diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9f043743..e56c2ec8 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -41,13 +41,13 @@
         ]
     },
     install_requires=[
-        "matplotlib>=3.9.0",
-        "pandas>=2.2.2",
+        "matplotlib>=3.0.0",
+        "pandas>=1.5.0",
         "numpy>=2.0.0",
         "msgpack-numpy>=0.4.3.2",
         "spacy>=3.8.2",
-        "scipy>=1.14.0",
-        "scikit-learn>=1.5",
+        "scipy>=1.1.0",
+        "scikit-learn>=1.0",
         "nltk>=3.4",
         "dill>=0.2.9",
         "joblib>=0.13.2",
@@ -57,9 +57,9 @@
         "pymongo>=4.0",
         "pyyaml>=5.4.1",
         "dnspython>=1.16.0",
-        "thinc==8.3.2",
+        "thinc>=8.3.0,<8.4.0",
         "h5py==3.12.1",
-        "numexpr>=2.10.0",
+        "numexpr>=2.8.0",
         "ruff>=0.4.8",
         "bottleneck",
     ],