Online Bayesian Experimental Design for Partially Observed Dynamical Systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04403v1
• Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:29:05 GMT
• Title: Online Bayesian Experimental Design for Partially Observed Dynamical Systems
• Authors: Sara Pérez-Vieites, Sahel Iqbal, Simo Särkkä, Dominik Baumann,
• Abstract summary: We develop a principled framework for optimizing data collection in dynamical systems with partial observability.<n>Our framework successfully handles both partial observability and online inference.
• Score: 10.774974720491565
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Bayesian experimental design (BED) provides a principled framework for optimizing data collection, but existing approaches do not apply to crucial real-world settings such as dynamical systems with partial observability, where only noisy and incomplete observations are available. These systems are naturally modeled as state-space models (SSMs), where latent states mediate the link between parameters and data, making the likelihood -- and thus information-theoretic objectives like the expected information gain (EIG) -- intractable. In addition, the dynamical nature of the system requires online algorithms that update posterior distributions and select designs sequentially in a computationally efficient manner. We address these challenges by deriving new estimators of the EIG and its gradient that explicitly marginalize latent states, enabling scalable stochastic optimization in nonlinear SSMs. Our approach leverages nested particle filters (NPFs) for efficient online inference with convergence guarantees. Applications to realistic models, such as the susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) and a moving source location task, show that our framework successfully handles both partial observability and online computation.

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