[BugFix] Fix test breakages from transformers 4.45 upgrade (#8829)

tests/models/decoder_only/language/test_granite.py

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 Run `pytest tests/models/test_granite.py`.
 """
 import pytest
-import transformers
 
 from ...utils import check_logprobs_close
 
@@ -12,9 +11,6 @@ MODELS = [
 ]
 
 
-# GraniteForCausalLM will be in transformers >= 4.45
-@pytest.mark.skipif(transformers.__version__ < "4.45",
-                    reason="granite model test requires transformers >= 4.45")
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("model", MODELS)
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("dtype", ["bfloat16"])
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("max_tokens", [64])