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Ensemble Kalman methods constitute an increasingly important tool in both state and parameter estimation problems. Their popularity stems from the derivative-free nature of the methodology which may be readily applied when computer code is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-10 David J. Albers , Paul-Adrien Blancquart , Matthew E. Levine , Elnaz Esmaeilzadeh Seylabi , Andrew Stuart

The Ensemble Kalman Filter method can be used as an iterative numerical scheme for parameter identification or nonlinear filtering problems. We study the limit of infinitely large ensemble size and derive the corresponding mean-field limit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Michael Herty , Giuseppe Visconti

In inverse problems, the goal is to estimate unknown model parameters from noisy observational data. Traditionally, inverse problems are solved under the assumption of a fixed forward operator describing the observation model. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Simon Weissmann , Neil K. Chada , Xin T. Tong

The Ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) was introduced by Evensen in 1994 [10] as a novel method for data assimilation: state estimation for noisily observed time-dependent problems. Since that time it has had enormous impact in many application…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-08 Marco A. Iglesias , Kody J. H. Law , Andrew M. Stuart

This paper investigates ensemble Kalman inversion (EKI) for variational inverse problems with convex, potentially non-smooth regularization. While deterministic EKI and its Tikhonov-regularized variants have primarily been analyzed for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Simon Weissmann

Ensemble methods are known for enhancing the accuracy and robustness of machine learning models by combining multiple base learners. However, standard approaches like greedy or random ensembling often fall short, as they assume a constant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Sebastian Pineda Arango , Maciej Janowski , Lennart Purucker , Arber Zela , Frank Hutter , Josif Grabocka

Ensemble Kalman inversion (EKI) is a derivative-free optimization method that lies between the deterministic and the probabilistic approaches for inverse problems. EKI iterates the Kalman update of ensemble-based Kalman filters, whose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Yoonsang Lee

This paper introduces a computational framework to incorporate flexible regularization techniques in ensemble Kalman methods for nonlinear inverse problems. The proposed methodology approximates the maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimate of a…

Computation · Statistics 2022-05-20 Hwanwoo Kim , Daniel Sanz-Alonso , Alexander Strang

Regularization and interior point approaches offer valuable perspectives to address constrained nonlinear optimization problems in view of control applications. This paper discusses the interactions between these techniques and proposes an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-31 Alberto De Marchi

The conventional way of formulating inverse problems such as identification of a (possibly infinite dimensional) parameter, is via some forward operator, which is the concatenation of the observation operator with the parameter-to-state-map…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-07 Barbara Kaltenbacher

We propose a new regularisation strategy for the classical ensemble Kalman inversion (EKI) framework. The strategy consists of: (i) an adaptive choice for the regularisation parameter in the update formula in EKI, and (ii) criteria for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-24 Marco Iglesias , Yuchen Yang

Ensemble Kalman methods are widely used for state estimation in the geophysical sciences. Their success stems from the fact that they take an underlying (possibly noisy) dynamical system as a black box to provide a systematic,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Edoardo Calvello , Sebastian Reich , Andrew M. Stuart

We present a novel algorithm based on the ensemble Kalman filter to solve inverse problems involving multiscale elliptic partial differential equations. Our method is based on numerical homogenization and finite element discretization and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Assyr Abdulle , Giacomo Garegnani , Andrea Zanoni

This paper provides a unified perspective of iterative ensemble Kalman methods, a family of derivative-free algorithms for parameter reconstruction and other related tasks. We identify, compare and develop three subfamilies of ensemble…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Neil K. Chada , Yuming Chen , Daniel Sanz-Alonso

The ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is a widely used methodology for state estimation in partial, noisily observed dynamical systems, and for parameter estimation in inverse problems. Despite its widespread use in the geophysical sciences,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Claudia Schillings , Andrew M. Stuart

This paper is focused on the optimization approach to the solution of inverse problems. We introduce a stochastic dynamical system in which the parameter-to-data map is embedded, with the goal of employing techniques from nonlinear Kalman…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-29 Daniel Zhengyu Huang , Tapio Schneider , Andrew M. Stuart

We study the use of novel techniques arising in machine learning for inverse problems. Our approach replaces the complex forward model by a neural network, which is trained simultaneously in a one-shot sense when estimating the unknown…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Philipp A. Guth , Claudia Schillings , Simon Weissmann

We consider the Ensemble Kalman Inversion which has been recently introduced as an efficient, gradient-free optimisation method to estimate unknown parameters in an inverse setting. In the case of large data sets, the Ensemble Kalman…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Matei Hanu , Jonas Latz , Claudia Schillings

The ensemble Kalman inversion (EKI), as a derivative-free methodology, has been widely used in the parameter estimation of inverse problems. Unfortunately, its cost may become moderately large for systems described by high dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Liang Yan , Tao Zhou

The Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF) belongs to the class of iterative particle filtering methods and can be used for solving control--to--observable inverse problems. In this context, the EnKF is known as Ensemble Kalman Inversion (EKI). In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Dieter Armbruster , Michael Herty , Giuseppe Visconti