Lookahead Strategies for Sequential Monte Carlo-Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), Xiamen University

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作者	Ming Lin, Rong Chen, Jun S. Liu
正文	Based on the principles of importance sampling and resampling, sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) encompasses a large set of powerful techniques dealing with complex stochastic dynamic systems. Many of these systems possess strong memory, with which future information can help sharpen the inference about the current state. By providing theoretical justification of several existing algorithms and introducing several new ones, we study systematically how to construct effient SMC algorithms to take advantage of the "future" information without creating a substantially high computational burden. The main idea is to allow for lookahead in the Monte Carlo process so that future information can be utilized in weighting and generating Monte Carlo samples, or resampling from samples of the current state.
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关键词：	Sequential Monte Carlo; Lookahead weighting; Lookahead sampling; Pilot lookahead; Multilevel; Adaptive lookahead.