UNIFORM OBSERVABILITY OF HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS AND FILTER STABILITY FOR UNSTABLE SIGNALS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: van Handel, Ramon
• 署名单位: Princeton University
• 刊物名称: ANNALS OF APPLIED PROBABILITY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1050-5164
• DOI: 10.1214/08-AAP576
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 1172-1199
• 关键词: particle approximation; exponential stability; nonlinear filters; time

摘要

A hidden Markov model is called observable if distinct initial laws give rise to distinct laws of the observation process. Observability implies stability of the nonlinear filter when the signal process is tight, but this need not be the case when the signal process is unstable. This paper introduces a stronger notion of uniform observability which guarantees stability of the nonlinear filter in the absence of stability assumptions on the signal. By developing certain uniform approximation properties of convolution operators, we subsequently demonstrate that the uniform observability condition is satisfied for various classes of filtering models with white-noise type observations. This includes the case of observable linear Gaussian filtering models, so that standard results on stability of the Kalman-Bucy filter are obtained as a special case.