[MRG] Implement the continuous entropic mapping by rflamary · Pull Request #613 · PythonOT/POT

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This is a long needed implementation of the Entropic OT mapping from

[66] Pooladian, Aram-Alexandre, and Jonathan Niles-Weed. Entropic estimation of optimal transport maps. arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.12004 (2021).

[19] Seguy, V., Bhushan Damodaran, B., Flamary, R., Courty, N., Rolet, A.& Blondel, M. Large-scale Optimal Transport and Mapping Estimation. International Conference on Learning Representation (2018)

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