diff --git a/examples/nlp/python_bert_squad/requirements_bertsquad.txt b/examples/nlp/python_bert_squad/requirements_bertsquad.txt
index ddb179df18f..99d24821dd3 100644
--- a/examples/nlp/python_bert_squad/requirements_bertsquad.txt
+++ b/examples/nlp/python_bert_squad/requirements_bertsquad.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #####################################################################################
 # The MIT License (MIT)
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2015-2024 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 2015-2025 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved.
 #
 # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 # of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -24,4 +24,5 @@
 tensorflow
 onnxruntime
 tokenizers==0.11.1; python_version == "3.6"
-tokenizers; python_version > "3.6"
+tokenizers==0.20.3; python_version == "3.8"
+tokenizers; python_version > "3.8"