diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b9025b1f..bc3efb22 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ tensorboard==2.15.2
 tensorflow-io-gcs-filesystem==0.31.0
 
 # PyTorch ecosystem
-torch==2.1.0
+torch>=2.1.0
 torchaudio==2.1.0
 pytorch-lightning==2.1.3
 torchmetrics==1.2.0
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ onnxruntime==1.16.3
 # onnxruntime-gpu==1.16.3  # Uncomment for GPU, comment out onnxruntime above
 
 # NLP and transformers
-transformers==4.35.2
+transformers>=4.35.0
 sentencepiece==0.1.99
 peft==0.6.2