diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 68dc54393..86fea18b9 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ setuptools.setup(
             "statsmodels>=0.12.2",
             "psutil==5.8.0",
             "dataclasses",
-            "transformers[torch]==4.18",
+            "transformers[torch]",
             "datasets",
             "nltk",
             "rouge_score",
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ setuptools.setup(
             "vowpalwabbit>=8.10.0, <9.0.0",
         ],
         "nlp": [
-            "transformers[torch]==4.18",
+            "transformers[torch]==4.26",
             "datasets",
             "nltk",
             "rouge_score",