diff --git a/microsoft-Phi-4-mini-instruct/QNN/docker/requirements.txt b/microsoft-Phi-4-mini-instruct/QNN/docker/requirements.txt
index 6296ed399..7fbcb4c12 100644
--- a/microsoft-Phi-4-mini-instruct/QNN/docker/requirements.txt
+++ b/microsoft-Phi-4-mini-instruct/QNN/docker/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 auto-gptq
 datasets
 optimum
-transformers==4.53.3
+transformers==5.0.0rc3