diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index 94badb254d..aeff119a88 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ transformers
 sentence-transformers==4.1.0
 accelerate
 colbert-ai==0.2.21
+pyarrow==20.0.0
 einops==0.8.1