diff --git a/dataset/dataset.py b/dataset/dataset.py
index 0ea51076a6b3d6382b5c9b6d18902bbb6098e096..f064c404c9126088164e11b1040bdf5a93362d41 100644
--- a/dataset/dataset.py
+++ b/dataset/dataset.py
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ def load_data_duo(base_dir, batch_size, args, shuffle=True):
         dataset=train_dataset,
         batch_size=batch_size,
         shuffle=shuffle,
-        num_workers=1,
+        num_workers=8,
         collate_fn=None,
         pin_memory=False,
     )
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ def load_data_duo(base_dir, batch_size, args, shuffle=True):
         dataset=val_dataset,
         batch_size=batch_size,
         shuffle=shuffle,
-        num_workers=1,
+        num_workers=8,
         collate_fn=None,
         pin_memory=False,
     )