diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1c0422a..5c5a354 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 transformers>=4.19.0
-sentencepiece==0.1.96
+sentencepiece>=0.1.96
 # scikit-learn>=0.24.2
 tqdm>=4.62.2
 tensorboardX
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index df76128..ebf3ad9 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 requires = """
 transformers>=4.10.0
-sentencepiece==0.1.96
+sentencepiece>=0.1.96
 # scikit-learn>=0.24.2
 tqdm>=4.62.2
 tensorboardX