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EPSRC Reference: EP/J01365X/1
Title: Sequential Monte Carlo methods for applications in high dimensions.
Principal Investigator: Fearn, Professor T
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Department: Statistical Science
Organisation: UCL
Scheme: First Grant - Revised 2009
Starts: 01 July 2012 Ends: 30 June 2013 Value (£): 98,688
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Statistics & Appl. Probability
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Panel DatePanel NameOutcome
30 Jan 2012 Mathematics Prioritisation Panel Meeting January 2012 Announced
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Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods are nowadays routinely employed across a wide range of disciplines to calibrate mathematical models and carry out forecasting about complex non-linear stochastic systems, using information from incoming data. SMC methods have been successfully applied in such diverse areas as econometrics, communications, target tracking, computer vision, roboting and biology. They will infer about unknown parameters of stochastic systems and unobserved states of the systems (the "signal") given streams of data.

However, it is a common knowledge that standard SMC methods cannot tackle important high-dimensional problems, arising in fields such as atmospheric sciences, oceanography, hydrology and signal processing, as their computational cost has been found to increase exponentially fast with the dimension of the state space of the system.

The proposed research will investigate and develop advanced SMC methods of improved algorithmic efficiency in high dimensions, rendering SMC methodology practically relevant in such contexts. This is of high importance as alternative methods currently used in high dimensions cannot fully capture non-linear model dynamics arising in applications, and can give inaccurate estimates of uncertainty or forecasts in such non-linear scenarios.
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