diff --git a/examples/question-answering/utils_qa.py b/examples/question-answering/utils_qa.py
index c26d37f9db..aad5deccf9 100644
--- a/examples/question-answering/utils_qa.py
+++ b/examples/question-answering/utils_qa.py
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ def postprocess_qa_predictions(
 
         # Make `predictions` JSON-serializable by casting np.float back to float.
         all_nbest_json[example["id"]] = [
-            {k: (float(v) if isinstance(v, (np.float32, np.float64)) else v) for k, v in pred.items()}
+            {k: (float(v) if isinstance(v, (np.float16, np.float32, np.float64)) else v) for k, v in pred.items()}
             for pred in predictions
         ]
 
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ def postprocess_qa_predictions_with_beam_search(
 
         # Make `predictions` JSON-serializable by casting np.float back to float.
         all_nbest_json[example["id"]] = [
-            {k: (float(v) if isinstance(v, (np.float32, np.float64)) else v) for k, v in pred.items()}
+            {k: (float(v) if isinstance(v, (np.float16, np.float32, np.float64)) else v) for k, v in pred.items()}
             for pred in predictions
         ]