diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ef3833a..578ebd4 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "tiktoken>=0.11.0",
     "tokenizers>=0.22.0",
     "torch>=2.8.0",
+    "transformers>=4.0.0",
     "uvicorn>=0.36.0",
     "wandb>=0.21.3",
 ]