diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index d897bc6a..d5be8af8 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 timm==0.4.12
-transformers==4.15.0
+transformers==4.16.2
 fairscale==0.4.4
 pycocoevalcap