diff --git a/container-images/cpu/mft-fine-tuning/pytorch/src/requirements.txt b/container-images/cpu/mft-fine-tuning/pytorch/src/requirements.txt
index df4d70d4e..142728d4a 100644
--- a/container-images/cpu/mft-fine-tuning/pytorch/src/requirements.txt
+++ b/container-images/cpu/mft-fine-tuning/pytorch/src/requirements.txt
@@ -10,5 +10,5 @@ pynvml==11.5.3
 rich==14.2.0
 thejsonlogger==0.0.3
 torch==2.5.1
-transformers==4.46.1
+transformers==4.53.0
 trl==0.11.4