diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 309dc80..a1ae2db 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -152,3 +152,6 @@ configs/local/default.yaml
 
 # Aim logging
 .aim
+
+outputs
+.DS_Store
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cebc6aa..5ba443f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ If you want to use NewsRecLib with GPU, please ensure CUDA or cudatoolkit versio
 ```bash
    git clone https://github.com/andreeaiana/newsreclib.git
    cd newsreclib
-   conda create --name newsreclib_env python=3.8
+   conda create --name newsreclib_env python=3.9
    conda activate newsreclib_env
    pip install -e .
 ```
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5563116..ff3fdcf 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@
     url="https://github.com/andreeaiana/newsreclib",
     install_requires=[
         "colorcet==3.0.1",
+        "cmake==3.18.4",
         "hydra-core==1.3.2",
-        "lightning==2.0.4",
+        "lightning==2.2.1",
         "MulticoreTSNE==0.1",
         "numpy==1.25.0",
         "omegaconf==2.3.0",
@@ -28,10 +29,10 @@
         "scikit-learn==1.2.2",
         "seaborn==0.12.2",
         "sphinx==5.0.2",
-        "tokenizers==0.13.2",
+        "tokenizers==0.15.2",
         "torchmetrics==1.3.1",
         "tqdm==4.65.0",
-        "transformers==4.36.0",
+        "transformers==4.38.2",
         "wandb==0.15.3",
         "hydra-colorlog==1.2.0",
         "hydra-optuna-sweeper==1.2.0",