diff --git a/laser_encoders/README.md b/laser_encoders/README.md
index ca806a5f..4980063a 100644
--- a/laser_encoders/README.md
+++ b/laser_encoders/README.md
@@ -7,13 +7,13 @@ laser_encoders is the official Python package for the Facebook [LASER](https://g
 ## Dependencies
 
 - Python `>= 3.8`
-- [PyTorch `>= 2.0`](http://pytorch.org/)
+- [PyTorch `>= 1.10.0`](http://pytorch.org/)
 - sacremoses `>=0.1.0`
 - sentencepiece `>=0.1.99`
-- numpy `>=1.25.0`
+- numpy `>=1.21.3`
 - fairseq `>=0.12.2`
 
-You can find a full list of requirements [here](requirements.txt)
+You can find a full list of requirements [here](https://github.com/facebookresearch/LASER/blob/main/pyproject.toml)
 
 ## Installation
 
diff --git a/laser_encoders/requirements.txt b/laser_encoders/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index f872e801..00000000
--- a/laser_encoders/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-fairseq==0.12.2
-numpy==1.25.0
-pytest==7.4.0
-Requests==2.31.0
-sacremoses==0.1.0
-sentencepiece==0.1.99
-torch==2.0.1
-tqdm==4.65.0
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index def6fd5c..74650610 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ requires-python = ">=3.8"
 dependencies = [
     'sacremoses>=0.1.0',
     'sentencepiece>=0.1.99',
-    'numpy>=1.24',
-    'torch>=2.0.1',
+    'numpy>=1.21.3',
+    'torch>=1.10.0',
     'fairseq>=0.12.2',
 ]