diff --git a/examples/variational-autoencoder/basic-image-recon/requirements.txt b/examples/variational-autoencoder/basic-image-recon/requirements.txt
index f47f3eb1b..f330ab483 100644
--- a/examples/variational-autoencoder/basic-image-recon/requirements.txt
+++ b/examples/variational-autoencoder/basic-image-recon/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Cython==0.28
 dyNET==2.0.3
-numpy==1.14.2
+numpy==1.21.0
 Pillow==9.0.0