Eigenfunction martingale estimators for interacting particle systems and their mean field limit

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Main Authors: Pavliotis, Grigorios A., Zanoni, Andrea
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author Pavliotis, Grigorios A.
Zanoni, Andrea
author_facet Pavliotis, Grigorios A.
Zanoni, Andrea
contents We study the problem of parameter estimation for large exchangeable interacting particle systems when a sample of discrete observations from a single particle is known. We propose a novel method based on martingale estimating functions constructed by employing the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the generator of the mean field limit, where the law of the process is replaced by the (unique) invariant measure of the mean field dynamics. We then prove that our estimator is asymptotically unbiased and asymptotically normal when the number of observations and the number of particles tend to infinity, and we provide a rate of convergence towards the exact value of the parameters. Finally, we present several numerical experiments which show the accuracy of our estimator and corroborate our theoretical findings, even in the case the mean field dynamics exhibit more than one steady states.
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spellingShingle Eigenfunction martingale estimators for interacting particle systems and their mean field limit
Pavliotis, Grigorios A.
Zanoni, Andrea
Numerical Analysis
We study the problem of parameter estimation for large exchangeable interacting particle systems when a sample of discrete observations from a single particle is known. We propose a novel method based on martingale estimating functions constructed by employing the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the generator of the mean field limit, where the law of the process is replaced by the (unique) invariant measure of the mean field dynamics. We then prove that our estimator is asymptotically unbiased and asymptotically normal when the number of observations and the number of particles tend to infinity, and we provide a rate of convergence towards the exact value of the parameters. Finally, we present several numerical experiments which show the accuracy of our estimator and corroborate our theoretical findings, even in the case the mean field dynamics exhibit more than one steady states.
title Eigenfunction martingale estimators for interacting particle systems and their mean field limit
topic Numerical Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04870