[MRG] Release 0.9.7 (#829)

* nx version + update actions

* add run on arm

* use slim ubuntu

* back to linux latest

* reamp all tests

* fix yaml

* fix yaml

* fix yaml

* try it

* validate yaml

* speeup backen tests

* remove doctest for beckend tests

* remove cleanup space

* separate doctests

* fix cdoctest with proper cnftest

* fix helpers

* fix linux-torch test

* remove torch version

* fix doc build

* fix doc build

* fix doctests

* move stuff around properly

* gix doctest for the last time?

* stuff

* change version

* pdate reelase + readme

* update cff + readme

* big rewrite release

Author: rflamary

CITATION.cff

@@ -109,3 +109,4 @@ keywords:
   - gromov-wasserstein
 license: MIT
 version: 0.9.7
+date-released: 2026-07-10

README.md

@@ -96,21 +96,25 @@ using the following references from the current version and from our [JMLR
 paper](https://jmlr.org/papers/v22/20-451.html):
 
 ```
-Flamary R., Vincent-Cuaz C., Courty N., Gramfort A., Kachaiev O., Quang Tran H., David L., Bonet C., Cassereau N., Gnassounou T., Tanguy E., Delon J., Collas A., Mazelet S., Chapel L., Kerdoncuff T., Yu X., Feickert M., Krzakala P., Liu T., Fernandes Montesuma E. POT Python Optimal Transport (version 0.9.5). URL: https://github.com/PythonOT/POT
+Flamary R., Vincent-Cuaz C., Courty N., Gramfort A., Kachaiev O., Quang Tran H., David L., Bonet C., Cassereau N., Gnassounou T., Tanguy E., Delon J., Collas A., Mazelet S., Chapel L., Kerdoncuff T., Yu X., Feickert M., Krzakala P., Liu T., Fernandes Montesuma E., Neike N., Genest B., Coeurjolly D., Germain T., O'Shea S., Corneli M., Genans F. (2026). POT Python Optimal Transport (version 0.9.7). DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17161062 URL: https://github.com/PythonOT/POT
 
 Rémi Flamary, Nicolas Courty, Alexandre Gramfort, Mokhtar Z. Alaya, Aurélie Boisbunon, Stanislas Chambon, Laetitia Chapel, Adrien Corenflos, Kilian Fatras, Nemo Fournier, Léo Gautheron, Nathalie T.H. Gayraud, Hicham Janati, Alain Rakotomamonjy, Ievgen Redko, Antoine Rolet, Antony Schutz, Vivien Seguy, Danica J. Sutherland, Romain Tavenard, Alexander Tong, Titouan Vayer, POT Python Optimal Transport library, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 22(78):1−8, 2021. URL: https://pythonot.github.io/
 ```
 
 In Bibtex format:
 
 ```bibtex
-@misc{flamary2024pot,
-  author = {Flamary, R{\'e}mi and Vincent-Cuaz, C{\'e}dric and Courty, Nicolas and Gramfort, Alexandre and Kachaiev, Oleksii and Quang Tran, Huy and David, Laurène and Bonet, Cl{\'e}ment and Cassereau, Nathan and Gnassounou, Th{\'e}o and Tanguy, Eloi and Delon, Julie and Collas, Antoine and Mazelet, Sonia and Chapel, Laetitia and Kerdoncuff, Tanguy and Yu, Xizheng and Feickert, Matthew and Krzakala, Paul and Liu, Tianlin and Fernandes Montesuma, Eduardo},
-  title = {POT Python Optimal Transport (version 0.9.5)},
-  url = {https://github.com/PythonOT/POT},
-  year = {2024}
+@software{flamary2026pot,
+author = {Flamary, Rémi and Vincent-Cuaz, Cédric and Courty, Nicolas and Gramfort, Alexandre and Kachaiev, Oleksii and Quang Tran, Huy and David, Laurène and Bonet, Clément and Cassereau, Nathan and Gnassounou, Théo and Tanguy, Eloi and Delon, Julie and Collas, Antoine and Mazelet, Sonia and Chapel, Laetitia and Kerdoncuff, Tanguy and Yu, Xizheng and Feickert, Matthew and Krzakala, Paul and Liu, Tianlin and Fernandes Montesuma, Eduardo and Neike, Nathan and Genest, Baptiste and Coeurjolly, David and Germain, Thibaut and O'Shea, Sienna and Corneli, Marco and Genans, Ferdinand},
+doi = {10.5281/zenodo.17161062},
+month = {7},
+title = {POT Python Optimal Transport},
+version = {0.9.7},
+url = {https://github.com/PythonOT/POT},
+year = {2026}
 }
 
+
 @article{flamary2021pot,
   author  = {R{\'e}mi Flamary and Nicolas Courty and Alexandre Gramfort and Mokhtar Z. Alaya and Aur{\'e}lie Boisbunon and Stanislas Chambon and Laetitia Chapel and Adrien Corenflos and Kilian Fatras and Nemo Fournier and L{\'e}o Gautheron and Nathalie T.H. Gayraud and Hicham Janati and Alain Rakotomamonjy and Ievgen Redko and Antoine Rolet and Antony Schutz and Vivien Seguy and Danica J. Sutherland and Romain Tavenard and Alexander Tong and Titouan Vayer},
   title   = {POT: Python Optimal Transport},
@@ -467,7 +471,7 @@ Artificial Intelligence.
 
 \[88] Bouveyron, C. & Corneli, M. (2026).  [Scaling optimal transport to high-dimensional Gaussian distributions with application to domain adaptation](https://hal.science/hal-04930868v4/file/Article-OT-HDGauss-v4.pdf). Statistics and Computing 36.2 (2026): 88.
 
-\[89] Tipping, M.E. & Bishop, C.M. (1999). [Probabilistic principal component analysis]. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology 61.3 (1999): 611-622.
+\[89] Tipping, M.E. & Bishop, C.M. (1999). [Probabilistic principal component analysis](https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~blei/seminar/2020-representation/readings/TippingBishop1999.pdf). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology 61.3 (1999): 611-622.
 
 \[90] Genans, F., Godichon-Baggioni, A., Vialard, F. X., & Wintenberger, O. (2025). [Decreasing Entropic Regularization Averaged Gradient for Semi-Discrete Optimal Transport](https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2025/file/d7efa12e98f5e0dd8b4f48cd60b4e3aa-Paper-Conference.pdf). Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 38, 146913-146949.
 

RELEASES.md

@@ -2,11 +2,43 @@
 
 ## 0.9.7
 
-This new release adds support for sparse cost matrices and a new lazy exact OT solver that re-computes distances on-the-fly from coordinates, reducing memory usage from O(n×m) to O(n+m). Both implementations are backend-agnostic and preserve gradient computation for automatic differentiation. 
+This release contains several bug fixes and performance improvements, as well as updates to the documentation and examples and tests. We provide below a summary of the main new features and closed issues.
+
+
+**New exact OT solvers.** This new release adds many new variants and updates for the exact OT solver. First a new lazy exact OT solver that re-computes distances on-the-fly from coordinates, reducing memory usage from O(n×m) to O(n+m) ( available in [`ot.solve_sample`](https://pythonot.github.io/all.html#ot.solve_sample) with `lazy=True)`).  Another major feature is the addition of a warmstart feature for the EMD solver, allowing users to provide initial potentials to speed up convergence (with `init_potentials` in [`ot.solve`](https://pythonot.github.io/all.html#ot.solve) and  [`ot.solve_sample`](https://pythonot.github.io/all.html#ot.solve_sample)). Finally the release also include a sparse solver  and [`ot.solve`](https://pythonot.github.io/all.html#ot.solve) now accept sparse cost matrices and provides an OT plan whose support is included in the support of the cost matrix. All implementations are backend-agnostic and preserve gradient computation for automatic differentiation (but are solved on CPU).
+
+The computational time for different solvers (on a laptop CPU) are shown below:
+
+|                         n|                       100|                       500|                      1000|                      5000|
+|--------------------------|:------------------------:|:------------------------:|:------------------------:|:------------------------:|
+|                    Solve |                 7.259e-04|                 1.501e-02|                 1.055e-01|                 2.343e+00|
+|         Solve Warm Start |                 6.970e-04|                 5.413e-03|                 2.291e-02|                 6.036e-01|
+|               Solve Lazy |                 1.280e-03|                 3.098e-02|                 1.421e-01|                 3.377e+00|
+|         Solve Sparse 10% |                 3.453e-04|                 6.716e-04|                 1.535e-03|                 3.534e-02|
+
+
+**BSPOT solver.** A new solver relying on [Binary Space Partitioning (BSP)](https://pythonot.github.io/master/auto_examples/plot_bsp_ot.html) has been added to compute sparse transport plans between discrete measures in loglinear time which allows for very large problems to be solved. The release also includes a new [`ot.unbalanced.uot_1d`](https://pythonot.github.io/master/gen_modules/ot.unbalanced.html#ot.unbalanced.uot_1d) solver with a Frank-Wolfe solver for unbalanced optimal transport in 1D. 
+
+**Sliced OT pans** Finally we now have a sliced OT plan solver that can be used to compute sliced transport plans ([min-pivot sliced](https://pythonot.github.io/master/gen_modules/ot.sliced.html#ot.sliced.min_sliced_transport_plan) and [expected sliced](https://pythonot.github.io/master/gen_modules/ot.sliced.html#ot.sliced.expected_sliced_plan)) between two measures. 
+
+**OT between dynamical systems.** A novel [Spectral-Grassmann Wasserstein metric for operator representations of dynamical systems](https://pythonot.github.io/master/auto_examples/others/plot_sgot.html) has been implemented in `ot.sgot`. 
+
+**Unified API for barycenter solvers in `ot.solve_bary_sample`.** A new free support solver for barycenter solvers has been added in [`ot.solve_bary_sample`](https://pythonot.github.io/master/all.html#ot.solve_bary_sample). You can see [examples of how to use it here](https://pythonot.github.io/master/auto_examples/barycenters/plot_solve_barycenter_variants.html).
+
+**OT between high dimensional Gaussian distributions.** New methods to compute the linear transport map and the related 2-Wasserstein distance between high-dimensional (HD) Gaussian distributions have been added in [`ot.gaussian.bures_wasserstein_mapping_hd`](https://pythonot.github.io/master/gen_modules/ot.gaussian.html#id56) and [`ot.gaussian.bures_wasserstein_distance_hd`](https://pythonot.github.io/master/gen_modules/ot.gaussian.html#ot.gaussian.bures_wasserstein_distance_hd), respectively with empirical versions that estimate the distance from sample.
+
+**Batched solver for exact OT.** The batch implementations have also been improved and you can now solve exact OT problems in parallel on CPU or GPU using the new proximal point solver in functions [`ot.solve_batch`](https://pythonot.github.io/master/gen_modules/ot.batch.html#ot.batch.solve_batch) and [`ot.solve_sample_batch`](https://pythonot.github.io/master/gen_modules/ot.batch.html#ot.batch.solve_sample_batch) when `reg=0` or no provided. A new batch [loss for Fused unbalanced Gromov-Wasserstein](https://pythonot.github.io/master/gen_modules/ot.batch.html#ot.batch.loss_quadratic_batch) is also now available in `ot.batch`.
+
+
+**New methods in unified API [`ot.solve_sample`](https://pythonot.github.io/all.html#ot.solve_sample).** The unified API function 
+[`ot.solve_sample`](https://pythonot.github.io/all.html#ot.solve_sample) has also been updated to allows solving of specific problems such as BSP-OT, distance between high-dimensional (HD) Gaussian distributions and  sliced and max-sliced distances. 
+
+
+**Data normalization for sliced and [`ot.solve_sample`](https://pythonot.github.io/all.html#ot.solve_sample) solvers.** The release also includes tools for data normalization and scaling which can not be used in sliced Wasserstein distance computations. A simple normalization class [`ot.utils.DataScaler`](https://pythonot.github.io/master/gen_modules/ot.utils.html#id46) has been added and supports all backends for `'standard'`, `'minmax'`, and `'l2'` methods. Finally an optional `scaler` parameter has been added to [`ot.sliced_wasserstein_distance`](https://pythonot.github.io/master/all.html#ot.sliced_wasserstein_distance),  [`ot.max_sliced_wasserstein_distance`](https://pythonot.github.io/master/all.html#ot.max_sliced_wasserstein_distance) and [`ot.solve_sample`](https://pythonot.github.io/all.html#ot.solve_sample).
+
 
 #### New features 
 
-- Fix reference number error introduced in PR #767 (PR #819)
 - Refactor lazy EMD network simplex storage to avoid dense per-arc cost,
   endpoint, flow, and state storage where possible, and return sparse lazy
   transport plans instead of materializing dense plans internally (PR #813)
@@ -28,9 +60,7 @@ This new release adds support for sparse cost matrices and a new lazy exact OT s
 - Add optional `scaler` parameter to `sliced_wasserstein_distance` and  `max_sliced_wasserstein_distance` (PR #808)
 - Add SGD based semi-discrete OT solver in `ot.semidiscrete` and a gallery example. (PR #812)
 - Add a numerically stable log-domain solver for entropic partial Wasserstein, selectable via the new `method` parameter of `entropic_partial_wasserstein` (`method='sinkhorn_log'`) or directly through `entropic_partial_wasserstein_logscale` (Issue #723)
-- Add cost functions between linear operators following  
-  [A Spectral-Grassmann Wasserstein metric for operator representations of dynamical systems](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.24920),  
-  implemented in `ot.sgot` (PR #792, PR #830)
+- Add cost functions between linear operators following    [A Spectral-Grassmann Wasserstein metric for operator representations of dynamical systems](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.24920), implemented in `ot.sgot` (PR #792, PR #830)
 - Add batch FUGW loss to `ot.batch` and fix issues in some default parameters in the batch module (PR #775)
 - Wrapper for barycenter solvers with free support `ot.solvers.bary_free_support` (PR #730)
 - Build wheels on ubuntu ARM to avoid QEMU emulation (PR #818)
@@ -62,6 +92,7 @@ This new release adds support for sparse cost matrices and a new lazy exact OT s
 - Fix entropic regularization in `gcg`(PR #817, Issue #758)
 - Fix documentation build on master with submodules (PR #818)
 - Fix failing test for unbalanced solver with generic regularization (PR #824)
+- Fix reference number error introduced in PR #767 (PR #819)
 - Fix docstrings for `lowrank_gromov_wasserstein_samples` and `lowrank_sinkhorn` (PR #823)   
 - Update sgot cost function and example (PR #830)
 

ot/__init__.py

@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
 from .utils import dist, unif, tic, toc, toq
 
 
-__version__ = "0.9.7.dev0"
+__version__ = "0.9.7"
 
 __all__ = [
     "emd",