diff --git a/modnet/preprocessing.py b/modnet/preprocessing.py
index f7690d02..6160b23e 100644
--- a/modnet/preprocessing.py
+++ b/modnet/preprocessing.py
@@ -797,6 +797,7 @@ def feature_selection(
         drop_thr: float = 0.2,
         n_jobs: int = None,
         ignore_names: Optional[List] = [],
+        random_state: int = None,
     ):
         """Compute the mutual information between features and targets,
         then apply relevance-redundancy rankings to choose the top `n`
@@ -859,7 +860,11 @@ def feature_selection(
             else:
                 df = self.df_featurized.copy()
             self.cross_nmi, self.feature_entropy = get_cross_nmi(
-                df, return_entropy=True, drop_thr=drop_thr, n_jobs=n_jobs
+                df,
+                return_entropy=True,
+                drop_thr=drop_thr,
+                n_jobs=n_jobs,
+                random_state=random_state,
             )
 
         if self.cross_nmi.isna().sum().sum() > 0:
@@ -889,6 +894,7 @@ def feature_selection(
                 df,
                 df_target,
                 task_type,
+                random_state=random_state,
             )[name]
 
             LOG.info("Computing optimal features...")
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f82c7c1d..7cfdbaff 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 tensorflow==2.11.0
 tensorflow-probability==0.19.0
-pandas==1.5.2
+pandas==2.1.0
 pymatgen==2023.7.20
 matminer==0.8.0
 numpy>=1.20