diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c41e09d83ed..58eb196e787 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -52,15 +52,10 @@ classifiers = [
 
 requires-python = ">=3.10,<3.14"
 dependencies=[
-  "expecttest",
   "flatbuffers",
-  "hypothesis",
-  "kgb",
-  "mpmath==1.3.0",
   "numpy>=2.0.0; python_version >= '3.10'",
   "packaging",
   "pandas>=2.2.2; python_version >= '3.10'",
-  "parameterized",
   "pytorch-tokenizers",
   "pyyaml",
   "ruamel.yaml",
@@ -70,8 +65,6 @@ dependencies=[
   "typing-extensions>=4.10.0",
   # Keep this version in sync with: ./backends/apple/coreml/scripts/install_requirements.sh
   "coremltools==9.0; platform_system == 'Darwin' or platform_system == 'Linux'",
-  # scikit-learn is used to support palettization in the coreml backend
-  "scikit-learn==1.7.1",
   "hydra-core>=1.3.0",
   "omegaconf>=2.3.0",
 ]
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 7704360275d..e6e1f1f88e9 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ certifi  # Imported by resolve_buck.py.
 lintrunner==0.12.7
 lintrunner-adapters==0.13.0
 
+expecttest
+hypothesis
+kgb
+parameterized
 pytest<9.0
 pytest-xdist
 pytest-rerunfailures==15.1
diff --git a/requirements-examples.txt b/requirements-examples.txt
index f1579edcb14..5f3091172ca 100644
--- a/requirements-examples.txt
+++ b/requirements-examples.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # pip packages needed to run examples.
 # TODO: Make each example publish its own requirements.txt
 datasets == 3.6.0 # 4.0.0 deprecates trust_remote_code and load scripts. For now pin to 3.6.0
+scikit-learn == 1.7.1 # Used by example scripts such as OpenVINO accuracy checks and Qualcomm MobileBERT fine-tuning
 timm == 1.0.7
 torchsr == 1.0.4
 torchtune @ git+https://github.com/pytorch/torchtune.git@6f2aa7254458145f99d7004cbd6ebc8e53a06404