diff --git a/src/dependencies/requirements/base_requirements/requirements.txt b/src/dependencies/requirements/base_requirements/requirements.txt
index fe6e05daf3..6acc90f9b4 100644
--- a/src/dependencies/requirements/base_requirements/requirements.txt
+++ b/src/dependencies/requirements/base_requirements/requirements.txt
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ tensorflow-text
 tensorflow
 tiktoken
 tokamax!=0.1.0
-transformers>=5.8.0
+transformers>=5.14.1
 uvloop
 qwix>=0.1.6
 coverage
diff --git a/src/dependencies/requirements/base_requirements/tpu-post-train-requirements.txt b/src/dependencies/requirements/base_requirements/tpu-post-train-requirements.txt
index 3af5f4967e..cae1e3d678 100644
--- a/src/dependencies/requirements/base_requirements/tpu-post-train-requirements.txt
+++ b/src/dependencies/requirements/base_requirements/tpu-post-train-requirements.txt
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ python-json-logger
 pyzmq
 ray
 setproctitle>=1.0
-setuptools==78.1.0
+setuptools==83.0.0
 torch==2.11.0
 watchfiles
 xgrammar
diff --git a/src/maxtext/inference/mlperf/requirements.txt b/src/maxtext/inference/mlperf/requirements.txt
index 51ae8c5bf7..d8c6623813 100644
--- a/src/maxtext/inference/mlperf/requirements.txt
+++ b/src/maxtext/inference/mlperf/requirements.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-transformers==4.31.0
-nltk==3.8.1
+transformers==5.5.0
+nltk==3.10.0
 evaluate==0.4.0
 absl-py==1.4.0
 rouge-score==0.1.2
-sentencepiece==0.1.99
+sentencepiece==0.2.1
 accelerate==0.21.0
 omegaconf