The paper introduces FREESIA, a training‑free, covariance‑aware posterior transport method for data assimilation that embeds forecast cross‑covariance into a flow‑based transport to recover unobserved states while preserving non‑Gaussian posterior structure. It combines an observation‑adaptive proposal with posterior correction, providing an asymptotically exact approximation of nonlinear posteriors and a Wasserstein error bound. Experiments on Double‑Well, Lorenz‑96, and Kolmogorov flow demonstrate that FREESIA captures complex posterior structures and achieves up to a 56% reduction in RMSE compared to the best baseline in sparse, nonlinear, non‑injective observation scenarios.
Data assimilation estimates the state of a dynamical system from model forecasts and incoming observations. Many observation mechanisms, however, are many-to-one, implicit, non-smooth, or accessible only through simulation, and need not provide the residual structures or likelihood guidance required by existing ensemble filters.
arXiv:2607. 12975v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data assimilation estimates the state of a dynamical system from model forecasts and incoming observations.
arXiv:2604.07169v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bayesian filtering and smoothing are central to data assimilation in nonlinear dynamical systems. Recent advances in deep generative models p...
arXiv:2609.28015v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data assimilation estimates a dynamical state from partial and noisy observations. Classical ensemble filters are efficient but restrict analysis upd...
arXiv:2508. 13313v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Data assimilation (DA) estimates a dynamical system's state from noisy observations.
PR‑Smoother is an amortized smoothing method that preserves the explicit use of a prescribed simulator in both the evidence lower bound and the variational family. It learns only future‑conditioned corrections to the simulator’s rollout, yielding a non‑Gaussian smoothing distribution that can jointly infer state, parameters, and sensor bias from observations alone. The approach recovers the exact smoother in deterministic and linear‑Gaussian limits and has been shown to capture multimodal posteriors in Lorenz‑96 and scale to 16,384‑dimensional Kolmogorov flow.
arXiv:2606. 26497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian filtering of partially and noisily observed dynamical systems seeks to infer the evolving conditional distribution of the state of a dynamical system, given observations, in an online fashion.
arXiv:2606. 11140v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data assimilation (DA) in subsurface flow entails calibrating model parameters to match observed data, typically at wells, while preserving geological realism.
The paper presents an ensemble Kalman–Bucy smoother (EnKBS) for continuous‑time data assimilation of nonlinear dynamical systems, reconstructing conditional distributions from ensemble moments without needing tangent‑linear or adjoint models. It demonstrates that EnKBS achieves exact smoothing mean and covariance in the infinite‑ensemble limit for linear‑Gaussian systems and incorporates regularization techniques like covariance localization and inflation for high‑dimensional problems. The method is applied to Bayesian inference of causal relationships in a dyadic trigger‑feedback model and to an iterative learning algorithm that uncovers the structure and hidden parameters of a reduced‑order model of midlatitude atmospheric circulation, all with small ensembles under partial observations.
arXiv:2602.23188v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose an efficient retraining strategy for a parameterized Reduced Order Model (ROM) that attains accuracy comparable to full retraining while...
The paper presents a lightweight retraining strategy for a parameterized Reduced Order Model (ROM) that achieves full‑model accuracy using only a fraction of the computational effort and sparse observations. The ROM architecture combines a Variational Autoencoder for dimensionality reduction with a transformer network that evolves latent states while accounting for the Reynolds number as an external control variable. By leveraging the probabilistic VAE, the method generates trajectory ensembles and uncertainty estimates, and adapts to out‑of‑sample parameters through sparse data assimilation with an ensemble Kalman filter, focusing retraining on the autoencoder to correct latent manifold distortions.
arXiv:2607. 01012v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data assimilation models state dynamics conditioned on sequential observations, and has wide-ranging scientific applications.