diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b2e9b45..f53c33e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ setup(
         "future",
         "fairseq==0.8.0",
         "seqeval==0.0.12",
-        "transformers==2.3.0",
+        "transformers==2.9.0",
     ],
     dependency_links=[],
     extras_require={},