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@@ -9,10 +9,16 @@ Definition
.. include:: wasserstein_distance_sum.inc
-Functions
----------
-This implementation uses the Python Optimal Transport library and is based on
-ideas from "Large Scale Computation of Means and Cluster for Persistence
+The q-Wasserstein distance is defined as the minimal value achieved
+by a perfect matching between the points of the two diagrams (+ all
+diagonal points), where the value of a matching is defined as the
+q-th root of the sum of all edge lengths to the power q. Edge lengths
+are measured in norm p, for :math:`1 \leq p \leq \infty`.
+
+Distance Functions
+------------------
+This first implementation uses the Python Optimal Transport library and is based
+on ideas from "Large Scale Computation of Means and Cluster for Persistence
Diagrams via Optimal Transport" :cite:`10.5555/3327546.3327645`.
.. autofunction:: gudhi.wasserstein.wasserstein_distance
@@ -26,7 +32,7 @@ Morozov, and Arnur Nigmetov.
.. autofunction:: gudhi.hera.wasserstein_distance
Basic example
--------------
+*************
This example computes the 1-Wasserstein distance from 2 persistence diagrams with Euclidean ground metric.
Note that persistence diagrams must be submitted as (n x 2) numpy arrays and must not contain inf values.
@@ -48,9 +54,9 @@ The output is:
Wasserstein distance value = 1.45
-We can also have access to the optimal matching by letting `matching=True`.
+We can also have access to the optimal matching by letting `matching=True`.
It is encoded as a list of indices (i,j), meaning that the i-th point in X
-is mapped to the j-th point in Y.
+is mapped to the j-th point in Y.
An index of -1 represents the diagonal.
.. testcode::
@@ -78,9 +84,83 @@ An index of -1 represents the diagonal.
The output is:
.. testoutput::
-
+
Wasserstein distance value = 2.15
point 0 in dgm1 is matched to point 0 in dgm2
point 1 in dgm1 is matched to point 2 in dgm2
point 2 in dgm1 is matched to the diagonal
point 1 in dgm2 is matched to the diagonal
+
+Barycenters
+-----------
+
+A Frechet mean (or barycenter) is a generalization of the arithmetic
+mean in a non linear space such as the one of persistence diagrams.
+Given a set of persistence diagrams :math:`\mu_1 \dots \mu_n`, it is
+defined as a minimizer of the variance functional, that is of
+:math:`\mu \mapsto \sum_{i=1}^n d_2(\mu,\mu_i)^2`.
+where :math:`d_2` denotes the Wasserstein-2 distance between
+persistence diagrams.
+It is known to exist and is generically unique. However, an exact
+computation is in general untractable. Current implementation
+available is based on (Turner et al., 2014),
+:cite:`turner2014frechet`
+and uses an EM-scheme to
+provide a local minimum of the variance functional (somewhat similar
+to the Lloyd algorithm to estimate a solution to the k-means
+problem). The local minimum returned depends on the initialization of
+the barycenter.
+The combinatorial structure of the algorithm limits its
+performances on large scale problems (thousands of diagrams and of points
+per diagram).
+
+.. figure::
+ ./img/barycenter.png
+ :figclass: align-center
+
+ Illustration of Frechet mean between persistence
+ diagrams.
+
+
+.. autofunction:: gudhi.wasserstein.barycenter.lagrangian_barycenter
+
+Basic example
+*************
+
+This example estimates the Frechet mean (aka Wasserstein barycenter) between
+four persistence diagrams.
+It is initialized on the 4th diagram.
+As the algorithm is not convex, its output depends on the initialization and
+is only a local minimum of the objective function.
+Initialization can be either given as an integer (in which case the i-th
+diagram of the list is used as initial estimate) or as a diagram.
+If None, it will randomly select one of the diagrams of the list
+as initial estimate.
+Note that persistence diagrams must be submitted as
+(n x 2) numpy arrays and must not contain inf values.
+
+
+.. testcode::
+
+ from gudhi.wasserstein.barycenter import lagrangian_barycenter
+ import numpy as np
+
+ dg1 = np.array([[0.2, 0.5]])
+ dg2 = np.array([[0.2, 0.7]])
+ dg3 = np.array([[0.3, 0.6], [0.7, 0.8], [0.2, 0.3]])
+ dg4 = np.array([])
+ pdiagset = [dg1, dg2, dg3, dg4]
+ bary = lagrangian_barycenter(pdiagset=pdiagset,init=3)
+
+ message = "Wasserstein barycenter estimated:"
+ print(message)
+ print(bary)
+
+The output is:
+
+.. testoutput::
+
+ Wasserstein barycenter estimated:
+ [[0.27916667 0.55416667]
+ [0.7375 0.7625 ]
+ [0.2375 0.2625 ]]