diff --git a/.github/workflows/unit_tests.yml b/.github/workflows/unit_tests.yml
index 65c5023141..7e69aee0bf 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/unit_tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/unit_tests.yml
@@ -85,5 +85,6 @@ jobs:
       run: |
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
         pip install -e '.[dev,optimum,deepsparse,sparseml,api]' --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
+        pip install -U transformers peft
     - name: Test with pytest
       run: python -m pytest tests/models --showlocals -s -vv