An adaptive split-combine Gaussian mixture filter for nonlinear and multimodal state estimation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04430v3
• Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:38:17 GMT
• Title: An adaptive split-combine Gaussian mixture filter for nonlinear and multimodal state estimation
• Abstract summary: We develop an adaptive split-combine Gaussian mixture filter (AMF) that estimates the time evolution of asymmetric and multimodal PDFs.<n>AMF consistently outperforms various baseline filters across diverse benchmarks.<n>We also propose a parallel implementation of AMF, allowing high-fidelity PDF estimation with practical computational cost.
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• Abstract: Filtering combines model predictions with measurements to estimate the probability density function (PDF) of a system state over time. The PDF often becomes highly asymmetric and even multimodal in nonlinear systems with oscillatory or chaotic dynamics. Such non-Gaussian features violate the single-Gaussian assumption underlying Kalman-type filters. To address this problem, Gaussian mixture filtering has been proposed. However, accurately propagating mixture components and adaptively adjusting their number and weights over time remain open challenges. Here, we develop an adaptive split-combine Gaussian mixture filter (AMF) that estimates the time evolution of asymmetric and multimodal PDFs by adaptively splitting and combining Gaussian particles without auxiliary online numerical optimization. Notably, the proposed splitting method guarantees a reduction in variance along a target level-set-point direction of a Gaussian particle. This enables accurate and efficient propagation of particles. We show that AMF consistently outperforms various baseline filters across diverse benchmarks, including single and coupled slow-fast Van der Pol oscillators and the Lorenz attractor. We also propose a parallel implementation of AMF, allowing high-fidelity PDF estimation with practical computational cost.

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