An optimal control derivation of nonlinear smoothing equations

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-51264-4_12zbMATH Open1454.49029arXiv1904.01710OpenAlexW3043859436MaRDI QIDQ5131685FDOQ5131685

Prashant G. Mehta, Jin-Won Kim

Publication date: 9 November 2020

Published in: Advances in Dynamics, Optimization and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to review and highlight some connections between the problem of nonlinear smoothing and optimal control of the Liouville equation. The latter has been an active area of recent research interest owing to work in mean-field games and optimal transportation theory. The nonlinear smoothing problem is considered here for continuous-time Markov processes. The observation process is modeled as a nonlinear function of a hidden state with an additive Gaussian measurement noise. A variational formulation is described based upon the relative entropy formula introduced by Newton and Mitter. The resulting optimal control problem is formulated on the space of probability distributions. The Hamilton's equation of the optimal control are related to the Zakai equation of nonlinear smoothing via the log transformation. The overall procedure is shown to generalize the classical Mortensen's minimum energy estimator for the linear Gaussian problem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01710

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zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian inferenceMarkov processesdualityoptimal controlnonlinear filteringstochastic smoothing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Optimal transportation (49Q22) Continuous-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J25) Optimality conditions for problems involving partial differential equations (49K20) Mean field games and control (49N80) Mean field games (aspects of game theory) (91A16) PDEs in connection with mean field game theory (35Q89)

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