Diffusion Models for Adaptive Sequential Data Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06007v1
• Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:59:24 GMT
• Title: Diffusion Models for Adaptive Sequential Data Generation
• Abstract summary: Time-indexed observations are used for prediction, simulation, risk assessment, and data-driven decision-making.<n>We propose a sequential forward-backward diffusion framework for adapted time series generation.<n>We derive rigorous statistical guarantees under a generic framework, then establish score approximation, score estimation, and distribution estimation results.
• Score: 18.424873249038004
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Generating realistic synthetic sequential data is critical in real-world applications across operations research, finance, healthcare, energy systems, and scientific computing, where time-indexed observations are used for prediction, simulation, risk assessment, and data-driven decision-making. While diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating static data, their direct extensions to sequential settings often fail to capture temporal dependence and information structure. Designing diffusion models that can simulate sequential data in an adapted manner, and hence without anticipation of future information, therefore remains an open challenge. In this work, we propose a sequential forward-backward diffusion framework for adapted time series generation. Our approach progressively injects and removes noise along the sequence, conditioning on the previously generated history to ensure adaptiveness. A novel score-matching objective is introduced for efficient parallel training. We derive rigorous statistical guarantees under a generic framework, then establish score approximation, score estimation, and distribution estimation results with ReLU networks serving as a concrete instance. Empirically, we validate our method on synthetic data, including ARMA models and Gaussian processes, and demonstrate its effectiveness in constructing mean-variance optimal portfolios.

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