HyperNSDE: Personalized Neural SDEs for Joint Static-Longitudinal Clinical Data Generation
stat.ML, cs.LG, stat.AP, stat.ME
Submitted: 2026-10-05
Updated: 2026-10-05
Code: https://github.com/perrinechassat/HyperNSDE
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: Synthetic patient data generation is a promising solution to the dual challenge of data scarcity and privacy constraints in healthcare machine learning.
Abstract
Synthetic patient data generation is a promising solution to the dual challenge of data scarcity and privacy constraints in healthcare machine learning. Realistic synthesis of patient-level clinical data requires jointly modeling heterogeneous static covariates, irregularly sampled longitudinal trajectories, and informative observation times - three tightly coupled components in practice yet rarely addressed together. We propose HyperNSDE, a continuous-time generative model that conditions a latent Neural SDE on static patient representations through a hypernetwork, allowing baseline characteristics to shape trajectory evolution beyond the initial condition without requiring a trajectory encoder, while stochastic latent dynamics capture realistic variability in generated paths. Observation times are modeled jointly through a latent-state-dependent intensity process, and training on irregular stochastic paths is stabilized via a deterministic-stochastic path decomposition with a non-adversarial signature-kernel objective. Experiments on simulated and real clinical datasets show improved observation-time fidelity and competitive performance, while matched-grid analyses reveal that forecasting and correlation metrics are affected by observation-grid regularity and trajectory smoothness.
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- Real-valued (Medical) Time Series Generation with Recurrent Conditional GANs
- HyperNetworks
- Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes
- Synthetic Health-related Longitudinal Data with Mixed-type Variables Generated using Diffusion Models
- Neural SDE: Stabilizing Neural ODE Networks with Stochastic Noise
- Stable Neural Stochastic Differential Equations in Analyzing Irregular Time Series Data
- pySigLib -- Fast Signature-Based Computations on CPU and GPU
- STEB: In Search of the Best Evaluation Approach for Synthetic Time Series
- Neural Stochastic Differential Equations: Deep Latent Gaussian Models in the Diffusion Limit
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