diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 466f708429..0c0c1a5572 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ license = { "text" = "MIT" }
 dependencies = [
     "accelerate>=0.21.0",
     "evaluate",
-    "datasets>=2.0.0",
+    "datasets>=2.0.0,<2.16",
     "evaluate>=0.4.0",
     "jsonlines",
     "numexpr",