diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 0639de6..fdfbde3 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,5 +5,5 @@ PyYAML>=6.0
 dgl==2.1.0
 pydantic>=1.10,<2
 requests>=2.31
-transformers==4.37.2
+transformers==5.3.0
 safetensors
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index cb5704b..a622ef5 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ install_requires =
 gnn =
     torch
     torch-geometric
-    transformers==4.37.2
+    transformers==5.3.0
     safetensors
 
 [options.packages.find]