ot.smooth

Smooth and Sparse (KL an L2 reg.) and sparsity-constrained OT solvers.

Implementation of : Smooth and Sparse Optimal Transport. Mathieu Blondel, Vivien Seguy, Antoine Rolet. In Proc. of AISTATS 2018. https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.06276

(Original code from https://github.com/mblondel/smooth-ot/)

Sparsity-Constrained Optimal Transport. Liu, T., Puigcerver, J., & Blondel, M. (2023). Sparsity-constrained optimal transport. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.15466

[17] Blondel, M., Seguy, V., & Rolet, A. (2018). Smooth and Sparse Optimal Transport. Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS).

[50] Liu, T., Puigcerver, J., & Blondel, M. (2023). Sparsity-constrained optimal transport. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).

Functions

ot.smooth.dual_obj_grad(alpha, beta, a, b, C, regul)[source]

Compute objective value and gradients of dual objective.

Parameters:

• alpha (array, shape = len(a))

• beta (array, shape = len(b)) – Current iterate of dual potentials.

• a (array, shape = len(a))

• b (array, shape = len(b)) – Input histograms (should be non-negative and sum to 1).

• C (array, shape = (len(a), len(b))) – Ground cost matrix.

• regul (Regularization object) – Should implement a delta_Omega(X) method.

Returns:

• obj (float) – Objective value (higher is better).

• grad_alpha (array, shape = len(a)) – Gradient w.r.t. alpha.

• grad_beta (array, shape = len(b)) – Gradient w.r.t. beta.

ot.smooth.get_plan_from_dual(alpha, beta, C, regul)[source]

Retrieve optimal transportation plan from optimal dual potentials.

Parameters:

• alpha (array, shape = len(a))

• beta (array, shape = len(b)) – Optimal dual potentials.

• C (array, shape = (len(a), len(b))) – Ground cost matrix.

• regul (Regularization object) – Should implement a delta_Omega(X) method.

Returns:

T – Optimal transportation plan.

Return type:

array, shape = (len(a), len(b))

ot.smooth.get_plan_from_semi_dual(alpha, b, C, regul)[source]

Retrieve optimal transportation plan from optimal semi-dual potentials.

Parameters:

• alpha (array, shape = len(a)) – Optimal semi-dual potentials.

• b (array, shape = len(b)) – Second input histogram (should be non-negative and sum to 1).

• C (array, shape = (len(a), len(b))) – Ground cost matrix.

• regul (Regularization object) – Should implement a delta_Omega(X) method.

Returns:

T – Optimal transportation plan.

Return type:

array, shape = (len(a), len(b))

ot.smooth.projection_simplex(V, z=1, axis=None)[source]

Projection of \(\mathbf{V}\) onto the simplex, scaled by z

\[\begin{split}P\left(\mathbf{V}, z\right) = \mathop{\arg \min}_{\substack{\mathbf{y} >= 0 \\ \sum_i \mathbf{y}_i = z}} \quad \|\mathbf{y} - \mathbf{V}\|^2\end{split}\]

Parameters:

• V (ndarray, rank 2)

• z (float or array) – If array, len(z) must be compatible with \(\mathbf{V}\)

• axis (None or int) –

  • axis=None: project \(\mathbf{V}\) by \(P(\mathbf{V}.\mathrm{ravel}(), z)\)

  • axis=1: project each \(\mathbf{V}_i\) by \(P(\mathbf{V}_i, z_i)\)

  • axis=0: project each \(\mathbf{V}_{:, j}\) by \(P(\mathbf{V}_{:, j}, z_j)\)

Returns:

projection

Return type:

ndarray, shape \(\mathbf{V}\).shape

ot.smooth.semi_dual_obj_grad(alpha, a, b, C, regul)[source]

Compute objective value and gradient of semi-dual objective.

Parameters:

• alpha (array, shape = len(a)) – Current iterate of semi-dual potentials.

• a (array, shape = len(a))

• b (array, shape = len(b)) – Input histograms (should be non-negative and sum to 1).

• C (array, shape = (len(a), len(b))) – Ground cost matrix.

• regul (Regularization object) – Should implement a max_Omega(X) method.

Returns:

• obj (float) – Objective value (higher is better).

• grad (array, shape = len(a)) – Gradient w.r.t. alpha.

ot.smooth.smooth_ot_dual(a, b, M, reg, reg_type='l2', method='L-BFGS-B', stopThr=1e-09, numItermax=500, verbose=False, log=False, max_nz=None)[source]

Solve the regularized OT problem in the dual and return the OT matrix

The function solves the smooth relaxed dual formulation (7) in [17]:

\[\max_{\alpha,\beta}\quad \mathbf{a}^T\alpha + \mathbf{b}^T\beta - \sum_j \delta_\Omega \left(\alpha+\beta_j-\mathbf{m}_j \right)\]

where :

• \(\mathbf{m}_j\) is the j-th column of the cost matrix

• \(\delta_\Omega\) is the convex conjugate of the regularization term \(\Omega\)

• \(\mathbf{a}\) and \(\mathbf{b}\) are source and target weights (sum to 1)

The OT matrix can is reconstructed from the gradient of \(\delta_\Omega\) (See [17] Proposition 1). The optimization algorithm is using gradient decent (L-BFGS by default).

Parameters:

• a (np.ndarray (ns,)) – samples weights in the source domain

• b (np.ndarray (nt,) or np.ndarray (nt,nbb)) – samples in the target domain, compute sinkhorn with multiple targets and fixed \(\mathbf{M}\) if \(\mathbf{b}\) is a matrix (return OT loss + dual variables in log)

• M (np.ndarray (ns,nt)) – loss matrix

• reg (float) – Regularization term >0

• reg_type (str) –

  Regularization type, can be the following (default =’l2’):

  • ’kl’ : Kullback Leibler (~ Neg-entropy used in sinkhorn [2])

  • ’l2’ : Squared Euclidean regularization

  • ’sparsity_constrained’ : Sparsity-constrained regularization [50]

• max_nz (int or None, optional. Used only in the case of reg_type = 'sparsity_constrained' to specify the maximum number of nonzeros per column of the optimal plan;) – not used for other regularization types.

• method (str) – Solver to use for scipy.optimize.minimize

• numItermax (int, optional) – Max number of iterations

• stopThr (float, optional) – Stop threshold on error (>0)

• verbose (bool, optional) – Print information along iterations

• log (bool, optional) – record log if True

Returns:

• gamma ((ns, nt) ndarray) – Optimal transportation matrix for the given parameters

• log (dict) – log dictionary return only if log==True in parameters

References

See also

ot.lp.emd

Unregularized OT

ot.sinhorn

Entropic regularized OT

ot.optim.cg

General regularized OT

Examples using ot.smooth.smooth_ot_dual

Optimal Transport for fixed support

Optimal Transport for fixed support

Quickstart Guide

Quickstart Guide

ot.smooth.smooth_ot_semi_dual(a, b, M, reg, reg_type='l2', max_nz=None, method='L-BFGS-B', stopThr=1e-09, numItermax=500, verbose=False, log=False)[source]

Solve the regularized OT problem in the semi-dual and return the OT matrix

The function solves the smooth relaxed dual formulation (10) in [17]:

\[\max_{\alpha}\quad \mathbf{a}^T\alpha- \mathrm{OT}_\Omega^*(\alpha, \mathbf{b})\]

where :

\[\mathrm{OT}_\Omega^*(\alpha,b)=\sum_j \mathbf{b}_j\]

• \(\mathbf{m}_j\) is the j-th column of the cost matrix

• \(\mathrm{OT}_\Omega^*(\alpha,b)\) is defined in Eq. (9) in [17]

• \(\mathbf{a}\) and \(\mathbf{b}\) are source and target weights (sum to 1)

The OT matrix can is reconstructed using [17] Proposition 2. The optimization algorithm is using gradient decent (L-BFGS by default).

Parameters:

• a (np.ndarray (ns,)) – samples weights in the source domain

• b (np.ndarray (nt,) or np.ndarray (nt,nbb)) – samples in the target domain, compute sinkhorn with multiple targets and fixed:math:mathbf{M} if \(\mathbf{b}\) is a matrix (return OT loss + dual variables in log)

• M (np.ndarray (ns,nt)) – loss matrix

• reg (float) – Regularization term >0

• reg_type (str) –

  Regularization type, can be the following (default =’l2’):

  • ’kl’ : Kullback Leibler (~ Neg-entropy used in sinkhorn [2])

  • ’l2’ : Squared Euclidean regularization

  • ’sparsity_constrained’ : Sparsity-constrained regularization [50]

• max_nz (int or None, optional. Used only in the case of reg_type = 'sparsity_constrained' to specify the maximum number of nonzeros per column of the optimal plan;) – not used for other regularization types.

• method (str) – Solver to use for scipy.optimize.minimize

• numItermax (int, optional) – Max number of iterations

• stopThr (float, optional) – Stop threshold on error (>0)

• verbose (bool, optional) – Print information along iterations

• log (bool, optional) – record log if True

Returns:

• gamma ((ns, nt) ndarray) – Optimal transportation matrix for the given parameters

• log (dict) – log dictionary return only if log==True in parameters

References

See also

ot.lp.emd

Unregularized OT

ot.sinhorn

Entropic regularized OT

ot.optim.cg

General regularized OT

ot.smooth.solve_dual(a, b, C, regul, method='L-BFGS-B', tol=0.001, max_iter=500, verbose=False)[source]

Solve the “smoothed” dual objective.

Parameters:

• a (array, shape = (len(a), ))

• b (array, shape = (len(b), )) – Input histograms (should be non-negative and sum to 1).

• C (array, shape = (len(a), len(b))) – Ground cost matrix.

• regul (Regularization object) – Should implement a delta_Omega(X) method.

• method (str) – Solver to be used (passed to scipy.optimize.minimize).

• tol (float) – Tolerance parameter.

• max_iter (int) – Maximum number of iterations.

Returns:

• alpha (array, shape = (len(a), ))

• beta (array, shape = (len(b), )) – Dual potentials.

ot.smooth.solve_semi_dual(a, b, C, regul, method='L-BFGS-B', tol=0.001, max_iter=500, verbose=False)[source]

Solve the “smoothed” semi-dual objective.

Parameters:

• a (array, shape = (len(a), ))

• b (array, shape = (len(b), )) – Input histograms (should be non-negative and sum to 1).

• C (array, shape = (len(a), len(b))) – Ground cost matrix.

• regul (Regularization object) – Should implement a max_Omega(X) method.

• method (str) – Solver to be used (passed to scipy.optimize.minimize).

• tol (float) – Tolerance parameter.

• max_iter (int) – Maximum number of iterations.

Returns:

alpha – Semi-dual potentials.

Return type:

array, shape = (len(a), )

class ot.smooth.NegEntropy(gamma=1.0)[source]

NegEntropy regularization

Omega(T)[source]

Compute regularization term.

Parameters:

T (array, shape = len(a) x len(b)) – Input array.

Returns:

value – Regularization term.

Return type:

float

delta_Omega(X)[source]

Compute \(\delta_\Omega(\mathbf{X}_{:, j})\) for each \(\mathbf{X}_{:, j}\).

\[\delta_\Omega(\mathbf{x}) = \sup_{\mathbf{y} >= 0} \ \mathbf{y}^T \mathbf{x} - \Omega(\mathbf{y})\]

Parameters:

X (array, shape = (len(a), len(b))) – Input array.

Returns:

• v (array, (len(b), )) – Values: \(\mathbf{v}_j = \delta_\Omega(\mathbf{X}_{:, j})\)

• G (array, (len(a), len(b))) – Gradients: \(\mathbf{G}_{:, j} = \nabla \delta_\Omega(\mathbf{X}_{:, j})\)

max_Omega(X, b)[source]

Compute \(\mathrm{max}_{\Omega, j}(\mathbf{X}_{:, j})\) for each \(\mathbf{X}_{:, j}\).

\[\mathrm{max}_{\Omega, j}(\mathbf{x}) = \sup_{\substack{\mathbf{y} >= 0 \ \sum_i \mathbf{y}_i = 1}} \mathbf{y}^T \mathbf{x} - \frac{1}{\mathbf{b}_j} \Omega(\mathbf{b}_j \mathbf{y})\]

Parameters:

• X (array, shape = (len(a), len(b))) – Input array.

• b (array, shape = (len(b), ))

Returns:

• v (array, (len(b), )) – Values: \(\mathbf{v}_j = \mathrm{max}_{\Omega, j}(\mathbf{X}_{:, j})\)

• G (array, (len(a), len(b))) – Gradients: \(\mathbf{G}_{:, j} = \nabla \mathrm{max}_{\Omega, j}(\mathbf{X}_{:, j})\)

class ot.smooth.Regularization(gamma=1.0)[source]

Base class for Regularization objects

Notes

This class is not intended for direct use but as apparent for true regularization implementation.

Omega()[source]

Compute regularization term.

Parameters:

T (array, shape = len(a) x len(b)) – Input array.

Returns:

value – Regularization term.

Return type:

float

delta_Omega()[source]

Compute \(\delta_\Omega(\mathbf{X}_{:, j})\) for each \(\mathbf{X}_{:, j}\).

\[\delta_\Omega(\mathbf{x}) = \sup_{\mathbf{y} >= 0} \ \mathbf{y}^T \mathbf{x} - \Omega(\mathbf{y})\]

Parameters:

X (array, shape = (len(a), len(b))) – Input array.

Returns:

• v (array, (len(b), )) – Values: \(\mathbf{v}_j = \delta_\Omega(\mathbf{X}_{:, j})\)

• G (array, (len(a), len(b))) – Gradients: \(\mathbf{G}_{:, j} = \nabla \delta_\Omega(\mathbf{X}_{:, j})\)

max_Omega(b)[source]

Compute \(\mathrm{max}_{\Omega, j}(\mathbf{X}_{:, j})\) for each \(\mathbf{X}_{:, j}\).

\[\mathrm{max}_{\Omega, j}(\mathbf{x}) = \sup_{\substack{\mathbf{y} >= 0 \ \sum_i \mathbf{y}_i = 1}} \mathbf{y}^T \mathbf{x} - \frac{1}{\mathbf{b}_j} \Omega(\mathbf{b}_j \mathbf{y})\]

Parameters:

• X (array, shape = (len(a), len(b))) – Input array.

• b (array, shape = (len(b), ))

Returns:

• v (array, (len(b), )) – Values: \(\mathbf{v}_j = \mathrm{max}_{\Omega, j}(\mathbf{X}_{:, j})\)

• G (array, (len(a), len(b))) – Gradients: \(\mathbf{G}_{:, j} = \nabla \mathrm{max}_{\Omega, j}(\mathbf{X}_{:, j})\)

class ot.smooth.SparsityConstrained(max_nz, gamma=1.0)[source]

Squared L2 regularization with sparsity constraints

Omega(T)[source]

Compute regularization term.

Parameters:

T (array, shape = len(a) x len(b)) – Input array.

Returns:

value – Regularization term.

Return type:

float

delta_Omega(X)[source]

Compute \(\delta_\Omega(\mathbf{X}_{:, j})\) for each \(\mathbf{X}_{:, j}\).

\[\delta_\Omega(\mathbf{x}) = \sup_{\mathbf{y} >= 0} \ \mathbf{y}^T \mathbf{x} - \Omega(\mathbf{y})\]

Parameters:

X (array, shape = (len(a), len(b))) – Input array.

Returns:

• v (array, (len(b), )) – Values: \(\mathbf{v}_j = \delta_\Omega(\mathbf{X}_{:, j})\)

• G (array, (len(a), len(b))) – Gradients: \(\mathbf{G}_{:, j} = \nabla \delta_\Omega(\mathbf{X}_{:, j})\)

max_Omega(X, b)[source]

Compute \(\mathrm{max}_{\Omega, j}(\mathbf{X}_{:, j})\) for each \(\mathbf{X}_{:, j}\).

\[\mathrm{max}_{\Omega, j}(\mathbf{x}) = \sup_{\substack{\mathbf{y} >= 0 \ \sum_i \mathbf{y}_i = 1}} \mathbf{y}^T \mathbf{x} - \frac{1}{\mathbf{b}_j} \Omega(\mathbf{b}_j \mathbf{y})\]

Parameters:

• X (array, shape = (len(a), len(b))) – Input array.

• b (array, shape = (len(b), ))

Returns:

• v (array, (len(b), )) – Values: \(\mathbf{v}_j = \mathrm{max}_{\Omega, j}(\mathbf{X}_{:, j})\)

• G (array, (len(a), len(b))) – Gradients: \(\mathbf{G}_{:, j} = \nabla \mathrm{max}_{\Omega, j}(\mathbf{X}_{:, j})\)

class ot.smooth.SquaredL2(gamma=1.0)[source]

Squared L2 regularization

Omega(T)[source]

Compute regularization term.

Parameters:

T (array, shape = len(a) x len(b)) – Input array.

Returns:

value – Regularization term.

Return type:

float

delta_Omega(X)[source]

Compute \(\delta_\Omega(\mathbf{X}_{:, j})\) for each \(\mathbf{X}_{:, j}\).

\[\delta_\Omega(\mathbf{x}) = \sup_{\mathbf{y} >= 0} \ \mathbf{y}^T \mathbf{x} - \Omega(\mathbf{y})\]

Parameters:

X (array, shape = (len(a), len(b))) – Input array.

Returns:

• v (array, (len(b), )) – Values: \(\mathbf{v}_j = \delta_\Omega(\mathbf{X}_{:, j})\)

• G (array, (len(a), len(b))) – Gradients: \(\mathbf{G}_{:, j} = \nabla \delta_\Omega(\mathbf{X}_{:, j})\)

max_Omega(X, b)[source]

Compute \(\mathrm{max}_{\Omega, j}(\mathbf{X}_{:, j})\) for each \(\mathbf{X}_{:, j}\).

\[\mathrm{max}_{\Omega, j}(\mathbf{x}) = \sup_{\substack{\mathbf{y} >= 0 \ \sum_i \mathbf{y}_i = 1}} \mathbf{y}^T \mathbf{x} - \frac{1}{\mathbf{b}_j} \Omega(\mathbf{b}_j \mathbf{y})\]

Parameters:

• X (array, shape = (len(a), len(b))) – Input array.

• b (array, shape = (len(b), ))

Returns:

• v (array, (len(b), )) – Values: \(\mathbf{v}_j = \mathrm{max}_{\Omega, j}(\mathbf{X}_{:, j})\)

• G (array, (len(a), len(b))) – Gradients: \(\mathbf{G}_{:, j} = \nabla \mathrm{max}_{\Omega, j}(\mathbf{X}_{:, j})\)

ot.smooth.dual_obj_grad(alpha, beta, a, b, C, regul)[source]

Compute objective value and gradients of dual objective.

Parameters:

• alpha (array, shape = len(a))

• beta (array, shape = len(b)) – Current iterate of dual potentials.

• a (array, shape = len(a))

• b (array, shape = len(b)) – Input histograms (should be non-negative and sum to 1).

• C (array, shape = (len(a), len(b))) – Ground cost matrix.

• regul (Regularization object) – Should implement a delta_Omega(X) method.

Returns:

• obj (float) – Objective value (higher is better).

• grad_alpha (array, shape = len(a)) – Gradient w.r.t. alpha.

• grad_beta (array, shape = len(b)) – Gradient w.r.t. beta.

ot.smooth.get_plan_from_dual(alpha, beta, C, regul)[source]

Retrieve optimal transportation plan from optimal dual potentials.

Parameters:

• alpha (array, shape = len(a))

• beta (array, shape = len(b)) – Optimal dual potentials.

• C (array, shape = (len(a), len(b))) – Ground cost matrix.

• regul (Regularization object) – Should implement a delta_Omega(X) method.

Returns:

T – Optimal transportation plan.

Return type:

array, shape = (len(a), len(b))

ot.smooth.get_plan_from_semi_dual(alpha, b, C, regul)[source]

Retrieve optimal transportation plan from optimal semi-dual potentials.

Parameters:

• alpha (array, shape = len(a)) – Optimal semi-dual potentials.

• b (array, shape = len(b)) – Second input histogram (should be non-negative and sum to 1).

• C (array, shape = (len(a), len(b))) – Ground cost matrix.

• regul (Regularization object) – Should implement a delta_Omega(X) method.

Returns:

T – Optimal transportation plan.

Return type:

array, shape = (len(a), len(b))

ot.smooth.projection_simplex(V, z=1, axis=None)[source]

Projection of \(\mathbf{V}\) onto the simplex, scaled by z

\[\begin{split}P\left(\mathbf{V}, z\right) = \mathop{\arg \min}_{\substack{\mathbf{y} >= 0 \\ \sum_i \mathbf{y}_i = z}} \quad \|\mathbf{y} - \mathbf{V}\|^2\end{split}\]

Parameters:

• V (ndarray, rank 2)

• z (float or array) – If array, len(z) must be compatible with \(\mathbf{V}\)

• axis (None or int) –

  • axis=None: project \(\mathbf{V}\) by \(P(\mathbf{V}.\mathrm{ravel}(), z)\)

  • axis=1: project each \(\mathbf{V}_i\) by \(P(\mathbf{V}_i, z_i)\)

  • axis=0: project each \(\mathbf{V}_{:, j}\) by \(P(\mathbf{V}_{:, j}, z_j)\)

Returns:

projection

Return type:

ndarray, shape \(\mathbf{V}\).shape

ot.smooth.semi_dual_obj_grad(alpha, a, b, C, regul)[source]

Compute objective value and gradient of semi-dual objective.

Parameters:

• alpha (array, shape = len(a)) – Current iterate of semi-dual potentials.

• a (array, shape = len(a))

• b (array, shape = len(b)) – Input histograms (should be non-negative and sum to 1).

• C (array, shape = (len(a), len(b))) – Ground cost matrix.

• regul (Regularization object) – Should implement a max_Omega(X) method.

Returns:

• obj (float) – Objective value (higher is better).

• grad (array, shape = len(a)) – Gradient w.r.t. alpha.

ot.smooth.smooth_ot_dual(a, b, M, reg, reg_type='l2', method='L-BFGS-B', stopThr=1e-09, numItermax=500, verbose=False, log=False, max_nz=None)[source]

Solve the regularized OT problem in the dual and return the OT matrix

The function solves the smooth relaxed dual formulation (7) in [17]:

\[\max_{\alpha,\beta}\quad \mathbf{a}^T\alpha + \mathbf{b}^T\beta - \sum_j \delta_\Omega \left(\alpha+\beta_j-\mathbf{m}_j \right)\]

where :

• \(\mathbf{m}_j\) is the j-th column of the cost matrix

• \(\delta_\Omega\) is the convex conjugate of the regularization term \(\Omega\)

• \(\mathbf{a}\) and \(\mathbf{b}\) are source and target weights (sum to 1)

The OT matrix can is reconstructed from the gradient of \(\delta_\Omega\) (See [17] Proposition 1). The optimization algorithm is using gradient decent (L-BFGS by default).

Parameters:

• a (np.ndarray (ns,)) – samples weights in the source domain

• b (np.ndarray (nt,) or np.ndarray (nt,nbb)) – samples in the target domain, compute sinkhorn with multiple targets and fixed \(\mathbf{M}\) if \(\mathbf{b}\) is a matrix (return OT loss + dual variables in log)

• M (np.ndarray (ns,nt)) – loss matrix

• reg (float) – Regularization term >0

• reg_type (str) –

  Regularization type, can be the following (default =’l2’):

  • ’kl’ : Kullback Leibler (~ Neg-entropy used in sinkhorn [2])

  • ’l2’ : Squared Euclidean regularization

  • ’sparsity_constrained’ : Sparsity-constrained regularization [50]

• max_nz (int or None, optional. Used only in the case of reg_type = 'sparsity_constrained' to specify the maximum number of nonzeros per column of the optimal plan;) – not used for other regularization types.

• method (str) – Solver to use for scipy.optimize.minimize

• numItermax (int, optional) – Max number of iterations

• stopThr (float, optional) – Stop threshold on error (>0)

• verbose (bool, optional) – Print information along iterations

• log (bool, optional) – record log if True

Returns:

• gamma ((ns, nt) ndarray) – Optimal transportation matrix for the given parameters

• log (dict) – log dictionary return only if log==True in parameters

References

See also

ot.lp.emd

Unregularized OT

ot.sinhorn

Entropic regularized OT

ot.optim.cg

General regularized OT

ot.smooth.smooth_ot_semi_dual(a, b, M, reg, reg_type='l2', max_nz=None, method='L-BFGS-B', stopThr=1e-09, numItermax=500, verbose=False, log=False)[source]

Solve the regularized OT problem in the semi-dual and return the OT matrix

The function solves the smooth relaxed dual formulation (10) in [17]:

\[\max_{\alpha}\quad \mathbf{a}^T\alpha- \mathrm{OT}_\Omega^*(\alpha, \mathbf{b})\]

where :

\[\mathrm{OT}_\Omega^*(\alpha,b)=\sum_j \mathbf{b}_j\]

• \(\mathbf{m}_j\) is the j-th column of the cost matrix

• \(\mathrm{OT}_\Omega^*(\alpha,b)\) is defined in Eq. (9) in [17]

• \(\mathbf{a}\) and \(\mathbf{b}\) are source and target weights (sum to 1)

The OT matrix can is reconstructed using [17] Proposition 2. The optimization algorithm is using gradient decent (L-BFGS by default).

Parameters:

• a (np.ndarray (ns,)) – samples weights in the source domain

• b (np.ndarray (nt,) or np.ndarray (nt,nbb)) – samples in the target domain, compute sinkhorn with multiple targets and fixed:math:mathbf{M} if \(\mathbf{b}\) is a matrix (return OT loss + dual variables in log)

• M (np.ndarray (ns,nt)) – loss matrix

• reg (float) – Regularization term >0

• reg_type (str) –

  Regularization type, can be the following (default =’l2’):

  • ’kl’ : Kullback Leibler (~ Neg-entropy used in sinkhorn [2])

  • ’l2’ : Squared Euclidean regularization

  • ’sparsity_constrained’ : Sparsity-constrained regularization [50]

• max_nz (int or None, optional. Used only in the case of reg_type = 'sparsity_constrained' to specify the maximum number of nonzeros per column of the optimal plan;) – not used for other regularization types.

• method (str) – Solver to use for scipy.optimize.minimize

• numItermax (int, optional) – Max number of iterations

• stopThr (float, optional) – Stop threshold on error (>0)

• verbose (bool, optional) – Print information along iterations

• log (bool, optional) – record log if True

Returns:

• gamma ((ns, nt) ndarray) – Optimal transportation matrix for the given parameters

• log (dict) – log dictionary return only if log==True in parameters

References

See also

ot.lp.emd

Unregularized OT

ot.sinhorn

Entropic regularized OT

ot.optim.cg

General regularized OT

ot.smooth.solve_dual(a, b, C, regul, method='L-BFGS-B', tol=0.001, max_iter=500, verbose=False)[source]

Solve the “smoothed” dual objective.

Parameters:

• a (array, shape = (len(a), ))

• b (array, shape = (len(b), )) – Input histograms (should be non-negative and sum to 1).

• C (array, shape = (len(a), len(b))) – Ground cost matrix.

• regul (Regularization object) – Should implement a delta_Omega(X) method.

• method (str) – Solver to be used (passed to scipy.optimize.minimize).

• tol (float) – Tolerance parameter.

• max_iter (int) – Maximum number of iterations.

Returns:

• alpha (array, shape = (len(a), ))

• beta (array, shape = (len(b), )) – Dual potentials.

ot.smooth.solve_semi_dual(a, b, C, regul, method='L-BFGS-B', tol=0.001, max_iter=500, verbose=False)[source]

Solve the “smoothed” semi-dual objective.

Parameters:

• a (array, shape = (len(a), ))

• b (array, shape = (len(b), )) – Input histograms (should be non-negative and sum to 1).

• C (array, shape = (len(a), len(b))) – Ground cost matrix.

• regul (Regularization object) – Should implement a max_Omega(X) method.

• method (str) – Solver to be used (passed to scipy.optimize.minimize).

• tol (float) – Tolerance parameter.

• max_iter (int) – Maximum number of iterations.

Returns:

alpha – Semi-dual potentials.

Return type:

array, shape = (len(a), )