diff --git a/examples/models/core/mllama/requirements.txt b/examples/models/core/mllama/requirements.txt
index 301196f9b537..90ac948156a0 100644
--- a/examples/models/core/mllama/requirements.txt
+++ b/examples/models/core/mllama/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 nvidia-modelopt[torch]~=0.21.0
-transformers==4.48.3
+transformers==5.5.0