diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9691246..67e4fa1 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -128,7 +128,6 @@ setup(
         "fastparquet",
         "torch>=2.2.0",
         "safetensors>=0.3.2",
-        "sentencepiece>=0.1.97",
         "pygments",
         "websockets",
         "regex",