diff --git a/eraserbenchmark/requirements.txt b/eraserbenchmark/requirements.txt
index 59ed4cd..5387fc1 100644
--- a/eraserbenchmark/requirements.txt
+++ b/eraserbenchmark/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ftfy==5.5.1
 gensim==3.7.1
-numpy==1.16.2
+numpy==1.22.0
 pandas==0.24.2
 pytorch-transformers==1.1.0
 scipy==1.2.1
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b6e920b..548680e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ ekphrasis==0.5.1
 pandas==1.0.3
 transformers==2.5.1
 lime==0.2.0.1
-numpy==1.16.3
+numpy==1.22.0
 matplotlib==3.2.1
 gensim==3.8.1
 neptune_client==0.4.107