Uncertainty Quantification for Inferring Hawkes Networks
Abstract
Multivariate Hawkes processes are commonly used to model streaming networked event data in a wide variety of applications. However, it remains a challenge to extract reliable inference from complex datasets with uncertainty quantification. Aiming towards this, we develop a statistical inference framework to learn causal relationships between nodes from networked data, where the underlying directed graph implies Granger causality. We provide uncertainty quantification for the maximum likelihood estimate of the network multivariate Hawkes process by providing a non-asymptotic confidence set. The main technique is based on the concentration inequalities of continuous-time martingales. We compare our method to the previously-derived asymptotic Hawkes process confidence interval, and demonstrate the strengths of our method in an application to neuronal connectivity reconstruction.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2006.07506,
title = {Uncertainty Quantification for Inferring Hawkes Networks},
author = {Haoyun Wang and Liyan Xie and Alex Cuozzo and Simon Mak and Yao Xie},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.07506},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
16 pages including appendix, 1 figure, accepted to 2020 Neurips