diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index fcb04982..2b63b8f5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ classifiers=[
 dependencies = [
 "numpy>=1.26.4,<2.0",
 "accelerate>=0.20.3,<0.34",
-"transformers>4.41,<5.0",
+"transformers>4.41,<4.45",
 "torch>=2.2.0,<3.0",
 "sentencepiece>=0.1.99,<0.3",
 "tokenizers>=0.13.3,<1.0",