diff --git a/src/transformers/utils/import_utils.py b/src/transformers/utils/import_utils.py
index df06bd05842d..76cbaad0eb17 100644
--- a/src/transformers/utils/import_utils.py
+++ b/src/transformers/utils/import_utils.py
@@ -236,9 +236,9 @@ def _is_package_available(pkg_name: str, return_version: bool = False) -> Union[
 
 _torch_available, _torch_version = _is_package_available("torch", return_version=True)
 if _torch_available:
-    _torch_available = version.parse(_torch_version) >= version.parse("2.1.0")
+    _torch_available = version.parse(_torch_version) >= version.parse("2.2.0")
     if not _torch_available:
-        logger.warning(f"Disabling PyTorch because PyTorch >= 2.1 is required but found {_torch_version}")
+        logger.warning(f"Disabling PyTorch because PyTorch >= 2.2 is required but found {_torch_version}")
 
 
 _essentia_available = importlib.util.find_spec("essentia") is not None
diff --git a/tests/models/qwen2_5_vl/test_modeling_qwen2_5_vl.py b/tests/models/qwen2_5_vl/test_modeling_qwen2_5_vl.py
index d90dff9f13ff..cb2e31867194 100644
--- a/tests/models/qwen2_5_vl/test_modeling_qwen2_5_vl.py
+++ b/tests/models/qwen2_5_vl/test_modeling_qwen2_5_vl.py
@@ -55,8 +55,6 @@
 if is_torch_available():
     import torch
 
-else:
-    is_torch_greater_or_equal_than_2_0 = False
 
 if is_vision_available():
     from PIL import Image