Lirong Xia

1. Approximate inference: Particle filter Lirong Xia Tue, April 1, 2014

2. Reminder • Friday April 4 • Project 3 due • Project 4 (HMM) out

3. Recap: Reasoning over Time • Markov models p(X1) p(X|X-1) p(E|X) • Hidden Markov models • Filtering: Given time t and evidences e1,…,et, compute p(Xt|e1:t)

4. Filtering algorithm • Notation • B(Xt-1)=p(Xt-1|e1:t-1) • B’(Xt)=p(Xt|e1:t-1) • Each time step, we start with p(Xt-1 | previous evidence): • Elapse of time B’(Xt)=Σxt-1p(Xt|xt-1)B(xt-1) • Observe B(Xt) ∝p(et|Xt)B’(Xt) • Renormalize B(Xt)

5. Prior Sampling (w/o evidences) • Given a Bayesian network (graph and CPTs) • Generate values of random variables sequentially • According to an order compatible with the graph • In each step, generate the value of the top unvalued variable given previously generated values • This sampling procedure is consistent Samples: +c, -s, +r, +w -c, +s, -r, +w

6. Rejection Sampling • We want p(C|+s) • Do prior sampling, but ignore (reject) samples which don’t have S=+s • It is also consistent for conditional probabilities (i.e., correct in the limit) • Problem • If p(+s) is too small then many samples are wasted +c, -s, +r, +w +c, +s, +r, +w -c, +s, +r, -w +c, -s, +r, +w -c, -s, -r, +w

7. Likelihood Weighting • Step 1: sampling unvalued variables z (given evidences e) • Step 2: fix the evidences • Step 3: the generated samples have weight • Likelihood weighting is consistent z: C, R e: S, W

8. Today • Particle filtering • Dynamic Bayesian networks • Viterbi algorithm

9. Particle Filtering • Sometimes |X| is too big to use exact inference • |X| may be too big to even store B(X) • E.g. X is continuous • |X|2 may be too big to do updates • Solution: approximate inference • Track samples of X, not all values • Samples are called particles • Time per step is linear in the number of samples • But: number needed may be large • In memory: list of particles • This is how robot localization works in practice

10. Representation: Particles • p(X) is now represented by a list of N particles (samples) • Generally, N << |X| • Storing map from X to counts would defeat the point • p(x) approximated by number of particles with value x • Many x will have p(x)=0! • More particles, more accuracy • For now, all particles have a weight of 1 Particles: (3,3) (2,3) (3,3) (3,2) (3,3) (3,2) (2,1) (3,3) (3,3) (2,1)

11. Particle Filtering: Elapse Time • Each particle is moved by sampling its next position from the transition model x’= sample(p(X’|x)) • This is like prior sampling – samples’ frequencies reflect the transition probabilities • Here, most samples move clockwise, but some move in another direction or stay in place • This captures the passage of time • If we have enough samples, close to the exact values before and after (consistent)

12. Particle Filtering: Observe • Slightly trickier: • Don’t do rejection sampling (why not?) • Likelihood weighting • Note that, as before, the probabilities don’t sum to one, since most have been downweighted • in fact they sum to an approximation of p(e)

13. Particle Filtering: Resample Old Particles: (3,3) w=0.1 (2,1) w=0.9 (2,1) w=0.9 (3,1) w=0.4 (3,2) w=0.3 (2,2) w=0.4 (1,1) w=0.4 (3,1) w=0.4 (2,1) w=0.9 (3,2) w=0.3 New Particles: (2,1) w=1 (2,1) w=1 (2,1) w=1 (3,2) w=1 (2,2) w=1 (2,1) w=1 (1,1) w=1 (3,1) w=1 (2,1) w=1 (1,1) w=1 • Rather than tracking weighted samples, we resample • N times, we choose from our weighted sample distribution (i.e. draw with replacement) • This is analogous to renormalizing the distribution • Now the update is complete for this time step, continue with the next one

14. Forward algorithm vs. particle filtering Forward algorithm Particle filtering • Elapse of time B’(Xt)=Σxt-1p(Xt|xt-1)B(xt-1) • Observe B(Xt) ∝p(et|Xt)B’(Xt) • Renormalize B(xt) sum up to 1 • Elapse of time x--->x’ • Observe w(x’)=p(et|x) • Resample resample N particles

15. Robot Localization • In robot localization: • We know the map, but not the robot’s position • Observations may be vectors of range finder readings • State space and readings are typically continuous (works basically like a very fine grid) and so we cannot store B(X) • Particle filtering is a main technique

16. Dynamic Bayes Nets (DBNs) • We want to track multiple variables over time, using multiple sources of evidence • Idea: repeat a fixed Bayes net structure at each time • Variables from time t can condition on those from t-1 • DBNs with evidence at leaves are HMMs

17. Exact Inference in DBNs • Variable elimination applies to dynamic Bayes nets • Procedure: “unroll” the network for T time steps, then eliminate variables until p(Xt|e1:t) is computed • Online belief updates: eliminate all variables from the previous time step; store factors for current time only

18. DBN Particle Filters • A particle is a complete sample for a time step • Initialize: generate prior samples for the t=1 Bayes net • Example particle: G1a=(3,3) G1b=(5,3) • Elapse time: sample a successor for each particle • Example successor: G2a=(2,3) G2b=(6,3) • Observe: weight each entire sample by the likelihood of the evidence conditioned on the sample • Likelihood: p(E1a|G1a)*p(E1b|G1b) • Resample: select prior samples (tuples of values) in proportion to their likelihood

19. SLAM • SLAM = Simultaneous Localization And Mapping • We do not know the map or our location • Our belief state is over maps and positions! • Main techniques: • Kalman filtering (Gaussian HMMs) • particle methods • http://www.cs.duke.edu/~parr/dpslam/D-Wing.html

20. HMMs: MLE Queries • HMMs defined by: • States X • Observations E • Initial distribution: p(X1) • Transitions: p(X|X-1) • Emissions: p(E|X) • Query: most likely explanation:

21. State Path • Graph of states and transitions over time • Each arc represents some transition xt-1→xt • Each arc has weight p(xt|xt-1)p(et|xt) • Each path is a sequence of states • The product of weights on a path is the seq’s probability • Forward algorithm • computing the sum of all paths • Viterbi algorithm • computing the best paths X1X2…XN

22. Viterbi Algorithm

23. Example