diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b9d52c5b2..aca426bb2 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@ pytest-benchmark
 requests
 tabulate
 git+https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-image-models.git@730b907
-# this version of transformers is required as per this page https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1
-transformers==4.38.1
+# this version of transformers is required by linger-kernel
+# https://github.com/linkedin/Liger-Kernel/blob/main/pyproject.toml#L23
+transformers==4.44.2
 MonkeyType
 psutil
 pyyaml