diff --git a/requirements/requirements-convert_hf_to_gguf.txt b/requirements/requirements-convert_hf_to_gguf.txt
index b1f7c863e..3be931a4f 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements-convert_hf_to_gguf.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements-convert_hf_to_gguf.txt
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
 
 ## Embedding Gemma requires PyTorch 2.6.0 or later, bumped to 2.11.0 for compatibility
-torch==2.11.0
+torch==2.12.1+cpu
diff --git a/tools/mtmd/requirements.txt b/tools/mtmd/requirements.txt
index d646ca7b0..7c3009bf4 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/requirements.txt
+++ b/tools/mtmd/requirements.txt
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
 pillow~=11.3.0
 
-torch==2.11.0 # check_requirements: ignore "=="
+torch==2.12.1+cpu # check_requirements: ignore "=="
 torchvision==0.26.0; platform_machine != "s390x" # check_requirements: ignore "=="