The paper introduces the Belief Flow Filter (BFF), a generative filtering framework that encodes the evolving posterior distribution directly into flow matching model weights and updates them via test‑time gradient descent. By avoiding particle representations and Gaussian assumptions, BFF aligns structurally with Bayesian filtering and targets the recursive filtering operator. Empirical results on five physical systems—including chaotic dynamics, sparse observations, and a tokamak plasma estimation task—show that BFF outperforms existing methods in most benchmark metrics.
By Ruiqi Feng, Chongyi Wang, Tao Zhang, Tailin Wu
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...
By Tiangang Cui, Xiaodong Feng, Chenlong Pei, Xiaoliang Wan, Tao Zhou
arXiv:2609.37227v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Inference-time steering adapts pretrained diffusion and flow-based models to new tasks, e.g., to generate samples from a conditional distribution or sa...
By Adhithyan Kalaivanan, Zheng Zhao, Jens Sj\"olund, Fredrik Lindsten
arXiv:2609.30498v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Sequential inference estimates latent states from noisy and incomplete observations. Particle Filters (PFs), a class of Monte Carlo methods based on...
By Apoorv Srivastava, Eric Darve
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.
By Eviatar Bach, Ricardo Baptista, Jochen Br\"ocker, Bohan Chen, Andrew Stuart
arXiv:2508. 13313v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Data assimilation (DA) estimates a dynamical system's state from noisy observations.
By Taos Transue, Bohan Chen, So Takao, Bao Wang