From 85b24a2ce6d20d49dfa6b4f661702ee0db229e72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kartik Pradeepan <kartikspradeepan@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 13:04:29 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix(deps): constrain Transformers compatibility

Transformers 5 removes cache APIs used by the Hugging Face helper.
---
 pyproject.toml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5bb7ca71..c4785f98 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "pandas <3",
     # model_helpers dependencies
     "torch >=1.9.1",
-    "transformers >=4.11.3",
+    "transformers >=4.51,<5",
     "gensim",
     "joblib",
     # submission dependencies