Title
Parallel Block Particle Filtering
Abstract
Particle filtering (PF) is a powerful method to estimate the posterior distribution in nonlinear/ non Gaussian state space models. To overcome the curse of dimensionality of PF, the block PF (BPF) partitions the state space and runs correction and resampling steps separately on each subspace. Using a blocking step can significantly reduce the variance of the filtering distribution estimate, but it breaks correlation across subspaces.In this paper, we introduce a parallelisation scheme in the block PF. The scheme consists in dispatching the set of particles into M parallel BPFs. We show that the usual benefit of parallelisation in terms of bias-variance trade-off remains valid and, most importantly, that assigning different partitions to the parallel filters leads to far better performance than naive parallelisation using only one partition.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/SSP49050.2021.9513788
2021 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Bayesian inference,particle filter,high dimension,blocking,parallelisation
Conference
2373-0803
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-5768-9
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rui Min100.34
Christelle Garnier200.34
François Septier301.01
John Klein401.01