title: Point Process Flows
abstract: Event sequences can be modeled by temporal point processes (TPPs) to capture their asynchronous and probabilistic nature. We propose an intensity-free framework that directly models the point process as a non-parametric distribution by utilizing normalizing flows. This approach is capable of capturing highly complex temporal distributions and does not rely on restrictive parametric forms. Comparisons with state-of-the-art baseline models on both synthetic and challenging real-life datasets show that the proposed framework is effective at modeling the stochasticity of discrete event sequences. 
authors: Nazanin Mehrasa Ruizhi Deng Mohamed Osama Ahmed Bo Chang Jiawei He Thibaut Durand Marcus Brubaker Greg Mori
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