diff --git a/scope_intel/requirements.txt b/scope_intel/requirements.txt
index d8d0e4d..7f015db 100644
--- a/scope_intel/requirements.txt
+++ b/scope_intel/requirements.txt
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ celery[rabbitmq]>=5.5.0
 --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
 torch==2.11.0+cpu
 torchvision==0.26.0+cpu
-transformers>=4.50.0
+transformers>=5.12.1
 tokenizers>=0.21.0
 faiss-cpu>=1.11.0
 xgboost-cpu>=3.0.0,<4.0.0