diff --git a/docs/.readthedocs.yaml b/.readthedocs.yaml
similarity index 69%
rename from docs/.readthedocs.yaml
rename to .readthedocs.yaml
index 647d071207..28d6dd565d 100644
--- a/docs/.readthedocs.yaml
+++ b/.readthedocs.yaml
@@ -1,16 +1,19 @@
 version: 2
 
-# Build from the docs/ directory with Sphinx
-sphinx:
-  configuration: docs/source/conf.py
+# Add necessary apt-get packages
+build:
+  apt_packages:
+    - cmake
 
 # Explicitly set the version of Python and its requirements
 python:
-  version: 3.7
+  version: "3.7"
   install:
-    - requirements: docs/requirements.txt
+    - method: pip
+      path: .
+      extra_requirements:
+        - all
 
-# Add necessary apt-get packages
-build:
-  apt_packages:
-    - cmake
+# Build from the docs/ directory with Sphinx
+sphinx:
+  configuration: docs/source/conf.py
diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 8d986c3fd7..0000000000
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-numpy>=1.14
-pandas>1.0.3,<2
-scipy>=1.0.0,<2
-tqdm>=4.31.1,<5
-matplotlib>=2.2.2,<4
-scikit-learn>=0.22.1,<1
-numba>=0.38.1,<1
-lightfm>=1.15,<2
-lightgbm>=2.2.1,<3
-memory_profiler>=0.54.0,<1
-nltk>=3.4,<4
-pydocumentdb>=2.3.3<3  
-pymanopt>=0.2.5,<1
-seaborn>=0.8.1,<1
-transformers>=2.5.0,<5
-bottleneck>=1.2.1,<2
-category_encoders>=1.3.0,<2
-jinja2>=2,<3
-pyyaml>=5.4.1,<6
-requests>=2.0.0,<3
-cornac>=1.1.2,<2
-scikit-surprise>=0.19.1,<=1.1.1
-retrying>=1.3.3
-azure.mgmt.cosmosdb>=0.8.0,<1
-hyperopt>=0.1.2,<1
-ipykernel>=4.6.1,<5
-jupyter>=1,<2
-locust>=1,<2
-papermill>=2.1.2,<3
-scrapbook>=0.5.0,<1.0.0
-nvidia-ml-py3>=7.352.0
-tensorflow-gpu>=1.15.0,<2
-torch==1.2.0
-fastai>=1.0.46,<2
-databricks_cli>=0.8.6,<1
-pyarrow>=0.8.0,<1.0.0
-pyspark>=2.4.5,<3.0.0
-cmake>=3.18.4.post1
-xlearn==0.40a1