diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a8cc9989..34ebee37 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ nltk
 numpy<1.19.0 #TF 2.0 requires this
 pandas>=1.0.1
 scipy==1.4.1
-torch==1.7.1
+torch>=1.7.0,!=1.8
 transformers>=3.3.0
 terminaltables
 tqdm>=4.27,<4.50.0