s in f.readlines() if (s.strip() and not s.startswith("#"))]
-
-
-def get_files(path, relative_to="."):
-    all_files = []
-    for root, _dirs, files in os.walk(path, followlinks=True):
-        root = os.path.relpath(root, relative_to)
-        for file in files:
-            if file.endswith(".pyc"):
-                continue
-            all_files.append(os.path.join(root, file))
-    return all_files
-
-
-REQUIREMENTS = _read_reqs("requirements.txt")
-
-setup(
-    name="mobileclip",
-    version="0.1.0",
-    description="MobileCLIP",
-    url="https://github.com/apple/ml-mobileclip",
-    author="",
-    author_email="",
-    classifiers=[
-        "Development Status :: 3 - Alpha",
-        "Intended Audience :: Education",
-        "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
-        "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering",
-        "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence",
-        "Topic :: Software Development",
-        "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries",
-        "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules",
-    ],
-    # Note that this is a string of words separated by whitespace, not a list.
-    keywords="Mobile CLIP pretrained",
-    data_files=[
-        ("model-config", get_files("mobileclip/configs")),
-    ],
-    packages=find_packages(include=["mobileclip*"]),
-    include_package_data=True,
-    install_requires=REQUIREMENTS,
-    python_requires=">=3.7",
-)