diff --git a/instant-segment-py/Cargo.toml b/instant-segment-py/Cargo.toml
index 6c5289f..ad33261 100644
--- a/instant-segment-py/Cargo.toml
+++ b/instant-segment-py/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ crate-type = ["cdylib"]
 
 [dependencies]
 ahash = "0.7.2"
-instant-segment = { version = "0.7", path = "../instant-segment" }
+bincode = "1.3.2"
+instant-segment = { version = "0.7", path = "../instant-segment", features = ["with-serde"] }
 pyo3 = { version = "0.13.2", features = ["extension-module"] }
 smartstring = "0.2.6"
 
diff --git a/instant-segment-py/src/lib.rs b/instant-segment-py/src/lib.rs
index 2043fe5..8a3b4a9 100644
--- a/instant-segment-py/src/lib.rs
+++ b/instant-segment-py/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+use std::fs::File;
+use std::io::{BufReader, BufWriter};
+
 use pyo3::exceptions::PyValueError;
 use pyo3::proc_macro::{pyclass, pymethods, pymodule, pyproto};
 use pyo3::types::{PyIterator, PyModule};
@@ -47,6 +50,24 @@ impl Segmenter {
         })
     }
 
+    /// Load a segmenter from the given file name
+    #[staticmethod]
+    fn load(fname: &str) -> PyResult<Self> {
+        let hnsw = bincode::deserialize_from::<_, instant_segment::Segmenter>(
+            BufReader::with_capacity(32 * 1024 * 1024, File::open(fname)?),
+        )
+        .map_err(|e| PyValueError::new_err(format!("deserialization error: {:?}", e)))?;
+        Ok(Self { inner: hnsw })
+    }
+
+    /// Dump the segmenter to the given file name
+    fn dump(&self, fname: &str) -> PyResult<()> {
+        let f = BufWriter::with_capacity(32 * 1024 * 1024, File::create(fname)?);
+        bincode::serialize_into(f, &self.inner)
+            .map_err(|e| PyValueError::new_err(format!("serialization error: {:?}", e)))?;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
     fn segment(&self, s: &str, search: &mut Search) -> PyResult<()> {
         match self.inner.segment(s, &mut search.inner) {
             Ok(_) => {