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Main Authors: Gonzalez, Fabian, Akyildiz, O. Deniz, Crisan, Dan, Miguez, Joaquin
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00218
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author Gonzalez, Fabian
Akyildiz, O. Deniz
Crisan, Dan
Miguez, Joaquin
author_facet Gonzalez, Fabian
Akyildiz, O. Deniz
Crisan, Dan
Miguez, Joaquin
contents Nudging is a popular algorithmic strategy in numerical filtering to deal with the problem of inference in high-dimensional dynamical systems. We demonstrate in this paper that general nudging techniques can also tackle another crucial statistical problem in filtering, namely the misspecification of the transition kernel. Specifically, we rely on the formulation of nudging as a general operation increasing the likelihood and prove analytically that, when applied carefully, nudging techniques implicitly define state-space models that have higher marginal likelihoods for a given (fixed) sequence of observations. This provides a theoretical justification of nudging techniques as data-informed algorithmic modifications of state-space models to obtain robust models under misspecified dynamics. To demonstrate the use of nudging, we provide numerical experiments on linear Gaussian state-space models and a stochastic Lorenz 63 model with misspecified dynamics and show that nudging offers a robust filtering strategy for these cases.
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spellingShingle Nudging state-space models for Bayesian filtering under misspecified dynamics
Gonzalez, Fabian
Akyildiz, O. Deniz
Crisan, Dan
Miguez, Joaquin
Computation
Probability
Nudging is a popular algorithmic strategy in numerical filtering to deal with the problem of inference in high-dimensional dynamical systems. We demonstrate in this paper that general nudging techniques can also tackle another crucial statistical problem in filtering, namely the misspecification of the transition kernel. Specifically, we rely on the formulation of nudging as a general operation increasing the likelihood and prove analytically that, when applied carefully, nudging techniques implicitly define state-space models that have higher marginal likelihoods for a given (fixed) sequence of observations. This provides a theoretical justification of nudging techniques as data-informed algorithmic modifications of state-space models to obtain robust models under misspecified dynamics. To demonstrate the use of nudging, we provide numerical experiments on linear Gaussian state-space models and a stochastic Lorenz 63 model with misspecified dynamics and show that nudging offers a robust filtering strategy for these cases.
title Nudging state-space models for Bayesian filtering under misspecified dynamics
topic Computation
Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00218