diff --git a/microsoft-Phi-4-reasoning/QNN/requirements.txt b/microsoft-Phi-4-reasoning/QNN/requirements.txt
index f5065dfda..d697d3b3c 100644
--- a/microsoft-Phi-4-reasoning/QNN/requirements.txt
+++ b/microsoft-Phi-4-reasoning/QNN/requirements.txt
@@ -14,4 +14,4 @@ tiktoken==0.12.0
 tokenicer==0.0.5
 tokenizers==0.22.2
 # newer transformers might have incompatibility with gptq passes
-transformers==4.57.3
+transformers==5.0.0rc3