diff --git a/requirements/nightly_torch_test.txt b/requirements/nightly_torch_test.txt
index a8c22f8e6..72fa13692 100644
--- a/requirements/nightly_torch_test.txt
+++ b/requirements/nightly_torch_test.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ vocos # required for minicpmo_26 test
 peft
 pqdm
 ray[cgraph,default]>=2.48.0 # Ray Compiled Graph, required by pipeline parallelism tests
-sentence-transformers # required for embedding tests
+sentence-transformers>=5.2.0 # required for embedding tests
 soundfile # required for audio tests
 jiwer # required for audio tests
 timm # required for internvl test
diff --git a/requirements/test.in b/requirements/test.in
index 2aa36a5d3..2cc3e2f71 100644
--- a/requirements/test.in
+++ b/requirements/test.in
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ vocos # required for minicpmo_26 test
 peft>=0.15.0 # required for phi-4-mm test
 pqdm
 ray[cgraph,default]>=2.48.0 # Ray Compiled Graph, required by pipeline parallelism tests
-sentence-transformers # required for embedding tests
+sentence-transformers>=5.2.0 # required for embedding tests
 soundfile # required for audio tests
 jiwer # required for audio tests
 tblib # for pickling test exceptions
diff --git a/requirements/test.txt b/requirements/test.txt
index e734df5e1..4cda9cfad 100644
--- a/requirements/test.txt
+++ b/requirements/test.txt
@@ -723,7 +723,6 @@ pillow==10.4.0
     #   perceptron
     #   scikit-image
     #   segmentation-models-pytorch
-    #   sentence-transformers
     #   torchgeo
     #   torchvision
 platformdirs==4.3.6
@@ -1023,7 +1022,7 @@ segmentation-models-pytorch==0.4.0
     # via
     #   terratorch
     #   torchgeo
-sentence-transformers==3.2.1
+sentence-transformers==5.2.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements/test.in
     #   mteb
@@ -1263,6 +1262,7 @@ typing-extensions==4.15.0
     #   pydantic-core
     #   pydantic-extra-types
     #   pytorch-lightning
+    #   sentence-transformers
     #   sqlalchemy
     #   torch
     #   torchgeo