Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Kalman Filtering
We study a distributionally robust mean square error estimation problem over a nonconvex Wasserstein ambiguity set containing only normal distributions. We show that the optimal estimator and the least favorable distribution form a Nash equilibrium. Despite the non-convex nature of the ambiguity set, we prove that the estimation problem is equivalent to a tractable convex program. We further devise a Frank-Wolfe algorithm for this convex program whose direction-searching subproblem can be solved in a quasi-closed form. Using these ingredients, we introduce a distributionally robust Kalman filter that hedges against model risk.
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Shafieezadeh Abadeh, S., Nguyen, V. A., Kuhn, D., & Mohajerin Esfahani, P. (2018). Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Kalman Filtering. NIPS Proceedings, 31. https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/148569
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2018
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