diff --git a/examples/vision/supervised-contrastive-learning.py b/examples/vision/supervised-contrastive-learning.py
index 4803e67147..6b45d56899 100644
--- a/examples/vision/supervised-contrastive-learning.py
+++ b/examples/vision/supervised-contrastive-learning.py
@@ -20,22 +20,20 @@
 that representations of images in the same class will be more similar compared to
 representations of images in different classes.
 2. Training a classifier on top of the frozen encoder.
+"""
 
-Note that this example requires [TensorFlow Addons](https://www.tensorflow.org/addons),
-which you can install using the following command:
-
-```python
-pip install tensorflow-addons
-```
-
+"""
 ## Setup
 """
 
+import os
+
+os.environ["KERAS_BACKEND"] = "tensorflow"
+import keras
+from keras import ops
+from keras import layers
 import tensorflow as tf
-import tensorflow_addons as tfa
 import numpy as np
-from tensorflow import keras
-from tensorflow.keras import layers
 
 """
 ## Prepare the data
@@ -159,6 +157,19 @@ def create_classifier(encoder, trainable=True):
 """
 
 
+def npairs_loss(y_true, y_pred):
+    y_pred = ops.convert_to_tensor(y_pred)
+    y_true = ops.cast(y_true, dtype="uint32")
+
+    # Expand to [batch_size, 1]
+    y_true = ops.expand_dims(y_true, -1)
+    y_true = ops.cast(ops.equal(y_true, ops.transpose(y_true)), dtype="uint32")
+    y_true /= ops.sum(y_true, 1, keepdims=True)
+
+    loss = tf.nn.softmax_cross_entropy_with_logits(logits=y_pred, labels=y_true)
+    return ops.mean(loss)
+
+
 class SupervisedContrastiveLoss(keras.losses.Loss):
     def __init__(self, temperature=1, name=None):
         super().__init__(name=name)
@@ -174,7 +185,7 @@ def __call__(self, labels, feature_vectors, sample_weight=None):
             ),
             self.temperature,
         )
-        return tfa.losses.npairs_loss(tf.squeeze(labels), logits)
+        return npairs_loss(ops.squeeze(labels), logits)
 
 
 def add_projection_head(encoder):