diff --git a/.ci/docker/requirements-ci.txt b/.ci/docker/requirements-ci.txt
index c82882d56e6..15d52832506 100644
--- a/.ci/docker/requirements-ci.txt
+++ b/.ci/docker/requirements-ci.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ sympy>=1.13.3
 timm==0.6.13
 tomli==2.0.1
 torchsr==1.0.4
-transformers==4.56.1
+transformers==5.0.0rc3
 zstd==1.5.5.1
 pandas>=2.2.2; python_version >= '3.10'
 pytest==7.2.0