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type: software
title: "alimentar: Data Loading, Distribution and Tooling in Pure Rust"
version: 0.1.0
date-released: 2025-11-26
url: "https://github.com/paiml/alimentar"
repository-code: "https://github.com/paiml/alimentar"
license: MIT
authors:
- name: "paiml"
keywords:
- data-loading
- arrow
- parquet
- rust
- machine-learning
- datasets
- streaming
- zero-copy
abstract: >-
A sovereignty-first data loading library for the paiml AI stack.
Provides HuggingFace-compatible functionality with local-first design,
zero-copy Arrow RecordBatches, streaming for large datasets, and
comprehensive data quality and drift detection capabilities.