diff --git a/pixi.lock b/pixi.lock
index 8ad1d62e..0924ebd5 100644
--- a/pixi.lock
+++ b/pixi.lock
@@ -3936,7 +3936,7 @@ packages:
 - pypi: ./
   name: array-api-extra
   version: 0.8.1.dev0
-  sha256: 1a38cc67f696d967e9f4281776a5668eb588f710797748c160147da5337035f9
+  sha256: bbde76ca6f19f4e67758fb784655e5a6675dedf135d2ed6f9f50502582dd4e8c
   requires_dist:
   - array-api-compat>=1.12.0,<2
   requires_python: '>=3.10'
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 80ba8af5..2163aeba 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ numpy = "=1.22.0"
 [tool.pixi.feature.backends.dependencies]
 pytorch = ">=2.7.0"
 dask-core = ">=2025.5.1"  # No distributed, tornado, etc.
-sparse = ">=0.16.0"
+sparse = ">=0.17.0"
 
 [tool.pixi.feature.backends.target.linux-64.dependencies]
 jax = ">=0.5.3"