diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e04f7ef..c222e7f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "pydantic>=2.13.4",
     "google-genai>=2.10.0",
     "peft>=0.19.1",
-    "trl>=1.7.1",
+    "trl>=1.8.0",
     "tiktoken>=0.7.0",
     "pyspellchecker>=0.9.0",
 ]
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 3d17a57..446bfbf 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -792,7 +792,7 @@ requires-dist = [
     { name = "tiktoken", specifier = ">=0.7.0" },
     { name = "tqdm", specifier = ">=4.68.4" },
     { name = "transformers", specifier = ">=5.9.0" },
-    { name = "trl", specifier = ">=1.7.1" },
+    { name = "trl", specifier = ">=1.8.0" },
     { name = "uvicorn", specifier = ">=0.51.0" },
     { name = "wandb", marker = "extra == 'wandb'", specifier = ">=0.28.0" },
 ]
@@ -4518,7 +4518,7 @@ wheels = [
 
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 name = "trl"
-version = "1.7.1"
+version = "1.8.0"
 source = { registry = "https://pypi.org/simple" }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "accelerate" },
@@ -4527,9 +4527,9 @@ dependencies = [
     { name = "packaging" },
     { name = "transformers" },
 ]
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