diff --git a/a b/a
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/tffm/base.py b/tffm/base.py
index 4e72626..ed62227 100644
--- a/tffm/base.py
+++ b/tffm/base.py
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 import tensorflow as tf
 from .core import TFFMCore
+import sklearn
 from sklearn.base import BaseEstimator
 from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
 import six
 from tqdm import tqdm
 import numpy as np
 import os
+import pickle
 
 
 def batcher(X_, y_=None, w_=None, batch_size=-1):
@@ -277,3 +279,41 @@ def destroy(self):
         """Terminates session and destroyes graph."""
         self.session.close()
         self.core.graph = None
+
+    def save_model(self, path):
+        """Saves the entire model"""
+        self.save_state(path)
+
+        ## Additional core attributes that are to be pickled!
+        CORE_ATTRS = ['n_features']
+
+        # remove loss_function if classifier
+        if self.__class__.__name__.rpartition('.')[2] == 'TFFMClassifier':
+            del self._init_params_copy['loss_function']
+        pickle_params ={
+            'init': self._init_params_copy,
+            'core': {k:getattr(self.core, k) for k in CORE_ATTRS}
+        }
+        if not os.path.isdir(os.path.dirname(path)):
+            os.makedirs(path, exist_ok=True)
+
+        pickle.dump(pickle_params, open(path+'.tffm', 'wb'))
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def load_model(klass, path):
+        """
+        Restores the TFFM model, along with tensorflow state
+
+        Parameters:
+        -----------
+            klass: TFFMRegressor or TFFMClassifier
+            path: path to save pickled model file with extension .tffm
+        """
+        if klass.__name__.rpartition('.')[2] not in ['TFFMRegressor', 'TFFMClassifier']:
+            raise TypeError('klass is not supported: %s'%klass)
+        _unpickled_obj = pickle.load(open(path+'.tffm', 'rb'))
+        _new_model = klass(**_unpickled_obj['init'])
+        for k in _unpickled_obj['core']:
+            setattr(_new_model.core, k, _unpickled_obj['core'][k])
+        _new_model.load_state(path)
+        return _new_model
diff --git a/tffm/models.py b/tffm/models.py
index b37e98e..5f8a5bb 100644
--- a/tffm/models.py
+++ b/tffm/models.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 import numpy as np
 from .base import TFFMBaseModel
 from .utils import loss_logistic, loss_mse,  sigmoid
-
+import copy
 
 
 class TFFMClassifier(TFFMBaseModel):
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ def __init__(self, **init_params):
         base class TFFMBaseModel."""
 
         init_params['loss_function'] = loss_logistic
+        self._init_params_copy = copy.deepcopy(init_params)
         self.init_basemodel(**init_params)
 
     def _preprocess_sample_weights(self, sample_weight, pos_class_weight, used_y):
@@ -118,6 +119,7 @@ def __init__(self, **init_params):
         not supported for TFFMRegressor. For custom loss function, extend the
         base class TFFMBaseModel."""
         
+        self._init_params_copy = copy.deepcopy(init_params)
         init_params['loss_function'] = loss_mse
         self.init_basemodel(**init_params)