diff --git a/requirements-ml.txt b/requirements-ml.txt
index 209e7d0..5e04243 100644
--- a/requirements-ml.txt
+++ b/requirements-ml.txt
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ nvidia-nvshmem-cu13==3.4.5
 nvidia-nvtx==13.0.85
 
 # --- Hugging Face / Transformers ---
-transformers==5.8.0
+transformers==5.8.1
 tokenizers==0.22.2
 safetensors==0.7.0
 huggingface_hub==1.14.0