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Estimating the statistics of the state of a dynamical system, from partial and noisy observations, is both mathematically challenging and finds wide application. Furthermore, the applications are of great societal importance, including…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-03 J. A. Carrillo , F. Hoffmann , A. M. Stuart , U. Vaes

Data assimilation combines dynamical models with observations to improve state estimates. Ensemble filters sequentially assimilate observations by updating a set of samples over time, alternating between a forecast and an analysis step.…

Computation · Statistics 2026-05-26 Mathieu Le Provost , Jan Glaubitz , Youssef Marzouk

The Ensemble Kalman methodology in an inverse problems setting can be viewed as an iterative scheme, which is a weakly tamed discretization scheme for a certain stochastic differential equation (SDE). Assuming a suitable approximation…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Dirk Blömker , Claudia Schillings , Philipp Wacker

Filtering is concerned with online estimation of the state of a dynamical system from partial and noisy observations. In applications where the state of the system is high dimensional, ensemble Kalman filters are often the method of choice.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Omar Al Ghattas , Jiajun Bao , Daniel Sanz-Alonso

A number of regularization methods for discrete inverse problems consist in considering weighted versions of the usual least square solution. However, these so-called filter methods are generally restricted to monotonic transformations,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-05-05 Paul Rochet

State estimation that combines observational data with mathematical models is central to many applications and is commonly addressed through filtering methods, such as ensemble Kalman filters. In this article, we examine the signal-tracking…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Nazanin Abedini , Jana de Wiljes , Svetlana Dubinkina

Conventional approximations to Bayesian inference rely on either approximations by statistics such as mean and covariance or by point particles. Recent advances such as the ensemble Gaussian mixture filter have generalized these notions to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Andrey A Popov

We extend to multi-dimensions the work of [1], where new fully explicit kinetic methods were built for the approximation of linear and non-linear convection-diffusion problems. The fundamental principles from the earlier work are retained:…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-29 Gauthier Wissocq , Rémi Abgrall

In the present paper the macroscopic limits of the kinetic model for inter-acting entities (individuals, organisms, cells) are studied. The kinetic model is one-dimensional and entities are characterized by their position and orientation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-07-12 Jacek Banasiak , Miroslaw Lachowicz

We propose a numerical approach, of the BGK kinetic type, that is able to approximate with a given, but arbitrary, order of accuracy the solution of linear and non-linear convection-diffusion type problems: scalar advection-diffusion,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Gauthier Wissocq , Rémi Abgrall

Understanding human motion is of critical importance for health monitoring and control of assistive robots, yet many human kinematic variables cannot be directly or accurately measured by wearable sensors. In recent years, invariant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zenan Zhu , Seyed Mostafa Rezayat Sorkhabadi , Yan Gu , Wenlong Zhang

This work proposes a novel Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM)-based Ensemble Kalman Inversion (EKI) algorithm for solving constrained nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) problems. First, stage-wise nonlinear inequality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Ahmed Khalil , Mohamed Safwat , Efstathios Bakolas

Numerous tasks at the core of statistics, learning and vision areas are specific cases of ill-posed inverse problems. Recently, learning-based (e.g., deep) iterative methods have been empirically shown to be useful for these problems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Risheng Liu , Shichao Cheng , Yi He , Xin Fan , Zhouchen Lin , Zhongxuan Luo

We derive symmetry preserving invariant extended Kalman filters (IEKF) on matrix Lie groups. These Kalman filters have an advantage over conventional extended Kalman filters as the error dynamics for such filters are independent of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-01 Karmvir Singh Phogat , Dong Eui Chang

In this paper we consider the continuous--time nonlinear filtering problem, which has an infinite--dimensional solution in general, as proved by Chaleyat--Maurel and Michel. There are few examples of nonlinear systems for which the optimal…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-01-15 Damiano Brigo

Based on a general discrete model for a semiflexible polymer chain, we introduce a formal derivation of a kinetic equation for semiflexible polymers in the half-plane via a continuum limit. It turns out that the resulting equation is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Jin Woo Jang , Juan J. L. Velázquez

This work unifies the analysis of various randomized methods for solving linear and nonlinear inverse problems by framing the problem in a stochastic optimization setting. By doing so, we show that many randomized methods are variants of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Jonathan Wittmer , C. G. Krishnanunni , Hai V. Nguyen , Tan Bui-Thanh

Ensemble Kalman Inversion (EKI) methods are a family of iterative methods for solving weighted least-squares problems, especially those arising in scientific and engineering inverse problems in which unknown parameters or states are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Elizabeth Qian , Christopher Beattie

We perform an asymptotic analysis of general particle systems arising in collective behavior in the limit of large self-propulsion and friction forces. These asymptotics impose a fixed speed in the limit, and thus a reduction of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-01 Mihai Bostan , J. A. Carrillo

In this article we study the problem of recovering the unknown solution of a linear ill-posed problem, via iterative regularization methods. We review the problem of projection-regularization from a statistical point of view. A basic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Ana K. Fermin , Carenne Ludena