diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/tensorly/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tensorly/default.nix
index 54f32d182c0c..e780aba22822 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/tensorly/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tensorly/default.nix
@@ -1,45 +1,36 @@
 { lib
 , buildPythonPackage
 , fetchFromGitHub
-, pytest
-, nose
+, pytestCheckHook
 , isPy27
 , numpy
 , scipy
 , sparse
-, pytorch
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "tensorly";
-  version = "0.4.5";
+  version = "0.7.0";
   disabled = isPy27;
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = pname;
     repo = pname;
     rev = version;
-    sha256 = "1ml91yaxwx4msisxbm92yf22qfrscvk58f3z2r1jhi96pw2k4i7x";
+    sha256 = "VcX3pCczZQUYZaD7xrrkOcj0QPJt28cYTwpZm5D/X3c=";
   };
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ numpy scipy sparse ]
-    ++ lib.optionals (!doCheck) [ nose ]; # upstream added nose to install_requires
-
-  checkInputs = [ pytest nose pytorch ];
-  # also has a cupy backend, but the tests are currently broken
-  # (e.g. attempts to access cupy.qr instead of cupy.linalg.qr)
-  # and this backend also adds a non-optional CUDA dependence,
-  # as well as tensorflow and mxnet backends, but the tests don't
-  # seem to exercise these backend by default
-
-  # uses >= 140GB of ram to test
-  doCheck = false;
-  checkPhase = ''
-    runHook preCheck
-    nosetests -e "test_cupy"
-    runHook postCheck
+  # nose is not actually required for anything
+  # (including testing with the minimal dependencies)
+  postPatch = ''
+    substituteInPlace setup.py --replace ", 'nose'" ""
   '';
 
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ numpy scipy sparse ];
+
+  checkInputs = [ pytestCheckHook ];
+  pytestFlagsArray = [ "tensorly" ];
+
   pythonImportsCheck = [ "tensorly" ];
 
   meta = with lib; {