diff --git a/lazypredict/Supervised.py b/lazypredict/Supervised.py
index bf61208..ff6ec7b 100644
--- a/lazypredict/Supervised.py
+++ b/lazypredict/Supervised.py
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 from tqdm import tqdm
 import datetime
 import time
+from sklearnex import patch_sklearn
+patch_sklearn()
 from sklearn.pipeline import Pipeline
 from sklearn.impute import SimpleImputer, MissingIndicator
 from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler, OneHotEncoder, OrdinalEncoder
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 37ca346..f15fc95 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 click
 scikit-learn
+scikit-learn-intelex
 pandas
 tqdm
 joblib
 lightgbm
-xgboost
\ No newline at end of file
+xgboost
diff --git a/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements_dev.txt
index 45bd550..551e1f5 100644
--- a/requirements_dev.txt
+++ b/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 click
 scikit-learn
+scikit-learn-intelex
 pandas
 tqdm
 joblib
 lightgbm
 xgboost
 pytest
-myst-parser
\ No newline at end of file
+myst-parser