diff --git a/kmath-tensors/src/commonMain/kotlin/space/kscience/kmath/tensors/core/internal/linUtils.kt b/kmath-tensors/src/commonMain/kotlin/space/kscience/kmath/tensors/core/internal/linUtils.kt
index cf3697e76..c559803ec 100644
--- a/kmath-tensors/src/commonMain/kotlin/space/kscience/kmath/tensors/core/internal/linUtils.kt
+++ b/kmath-tensors/src/commonMain/kotlin/space/kscience/kmath/tensors/core/internal/linUtils.kt
@@ -12,7 +12,14 @@ import space.kscience.kmath.structures.IntBuffer
 import space.kscience.kmath.structures.asBuffer
 import space.kscience.kmath.structures.indices
 import space.kscience.kmath.tensors.core.*
+import space.kscience.kmath.tensors.core.BroadcastDoubleTensorAlgebra.div
+import space.kscience.kmath.tensors.core.BroadcastDoubleTensorAlgebra.dot
+import space.kscience.kmath.tensors.core.BroadcastDoubleTensorAlgebra.minus
+import space.kscience.kmath.tensors.core.BroadcastDoubleTensorAlgebra.times
+import space.kscience.kmath.tensors.core.BroadcastDoubleTensorAlgebra.transposed
+import space.kscience.kmath.tensors.core.DoubleTensorAlgebra.Companion.plus
 import kotlin.math.abs
+import kotlin.math.max
 import kotlin.math.min
 import kotlin.math.sqrt
 
@@ -308,3 +315,224 @@ internal fun DoubleTensorAlgebra.svdHelper(
         matrixV.source[i] = vBuffer[i]
     }
 }
+
+data class LMSettings (
+    var iteration:Int,
+    var func_calls: Int,
+    var example_number:Int
+)
+
+/* matrix -> column of all elemnets */
+fun make_column(tensor: MutableStructure2D<Double>) : MutableStructure2D<Double> {
+    val shape = intArrayOf(tensor.shape.component1() * tensor.shape.component2(), 1)
+    var buffer = DoubleArray(tensor.shape.component1() * tensor.shape.component2())
+    for (i in 0 until tensor.shape.component1()) {
+        for (j in 0 until tensor.shape.component2()) {
+            buffer[i * tensor.shape.component2() + j] = tensor[i, j]
+        }
+    }
+    var column = BroadcastDoubleTensorAlgebra.fromArray(ShapeND(shape), buffer).as2D()
+    return column
+}
+
+/* column length */
+fun length(column: MutableStructure2D<Double>) : Int {
+    return column.shape.component1()
+}
+
+fun MutableStructure2D<Double>.abs() {
+    for (i in 0 until this.shape.component1()) {
+        for (j in 0 until this.shape.component2()) {
+            this[i, j] = abs(this[i, j])
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+fun abs(input: MutableStructure2D<Double>): MutableStructure2D<Double> {
+    val tensor = BroadcastDoubleTensorAlgebra.ones(
+        ShapeND(
+            intArrayOf(
+                input.shape.component1(),
+                input.shape.component2()
+            )
+        )
+    ).as2D()
+    for (i in 0 until tensor.shape.component1()) {
+        for (j in 0 until tensor.shape.component2()) {
+            tensor[i, j] = abs(input[i, j])
+        }
+    }
+    return tensor
+}
+
+fun diag(input: MutableStructure2D<Double>): MutableStructure2D<Double> {
+    val tensor = BroadcastDoubleTensorAlgebra.ones(ShapeND(intArrayOf(input.shape.component1(), 1))).as2D()
+    for (i in 0 until tensor.shape.component1()) {
+        tensor[i, 0] = input[i, i]
+    }
+    return tensor
+}
+
+fun make_matrx_with_diagonal(column: MutableStructure2D<Double>): MutableStructure2D<Double> {
+    val size = column.shape.component1()
+    val tensor = BroadcastDoubleTensorAlgebra.zeros(ShapeND(intArrayOf(size, size))).as2D()
+    for (i in 0 until size) {
+        tensor[i, i] = column[i, 0]
+    }
+    return tensor
+}
+
+fun lm_eye(size: Int): MutableStructure2D<Double> {
+    val column = BroadcastDoubleTensorAlgebra.ones(ShapeND(intArrayOf(size, 1))).as2D()
+    return make_matrx_with_diagonal(column)
+}
+
+fun largest_element_comparison(a: MutableStructure2D<Double>, b: MutableStructure2D<Double>): MutableStructure2D<Double> {
+    val a_sizeX = a.shape.component1()
+    val a_sizeY = a.shape.component2()
+    val b_sizeX = b.shape.component1()
+    val b_sizeY = b.shape.component2()
+    val tensor = BroadcastDoubleTensorAlgebra.zeros(ShapeND(intArrayOf(max(a_sizeX, b_sizeX), max(a_sizeY, b_sizeY)))).as2D()
+    for (i in 0 until tensor.shape.component1()) {
+        for (j in 0 until tensor.shape.component2()) {
+            if (i < a_sizeX && i < b_sizeX && j < a_sizeY && j < b_sizeY) {
+                tensor[i, j] = max(a[i, j], b[i, j])
+            }
+            else if (i < a_sizeX && j < a_sizeY) {
+                tensor[i, j] = a[i, j]
+            }
+            else {
+                tensor[i, j] = b[i, j]
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    return tensor
+}
+
+fun smallest_element_comparison(a: MutableStructure2D<Double>, b: MutableStructure2D<Double>): MutableStructure2D<Double> {
+    val a_sizeX = a.shape.component1()
+    val a_sizeY = a.shape.component2()
+    val b_sizeX = b.shape.component1()
+    val b_sizeY = b.shape.component2()
+    val tensor = BroadcastDoubleTensorAlgebra.zeros(ShapeND(intArrayOf(max(a_sizeX, b_sizeX), max(a_sizeY, b_sizeY)))).as2D()
+    for (i in 0 until tensor.shape.component1()) {
+        for (j in 0 until tensor.shape.component2()) {
+            if (i < a_sizeX && i < b_sizeX && j < a_sizeY && j < b_sizeY) {
+                tensor[i, j] = min(a[i, j], b[i, j])
+            }
+            else if (i < a_sizeX && j < a_sizeY) {
+                tensor[i, j] = a[i, j]
+            }
+            else {
+                tensor[i, j] = b[i, j]
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    return tensor
+}
+
+fun get_zero_indices(column: MutableStructure2D<Double>, epsilon: Double = 0.000001): MutableStructure2D<Double>? {
+    var idx = emptyArray<Double>()
+    for (i in 0 until column.shape.component1()) {
+        if (abs(column[i, 0]) > epsilon) {
+            idx += (i + 1.0)
+        }
+    }
+    if (idx.size > 0) {
+        return BroadcastDoubleTensorAlgebra.fromArray(ShapeND(intArrayOf(idx.size, 1)), idx.toDoubleArray()).as2D()
+    }
+    return null
+}
+
+fun feval(func: (MutableStructure2D<Double>,  MutableStructure2D<Double>, LMSettings) ->  MutableStructure2D<Double>,
+          t: MutableStructure2D<Double>, p: MutableStructure2D<Double>, settings: LMSettings)
+        : MutableStructure2D<Double>
+{
+    return func(t, p, settings)
+}
+
+fun lm_matx(func: (MutableStructure2D<Double>, MutableStructure2D<Double>, LMSettings) -> MutableStructure2D<Double>,
+            t: MutableStructure2D<Double>, p_old: MutableStructure2D<Double>, y_old: MutableStructure2D<Double>,
+            dX2: Int, J_input: MutableStructure2D<Double>, p: MutableStructure2D<Double>,
+            y_dat: MutableStructure2D<Double>, weight: MutableStructure2D<Double>, dp:MutableStructure2D<Double>, settings:LMSettings) : Array<MutableStructure2D<Double>>
+{
+    // default: dp = 0.001
+
+    val Npnt = length(y_dat)               // number of data points
+    val Npar = length(p)                   // number of parameters
+
+    val y_hat = feval(func, t, p, settings)          // evaluate model using parameters 'p'
+    settings.func_calls += 1
+
+    var J = J_input
+
+    if (settings.iteration % (2 * Npar) == 0 || dX2 > 0) {
+        J = lm_FD_J(func, t, p, y_hat, dp, settings).as2D() // finite difference
+    }
+    else {
+        J = lm_Broyden_J(p_old, y_old, J, p, y_hat).as2D() // rank-1 update
+    }
+
+    val delta_y = y_dat.minus(y_hat)
+
+    val Chi_sq = delta_y.transposed().dot( delta_y.times(weight) ).as2D()
+    val JtWJ = J.transposed().dot ( J.times( weight.dot(BroadcastDoubleTensorAlgebra.ones(ShapeND(intArrayOf(1, Npar)))) ) ).as2D()
+    val JtWdy = J.transposed().dot( weight.times(delta_y) ).as2D()
+
+    return arrayOf(JtWJ,JtWdy,Chi_sq,y_hat,J)
+}
+
+fun lm_Broyden_J(p_old: MutableStructure2D<Double>, y_old: MutableStructure2D<Double>, J_input: MutableStructure2D<Double>,
+                 p: MutableStructure2D<Double>, y: MutableStructure2D<Double>): MutableStructure2D<Double> {
+    var J = J_input.copyToTensor()
+
+    val h = p.minus(p_old)
+    val increase = y.minus(y_old).minus( J.dot(h) ).dot(h.transposed()).div( (h.transposed().dot(h)).as2D()[0, 0] )
+    J = J.plus(increase)
+
+    return J.as2D()
+}
+
+fun lm_FD_J(func: (MutableStructure2D<Double>, MutableStructure2D<Double>, settings: LMSettings) -> MutableStructure2D<Double>,
+            t: MutableStructure2D<Double>, p: MutableStructure2D<Double>, y: MutableStructure2D<Double>,
+            dp: MutableStructure2D<Double>, settings: LMSettings): MutableStructure2D<Double> {
+    // default: dp = 0.001 * ones(1,n)
+
+    val m = length(y)              // number of data points
+    val n = length(p)              // number of parameters
+
+    val ps = p.copyToTensor().as2D()
+    val J = BroadcastDoubleTensorAlgebra.zeros(ShapeND(intArrayOf(m, n))).as2D()  // initialize Jacobian to Zero
+    val del = BroadcastDoubleTensorAlgebra.zeros(ShapeND(intArrayOf(n, 1))).as2D()
+
+    for (j in 0 until n) {
+
+        del[j, 0] = dp[j, 0] * (1 + abs(p[j, 0])) // parameter perturbation
+        p[j, 0] = ps[j, 0] + del[j, 0]            // perturb parameter p(j)
+
+        val epsilon = 0.0000001
+        if (kotlin.math.abs(del[j, 0]) > epsilon) {
+            val y1 = feval(func, t, p, settings)
+            settings.func_calls += 1
+
+            if (dp[j, 0] < 0) { // backwards difference
+                for (i in 0 until J.shape.component1()) {
+                    J[i, j] = (y1.as2D().minus(y).as2D())[i, 0] / del[j, 0]
+                }
+            }
+            else {
+                // Do tests for it
+                println("Potential mistake")
+                p[j, 0] = ps[j, 0] - del[j, 0] // central difference, additional func call
+                for (i in 0 until J.shape.component1()) {
+                    J[i, j] = (y1.as2D().minus(feval(func, t, p, settings)).as2D())[i, 0] / (2 * del[j, 0])
+                }
+                settings.func_calls += 1
+            }
+        }
+
+        p[j, 0] = ps[j, 0] // restore p(j)
+    }
+
+    return J.as2D()
+}