diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2ee9dbf2a9..94a996358b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Pillow>=7.2
 torchvision>=0.8  # lower to 0.7 after PT 1.6
 transformers>=4.0
 pytorch-tabnet==3.1.1
-datasets>=1.2
+datasets>=1.2, <1.3
 pandas>=1.1
 scikit-learn>=0.24
 numpy  # comes with 3rd-party dependency