diff --git a/miscs/llava_repr_requirements.txt b/miscs/llava_repr_requirements.txt
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
index c09b6f5bd..4eb7156a0
--- a/miscs/llava_repr_requirements.txt
+++ b/miscs/llava_repr_requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ openai==1.13.3
 packaging==23.2
 pandas==2.2.1
 Pillow==10.2.0
-protobuf==4.25.3
+protobuf==7.34.0rc1
 pycocoevalcap==1.2
 pycocotools==2.0.7
 pytablewriter==1.2.0
diff --git a/miscs/tinyllava_repr_requirements.txt b/miscs/tinyllava_repr_requirements.txt
index b6ab1cb19..1a916d38a 100644
--- a/miscs/tinyllava_repr_requirements.txt
+++ b/miscs/tinyllava_repr_requirements.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ packaging==23.2
 pandas==2.2.1
 peft==0.10.0
 Pillow==10.2.0
-protobuf==4.25.3
+protobuf==7.34.0rc1
 pycocoevalcap==1.2
 pycocotools==2.0.7
 pytablewriter==1.2.0