diff --git a/transformers/examples/research_projects/lxmert/requirements.txt b/transformers/examples/research_projects/lxmert/requirements.txt
index f65783d59..fb3e355e3 100644
--- a/transformers/examples/research_projects/lxmert/requirements.txt
+++ b/transformers/examples/research_projects/lxmert/requirements.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ ipython-genutils==0.2.0
 ipywidgets==7.5.1
 jedi==0.17.2
 Jinja2>=2.11.3
-joblib==0.16.0
+joblib==1.2.0
 jsonschema==3.2.0
 jupyter==1.0.0
 jupyter-client==6.1.7