diff --git a/examples/research_projects/deebert/requirements.txt b/examples/research_projects/deebert/requirements.txt
index f6332785ea0b31..99636a7fce1b8e 100644
--- a/examples/research_projects/deebert/requirements.txt
+++ b/examples/research_projects/deebert/requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-transformers == 3.5.1
+transformers == 4.38.0