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.
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: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:2607. 12975v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data assimilation estimates the state of a dynamical system from model forecasts and incoming observations.
arXiv:2602.02832v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Forward forecasting and data assimilation are the two important aspects in physical simulation: one propagates the state forward, the other recover...
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.
arXiv:2605. 14285v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Data assimilation (DA) estimates the state of an evolving dynamical system from noisy, partial observations, and is widely used in scientific simulation as well as weather and climate science.
The paper compares different Ensemble Kalman methods for calibrating climate model parameters by minimizing the misfit between modeled and observed climate statistics. It conducts systematic numerical experiments on Lorenz-type models, including neural network parameterizations, to evaluate computational efficiency and accuracy of each method. The study examines how prior information and dimensionality affect the cost of these methods.
arXiv:2602. 23461v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Data assimilation (DA) for compressible flows with shocks is challenging because many classical DA methods generate spurious oscillations and nonphysical features near uncertain shocks.
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:2609.24882v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hybrid AI-physics climate modeling aims to improve coarse (~100km-resolution) Earth system models by learning to parameterize subgrid processes from hi...
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: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...