# ztensor
[](https://crates.io/crates/ztensor)
[](https://docs.rs/ztensor)
[](https://pypi.org/project/ztensor/)
[](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
A simple, safe tensor serialization format with zero-copy reads, streaming writes, and built-in compression.
## Installation
```bash
pip install ztensor # Python
cargo add ztensor # Rust
cargo install ztensor-cli # CLI
```
## Features
- Zero-copy memory-mapped reads
- Streaming, append-only writes
- Zstd compression and checksums
- Dense, sparse (CSR/COO), and quantized tensors
- Convert from SafeTensors, GGUF, Pickle, NumPy, ONNX, and HDF5
## Documentation
- [Website](https://pie-project.github.io/ztensor/) — guides, API reference, benchmarks
- [Spec](SPEC.md) — file format specification
- [docs.rs](https://docs.rs/ztensor) — Rust API docs
## License
MIT