diff --git a/script/app-mlperf-inference-mlcommons-python/meta.yaml b/script/app-mlperf-inference-mlcommons-python/meta.yaml
index 7ad40f9bc..720d59514 100644
--- a/script/app-mlperf-inference-mlcommons-python/meta.yaml
+++ b/script/app-mlperf-inference-mlcommons-python/meta.yaml
@@ -1280,6 +1280,7 @@ variations:
           - protobuf
         version_max: "4.23.4"
         version_max_usable: "4.23.4"
+        version_min: "3.20.3"
         enable_if_env:
           MLC_MLPERF_BACKEND:
             - tf