diff --git a/examples/research_projects/bertabs/requirements.txt b/examples/research_projects/bertabs/requirements.txt
index cdbfb260c7d..bc2a3d6a163 100644
--- a/examples/research_projects/bertabs/requirements.txt
+++ b/examples/research_projects/bertabs/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-transformers == 3.5.1
+transformers == 4.38.0
 
 # For ROUGE
 nltk