diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index c79ccd09e097c..16865e80e08b8 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ option(LLAMA_BUILD_SERVER   "llama: build server example" ${LLAMA_STANDALONE})
 # 3rd party libs
 option(LLAMA_CURL       "llama: use libcurl to download model from an URL" ON)
 option(LLAMA_LLGUIDANCE "llama-common: include LLGuidance library for structured output in common utils" OFF)
+option(LLAMA_PARQUET "Enable Parquet dataset support via Arrow/Parquet C++" OFF)
 
 # Required for relocatable CMake package
 include(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/build-info.cmake)
@@ -173,6 +174,12 @@ if (MINGW)
     add_compile_definitions(_WIN32_WINNT=${GGML_WIN_VER})
 endif()
 
+if(LLAMA_PARQUET)
+    find_package(Arrow REQUIRED)
+    find_package(Parquet REQUIRED)
+    add_definitions(-DLLAMA_PARQUET)
+endif()
+
 #
 # build the library
 #
diff --git a/common/arg.cpp b/common/arg.cpp
index 40af7e574830f..2dcd413e4559c 100644
--- a/common/arg.cpp
+++ b/common/arg.cpp
@@ -1470,14 +1470,14 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
         [](common_params & params) {
             params.ctx_shift = false;
         }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_MAIN, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_IMATRIX, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_NO_CONTEXT_SHIFT"));
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_MAIN, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_IMATRIX, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_FINETUNE}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_NO_CONTEXT_SHIFT"));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"--chunks"}, "N",
         string_format("max number of chunks to process (default: %d, -1 = all)", params.n_chunks),
         [](common_params & params, int value) {
             params.n_chunks = value;
         }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_IMATRIX, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_RETRIEVAL}));
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_IMATRIX, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_FINETUNE, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_RETRIEVAL}));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"-fa", "--flash-attn"},
         string_format("enable Flash Attention (default: %s)", params.flash_attn ? "enabled" : "disabled"),
@@ -2115,70 +2115,70 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
         [](common_params & params) {
             params.hellaswag = true;
         }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY}));
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_FINETUNE}));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"--hellaswag-tasks"}, "N",
         string_format("number of tasks to use when computing the HellaSwag score (default: %zu)", params.hellaswag_tasks),
         [](common_params & params, int value) {
             params.hellaswag_tasks = value;
         }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY}));
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_FINETUNE}));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"--winogrande"},
         "compute Winogrande score over random tasks from datafile supplied with -f",
         [](common_params & params) {
             params.winogrande = true;
         }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY}));
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_FINETUNE}));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"--winogrande-tasks"}, "N",
         string_format("number of tasks to use when computing the Winogrande score (default: %zu)", params.winogrande_tasks),
         [](common_params & params, int value) {
             params.winogrande_tasks = value;
         }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY}));
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_FINETUNE}));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"--multiple-choice"},
         "compute multiple choice score over random tasks from datafile supplied with -f",
         [](common_params & params) {
             params.multiple_choice = true;
         }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY}));
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_FINETUNE}));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"--multiple-choice-tasks"}, "N",
         string_format("number of tasks to use when computing the multiple choice score (default: %zu)", params.multiple_choice_tasks),
         [](common_params & params, int value) {
             params.multiple_choice_tasks = value;
         }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY}));
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_FINETUNE}));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"--kl-divergence"},
         "computes KL-divergence to logits provided via --kl-divergence-base",
         [](common_params & params) {
             params.kl_divergence = true;
         }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY}));
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_FINETUNE}));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"--save-all-logits", "--kl-divergence-base"}, "FNAME",
         "set logits file",
         [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
             params.logits_file = value;
         }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY}));
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_FINETUNE}));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"--ppl-stride"}, "N",
         string_format("stride for perplexity calculation (default: %d)", params.ppl_stride),
         [](common_params & params, int value) {
             params.ppl_stride = value;
         }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY}));
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_FINETUNE}));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"--ppl-output-type"}, "<0|1>",
         string_format("output type for perplexity calculation (default: %d)", params.ppl_output_type),
         [](common_params & params, int value) {
             params.ppl_output_type = value;
         }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY}));
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_FINETUNE}));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"-dt", "--defrag-thold"}, "N",
         string_format("KV cache defragmentation threshold (default: %.1f, < 0 - disabled)", (double)params.defrag_thold),
@@ -3415,6 +3415,30 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
             params.n_cache_reuse = 256;
         }
     ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}));
+#ifdef LLAMA_PARQUET
+    add_opt(common_arg(
+        {"--dataset-format"}, "text",
+        string_format("Dataset format: text or parquet (requires LLAMA_PARQUET)"),
+        [](common_params & params, const std::string & format) {
+            params.dataset_format = format; //or parquet//TODO ENUM CLASS
+        }
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_FINETUNE}));
+
+    add_opt(common_arg(
+        {"--parquet-path"}, "parquet.parquet",
+        string_format("Parquet path"),
+        [](common_params & params, const std::string & filepath) {//TODO -read dir
+            params.parquet_path = filepath;
+        }
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_FINETUNE}));
 
+    add_opt(common_arg(
+        {"--tokens-column"}, "tokens",
+        string_format("Name of tokens column (list<int32>) in Parquet file"),
+        [](common_params & params, const std::string & column) {
+            params.tokens_column = column;
+        }
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_FINETUNE}));
+#endif
     return ctx_arg;
 }
diff --git a/common/common.h b/common/common.h
index 8922090e7b10d..fc75a972f0c6f 100644
--- a/common/common.h
+++ b/common/common.h
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ enum llama_example {
     LLAMA_EXAMPLE_TTS,
 
     LLAMA_EXAMPLE_COUNT,
+    LLAMA_EXAMPLE_FINETUNE,
 };
 
 enum common_sampler_type {
@@ -282,6 +283,9 @@ struct common_params {
     std::string lookup_cache_static  = ""; // path of static ngram cache file for lookup decoding           // NOLINT
     std::string lookup_cache_dynamic = ""; // path of dynamic ngram cache file for lookup decoding          // NOLINT
     std::string logits_file          = ""; // file for saving *all* logits                                  // NOLINT
+    std::string dataset_format = "text"; // "text" | "parquet"
+    std::string parquet_path;            // path to Parquet
+    std::string tokens_column = "tokens"; // name column list<int32>
 
     std::vector<std::string> in_files;   // all input files
     std::vector<std::string> antiprompt; // strings upon which more user input is prompted (a.k.a. reverse prompts)
diff --git a/examples/training/README.md b/examples/training/README.md
index df425279266e4..dcb05e4643035 100644
--- a/examples/training/README.md
+++ b/examples/training/README.md
@@ -8,10 +8,21 @@ Finetuning of Stories 260K and LLaMA 3.2 1b seems to work with 24 GB of memory.
 
 Proof of concept:
 
+With load data from common file:
+
 ``` sh
 export model_name=llama_3.2-1b && export quantization=f32
 ./build/bin/llama-finetune --file wikitext-2-raw/wiki.test.raw -ngl 999 --model models/${model_name}-${quantization}.gguf -c 512 -b 512 -ub 512
 ./build/bin/llama-perplexity --file wikitext-2-raw/wiki.test.raw -ngl 999 --model finetuned-model.gguf
 ```
 
+With load data from parquet (without batching):
+
+You need install arrow package and build with LLAMA_PARQUET=ON
+
+``` sh
+mkdir build; cmake -DLLAMA_PARQUET=ON .. ; make
+export model_name=llama_3.2-1b && export quantization=f32
+./build/bin/llama-finetune -ngl 999 --dataset-format parquet --parquet-path parquet.parquet --tokens-column tokens --model models/${model_name}-${quantization}.gguf -c 512 -b 512 -ub 512
+```
 The perplexity value of the finetuned model should be lower after training on the test set for 2 epochs.
diff --git a/examples/training/finetune.cpp b/examples/training/finetune.cpp
index 23bede49b1362..6dc9415b65e44 100644
--- a/examples/training/finetune.cpp
+++ b/examples/training/finetune.cpp
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #include "common.h"
 #include "log.h"
 #include "llama.h"
+#include "../../src/parquet_dataset.h"
 
 #include <cmath>
 #include <cstdio>
@@ -18,7 +19,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 
     params.escape = false;
 
-    if (!common_params_parse(argc, argv, params, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_PERPLEXITY)) {
+    if (!common_params_parse(argc, argv, params, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_FINETUNE)) {
         return 1;
     }
 
@@ -57,7 +58,23 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 
     constexpr float val_split = 0.05f;
 
-    std::vector<llama_token> tokens = common_tokenize(ctx.get(), params.prompt, true);
+    std::vector<llama_token> tokens;
+#ifdef LLAMA_PARQUET
+    if (params.dataset_format == "text") {
+#endif
+        tokens = common_tokenize(ctx.get(), params.prompt, true); //load from text file
+#ifdef LLAMA_PARQUET
+    }
+    else if (params.dataset_format == "parquet") {
+        tokens = load_parquet_dataset(params.parquet_path, params.tokens_column);
+        if (tokens.empty()) {
+            LOG_ERR("No tokens in %s, or column %s not found/invalid", params.parquet_path.c_str(), params.tokens_column.c_str());
+            return 1;
+        }
+        LOG_INF("Loaded %zu tokens from Parquet", tokens.size());
+    }
+#endif
+
     ggml_opt_dataset_t dataset = common_opt_dataset_init(ctx.get(), tokens, llama_n_ctx(ctx.get())/2);
 
     struct ggml_opt_optimizer_params optimizer_params = ggml_opt_get_default_optimizer_params(nullptr);
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index 8f9cd652447ab..d2a49b868dfa7 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ add_library(llama
             llama-quant.cpp
             llama-sampling.cpp
             llama-vocab.cpp
+            parquet_dataset.cpp
             unicode-data.cpp
             unicode.cpp
             unicode.h
@@ -41,7 +42,12 @@ target_include_directories(llama PRIVATE .)
 target_include_directories(llama PUBLIC ../include)
 target_compile_features   (llama PRIVATE cxx_std_17) # don't bump
 
-target_link_libraries(llama PUBLIC ggml)
+
+if(LLAMA_PARQUET)
+    target_link_libraries(llama PUBLIC ggml Arrow::arrow_shared Parquet::parquet_shared)
+else()
+    target_link_libraries(llama PUBLIC ggml)
+endif()
 
 if (BUILD_SHARED_LIBS)
     set_target_properties(llama PROPERTIES POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON)
diff --git a/src/parquet_dataset.cpp b/src/parquet_dataset.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..d04ee331ebedf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/parquet_dataset.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+#ifdef LLAMA_PARQUET
+#include "parquet_dataset.h"
+#include <arrow/api.h>
+#include <arrow/io/file.h>
+#include <parquet/arrow/reader.h>
+#include "llama-impl.h"
+
+std::vector<llama_token> load_parquet_dataset(const std::string &path, const std::string &column) {
+    arrow::MemoryPool *pool = arrow::default_memory_pool();
+    std::shared_ptr<arrow::io::RandomAccessFile> infile;
+    PARQUET_ASSIGN_OR_THROW(infile, arrow::io::ReadableFile::Open(path));
+    arrow::Result<std::unique_ptr<parquet::arrow::FileReader>> reader_raw;
+    PARQUET_ASSIGN_OR_THROW(reader_raw, parquet::arrow::OpenFile(infile, pool));
+
+    std::unique_ptr<parquet::arrow::FileReader> reader = std::move(reader_raw.ValueUnsafe());
+    std::shared_ptr<arrow::Table> table;
+    PARQUET_THROW_NOT_OK(reader->ReadTable(&table));
+
+    auto field = table->schema()->GetFieldByName(column);
+    if (!field || !field->type()->Equals(arrow::list(arrow::int32()))) {
+        LLAMA_LOG_ERROR("Parquet column '%s' missing or not list<int32>", column.c_str());
+        return {};
+    }
+
+    auto col = table->GetColumnByName(column);
+    std::vector<llama_token> tokens;
+    for (int chunk = 0; chunk < col->num_chunks(); ++chunk) {
+        auto list_arr = std::static_pointer_cast<arrow::ListArray>(col->chunk(chunk));
+        auto values_arr = std::static_pointer_cast<arrow::Int32Array>(list_arr->values());
+        // get raw offsets (int32_t or int64_t based on ListArray template)
+        const auto *offsets = list_arr->raw_value_offsets();
+        // offsets length = list_arr->length() + 1
+        int64_t values_length = values_arr->length();
+        for (int64_t i = 0; i < list_arr->length(); ++i) {
+            int64_t start = offsets[i];
+            int64_t end   = offsets[i + 1];
+            // Clamp end
+            if (start < 0) start = 0;
+            if (end > values_length) end = values_length;
+            for (int64_t j = start; j < end; ++j) {
+                tokens.push_back(static_cast<llama_token>(values_arr->Value(j)));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    return tokens;
+}
+#endif // LLAMA_PARQUET
diff --git a/src/parquet_dataset.h b/src/parquet_dataset.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..00fd5e423a7be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/parquet_dataset.h
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#ifndef PARQUET_DATASET_H
+#define PARQUET_DATASET_H
+#include <string>
+#include <vector>
+#include "llama.h"
+
+#ifdef LLAMA_PARQUET
+std::vector<llama_token> load_parquet_dataset(const std::string &path, const std::string &column);
+#endif
+#endif  //