diff --git a/chill-algebird/src/main/scala/com/twitter/chill/algebird/AlgebirdRegistrar.scala b/chill-algebird/src/main/scala/com/twitter/chill/algebird/AlgebirdRegistrar.scala
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/chill-algebird/src/main/scala/com/twitter/chill/algebird/AlgebirdRegistrar.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2014 Twitter, Inc.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+package com.twitter.chill.algebird
+
+import com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo
+import com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.FieldSerializer
+
+import com.twitter.chill.IKryoRegistrar
+
+import com.twitter.algebird.{AveragedValue, DecayedValue, HLL, HyperLogLog,
+  HyperLogLogMonoid, Moments, SpaceSaver, DenseVector, SparseVector, AdaptiveVector}
+
+
+class AlgebirdRegistrar extends IKryoRegistrar {
+
+  def apply(k: Kryo) {
+    // Some of the monoids from Algebird that we use:
+    k.register(classOf[AveragedValue], new AveragedValueSerializer)
+    k.register(classOf[DecayedValue], new DecayedValueSerializer)
+    k.register(classOf[HyperLogLogMonoid], new HLLMonoidSerializer)
+    k.register(classOf[Moments], new MomentsSerializer)
+    k.addDefaultSerializer(classOf[HLL], new HLLSerializer)
+
+    /** AdaptiveVector is IndexedSeq, which picks up the chill IndexedSeq serializer
+     * (which is its own bug), force using the fields serializer here
+     */
+    k.register(classOf[DenseVector[_]], new FieldSerializer[DenseVector[_]](k, classOf[DenseVector[_]]))
+
+    k.register(classOf[SparseVector[_]], new FieldSerializer[SparseVector[_]](k, classOf[SparseVector[_]]))
+
+    k.addDefaultSerializer(classOf[AdaptiveVector[_]], classOf[FieldSerializer[_]])
+  }
+}
diff --git a/chill-algebird/src/main/scala/com/twitter/chill/algebird/AlgebirdSerializers.scala b/chill-algebird/src/main/scala/com/twitter/chill/algebird/AlgebirdSerializers.scala
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+++ b/chill-algebird/src/main/scala/com/twitter/chill/algebird/AlgebirdSerializers.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2012 Twitter, Inc.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+package com.twitter.chill.algebird
+
+import com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo
+import com.esotericsoftware.kryo.{Serializer => KSerializer}
+import com.esotericsoftware.kryo.io.{Input, Output}
+
+import com.twitter.algebird.{AveragedValue, DecayedValue, HLL, HyperLogLog,
+  HyperLogLogMonoid, Moments, SpaceSaver, SSOne, SSMany}
+
+import scala.collection.mutable.{Map => MMap}
+import scala.collection.immutable.SortedMap
+
+class AveragedValueSerializer extends KSerializer[AveragedValue] {
+  setImmutable(true)
+  def write(kser: Kryo, out : Output, s : AveragedValue) {
+    out.writeLong(s.count, true)
+    out.writeDouble(s.value)
+  }
+  def read(kser : Kryo, in : Input, cls : Class[AveragedValue]) : AveragedValue =
+    AveragedValue(in.readLong(true), in.readDouble)
+}
+
+class MomentsSerializer extends KSerializer[Moments] {
+  setImmutable(true)
+  def write(kser: Kryo, out : Output, s : Moments) {
+    out.writeLong(s.m0, true)
+    out.writeDouble(s.m1)
+    out.writeDouble(s.m2)
+    out.writeDouble(s.m3)
+    out.writeDouble(s.m4)
+  }
+  def read(kser : Kryo, in : Input, cls : Class[Moments]) : Moments = {
+    Moments(in.readLong(true),
+      in.readDouble,
+      in.readDouble,
+      in.readDouble,
+      in.readDouble)
+  }
+}
+
+
+class DecayedValueSerializer extends KSerializer[DecayedValue] {
+  setImmutable(true)
+  def write(kser: Kryo, out : Output, s : DecayedValue) {
+    out.writeDouble(s.value)
+    out.writeDouble(s.scaledTime)
+  }
+  def read(kser : Kryo, in : Input, cls : Class[DecayedValue]) : DecayedValue =
+    DecayedValue(in.readDouble, in.readDouble)
+}
+
+class HLLSerializer extends KSerializer[HLL] {
+  setImmutable(true)
+  def write(kser: Kryo, out : Output, s : HLL) {
+    val bytes = HyperLogLog.toBytes(s)
+    out.writeInt(bytes.size, true)
+    out.writeBytes(bytes)
+  }
+  def read(kser : Kryo, in : Input, cls : Class[HLL]) : HLL = {
+    HyperLogLog.fromBytes(in.readBytes(in.readInt(true)))
+  }
+}
+
+class HLLMonoidSerializer extends KSerializer[HyperLogLogMonoid] {
+  setImmutable(true)
+  val hllMonoids = MMap[Int,HyperLogLogMonoid]()
+  def write(kser: Kryo, out : Output, mon : HyperLogLogMonoid) {
+    out.writeInt(mon.bits, true)
+  }
+  def read(kser : Kryo, in : Input, cls : Class[HyperLogLogMonoid]) : HyperLogLogMonoid = {
+    val bits = in.readInt(true)
+    hllMonoids.getOrElseUpdate(bits, new HyperLogLogMonoid(bits))
+  }
+}
diff --git a/chill-algebird/src/test/scala/com/twitter/chill/algebird/AlgebirdSerializersSpec.scala b/chill-algebird/src/test/scala/com/twitter/chill/algebird/AlgebirdSerializersSpec.scala
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/chill-algebird/src/test/scala/com/twitter/chill/algebird/AlgebirdSerializersSpec.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2014 Twitter, Inc.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+package com.twitter.chill.algebird
+
+import com.twitter.chill.{ KSerializer, ScalaKryoInstantiator, KryoPool }
+import com.twitter.algebird.{ AveragedValue, DecayedValue, HyperLogLogMonoid, MomentsGroup, AdaptiveVector }
+import org.specs.Specification
+
+class AlgebirdSerializersSpec extends Specification {
+  val kryo = {
+    val inst = () => {
+      val newK = (new ScalaKryoInstantiator).newKryo
+      newK.setReferences(false) // typical in production environment (scalding, spark)
+      (new AlgebirdRegistrar).apply(newK)
+      newK
+    }
+    KryoPool.withByteArrayOutputStream(1, inst)
+  }
+
+  def roundtrip[X](x: X) {
+    val bytes = kryo.toBytesWithClass(x)
+    //println("bytes size : " + bytes.size)
+    //println("bytes: " + new String(bytes, "UTF-8"))
+    val result = kryo.fromBytes(bytes).asInstanceOf[X]
+    result must_== x
+  }
+
+  def roundtripNoEq[X](x: X)(f: X => Any) {
+    val bytes = kryo.toBytesWithClass(x)
+    val result = kryo.fromBytes(bytes).asInstanceOf[X]
+    f(result) must_== f(x)
+  }
+
+
+  "kryo with AlgebirdRegistrar" should {
+    "serialize and deserialize AveragedValue" in {
+      roundtrip(AveragedValue(10L, 123.45))
+    }
+
+    "serialize and deserialize DecayedValue" in {
+      roundtrip(DecayedValue.build(3.14, 20.2, 9.33))
+    }
+
+    "serialize and deserialize HyperLogLogMonoid" in {
+      roundtripNoEq(new HyperLogLogMonoid(12))(_.bits)
+    }
+
+    "serialize and deserialize Moments" in {
+      roundtrip(MomentsGroup.zero)
+    }
+
+    "serialize and deserialize HLL" in {
+      val sparse = new HyperLogLogMonoid(4).create(Array(-127.toByte))
+      val dense = new HyperLogLogMonoid(4).batchCreate(Seq(-127, 100, 23, 44, 15, 96, 10).map(x => Array(x.toByte)))
+      roundtrip(sparse)
+      roundtrip(dense)
+    }
+
+    "serialize and deserialize SparseVector and DenseVector" in {
+      val sparse = AdaptiveVector.fromVector(Vector(1,1,1,1,1,3), 1)
+      val dense = AdaptiveVector.fromVector(Vector(1,2,3,1,2,3), 1)
+      roundtrip(sparse)
+      roundtrip(dense)
+    }
+
+  }
+}
diff --git a/project/Build.scala b/project/Build.scala
index 701d2491..0859b572 100644
--- a/project/Build.scala
+++ b/project/Build.scala
@@ -93,7 +93,8 @@ object ChillBuild extends Build {
     chillThrift,
     chillProtobuf,
     chillAkka,
-    chillAvro
+    chillAvro,
+    chillAlgebird
     )
 
   /**
@@ -208,4 +209,10 @@ object ChillBuild extends Build {
       "com.twitter" %% "bijection-avro" % "0.6.2"
     )
   ).dependsOn(chill,chillJava, chillBijection)
+
+  lazy val chillAlgebird = module("algebird").settings(
+    libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
+      "com.twitter" %% "algebird-core" % "0.5.0"
+    )
+  ).dependsOn(chill)
 }