diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index bcd3529..1e54893 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ sentencepiece>=0.1.97
 transformers>=4.34.1
 accelerate>=0.23.0
 einops>=0.6.0
+protobuf>=3.20.3