diff --git a/examples/research_projects/realfill/requirements.txt b/examples/research_projects/realfill/requirements.txt
index 3fd76ef99195..7774310e21dc 100644
--- a/examples/research_projects/realfill/requirements.txt
+++ b/examples/research_projects/realfill/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 diffusers==0.38.0
 accelerate==0.23.0
-transformers==4.38.0
+transformers==5.3.0
 peft==0.5.0
 torch==2.2.0
 torchvision>=0.16