Consider the one-dimensional filtering problem with state diffusion co
efficient epsilon(gamma) and observation noise coefficient epsilon(1-g
amma), where 1/2 < gamma < 1 is fixed. In the regime epsilon --> 0, we
provide an example of state dynamics and a corresponding asymptotical
ly optimal filter whose memory length is short in a strong sense. This
stands in contrast with the behavior of the correlation memory length
, proposed in [7], which stays bounded away from zero as epsilon --> 0
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