diff --git a/requirements-slm.txt b/requirements-slm.txt
index a23fd0c..d3b182a 100644
--- a/requirements-slm.txt
+++ b/requirements-slm.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 transformers>=4.44
 peft>=0.12
 trl>=0.9
-accelerate>=0.33
+accelerate>=1.15.0
 datasets>=2.20
 bitsandbytes>=0.43        # 4-bit quant; Windows wheels exist (else use WSL2)