diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 3334f98b..124fa464 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1897,7 +1897,7 @@ testing = ["big-o", "jaraco.functools", "jaraco.itertools", "more-itertools", "p
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "1.1"
 python-versions = "^3.9"
-content-hash = "d5d450ffed8640d77963042430262459f1111f183bb51c1e53f648cc383510a4"
+content-hash = "ae4d3a67afa4aa799155cbd6d7a28d8e0192efc422a5307dca5fc6bc23cf041c"
 
 [metadata.files]
 absl-py = [
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 619ea462..e12a48ba 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -33,14 +33,13 @@ python = "^3.9"
 pytorch-lightning = "^2"
 torchmetrics = "^1"
 datasets = "^2.13"
+transformers = "^4.18"
+# we pin 2.0.0 because of https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/100974
+torch = ">=2.0.0, !=2.0.1"
 # pin to version below 2023.9.0 because that causes problems when using load_dataset with local files (e.g. json)
 fsspec = "<2023.9.0"
-transformers = "^4"
-# remove, for now
-#huggingface-hub = "^0.5.1"
+# required for testing, but, strangely, tests fail, if just in dev-dependencies
 absl-py = "^1.0.0"
-# we pin 2.0.0 because of https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/100974
-torch = ">=2.0.0, !=2.0.1"
 
 [tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
 Pygments = ">=2.10.0"