diff --git a/guidance_esm/eks/requirements.txt b/guidance_esm/eks/requirements.txt
index cf30ffa..5ac11db 100644
--- a/guidance_esm/eks/requirements.txt
+++ b/guidance_esm/eks/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 accelerate==0.32.1
 datasets==2.20.0
 pyfastx==2.1.0
-transformers==4.42.4
+transformers==4.50.0
 boto3==1.34.144
 huggingface_hub==0.23.4
 chardet==5.2.0