diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index af2bc32..f6eed03 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # so changing this to 3.6.4
 # nltk==3.4.5
 nltk==3.6.4
-numpy==1.17.3
+numpy==1.22.0
 scikit-learn==0.21.3
 scipy==1.3.1
 torch==1.3.0