diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2c0f728b..c7da1cde 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [build-system]
 requires = [
-    "setuptools>=60",
+    "setuptools>=78.1.1",
     "setuptools-scm>=8.0"]
 
 [project]
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "scipy>=1.10.0",
     "sentence-transformers>=3.4.0,<3.5.0",
     "tokenizers>=0.20.0",
-    "torch>=2.3.1,<2.9.0",
+    "torch>=2.8.0",
     "tqdm>=4.67.0",
     "transformers>=4.48.3,<4.50.0",
     "peft==0.14.0",