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Poster

Neural Jump-Diffusion Temporal Point Processes

Shuai Zhang · Chuan Zhou · Yang Liu · PENG ZHANG · Xixun Lin · Zhiming Ma


Abstract:

We present a novel perspective on temporal point processes (TPPs) by reformulating their intensity processes as solutions to stochastic differential equations (SDEs). In particular, we first prove the equivalent SDE formulations of several classical TPPs, including Poisson processes, Hawkes processes, and self-correcting processes. Based on these proofs, we introduce a unified TPP framework named Neural Jump-Diffusion Temporal Point Process (NJDTPP), whose intensity process is governed by a neural jump-diffusion SDE (NJDSDE) where the coefficient functions of drift, diffusion, and jump are parameterized by neural networks. Compared to previous works, NJDTPP exhibits model flexibility in capturing intensity dynamics without relying on any specific functional form, and provides theoretical guarantees regarding the existence and uniqueness of the solution to the proposed NJDSDE. Experiments on both synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate that NJDTPP is capable of capturing the dynamics of intensity processes in different scenarios and significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art TPP models in prediction tasks.

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