diff --git a/base/requirements.txt b/base/requirements.txt
index f5b1100..cf703e6 100644
--- a/base/requirements.txt
+++ b/base/requirements.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ bottle==0.12.25
 bottle-log==1.0.0
 certifi==2023.7.22
 charset-normalizer==3.3.0
-idna==3.4
-requests==2.31.0
-urllib3==2.2.1
+idna==3.7
+requests==2.32.2
+urllib3==2.2.2
diff --git a/pie/base/README.md b/pie/base/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..27bbab0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pie/base/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+The `./requirements.txt` in this folder are the needed requirements to tag a file with pie.
+
+The `./pie/requirements.txt` in the `pie/` folder below are needed to train pie. This needs to install a lot more pytorch & cuda stuff (because unlike just tagging a file, we need a GPU to train). We don't want this to pollute the docker container, so instead we use the lighter `./requirements.txt`.
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diff --git a/pie/base/requirements.txt b/pie/base/requirements.txt
index d397888..f136ae6 100644
--- a/pie/base/requirements.txt
+++ b/pie/base/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ click==8.1.7
 filelock==3.13.1
 fsspec==2023.12.1
 gensim==4.3.2
-Jinja2==3.1.3
+Jinja2==3.1.4
 joblib==1.3.2
 JSON-minify==0.3.0
 lxml==4.9.3
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ mpmath==1.3.0
 networkx==3.2.1
 numpy==1.26.2
 PyYAML==6.0.1
-scikit-learn==1.3.2
+scikit-learn==1.5.0
 scipy==1.11.4
 smart-open==6.4.0
 sympy==1.12
@@ -20,6 +20,6 @@ termcolor==2.4.0
 terminaltables==3.1.10
 threadpoolctl==3.2.0
 torch==2.1.1+cpu
-tqdm==4.66.1
+tqdm==4.66.3
 typing==3.7.4.3
 typing_extensions==4.8.0