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Backward nonlinear smoothing diffusions
B. D. O. Andersonabc, A. N. Bishopde, P. Del Moralfg, C. Palmierhi a Research School of Electrical, Energy and Material Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
b Hangzhou Dianzi University, China
c Data61-CSIRO in Canberra, Australia
d CSIRO, Australia
e University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia
f INRIA, Bordeaux Research Center, Talence, France
g CMAP, Polytechnique Palaiseau, France
h Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux (IMB), Bordeaux University, France
i ONERA Palaiseau, France
Abstract:
We present a backward diffusion flow (i.e., a backward-in-time stochastic differential equation) whose marginal distribution at any (earlier) time is equal to the smoothing distribution when the terminal state (at a later time) is distributed according to the filtering distribution. This is a novel interpretation of the smoothing solution in terms of a nonlinear diffusion (stochastic) flow. This solution contrasts with, and complements, the (backward) deterministic flow of probability distributions (viz. a type of Kushner smoothing equation) studied in a number of prior works. A number of corollaries of our main result are given, including a derivation of the time-reversal of a stochastic differential equation, and an immediate derivation of the classical Rauch–Tung–Striebel smoothing equations in the linear setting.
Keywords:
nonlinear filtering and smoothing, Kalman–Bucy filter, Rauch–Tung–Striebel smoother, particle filtering and smoothing, diffusion equations, stochastic semigroups, backward stochastic integration, backward Itô–Ventzell formula, time-reversed stochastic differential equations, Zakai and Kushner–Stratonovich equations.
Received: 27.11.2019 Revised: 10.12.2020 Accepted: 01.12.2020
Citation:
B. D. O. Anderson, A. N. Bishop, P. Del Moral, C. Palmier, “Backward nonlinear smoothing diffusions”, Teor. Veroyatnost. i Primenen., 66:2 (2021), 305–326; Theory Probab. Appl., 66:2 (2021), 245–262
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https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/tvp5383https://doi.org/10.4213/tvp5383 https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/tvp/v66/i2/p305
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