Neural Diffusion Intensity Models for Point Process Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.24083v1
• Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:21:06 GMT
• Title: Neural Diffusion Intensity Models for Point Process Data
• Authors: Xinlong Du, Harsha Honnappa, Vinayak Rao,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a variational framework for Cox processes driven by neural SDEs.<n>We show that conditioning on point process observations preserves the diffusion structure of the latent intensity with an explicit drift correction.
• Score: 4.1419700571838405
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Cox processes model overdispersed point process data via a latent stochastic intensity, but both nonparametric estimation of the intensity model and posterior inference over intensity paths are typically intractable, relying on expensive MCMC methods. We introduce Neural Diffusion Intensity Models, a variational framework for Cox processes driven by neural SDEs. Our key theoretical result, based on enlargement of filtrations, shows that conditioning on point process observations preserves the diffusion structure of the latent intensity with an explicit drift correction. This guarantees the variational family contains the true posterior, so that ELBO maximization coincides with maximum likelihood estimation under sufficient model capacity. We design an amortized encoder architecture that maps variable-length event sequences to posterior intensity paths by simulating the drift-corrected SDE, replacing repeated MCMC runs with a single forward pass. Experiments on synthetic and real-world data demonstrate accurate recovery of latent intensity dynamics and posterior paths, with orders-of-magnitude speedups over MCMC-based methods.

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