Hi @thusken - I assume your using the SageMaker Hugginface DLC, is that right? If so, the latest available version for those is currently 4.17, see here.
What you can do, however, is to provide a requirements.txt file that will let you specify dependencies you want to be installed in the container. If you put transformers==4.23.1 into that requirements.txt file then this transformers version will be installed. See here for more info.
Hope that helps.
Cheers
Heiko