2411.19305
LD-EnSF: Synergizing Latent Dynamics with Ensemble Score Filters for Fast Data Assimilation with Sparse Observations
Pengpeng Xiao, Phillip Si, Peng Chen
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- Journal tier
- Strong Field
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- Sep 28, 2025, 12:56 AM
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Audit review
The paper clearly defines LD‑EnSF and cites the reverse‑time SDE and score decomposition, but offers no rigorous correctness or convergence proof and even flags theory as future work. The model proposes a plausible proof under exact scores and standard SDE assumptions, but it implicitly assumes that the tempered posterior path p_{t,τ} ∝ p^{prior}_{t,τ}·L^{h(τ)} are the marginals of the same forward SDE, which is not established; this step is the critical gap. Hence, the paper is incomplete (no proof), and the model’s proof is also incomplete at the time‑reversal step.
Referee report (LaTeX)
\textbf{Recommendation:} major revisions
\textbf{Journal Tier:} strong field
\textbf{Justification:}
LD–EnSF is a well-motivated synthesis of latent dynamics, score-based filtering, and sequence encoders, with strong empirical results and substantial speedups. However, theoretical guarantees are not established: the use of the reverse-time SDE with a tempered posterior score is stated but not proved, and the manuscript itself lists theory as future work. If a theoretical section is intended, it needs substantial additions; otherwise, the paper stands as a solid methodological/empirical contribution.