diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index 05568fb..4d8f9b9 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ pandas==1.5.3           # for data manipulation
 kaggle==1.7.4.5         # for Kaggle api access
 seaborn==0.13.2         # for data visualization
 scikit-learn==1.5.1     # for machine learning algorithms
-scipy==1.10.1           # for scientific computing
+scipy==1.16.3           # for scientific computing
 shap==0.43.0            # for model interpretability
 openpyxl==3.1.5         # for Excel file support from kaggle datasets