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p-norm vs Minkowski distance #671

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@DRKWang

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Hi there,

I have a project to compute different p-norm Wasserstein distances. I assume the function ot.dist(p = pnorm) is used to compute different p-norm cost matrices, which are referred to as "Minkowski distances" in the docstring. However, the following example shows that it does not follow what I expected.

import ot
import numpy as np
A = np.array([[0,0]])
B = np.array([[1,2]])
print(ot.dist(A,B,p = 1))
print(ot.dist(A,B,p = 2))
print(ot.dist(A,B,p = 3))
print(ot.dist(A,B,p = 4))
print(ot.dist(A,B,p = 5))
print(ot.dist(A,B,p = 6))

And the outputs are

[[5]]
[[5]]
[[5]]
[[5]]
[[5]]
[[5]]

Please let me know if there is any other function that can compute the p-norm function, as well as the 'inf'-norm case.

Thank you.

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