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This example illustrates the computation of EMD and Sinkhorn transport plans and their visualization.

# Author: Remi Flamary <remi.flamary@unice.fr>
#
# License: MIT License
# sphinx_gallery_thumbnail_number = 3

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pylab as pl
import ot
import ot.plot
from ot.datasets import make_1D_gauss as gauss

Generate data

Plot distributions and loss matrix

pl.figure(1, figsize=(6.4, 3))
pl.plot(x, a, "b", label="Source distribution")
pl.plot(x, b, "r", label="Target distribution")
pl.legend()
plot OT 1D
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plot OT 1D
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Solve Exact OT

# use fast 1D solver
G0 = ot.emd_1d(x, x, a, b)

# Equivalent to
# G0 = ot.emd(a, b, M)

pl.figure(3, figsize=(5, 5))
ot.plot.plot1D_mat(a, b, G0, "OT matrix G0")
plot OT 1D
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Solve Sinkhorn

plot OT 1D
It.  |Err
-------------------
    0|2.861463e-01|
   10|1.860154e-01|
   20|8.144529e-02|
   30|3.130143e-02|
   40|1.178815e-02|
   50|4.426078e-03|
   60|1.661047e-03|
   70|6.233110e-04|
   80|2.338932e-04|
   90|8.776627e-05|
  100|3.293340e-05|
  110|1.235791e-05|
  120|4.637176e-06|
  130|1.740051e-06|
  140|6.529356e-07|
  150|2.450071e-07|
  160|9.193632e-08|
  170|3.449812e-08|
  180|1.294505e-08|
  190|4.857493e-09|
It.  |Err
-------------------
  200|1.822723e-09|

Solve Smooth OT

We illustrate below Smooth and Sparse (KL an L2 reg.) OT and sparsity-constrained OT, together with their visualizations.

Reference:

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).

plot OT 1D plot OT 1D
lambd = 1e-1

max_nz = 2  # two non-zero entries are permitted per column of the OT plan
Gsc = ot.smooth.smooth_ot_dual(
    a, b, M, lambd, reg_type="sparsity_constrained", max_nz=max_nz
)
pl.figure(6, figsize=(5, 5))
ot.plot.plot1D_mat(a, b, Gsc, "Sparsity constrained OT matrix; k=2.")

pl.show()
plot OT 1D

Total running time of the script: (0 minutes 1.685 seconds)

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