diff --git a/docker/torch-light.dockerfile b/docker/torch-light.dockerfile
index 524a68fd55407f..ee68759c1e18f2 100644
--- a/docker/torch-light.dockerfile
+++ b/docker/torch-light.dockerfile
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ RUN apt-get update &&  apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libsndfile1-de
 ENV UV_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python
 RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv && uv venv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir 'torch' 'torchvision' 'torchaudio' --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
+RUN pip install --no-cache-dir 'tiktoken'
 RUN uv pip install --no-deps timm accelerate --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu 
 RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir librosa "git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git@${REF}#egg=transformers[sklearn,sentencepiece,vision,testing]"
 RUN pip uninstall -y transformers
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