diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1172d996..b118a8da 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "trame>=3.7",
     "trame-alerts",
     "trame-quasar",
-    "transformers==4.49.0",
+    "transformers==4.53.0",
     "datasets[vision]",
     "umap-learn",
     "nrtk[headless]==0.20.0",