diff --git a/mlflow/ml-package-versions.yml b/mlflow/ml-package-versions.yml
index 585752961ee6b..9e1f33512da86 100644
--- a/mlflow/ml-package-versions.yml
+++ b/mlflow/ml-package-versions.yml
@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ sentence_transformers:
     minimum: "2.2.2"
     maximum: "2.2.2"
     requirements:
-      ">= 0.0.0": ["pyspark", "torch>1.6", "transformers>4.25"]
+      ">= 0.0.0": ["pyspark", "torch>1.6", "transformers>4.25", "hf_transfer"]
     run: |
       pytest tests/sentence_transformers/test_sentence_transformers_model_export.py