Advances in Neural Controlled Differential Equations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05280v1
• Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:25:03 GMT
• Title: Advances in Neural Controlled Differential Equations
• Abstract summary: This thesis advances the training and scalability of NCDEs through three complementary contributions.<n>First, building on neural rough differential equations, Log-NCDEs apply the Log-ODE method to efficiently approximate an NCDE's solution during training.<n>Second, Linear NCDEs replace the non-linear vector field with a linear one, enabling closed-form solutions and parallel-in-time computation.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Many real-world systems evolve continuously, yet most machine learning models interpret time series as discrete sequences. Continuous-time approaches instead treat time series as samples from an underlying input path, a formulation that naturally accommodates irregularly sampled or oversampled data. Among these, Neural Controlled Differential Equations (NCDEs) are a maximally expressive class of models that parametrise a vector field using a neural network and evolve their hidden state by solving a dynamical system driven by the input path. NCDEs typically use a non-linear vector field, so their expressive power and continuous-time flexibility come at the cost of a forward pass that is both computationally expensive and inherently sequential, limiting their scalability and practical applicability. This thesis advances the training and scalability of NCDEs through three complementary contributions. First, building on neural rough differential equations, Log-NCDEs apply the Log-ODE method to efficiently approximate an NCDE's solution during training, improving both computational speed and empirical performance. Second, Linear NCDEs replace the non-linear vector field with a linear one, enabling closed-form solutions and parallel-in-time computation without sacrificing theoretical expressivity. Third, Structured Linear NCDEs use structured linear vector fields to further enhance efficiency while maintaining theoretical expressiveness and empirical performance. Collectively, these methods reduce the time per training step for an NCDE by up to three orders of magnitude while achieving state-of-the-art performance across diverse time series benchmarks.

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