The Mean Field Ensemble Kalman Filter: Near-Gaussian Setting
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arXiv2212.13239MaRDI QIDQ6508264FDOQ6508264
Authors: J. A. Carrillo, Franca Hoffmann, A. M. Stuart 
Abstract: The ensemble Kalman filter is widely used in applications because, for high dimensional filtering problems, it has a robustness that is not shared for example by the particle filter; in particular it does not suffer from weight collapse. However, there is no theory which quantifies its accuracy as an approximation of the true filtering distribution, except in the Gaussian setting. To address this issue we provide the first analysis of the accuracy of the ensemble Kalman filter beyond the Gaussian setting. Our analysis is developed for the mean field ensemble Kalman filter. We rewrite the update equations for this filter, and for the true filtering distribution, in terms of maps on probability measures. We introduce a weighted total variation metric to estimate the distance between the two filters and we prove various stability estimates for the maps defining the evolution of the two filters, in this metric. Using these stability estimates we demonstrate that if the true filtering distribution is close to Gaussian in the joint space of state and data, in the weighted total variation metric, then the true-filter is well approximated by the ensemble Kalman filter, in the same metric. Finally, we provide a generalization of these results to the Gaussian projected filter, which can be viewed as a mean field description of the unscented Kalman filter.
Bayesian inference (62F15) Filtering in stochastic control theory (93E11) Stochastic particle methods (65C35) The dynamics of infinite particle systems (70F45)
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