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Poster

Differentiable Particle Filtering via Entropy-Regularized Optimal Transport

Adrien Corenflos · James Thornton · George Deligiannidis · Arnaud Doucet

Virtual

Keywords: [ Optimization ] [ Convex Optimization ] [ Monte Carlo Methods ]


Abstract:

Particle Filtering (PF) methods are an established class of procedures for performing inference in non-linear state-space models. Resampling is a key ingredient of PF necessary to obtain low variance likelihood and states estimates. However, traditional resampling methods result in PF-based loss functions being non-differentiable with respect to model and PF parameters. In a variational inference context, resampling also yields high variance gradient estimates of the PF-based evidence lower bound. By leveraging optimal transport ideas, we introduce a principled differentiable particle filter and provide convergence results. We demonstrate this novel method on a variety of applications.

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