diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ec571570bb..981a625580 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ transformers==4.43.1
 tokenizers==0.19.1
 bitsandbytes==0.43.1
 accelerate==0.32.0
-deepspeed @ git+https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed.git@bc48371c5e1fb8fd70fc79285e66201dbb65679b
+deepspeed==0.14.4
 pydantic==2.6.3
 addict
 fire
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ceba636690..1d164e0a18 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ def parse_requirements():
             "fused-dense-lib  @ git+https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention@v2.6.2#subdirectory=csrc/fused_dense_lib",
         ],
         "deepspeed": [
-            "deepspeed @ git+https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed.git@bc48371c5e1fb8fd70fc79285e66201dbb65679b",
+            "deepspeed==0.14.4",
             "deepspeed-kernels",
         ],
         "mamba-ssm": [
diff --git a/tests/e2e/test_imports.py b/tests/e2e/test_imports.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f186eaac46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/e2e/test_imports.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+"""
+test module to import various submodules that have historically broken due to dependency issues
+"""
+import unittest
+
+
+class TestImports(unittest.TestCase):
+    """
+    Test class to import various submodules that have historically broken due to dependency issues
+    """
+
+    def test_import_causal_trainer(self):
+        from axolotl.core.trainer_builder import (  # pylint: disable=unused-import  # noqa: F401
+            HFCausalTrainerBuilder,
+        )
+
+    def test_import_rl_trainer(self):
+        from axolotl.core.trainer_builder import (  # pylint: disable=unused-import  # noqa: F401
+            HFRLTrainerBuilder,
+        )