diff --git a/requirements/requirements-convert-hf-to-gguf.txt b/requirements/requirements-convert-hf-to-gguf.txt
index 0d16e2da9..6ac402610 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements-convert-hf-to-gguf.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements-convert-hf-to-gguf.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
 -r ./requirements-convert.txt
 torch~=2.1.1
-transformers~=4.35.2
diff --git a/requirements/requirements-convert.txt b/requirements/requirements-convert.txt
index 09311906f..a3d6ecec0 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements-convert.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements-convert.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 numpy~=1.24.4
 sentencepiece~=0.1.98
-transformers>=4.34.0
+transformers>=4.35.2,<5.0.0
 gguf>=0.1.0
-protobuf>=4.21.0
+protobuf>=4.21.0,<5.0.0