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A synthesis of strict online nonlinear filtering experiments: K2 FIVO bridge survived, while trajectories, couplings, flows, and predictive pressure exposed calibration failures.
A research note on turning Kalman-filter intuition into reference-free nonlinear filters with mixture beliefs, FIVO diagnostics, and scalar flows.
A strict mixture filter learned from deterministic Power-EP teachers improved some nonlinear alias cases, but exposed a hard alias-mass calibration tradeoff.
A long-form guide to the Kalman, ELBO, distillation, IWAE, FIVO, ADF, and Power-EP filtering experiments in ml-examples.
Deterministic quadrature ADF and Power-EP baselines showed that much of the nonlinear filtering gap was algorithmic, not just amortization.
Small strict mixture filters with IWAE and FIVO-style objectives closed much of the nonlinear calibration gap while staying reference-free.