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1 Sequential Monte Carlo and Particle Filtering Frank Wood Gatsby, November 2007

2 Importance Sampling Recall: Let s say that we want to compute some expectation (integral) E p [f] = p(x)f(x)dx and we remember from Monte Carlo integration theory that with samples from p() we can approximate this integral thusly E p [f] 1 L L f(x l ) l=1

3 What if p() is hard to sample from? One solution: use importance sampling Choose another easier to sample distribution q() that is similar to p() and do the following: E p [f] = p(x)f(x)dx = 1 L p(x) q(x) f(x)q(x)dx L p(x l ) q(x l ) f(x l) l=1 x l q( )

4 I.S. with distributions known only to a proportionality Importance sampling using distributions only known up to a proportionality is easy and common, algebra yields E p [f] Z q Z p 1 L L l=1 L l=1 w l f(x l ) p(x l ) q(x l ) f(x l) r l = p(x l) q(x l ) w l = r l L l=1 r l

5 A model requiring sampling techniques Non-linear non-gaussian first order Markov model x t 1 \\ x t x t+1 Hidden and of interest y t 1 y t y t+1 p(x 1:i,y 1:i ) = N i=1 p(y i x i )p(x i x i 1 )

6 Filtering distribution hard to obtain Often the filtering distribution is of interest p(x i y 1:i 1 )... p(x 1:i,y 1:i )d x1... d xi 1 It may not be possible to compute these integrals analytically, be easy to sample from this directly, nor even to design a good proposal distribution for importance sampling.

7 A solution: sequential Monte Carlo Sample from sequence of distributions that converge to the distribution of interest This is a very general technique that can be applied to a very large number of models and in a wide variety of settings. Today: particle filtering for a first order Markov model

8 Concrete example: target tracking A ballistic projectile has been launched in our direction. We have orders to intercept the projectile with a missile and thus need to infer the projectiles current position given noisy measurements.

9 Problem Schematic (x t, y t ) r t θ t (0,0)

10 Probabilistic approach Treat true trajectory as a sequence of latent random variables Specify a model and do inference to recover the position of the projectile at time t

11 First order Markov model x t 1 x t x t+1 Hidden true trajectory y t 1 y t y t+1 Noisy measurements p(x t+1 x t ) = a( ; θ a, x t ) p(y t x t ) = h( ; θ h, x t )

12 Posterior expectations We want filtering distribution samples p(x i y 1:i ) p(y i x i ) p(x i x i 1 )p(x i 1 y 1:i 1 )dx i 1 p(y i x i )p(x i y 1:i 1 ) Write this down! so that we can compute expectations E p [f] = f(x i )p(x i y 1:i )dx i

13 Importance sampling p(x i ) p(y i x i )p(x i y 1:i 1 ) q(x i ) = p(x i y 1:i 1 ) Distribution from which we want samples Proposal distribution By identity the posterior predictive distribution can be written as q(x i ) = p(x i y 1:i 1 ) = p(x i x i 1 )p(x i 1 y 1:i 1 )dx i 1

14 Basis of sequential recursion If we start with samples from {w i 1 l, x i 1 l } L l=1 p(x i 1 y 1:i 1 ) then we can write the proposal distribution as a finite mixture model L q(x i ) = p(x i y 1:i 1 ) w i 1 l p(x i x i 1 l ) l=1 and draw samples accordingly {ŵ i m, ˆx i m} M m=1 q( )

15 Samples from the proposal distribution We now have samples from the proposal {ŵ i m, ˆx i m} q(x i ) And if we recall p(x i ) = p(y i x i )p(x i y 1:i 1 ) q(x i ) = p(x i y 1:i 1 ) Distribution from which we want samples Proposal distribution

16 Updating the weights completes importance sampling ˆr i m = p(ˆxi m ) q(ˆx i m ) = p(y i ˆx i m)ŵ i m We are left with M weighted samples from the posterior up to observation i w i m = Mˆr i m m=1ˆri m {w i m, x i m} M m=1 p(x i y 1:i )

17 Intuition Particle filter name comes from physical interpretation of samples

18 Start with samples representing the hidden state {w i 1 l, x i 1 l } L l=1 p(x i 1 y 1:i 1 ) (0,0)

19 Evolve them according to the state model ˆx i m p( x i 1 l ) ŵ i m w i 1 m (0,0)

20 Re-weight them by the likelihood w i m ŵ i mp(y i ˆx i m) (0,0)

21 Results in samples one step forward {w i l, xi l }L l=1 {wi m, x i m} M m=1 (0,0)

22 SIS Particle Filter The Sequential Importance Sampler (SIS) particle filter multiplicatively updates weights at every iteration and thus often most weights get very small Computationally this makes little sense as eventually low-weighted particles do not contribute to any expectations. A measure of particle degeneracy is effective sample size ˆN eff = 1 L l=1 (wi l )2 When this quantity is small, particle degeneracy is severe.

23 Solutions Sequential Importance Re-sampling (SIR) particle filter avoids many of the problems associated with SIS pf ing by re-sampling the posterior particle set to increase the effective sample size. Choosing the best possible importance density is also important because it minimizes the variance of the weights which maximizes ˆNeff

24 Other tricks to improve pf ing Integrate out everything you can Replicate each particle some number of times In discrete systems, enumerate instead of sample Use fancy re-sampling schemes like stratified sampling, etc.

25 Initial particles {w i 1 l, x i 1 l } L l=1 p(x i 1 y 1:i 1 ) (0,0)

26 Particle evolution step {ŵ i m, ˆx i m} M m=1 p(x i y 1:i 1 ) (0,0)

27 Weighting step {w i m, x i m} M m=1 p(x i y 1:i ) (0,0)

28 Resampling step {w i l, xi l }L l=1 p(x i y 1:i ) (0,0)

29 Wrap-up: Pros vs. Cons Pros: Sometimes it is easier to build a good particle filter sampler than an MCMC sampler No need to specify a convergence measure Cons: Really filtering not smoothing Issues Computational trade-off with MCMC

30 Thank You

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33 Tricks and Variants Reduce the dimensionality of the integrand through analytic integration Rao-Blackwellization Reduce the variance of the Monte Carlo estimator through Maintaining a weighted particle set Stratified sampling Over-sampling Optimal re-sampling

34 Particle filtering Consists of two basic elements: Monte Carlo integration L p(x) w l δ xl lim L L l=1 w l f(x l ) = Importance sampling l=1 f(x)p(x)dx

35 PF ing: Forming the posterior predictive {w i 1 l, x i 1 l } L l=1 p(x i 1 y 1:i 1 ) p(x i y 1:i 1 ) = Posterior up to observation i 1 p(x i x i 1 )p(x i 1 y 1:i 1 )dx i 1 L l=1 w i 1 l p(x i x i 1 l ) The proposal distribution for importance sampling of the posterior up to observation i is this approximate posterior predictive distribution

36 Sampling the posterior predictive Generating samples from the posterior predictive distribution is the first place where we can introduce variance reduction techniques {ŵ i m, ˆxi m }M m=1 p(x i y 1:i 1 ), p(x i y 1:i 1 ) For instance sample from each mixture component several twice such that M, the number of samples drawn, is two times L, the number of densities in the mixture model, and assign weights ŵ i m = wi 1 l 2 L l=1 w i 1 l p(x i x i 1 l )

37 Not the best Most efficient Monte Carlo estimator of a function Γ(x) From survey sampling theory: Neyman allocation Number drawn from each mixture density is proportional to the weight of the mixture density times the std. dev. of the function Γ over the mixture density Take home: smarter sampling possible [Cochran 1963]

38 Over-sampling from the posterior predictive distribution {ŵ i m, ˆx i m} M m=1 p(x i y 1:i 1 ) (0,0)

39 Importance sampling the posterior Recall that we want samples from p(x i y 1:i ) p(y i x i ) p(y i x i )p(x i y 1:i 1 ) p(x i x i 1 )p(x i 1 y 1:i 1 )dx i 1 and make the following importance sampling identifications p(x i ) = p(y i x i )p(x i y 1:i 1 ) q(x i ) = p(x i y 1:i 1 ) L Distribution from which we want to sample Proposal distribution l=1 w i 1 l p(x i x i 1 l )

40 Sequential importance sampling Weighted posterior samples arise as {ŵ i m, ˆx i m} q( ) Normalization of the weights takes place as before wm i ˆr = i l L l=1ˆri l ˆr i m = p(ˆxi m ) q(ˆx i m ) = p(y i ˆx i m)ŵ i m We are left with M weighted samples from the posterior up to observation i {w i m, x i m} M m=1 p(x i y 1:i )

41 An alternative view {ŵ i m, ˆx i m} L l=1 w i 1 l p(x i x i 1 l ) p(x i y 1:i 1 ) M m=1 ŵi mδˆx i m p(x i y 1:i ) M m=1 p(y i ˆx i m)ŵ i mδˆx i m

42 Importance sampling from the posterior distribution {w i m, x i m} M m=1 p(x i y 1:i ) (0,0)

43 Sequential importance re-sampling Down-sample L particles and weights from the collection of M particles and weights {w i l, xi l }L l=1 {wi m, x i m} M m=1 this can be done via multinomial sampling or in a way that provably minimizes estimator variance [Fearnhead 04]

44 Down-sampling the particle set {w i l, xi l }L l=1 p(x i y 1:i ) (0,0)

45 Recap Starting with (weighted) samples from the posterior up to observation i-1 Monte Carlo integration was used to form a mixture model representation of the posterior predictive distribution The posterior predictive distribution was used as a proposal distribution for importance sampling of the posterior up to observation i M > L samples were drawn and re-weighted according to the likelihood (the importance weight), then the collection of particles was down-sampled to L weighted samples

46 LSSM Not alone Various other models are amenable to sequential inference, Dirichlet process mixture modelling is another example, dynamic Bayes nets are another

47 Rao-Blackwellization In models where parameters can be analytically marginalized out, or the particle state space can otherwise be collapsed, the efficiency of the particle filter can be improved by doing so

48 Stratified Sampling Sampling from a mixture density using the algorithm on the right produces a more efficient Monte Carlo estimator {w n, x n } K n=1 k π k f k ( ) for n=1:k choose k according to π k sample x n from f k set w n equal to 1/N for n=1:k choose f n sample x n from f n set w n equal to π n

49 Intuition: weighted particle set What is the difference between these two discrete distributions over the set {a,b,c}? (a), (a), (b), (b), (c) (.4, a), (.4, b), (.2, c) Weighted particle representations are equally or more efficient for the same number of particles

50 Optimal particle re-weighting Next step: when down-sampling, pass all particles above a threshold c through without modifying their weights where c is the unique solution to M m=1 min{cwi m, 1} = L Resample all particles with weights below c using stratified sampling and give the selected particles weight 1/ c Fearnhead 2004

51 Result is provably optimal In the down-sampling step {w i l, xi l }L l=1 {wi m, x i m} M m=1 Imagine instead a sparse set of weights of which some are zero { w i l, xi l }M l=1 {wi m, x i m} M m=1 Then this down-sampling algorithm is optimal w.r.t. M m=1 E w[( w i m w i m) 2 ] Fearnhead 2004

52 Problem Details Time and position are given in seconds and meters respectively Initial launch velocity and position are both unknown The maximum muzzle velocity of the projectile is 1000m/s The measurement error in the Cartesian coordinate system is N(0,10000) and N(0,500) for x and y position respectively The measurement error in the polar coordinate system is N(0,.001) for θ and Gamma(1,100) for r The kill radius of the projectile is 100m

53 Data and Support Code

54 Laws of Motion In case you ve forgotten: r = (v 0 cos(α))ti + ((v 0 sin(α)t 1 2 gt2 )j where v 0 is the initial speed and α is the initial angle

55 Good luck!

56 Monte Carlo Integration Compute integrals for which analytical solutions are unknown f(x)p(x)dx p(x) L w l δ xl l=1

57 Monte Carlo Integration Integral approximated as the weighted sum of function evaluations at L points f(x)p(x)dx p(x) L w l δ xl l=1 = L l=1 f(x) L l=1 w l f(x l ) w l δ xl dx

58 Sampling To use MC integration one must be able to sample from p(x) lim L {w l, x l } L l=1 p( ) L w l δ xl p( ) l=1

59 Theory (Convergence) Quality of the approximation independent of the dimensionality of the integrand Convergence of integral result to the truth is O(1/n 1/2 ) from L.L.N. s. Error is independent of dimensionality of x

60 Bayesian Modelling Formal framework for the expression of modelling assumptions Two common definitions: using Bayes rule marginalizing over models Posterior Prior p(θ x) = p(x θ)p(θ) p(x) = p(x θ)p(θ) p(x θ)p(θ)dθ Likelihood Evidence

61 Posterior Estimation Often the distribution over latent random variables (parameters) is of interest Sometimes this is easy (conjugacy) Usually it is hard because computing the evidence is intractable

62 Conjugacy Example θ Beta(α, β) x θ Binomial(N, θ) p(θ) = p(x θ) = Γ(α + β) Γ(α)Γ(β) θα 1 (1 θ) β 1 ( ) N θ x (1 θ) N x x x successes in N trials, θ probability of success

63 Conjugacy Continued p(θ x) = = = p(x θ)p(θ) p(x θ)p(θ)dθ 1 Z(x) p(x θ)p(θ) 1 Z(x) θα 1+x (1 θ) β 1+N x θ x Beta(α + x, β + N x) ( Γ(α + β + N) Z(x) = Γ(α + x)γ(β + N x) ) 1

64 Non-Conjugate Models Easy to come up with examples σ 2 N(0, α) x σ 2 N(0, σ 2 )

65 Posterior Inference Posterior averages are frequently important in problem domains posterior predictive distribution p(x i+1 x 1:i ) = p(x i+1 θ,x 1:i )p(θ x 1:i )dθ evidence (as seen) for model comparison, etc.

66 Relating the Posterior to the Posterior Predictive p(x i y 1:i ) = p(x i,x 1:i 1 y 1:i )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x i,x 1:i 1,y 1:i 1 )p(x i,x 1:i 1,y 1:i 1 )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x i ) p(x i x 1:i 1,y 1:i )p(x 1:i 1 y 1:i )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x i ) p(x i x i 1 )p(x 1:i 1 y 1:i 1 )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x i ) p(x i x i 1 )p(x i 1 y 1:i 1 )dx i 1 p(y i x i )p(x i y 1:i 1 )

67 Relating the Posterior to the Posterior Predictive p(x i y 1:i ) = p(x i,x 1:i 1 y 1:i )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x i,x 1:i 1,y 1:i 1 )p(x i,x 1:i 1,y 1:i 1 )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x i ) p(x i x 1:i 1,y 1:i )p(x 1:i 1 y 1:i )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x i ) p(x i x i 1 )p(x 1:i 1 y 1:i 1 )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x i ) p(x i x i 1 )p(x i 1 y 1:i 1 )dx i 1 p(y i x i )p(x i y 1:i 1 )

68 Relating the Posterior to the Posterior Predictive p(x i y 1:i ) = p(x i,x 1:i 1 y 1:i )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x i,x 1:i 1,y 1:i 1 )p(x i,x 1:i 1,y 1:i 1 )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x i ) p(x i x 1:i 1,y 1:i )p(x 1:i 1 y 1:i )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x i ) p(x i x i 1 )p(x 1:i 1 y 1:i 1 )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x i ) p(x i x i 1 )p(x i 1 y 1:i 1 )dx i 1 p(y i x i )p(x i y 1:i 1 )

69 Relating the Posterior to the Posterior Predictive p(x i y 1:i ) = p(x i,x 1:i 1 y 1:i )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x i,x 1:i 1,y 1:i 1 )p(x i,x 1:i 1,y 1:i 1 )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x i ) p(x i x 1:i 1,y 1:i )p(x 1:i 1 y 1:i )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x i ) p(x i x i 1 )p(x 1:i 1 y 1:i 1 )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x i ) p(x i x i 1 )p(x i 1 y 1:i 1 )dx i 1 p(y i x i )p(x i y 1:i 1 )

70 Importance sampling E x [f(x)] = p(x)f(x)dx = p(x) q(x) f(x)q(x)dx 1 L p(x l ) L q(x l ) f(x l) Original distribution: hard to sample from, easy to evaluate l=1 Proposal distribution: easy to sample from x l q( ) Importance weights r l = p(x l) q(x l )

71 Importance sampling un-normalized distributions p(x) = p(x) Z p q(x) = q(x) Z q Un-normalized distribution to sample from, still hard to sample from and easy to evaluate x l q( ) Un-normalized proposal distribution: still easy to sample from New term: ratio of normalizing constants E x [f(x)] 1 L L l=1 Z q Z p 1 L p(x l ) q(x l ) f(x l) L l=1 p(x l ) q(x l ) f(x l)

72 Normalizing the importance weights Un-normalized importance weights Takes a little algebra r l = p(x l) q(x l ) Z q L Z p L l=1 r l w l = r l L l=1 r l Normalized importance weights E x [f(x)] Z q Z p 1 L L l=1 L l=1 w l f(x l ) p(x l ) q(x l ) f(x l)

73 Linear State Space Model (LSSM) Discrete time First-order Markov chain x t+1 = ax t + ǫ, ǫ N(µ ǫ, σǫ) 2 y t = bx t + η, η N(µ η, ση) 2 x t 1 x t x t+1 y t 1 y t y t+1

74 Inferring the distributions of interest Many methods exist to infer these distributions Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Variational inference Belief propagation etc. In this setting sequential inference is possible because of characteristics of the model structure and preferable due to the problem requirements

75 Exploiting LSSM model structure p(x i y 1:i ) = p(x i,x 1:i 1 y 1:i )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x i,x 1:i 1,y 1:i 1 )p(x i,x 1:i 1,y 1:i 1 )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x i ) p(x i x 1:i 1,y 1:i )p(x 1:i 1 y 1:i )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x i ) p(x i x i 1 )p(x 1:i 1 y 1:i 1 )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x i ) p(x i x i 1 )p(x i 1 y 1:i 1 )dx i 1 p(y i x i )p(x i y 1:i 1 )

76 Particle filtering p(x i y 1:i ) p(y i x i ) p(x i x i 1 )p(x i 1 y 1:i 1 )dx i 1

77 Exploiting Markov structure p(x i y 1:i ) = Use p(xbayes i,x 1:i 1 rule yand 1:i the )dxconditional 1:i 1 independence structure dictated by the first order Markov hidden variable model p(y i x i,x 1:i 1,y 1:i 1 )p(x i,x 1:i 1,y 1:i 1 )dx 1:i 1 x t 1 x t x t+1 p(y i x i ) p(x i x 1:i 1,y 1:i )p(x 1:i 1 y 1:i )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x y t 1 i ) p(x i y x t i 1 )p(x y t+1 1:i 1 y 1:i 1 )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x i ) p(x i x i 1 )p(x i 1 y 1:i 1 )dx i 1 p(y i x i )p(x i y 1:i 1 )

78 for sequential inference p(x i y 1:i ) = p(x i,x 1:i 1 y 1:i )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x i,x 1:i 1,y 1:i 1 )p(x i,x 1:i 1,y 1:i 1 )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x i ) p(x i x 1:i 1,y 1:i )p(x 1:i 1 y 1:i )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x i ) p(x i x i 1 )p(x 1:i 1 y 1:i 1 )dx 1:i 1 p(y i x i ) p(x i x i 1 )p(x i 1 y 1:i 1 )dx i 1 p(y i x i )p(x i y 1:i 1 )

79 An alternative view {ŵ i m, ˆx i m} L l=1 w i 1 l p(x i x i 1 l ) p(x i y 1:i 1 ) M m=1 ŵi mδˆx i m p(x i y 1:i ) M m=1 p(y i ˆx i m)ŵ i mδˆx i m

80 Sequential importance sampling inference Start with a discrete representation of the posterior up to observation i-1 Use Monte Carlo integration to represent the posterior predictive distribution as a finite mixture model Use importance sampling with the posterior predictive distribution as the proposal distribution to sample the posterior distribution up to observation i

81 Posterior predictive distribution What? State model Likelihood p(x i y 1:i ) p(y i x i ) p(x i x i 1 )p(x i 1 y 1:i 1 )dx i 1 p(y i x i )p(x i y 1:i 1 ) Start with a discrete representation of this distribution

82 Monte Carlo integration General setup p(x) L l=1 w l δ xl lim L L l=1 w l f(x l ) = f(x)p(x)dx As applied in this stage of the particle filter p(x i y 1:i 1 ) = p(x i x i 1 )p(x i 1 y 1:i 1 )dx i 1 L l=1 w i 1 l p(x i x i 1 l ) Samples from Finite mixture model

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