diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7a4806d..d4583ab 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -47,6 +47,21 @@ val (x, y) = mushrooms.unzipInt
 sparkgscv(x, y, 5, Seq(new Accuracy().asInstanceOf[ClassificationMeasure]): _*) { (x, y) => knn(x, y, 3) }
 ```
 
+**From Spark Dataset to SMILE SparseDataset**
+
+```scala
+import org.apache.spark.smile.implicits._
+
+val spark = SparkSession.builder().master("local[*]").getOrCreate()
+
+val mushrooms = spark.read.format("libsvm").load("data/mushrooms.svm")
+
+val (x,y) = mushrooms.toSmileDataset("features","label").unzipInt
+
+val res = cv(x, y, 5, Seq(new Accuracy().asInstanceOf[ClassificationMeasure]): _*) { (x, y) => knn(x, y, 3) }
+```
+ 
+
 ## Contributing
 
 Feel free to open an issue or make a pull request to contribute to the repository.
diff --git a/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/smile/implicits/package.scala b/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/smile/implicits/package.scala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8fa641b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/smile/implicits/package.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+package org.apache.spark.smile
+
+import org.apache.spark.ml.linalg.Vector
+import org.apache.spark.sql.functions._
+import org.apache.spark.sql.{Row, Dataset => SparkDataset}
+import smile.data.{NominalAttribute, SparseDataset}
+
+package object implicits {
+
+  implicit class BetterSmileDataset(dataset: SparkDataset[_]) {
+
+    def toSmileDataset(
+                        featuresColName: String = "features",
+                        labelColName: String = "label",
+                        weightColName: String = "weight"): SparseDataset = {
+      val classification =
+        dataset.select(labelColName).take(20).forall { case Row(x: Double) => (x % 1) == 0 }
+      val minClass =
+        if (classification)
+          dataset.select(labelColName).agg(min(labelColName)).head.getDouble(0).toInt
+        else 0
+      val res =
+        if (classification) new SparseDataset(new NominalAttribute("class"))
+        else new SparseDataset(new NominalAttribute("response"))
+      if (dataset.columns.contains(weightColName)) {
+        dataset
+          .select(Array(featuresColName, labelColName, weightColName).map(col): _*)
+          .collect()
+          .toList
+          .zipWithIndex
+          .foreach {
+            case (Row(features: Vector, label: Double, weight: Double), i: Int) =>
+              features.toArray.toList.zipWithIndex.foreach {
+                case (x: Double, j: Int) => res.set(i, j, x)
+              }
+              if (classification) res.set(i, label.toInt - minClass, weight)
+              else res.set(i, label, weight)
+          }
+      } else {
+        dataset
+          .select(Array(featuresColName, labelColName).map(col): _*)
+          .collect()
+          .zipWithIndex
+          .foreach {
+            case (Row(features: Vector, label: Double), i: Int) =>
+              features.toArray.zipWithIndex.foreach {
+                case (x: Double, j: Int) => res.set(i, j, x)
+              }
+              if (classification) res.set(i, label.toInt - minClass) else res.set(i, label)
+          }
+      }
+      res
+
+    }
+
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/src/main/scala/smile/tuning/SparkOperators.scala b/src/main/scala/smile/tuning/Operators.scala
similarity index 97%
rename from src/main/scala/smile/tuning/SparkOperators.scala
rename to src/main/scala/smile/tuning/Operators.scala
index bcdad50..8809f5e 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/smile/tuning/SparkOperators.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/smile/tuning/Operators.scala
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import scala.reflect.ClassTag
 
 case class SerializableClassificationMeasure(@transient measure: ClassificationMeasure)
 
-trait SparkOperators {
+trait Operators {
 
   def sparkgscv[T <: Object: ClassTag](
       x: Array[T],
diff --git a/src/main/scala/smile/tuning/package.scala b/src/main/scala/smile/tuning/package.scala
index 5d0bce0..4b20fdf 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/smile/tuning/package.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/smile/tuning/package.scala
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 package smile
 
-package object tuning extends SparkOperators {}
+package object tuning extends Operators {}
diff --git a/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/smile/ImplicitSuite.scala b/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/smile/ImplicitSuite.scala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..555387b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/smile/ImplicitSuite.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+package org.apache.spark.smile
+
+import com.holdenkarau.spark.testing.DatasetSuiteBase
+import org.scalatest.FunSuite
+import smile.classification.knn
+import smile.data._
+import smile.validation.{Accuracy, ClassificationMeasure, _}
+
+class ImplicitSuite extends FunSuite with DatasetSuiteBase {
+
+  test("toSmileDataset") {
+
+    import org.apache.spark.smile.implicits._
+
+    val mushrooms = spark.read.format("libsvm").load("data/mushrooms.svm")
+
+    val (x,y) = mushrooms.toSmileDataset().unzipInt
+
+    val res = cv(x, y, 5, Seq(new Accuracy().asInstanceOf[ClassificationMeasure]): _*) { (x, y) => knn(x, y, 3) }
+
+    assert(res(0) == 1)
+
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/src/test/scala/smile/tuning/SparkOperatorsSuite.scala b/src/test/scala/smile/tuning/OperatorsSuite.scala
similarity index 76%
rename from src/test/scala/smile/tuning/SparkOperatorsSuite.scala
rename to src/test/scala/smile/tuning/OperatorsSuite.scala
index fb5180f..46b67dc 100644
--- a/src/test/scala/smile/tuning/SparkOperatorsSuite.scala
+++ b/src/test/scala/smile/tuning/OperatorsSuite.scala
@@ -3,16 +3,16 @@ package smile.tuning
 import com.holdenkarau.spark.testing.DatasetSuiteBase
 import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
 import org.scalatest.FunSuite
-import smile.classification.{Classifier, _}
+import smile.classification._
 import smile.data._
 import smile.read
 import smile.validation._
 
-class SparkOperatorsSuite extends FunSuite with DatasetSuiteBase {
+class OperatorsSuite extends FunSuite with DatasetSuiteBase {
 
   test("sparkgscv") {
 
-    implicit val sparkImplicit = spark
+    implicit val sparkImplicit: SparkSession = spark
 
     val mushrooms = read.libsvm("data/mushrooms.svm")
     val (x, y) = mushrooms.unzipInt