diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index de96c11..3da67ec 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -19,4 +19,5 @@ rich>=13.7.0
 came_pytorch
 matplotlib
 # for T5XXL tokenizer (SD3/FLUX)
-sentencepiece>=0.2.0
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+sentencepiece>=0.2.0
+protobuf
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