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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- inside front cover -- Logging in Action -- Copyright -- contents -- front matter -- foreword -- preface -- acknowledgments -- about this book -- Who should read this book -- How this book is organized -- About the code -- liveBook discussion forum -- about the author -- about the cover illustration -- Part 1. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…5.12.3 Urban Traffic Network -- 5.12.4 Cybersecurity of Power Systems -- 5.12.5 Incidence of Influenza -- 5.12.6 COVID‐19 Pandemic -- 5.13 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 6 Particle Filter -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Monte Carlo Method -- 6.3 Importance Sampling -- 6.4 Sequential Importance Sampling -- 6.5 Resampling -- 6.6 Sample Impoverishment -- 6.7 Choosing the Proposal Distribution -- 6.8 Generic Particle Filter -- 6.9 Applications -- 6.9.1 Simultaneous Localization and Mapping -- 6.10 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 7 Smooth Variable‐Structure Filter -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Switching Gain -- 7.3 Stability Analysis -- 7.4 Smoothing Subspace -- 7.5 Filter Corrective Term for Linear Systems -- 7.6 Filter Corrective Term for Nonlinear Systems -- 7.7 Bias Compensation -- 7.8 The Secondary Performance Indicator -- 7.9 Second‐Order Smooth Variable Structure Filter -- 7.10 Optimal Smoothing Boundary Design -- 7.11 Combination of SVSF with Other Filters -- 7.12 Applications -- 7.12.1 Multiple Target Tracking -- 7.12.2 Battery State‐of‐Charge Estimation -- 7.12.3 Robotics -- 7.13 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 8 Deep Learning -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Gradient Descent -- 8.3 Stochastic Gradient Descent -- 8.4 Natural Gradient Descent -- 8.5 Neural Networks -- 8.6 Backpropagation -- 8.7 Backpropagation Through Time -- 8.8 Regularization -- 8.9 Initialization -- 8.10 Convolutional Neural Network -- 8.11 Long Short‐Term Memory -- 8.12 Hebbian Learning -- 8.13 Gibbs Sampling -- 8.14 Boltzmann Machine -- 8.15 Autoencoder -- 8.16 Generative Adversarial Network -- 8.17 Transformer -- 8.18 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 9 Deep Learning‐Based Filters -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Variational Inference -- 9.3 Amortized Variational Inference -- 9.4 Deep Kalman Filter -- 9.5 Backpropagation Kalman Filter -- 9.6 Differentiable Particle Filter…”

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