Forward Smoothing using Sequential Monte Carlo

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2010-12-24

arxiv.org/abs/1012.5390v1

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Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods are a widely used set of computational tools for inference in non-linear non-Gaussian state-space models. We propose a new SMC algorithm to compute the expectation of additive functionals recursively. Essentially, it is an online or forward-only implementation of a forward filtering backward smoothing SMC algorithm proposed in Doucet .et .al (2000). Compared to the standard path space SMC estimator whose asymptotic variance increases quadratically with time even under favourable mixing assumptions, the asymptotic variance of the proposed SMC estimator only increases linearly with time. This forward smoothing procedure allows us to implement on-line maximum likelihood parameter estimation algorithms which do not suffer from the particle path degeneracy problem.

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