diff --git a/mllib/pom.xml b/mllib/pom.xml
index cb0fa7b97cb1..9e15ca6ab836 100644
--- a/mllib/pom.xml
+++ b/mllib/pom.xml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.scalanlp</groupId>
       <artifactId>breeze_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
-      <version>0.7</version>
+      <version>0.8.1</version>
       <exclusions>
         <!-- This is included as a compile-scoped dependency by jtransforms, which is
              a dependency of breeze. -->
@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@
           <groupId>junit</groupId>
           <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+          <artifactId>commons-math3</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>