diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 5ce1570..944f8b3 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ peft==0.2.0
 sentence-transformers
 gradio==3.47.1
 accelerate==0.20.3
-bitsandbytes==0.37.0
+bitsandbytes>=0.40.0
 scikit-image
 visual-genome
 wandb
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