diff --git a/requirements/requirements-convert_hf_to_gguf.txt b/requirements/requirements-convert_hf_to_gguf.txt
index 766745f42f7ea..90c98c3ffe526 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements-convert_hf_to_gguf.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements-convert_hf_to_gguf.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ mistral-common>=1.8.3
 
 -r ./requirements-convert_legacy_llama.txt
 --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
-torch~=2.4.0; platform_machine != "s390x"
+
+## Embedding Gemma requires PyTorch 2.6.0 or later
+torch~=2.6.0; platform_machine != "s390x"
 
 # torch s390x packages can only be found from nightly builds
 --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly
diff --git a/requirements/requirements-convert_legacy_llama.txt b/requirements/requirements-convert_legacy_llama.txt
index 859204b27ebb8..f6076142cee5e 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements-convert_legacy_llama.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements-convert_legacy_llama.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 numpy~=1.26.4
 sentencepiece~=0.2.0
-transformers>=4.45.1,<5.0.0
+
+# Embedding Gemma is currently a preview release:
+# https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/releases/tag/v4.56.0-Embedding-Gemma-preview
+
+# The version is needed to be able to convert Embedding Gemma models to GGUF format:
+git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers@v4.56.0-Embedding-Gemma-preview
+
+# Once Embedding Gemma is officially released, we can switch to:
+#transformers>=4.57.1,<5.0.0
+
 gguf>=0.1.0
 protobuf>=4.21.0,<5.0.0
diff --git a/requirements/requirements-tool_bench.txt b/requirements/requirements-tool_bench.txt
index b94521fc7fa72..f7912aff724f3 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements-tool_bench.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements-tool_bench.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 aiohttp~=3.9.3
 pytest~=8.3.3
-huggingface_hub~=0.23.2
+huggingface_hub>=0.34.0,<1.0
 matplotlib~=3.10.0
 numpy~=1.26.4
 openai~=1.55.3
diff --git a/tests/test-tokenizer-random.py b/tests/test-tokenizer-random.py
index c6cdcb55482e7..93e697607e668 100644
--- a/tests/test-tokenizer-random.py
+++ b/tests/test-tokenizer-random.py
@@ -421,10 +421,10 @@ def check_detokenizer(text: str, text1: str, text2: str) -> bool:
         if text1 == text2:  # equal to TokenizerGroundtruth?
             return True
         # equal to source text?
-        if tokenizer1.add_bos_token:  # remove BOS
+        if tokenizer1.add_bos_token and tokenizer1.bos_token and isinstance(tokenizer1.bos_token, str):  # remove BOS
             if text2.startswith(tokenizer1.bos_token):
                 text2 = text2[len(tokenizer1.bos_token):]
-        if tokenizer1.add_eos_token:  # remove EOS
+        if tokenizer1.add_eos_token and tokenizer1.eos_token and isinstance(tokenizer1.eos_token, str):  # remove EOS
             if text2.endswith(tokenizer1.eos_token):
                 text2 = text2[:-len(tokenizer1.eos_token)]
         return text == text2
diff --git a/tools/mtmd/legacy-models/minicpmv-convert-image-encoder-to-gguf.py b/tools/mtmd/legacy-models/minicpmv-convert-image-encoder-to-gguf.py
index f34d858d675bc..bb2cc4e4ea52a 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/legacy-models/minicpmv-convert-image-encoder-to-gguf.py
+++ b/tools/mtmd/legacy-models/minicpmv-convert-image-encoder-to-gguf.py
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 import numpy as np
 import torch
 import torch.nn.functional as F
-import torch.utils.checkpoint
 from torch import nn
 from torch.nn.init import _calculate_fan_in_and_fan_out
 
@@ -413,7 +412,8 @@ def get_input_embeddings(self) -> nn.Module:
 
 import numpy as np
 from gguf import *
-from transformers.models.idefics2.modeling_idefics2 import Idefics2VisionTransformer, Idefics2VisionConfig
+from transformers.models.idefics2.modeling_idefics2 import Idefics2VisionTransformer
+from transformers.models.idefics2.configuration_idefics2 import Idefics2VisionConfig
 
 TEXT = "clip.text"
 VISION = "clip.vision"
diff --git a/tools/mtmd/requirements.txt b/tools/mtmd/requirements.txt
index a9d788f2653ad..0a1f4e8647765 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/requirements.txt
+++ b/tools/mtmd/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 -r ../../requirements/requirements-convert_legacy_llama.txt
 --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
 pillow~=11.3.0
-torch~=2.4.0
-torchvision~=0.19.1
+torch~=2.6.0
+torchvision~=0.21.0
diff --git a/tools/server/tests/requirements.txt b/tools/server/tests/requirements.txt
index 15d024914e841..4ea7f19f77fdb 100644
--- a/tools/server/tests/requirements.txt
+++ b/tools/server/tests/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 aiohttp~=3.9.3
 pytest~=8.3.3
-huggingface_hub~=0.23.2
+huggingface_hub>=0.34.0,<1.0
 numpy~=1.26.4
 openai~=1.55.3
 prometheus-client~=0.20.0