diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1b389abe9..edce9289e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "transformers==5.5.0",
     # Required by transformers' apply_chat_template
     "jinja2==3.1.6",
-    "numpy==2.4.4",
+    "numpy>=1.26.4",
     "datasets==4.8.4",
     "Pillow==12.2.0",
     "sentencepiece==0.2.1",