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Main Authors: Rafe, Amir, Das, Subasish
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04194
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author Rafe, Amir
Das, Subasish
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Das, Subasish
contents Artificial intelligence innovation exposure and public response co-evolve, but innovation arrives as irregular event streams while response is observed monthly. We introduce Coupled-NeuralHP, a hybrid event-plus-state model linking eight-domain USPTO AI patent publication streams to a train-only Google Trends response index. Under the cleaned response protocol, the validation-selected one-way real-data variant gives the best held-out innovation count forecasts in the registered comparison set (pseudo-log-likelihood -30.4 vs. -34.7; root mean squared error (RMSE) 471 vs. 532) while matching the stronger multi-lag factor-family baseline on response RMSE (0.295). Ablations show that the real-data response signal is carried mainly by the structured forecast head, whereas the reverse response-to-innovation block is not supported on held-out count prediction. Across 60 semi-synthetic replications with known structure, the broader coupled family recovers innovation-to-response links much better than vector autoregression with exogenous inputs (VARX) (F1 = 0.734 vs. 0.386). A placebo-controlled 2022 split-date analysis finds no robust milestone-specific regime break.
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spellingShingle Coupled-NeuralHP: Directional Temporal Coupling Between AI Innovation Exposure and Public Response
Rafe, Amir
Das, Subasish
Computers and Society
Artificial intelligence innovation exposure and public response co-evolve, but innovation arrives as irregular event streams while response is observed monthly. We introduce Coupled-NeuralHP, a hybrid event-plus-state model linking eight-domain USPTO AI patent publication streams to a train-only Google Trends response index. Under the cleaned response protocol, the validation-selected one-way real-data variant gives the best held-out innovation count forecasts in the registered comparison set (pseudo-log-likelihood -30.4 vs. -34.7; root mean squared error (RMSE) 471 vs. 532) while matching the stronger multi-lag factor-family baseline on response RMSE (0.295). Ablations show that the real-data response signal is carried mainly by the structured forecast head, whereas the reverse response-to-innovation block is not supported on held-out count prediction. Across 60 semi-synthetic replications with known structure, the broader coupled family recovers innovation-to-response links much better than vector autoregression with exogenous inputs (VARX) (F1 = 0.734 vs. 0.386). A placebo-controlled 2022 split-date analysis finds no robust milestone-specific regime break.
title Coupled-NeuralHP: Directional Temporal Coupling Between AI Innovation Exposure and Public Response
topic Computers and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04194