Long-term stability of sequential Monte Carlo methods under verifiable conditions

Details Long-term stability of sequential Monte Carlo methods under verifiable conditions Long-term stability of sequential Monte Carlo methods under verifiable conditions

2012-03-30

arxiv.org/abs/1203.6898v1

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Statistics Theory

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This paper discusses particle filtering in general hidden Markov models (HMMs) and presents novel theoretical results on the long-term stability of bootstrap-type particle filters. More specifically, we establish that the asymptotic variance of the Monte Carlo estimates produced by the bootstrap filter is uniformly bounded in time. On the contrary to most previous results of this type, which in general presuppose that the state space of the hidden state process is compact (an assumption that is rarely satisfied in practice), our very mild assumptions are satisfied for a large class of HMMs with possibly non-compact state space. In addition, we derive a similar time uniform bound on the asymptotic Lp error. Importantly, our results hold for misspecified models, i.e. we do not at all assume that the data entering into the particle filter originate from the model governing the dynamics of the particles or not even from an HMM.

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