Temporal Point Process Modeling of Aggressive Behavior Onset in Psychiatric Inpatient Youths with Autism

Ahmet Demirkaya; Ashutosh Singh; Deniz Erdogmus; Georgios Stratis; Matthew S. Goodwin; Michael Everett; Michael Potter; Tales Imbiriba; Yuna Watanabe

arxiv: 2503.15821 · v4 · submitted 2025-03-20 · 📊 stat.AP · stat.OT

Temporal Point Process Modeling of Aggressive Behavior Onset in Psychiatric Inpatient Youths with Autism

Michael Potter , Michael Everett , Ashutosh Singh , Georgios Stratis , Yuna Watanabe , Ahmet Demirkaya , Deniz Erdogmus , Tales Imbiriba

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keywords temporal point processesHawkes processaggressive behaviorautismpsychiatric inpatientself-exciting processesbehavior predictionpoint process modeling

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The pith

Self-exciting temporal point processes capture the clustered timing of aggressive behavior onsets in autistic youth more accurately than Poisson models.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

This paper applies temporal point processes to model the timing of aggressive behavior onsets in psychiatric inpatient youths with autism. Short-window machine learning predictors exist but do not estimate longer-term probabilities or explain event clustering. Self-exciting Hawkes processes are benchmarked against other TPPs and Poisson models using goodness-of-fit and predictive metrics on patient data. The self-exciting models show superior capture of irregular, clustered patterns. This yields probabilistic forecasts over a time continuum that could support clinical decisions.

Core claim

Self-exciting TPPs more accurately capture the irregular and clustered nature of aggression onsets compared to traditional Poisson models, enabling interpretable probabilistic forecasts of aggression onset along a time continuum.

What carries the argument

Self-exciting Hawkes processes, which increase future event intensity based on past events through an excitation kernel.

If this is right

TPPs can estimate expected numbers of aggression onsets over longer periods than short-window predictors.
The models supply interpretable insights into the dynamics that drive onset clustering.
Improved accuracy over Poisson models supports use in clinical decision-making.
Probabilistic forecasts along a time line enable preemptive intervention planning.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same self-exciting framework could be tested on other episodic behaviors such as self-injury or elopement.
Real-time biosensor streams could be used to update the intensity function dynamically.
Fitting separate parameters per individual patient would test whether excitation strength varies across cases.

Load-bearing premise

The aggression onset times recorded in the psychiatric inpatient sample are sufficiently complete and accurately timestamped to allow reliable estimation of self-excitation parameters.

What would settle it

A direct model comparison on the same dataset in which a standard Poisson process achieves equal or superior goodness-of-fit and predictive scores to the self-exciting Hawkes process.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2503.15821 by Ahmet Demirkaya, Ashutosh Singh, Deniz Erdogmus, Georgios Stratis, Matthew S. Goodwin, Michael Everett, Michael Potter, Tales Imbiriba, Yuna Watanabe.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Three stages of data preprocessing. (a) Aggregating SIB,ATO,ED behavior labels into a condition label. (b) Preproccessing only the aggressive behavior onset timestamps. (c) Normalizing the aggressive behavior onset timestamps to be at the begining of the observation session. (a) (b) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_1.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: TPPs conditional intensity curves for two observation sessions. (a) The conditional intensity curve for each TPP model in participant 1206.01, observation session 1. (b) The conditional intensity curve for each TPP model in participant 1234.01 observation session 13. 17/34 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Goodness-of-fit evaluation metrics for the TPPs. Subfigure (a): The empirical data count distribution (orange) versus TPP generated count distribution (blue) for the number of aggressive behavior onsets in an observation session. Subfigure (b): the QQ plot of RTC theorem inter-arrivals for different TPP fits. The x-axis is the theoretical quantiles of an exponential distribution with mean 1, and the y-axis… view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Visualization of the forecasted number of aggressive behavior onsets within a future time window, conditioned on the history of prior onsets. The blue line represents the observed history of onset counts, while the black line denotes the true future onset count. The black vertical dotted line marks the start of forecasting. The red line corresponds to the median prediction over 250 sampled forecasts, with … view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Posterior PDF over the branching factor for the HawkesPPs. (a), (b), (c) are the branching factors for the HawkesExpPP, Hawkes2ExpPP and HawkesPLPP, respectively. (a) intensity (b) intensity [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: TPPs conditional CDF curves for two observation sessions. (a) The conditional CDF curve for each TPP model in participant 1206.01, observation session 1. (b) The conditional CDF curve for each TPP model in participant 1234.01 observation session 13. 20/34 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_6.png] view at source ↗

read the original abstract

Aggressive behavior, including aggression towards others and self-injury, occurs in up to 80% of children and adolescents with autism, making it a leading cause of behavioral health referrals and a major driver of healthcare costs. Predicting when autistic youth will exhibit aggression can be challenging due to their communication difficulties. Many are minimally verbal or have poor emotional insight. Recent advances in Machine Learning and wearable biosensing demonstrate the ability to predict aggression within a limited future window (typically one to three minutes) in autistic individuals. However, existing works don't estimate aggression onset probability or the expected number of aggression onsets over longer periods, nor do they provide interpretable insights into onset dynamics. To address these limitations, we apply Temporal Point Processes (TPPs) - particularly self-exciting Hawkes processes - to model the timing of aggressive behavior onsets in psychiatric inpatient autistic youth. We benchmark several TPP models by evaluating their goodness-of-fit and predictive metrics. Our results demonstrate that self-exciting TPPs more accurately captures the irregular and clustered nature of aggression onsets, especially compared to traditional Poisson models. These incipient findings suggest that TPPs can provide interpretable, probabilistic forecasts of aggression onset along a time continuum, supporting future clinical decision-making and preemptive intervention.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit. Tearing a paper down is the easy half of reading it; the pith above is the substance, this is the friction.

Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

Hawkes processes applied to aggression timing in autistic inpatient youth, but abstract supplies no metrics, sample details, or data quality checks.

read the letter

The main point is that the authors fit self-exciting temporal point processes to aggression onset times recorded from autistic youth in psychiatric inpatient care and report that these models fit the clustered pattern better than Poisson baselines while also supplying longer-horizon probability and count forecasts. That application to this specific clinical setting and the move beyond one-to-three-minute windows is the concrete novelty relative to the cited prior work. The abstract does a clear job laying out the clinical motivation and the gap in existing short-horizon predictors. The modeling choice itself is a straightforward domain transfer rather than a new theoretical result, but it is a reasonable one for the stated goal of interpretability. The soft spots are more substantial. No sample size, no numerical values for fit or prediction metrics, no cross-validation procedure, and no discussion of censoring or event recording appear in the supplied text. The stress-test concern about timestamp precision also lands: inpatient staff logs are prone to variable delays and rounding, which can create spurious clustering that a Hawkes kernel will interpret as self-excitation. Nothing in the abstract addresses inter-rater reliability, granularity, or validation against continuous observation, so it is impossible to tell whether the claimed improvement survives realistic measurement error. This work is aimed at applied researchers who already use point processes in behavioral or clinical time-series settings and want to see the method tried on aggression data. A reader seeking a worked example with solid benchmarks will find the current version thin. I would send it for peer review rather than desk reject, because the idea is coherent and the clinical target is well-defined; referees can then check whether the full methods and results close the gaps noted above.

Referee Report

3 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper applies temporal point processes, specifically self-exciting Hawkes processes, to model the timing of aggressive behavior onsets in psychiatric inpatient youths with autism. It benchmarks these models against traditional Poisson models, claiming superior goodness-of-fit and predictive performance for capturing clustered onsets, and suggests they can provide interpretable probabilistic forecasts for clinical use.

Significance. If the empirical results hold after proper validation and reporting, this introduces a framework for continuous-time probabilistic modeling of irregular behavioral events, addressing gaps in short-window ML predictions and potentially supporting longer-term clinical forecasting. The application of TPPs to this domain is novel, but the absence of any quantitative details in the abstract prevents assessment of practical significance.

major comments (3)

[Abstract] Abstract: The central claim that self-exciting TPPs 'more accurately captures the irregular and clustered nature of aggression onsets, especially compared to traditional Poisson models' is asserted without any reported numerical values for goodness-of-fit or predictive metrics, sample size, cross-validation procedure, or censoring handling. This directly undermines evaluation of the empirical benchmark that supports the paper's main contribution.
[Abstract] Abstract / Data description: No information is given on timestamp granularity, logging delays by staff, inter-rater reliability, or validation against continuous observation (e.g., video). In inpatient settings, such measurement error or under-recording can induce apparent clustering that a Hawkes model attributes to self-excitation, threatening the validity of the claimed superiority over Poisson baselines.
[Abstract] Abstract: The assertion that results demonstrate superior performance does not address whether the improvement survives multiple-testing correction or alternative baselines, leaving the strength of the cross-model comparison unverified.

minor comments (1)

[Abstract] Abstract: Grammatical agreement error in 'self-exciting TPPs more accurately captures' (should be 'capture').

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 1 unresolved

We thank the referee for their constructive comments, which highlight important issues with the abstract and potential data limitations. We agree that the abstract requires quantitative support and will revise it accordingly. We address each major comment below and indicate planned changes to the manuscript.

read point-by-point responses

Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim that self-exciting TPPs 'more accurately captures the irregular and clustered nature of aggression onsets, especially compared to traditional Poisson models' is asserted without any reported numerical values for goodness-of-fit or predictive metrics, sample size, cross-validation procedure, or censoring handling. This directly undermines evaluation of the empirical benchmark that supports the paper's main contribution.

Authors: We agree the abstract lacks supporting numbers. The full manuscript (Results and Methods sections) reports log-likelihood values, AIC comparisons, predictive metrics on held-out intervals, sample size (patients and events), 5-fold cross-validation, and right-censoring at discharge. We will revise the abstract to include these specifics (e.g., sample size, key metric improvements) while keeping it concise. revision: yes
Referee: [Abstract] Abstract / Data description: No information is given on timestamp granularity, logging delays by staff, inter-rater reliability, or validation against continuous observation (e.g., video). In inpatient settings, such measurement error or under-recording can induce apparent clustering that a Hawkes model attributes to self-excitation, threatening the validity of the claimed superiority over Poisson baselines.

Authors: This is a valid concern about measurement error potentially mimicking self-excitation. The manuscript states events are staff-logged at minute-level timestamps in the EHR; we will expand the Data section to detail this granularity and add a Limitations paragraph acknowledging possible logging delays and lack of inter-rater or video validation data. We cannot quantify delays retrospectively, so this remains a caveat on interpretation rather than a full rebuttal. revision: partial
Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The assertion that results demonstrate superior performance does not address whether the improvement survives multiple-testing correction or alternative baselines, leaving the strength of the cross-model comparison unverified.

Authors: The model comparisons involve a small, pre-specified set (Poisson vs. Hawkes variants). We will add a sentence noting that no multiple-testing correction was applied due to the limited number of primary contrasts and will report bootstrap confidence intervals for metric differences. Alternative baselines (e.g., renewal processes) are outside the paper's scope but could be noted as future work. revision: yes

standing simulated objections not resolved

Quantitative assessment of logging delays and inter-rater reliability is not available in the retrospective clinical dataset and cannot be added.

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged

No circularity detected; empirical benchmark is self-contained

full rationale

The paper applies standard temporal point process models (including Hawkes self-exciting processes) to timestamped aggression onsets and reports empirical goodness-of-fit and predictive metrics against Poisson baselines. No equations, parameter definitions, or derivations are supplied that reduce the claimed superior fit to a tautology by construction, self-citation chain, or fitted-input renaming. The central result rests on observable data patterns rather than any self-referential step, making the derivation chain independent and non-circular.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract-only review supplies no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities. The modeling choice itself (Hawkes self-excitation) is treated as a standard tool imported from the TPP literature.

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We apply Temporal Point Processes (TPPs) – particularly self-exciting Hawkes processes – to model the timing of aggressive behavior onsets... benchmark several TPP models by evaluating their goodness-of-fit and predictive metrics.
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