diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 6ed2b65d2..cf3c32c14 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ plotly[kaleido]==6.2.0
 seaborn==0.13.2 # To visualize clustering results
 
 # --- Machine Learning / Optimization ---
-scikit-learn==1.6.1
+scikit-learn==1.7.2
 optuna==4.5.0
 umap-learn==0.5.8 # Dimensionality reduction to visualize node embeddings in 2D