diff --git a/setup.sh b/setup.sh
index 4ebf960b73..b54f782ded 100755
--- a/setup.sh
+++ b/setup.sh
@@ -166,7 +166,6 @@ if [ "$IS_COLAB" = true ]; then
         -o "$LLAMA_CPP_DST"
     echo "   Installing studio dependencies..."
     run_quiet "pip install studio" pip install -r "$SCRIPT_DIR/studio/backend/requirements/studio.txt"
-    run_quiet "pip install numpy==2.2.6" pip install --force-reinstall numpy==2.2.6
     echo "✅ Python dependencies installed"
 else
     # Local: create venv (always start fresh to preserve correct install order)
diff --git a/studio/backend/requirements/extras-no-deps.txt b/studio/backend/requirements/extras-no-deps.txt
index c2a9c6bad8..b78b479e51 100644
--- a/studio/backend/requirements/extras-no-deps.txt
+++ b/studio/backend/requirements/extras-no-deps.txt
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ git+https://github.com/meta-pytorch/OpenEnv.git
 executorch==1.0.1
 torch-c-dlpack-ext
 sentence_transformers==5.2.0
+transformers==4.57.1
diff --git a/studio/backend/requirements/overrides.txt b/studio/backend/requirements/overrides.txt
index 02770f3953..6852f601ed 100644
--- a/studio/backend/requirements/overrides.txt
+++ b/studio/backend/requirements/overrides.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # Torch AO overrides (installed with --force-reinstall --no-cache-dir)
 torchao==0.14.0
-transformers==4.57.1
 pytorch_tokenizers
 
 # Kernel packages