diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 17634800..19402d4f 100755
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ The https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov3 repo contains inference and training c
 Python 3.7 or later with the following `pip3 install -U -r requirements.txt` packages:
 
 - `numpy`
-- `torch`
+- `torch >= 1.0.0`
 - `opencv-python`
 
 # Training
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2d57893b..eade9a5b 100755
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # pip3 install -U -r requirements.txt
 numpy
 opencv-python
-torch
+torch >= 1.0.0
 matplotlib