diff --git a/docs/installation.md b/docs/installation.md
index 12f113d36..1017b627e 100644
--- a/docs/installation.md
+++ b/docs/installation.md
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ Outlines supports OpenAI, transformers, Mamba, llama.cpp and exllama2 but **you
 pip install openai
 pip install transformers datasets accelerate torch
 pip install llama-cpp-python
-pip install exllamav2 torch
-pip install mamba_ssm torch
+pip install exllamav2 transformers torch
+pip install mamba_ssm transformers torch
 pip install vllm
 ```
 
diff --git a/docs/reference/models/exllamav2.md b/docs/reference/models/exllamav2.md
index e4f9ae9d0..afe542112 100644
--- a/docs/reference/models/exllamav2.md
+++ b/docs/reference/models/exllamav2.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
 # ExllamaV2
 
+```bash
+pip install exllamav2 transformers torch
+```
+
 *Coming soon*
diff --git a/docs/reference/models/mamba.md b/docs/reference/models/mamba.md
index 7a720516a..ac6db3682 100644
--- a/docs/reference/models/mamba.md
+++ b/docs/reference/models/mamba.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
 # Mamba
 
+```bash
+pip install mamba_ssm transformers torch
+```
+
 *Coming soon*
diff --git a/outlines/models/exllamav2.py b/outlines/models/exllamav2.py
index a3e97b6ff..0ec6ef033 100644
--- a/outlines/models/exllamav2.py
+++ b/outlines/models/exllamav2.py
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 import os
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Optional
 
-import torch
-
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from exllamav2 import ExLlamaV2, ExLlamaV2Cache, ExLlamaV2Lora
     from transformers import PreTrainedTokenizer
+    import torch
 
 from .transformers import TransformerTokenizer
 
@@ -28,8 +27,9 @@ def __init__(
         self.past_seq = None
         self.lora = lora
 
-    def forward(self, input_ids: torch.LongTensor, *_):
+    def forward(self, input_ids: "torch.LongTensor", *_):
         """Compute a forward pass through the exl2 model."""
+        import torch
 
         # Caching with past_seq
         reset = True
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ def forward(self, input_ids: torch.LongTensor, *_):
             seq_tensor[-1:].view(1, -1), self.cache, loras=[self.lora]
         )
 
-    def __call__(self, input_ids: torch.LongTensor, *_) -> torch.FloatTensor:
+    def __call__(self, input_ids: "torch.LongTensor", *_) -> "torch.FloatTensor":
         logits = self.forward(input_ids)
         next_token_logits = logits[..., -1, :]
 
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ def exl2(
         from transformers import AutoTokenizer
     except ImportError:
         raise ImportError(
-            "The `exllamav2` library needs to be installed in order to use `exllamav2` models."
+            "The `exllamav2`, `transformers` and `torch` libraries needs to be installed in order to use `exllamav2` models."
         )
 
     # Load tokenizer
diff --git a/outlines/models/mamba.py b/outlines/models/mamba.py
index 1375a3811..d3dabf669 100644
--- a/outlines/models/mamba.py
+++ b/outlines/models/mamba.py
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Optional
 
-import torch
-
 from .transformers import TransformerTokenizer
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    import torch
     from mamba_ssm.models.mixer_seq_simple import MambaLMHeadModel
     from transformers import PreTrainedTokenizer
 
@@ -22,14 +21,14 @@ def __init__(
         self.model = model
         self.tokenizer = TransformerTokenizer(tokenizer)
 
-    def forward(self, input_ids: torch.LongTensor, *_):
+    def forward(self, input_ids: "torch.LongTensor", *_):
         """Compute a forward pass through the mamba model."""
 
         output = self.model(input_ids)
         next_token_logits = output.logits[..., -1, :]
         return next_token_logits, None
 
-    def __call__(self, input_ids: torch.LongTensor, *_) -> torch.FloatTensor:
+    def __call__(self, input_ids: "torch.LongTensor", *_) -> "torch.FloatTensor":
         return self.forward(input_ids)
 
 
@@ -40,11 +39,12 @@ def mamba(
     tokenizer_kwargs: dict = {},
 ):
     try:
+        import torch
         from mamba_ssm import MambaLMHeadModel
         from transformers import AutoTokenizer
     except ImportError:
         raise ImportError(
-            "The `mamba_ssm` library needs to be installed in order to use Mamba people."
+            "The `mamba_ssm`, `torch` and `transformer` libraries needs to be installed in order to use Mamba people."
         )
 
     if not torch.cuda.is_available():