diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 0a1de17e..594fb94b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ sacred
 tensorflow==2.4.0
 tensorflow-datasets==3.2.1
 tokenizers==0.9.4
-transformers
+transformers==4.1.1
 tpunicorn
 absl-py
 ftfy