diff --git a/memory-store/services/embedding-service/requirements.txt b/memory-store/services/embedding-service/requirements.txt
index 9254c2a6..f8a28546 100644
--- a/memory-store/services/embedding-service/requirements.txt
+++ b/memory-store/services/embedding-service/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ pydantic==2.5.0
 # ML dependencies - pinned for compatibility
 # torch>=2.0.0,<3.0.0
 sentence-transformers==2.2.2
-transformers==4.35.2
+transformers==4.53.0
 huggingface_hub==0.17.3
 
 # Additional dependencies