HyperNSDE: Personalized Neural SDEs for Joint Static-Longitudinal Clinical Data Generation

arXiv:2610.07383v1 Announce Type: cross 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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Source: arXiv cs.LG | 2026-10-07