diff --git a/nemo/retriever-synthetic-data-generation/requirements.txt b/nemo/retriever-synthetic-data-generation/requirements.txt
index 239948b2a..689169273 100644
--- a/nemo/retriever-synthetic-data-generation/requirements.txt
+++ b/nemo/retriever-synthetic-data-generation/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ openai==1.16.1
 pandas==2.2.1
 pydantic==2.6.4
 tqdm==4.66.2
-transformers==4.42.1
+transformers==4.53.0
 hydra-core==1.3.2
 nltk==3.8.1
 beir==2.0.0