diff --git a/tests/python_tests/requirements.txt b/tests/python_tests/requirements.txt
index 74ba93a7fd..61afb38dac 100644
--- a/tests/python_tests/requirements.txt
+++ b/tests/python_tests/requirements.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ timm==1.0.21
 librosa==0.11.0
 soundfile==0.13.1
 datasets==4.1.1; sys_platform == "linux"
-datasets==3.6.0; sys_platform != "linux"
+datasets==4.4.0; sys_platform != "linux"
 torchcodec==0.7.0; sys_platform == "linux"
 rouge==1.0.1
 # - microsoft/Phi-4-multimodal-instruct