diff --git a/awe_components/setup/data.py b/awe_components/setup/data.py
index 3536dca..626a5ea 100644
--- a/awe_components/setup/data.py
+++ b/awe_components/setup/data.py
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 # Copyright 2022, Educational Testing Service
 
+# TODO: using numpy>1.26.4 seems to cause errors when installing from awe_workbench.
+# This is related to the desired model (subwordbert) that we use for AWE.
+# Version-locking seems to keep this from failing.
 from spacy.cli.download import download
 import os
 
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index e37b5b7..66901e6 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -31,13 +31,12 @@ python_requires = >=3.9
 cmdclass =
   install = install.AWEInstall
 install_requires =
-  awe_lexica
+  awe_lexica @ git+https://github.com/ArgLab/AWE_Lexica.git
   spacy
-  holmes_extractor
   coreferee
   rdflib
   spacytextblob
-  numpy
+  numpy==1.26.4
   srsly
   wordfreq
   statistics
@@ -45,13 +44,13 @@ install_requires =
   scikit-learn
   nltk
   aenum
-  websockets
+  websockets<14
   websocket-client
   pytest
   clint
   pygtrie
   transformers
-  torch
+  torch==2.4.1
   Path
 [options.package_data]
 * = *.cfg, *.csv, *.json, *.txt