diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 85c7d02be..6c167d3fa 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ huggingface_hub>=0.33.0
 peft==0.16.0
 transformers==4.53.2
 tokenizers>=0.21.1
-accelerate==1.8.1
+accelerate==1.9.0
 datasets==4.0.0
 deepspeed>=0.17.0
 trl==0.19.1
diff --git a/src/axolotl/loaders/adapters/__init__.py b/src/axolotl/loaders/adapters/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb