diff --git a/microsoft-Phi-4-reasoning/QAIRT/requirements.txt b/microsoft-Phi-4-reasoning/QAIRT/requirements.txt
index f2649068c..e5b78d501 100644
--- a/microsoft-Phi-4-reasoning/QAIRT/requirements.txt
+++ b/microsoft-Phi-4-reasoning/QAIRT/requirements.txt
@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ protobuf==5.28.2
 pydantic==2.11.3
 tokenizers==0.21.0
 torch<2.9
-transformers==4.51.1
+transformers==4.53.0