arXiv Machine Learning

Learning by Examples: Power Grid Steady State Analysis with a Tabular Foundation Model

arXiv AI
Aug 11

GENCO - A Unified Neural Solver Embedded in a Development Framework for Steady-State Grid Analysis

arXiv:2608. 09921v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models are transforming business workflows and boosting productivity, yet they remain largely absent from engineering domains such as power system analysis, where strict physical consistency must be enforced.

By Alban Puech, Matteo Mazzonelli, Tamara R. Govindasamy, Mangaliso Mngomezulu, H\'ector Maeso-Garc\'ia, Thomas Tolhurst, Javad Bayazi, Ali Moeini, Naomi Simumba, Celia Cintas, David Nelischer, Romeo Kienzler, Jonas Weiss, Anna Varbella, Florian D\"orfler, Gabriela Hug, Martin Mevissen, Juan Bernab\'e-Moreno, Fran\c{c}ois Mirall\`es, Hendrik F. Hamann, Etienne Vos, Thomas Brunschwiler
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

PF$\Delta$: A Benchmark Dataset for Power Flow under Load, Generation, and Topology Variations

arXiv:2510. 22048v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Power flow (PF) calculations are the backbone of real-time grid operations, across workflows such as contingency analysis (where repeated PF evaluations assess grid security under outages) and topology optimization (which involves PF-based searches over combinatorially large action spaces).

By Ana K. Rivera, Anvita Bhagavathula, Alvaro Carbonero, Priya Donti
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 16

Physics-Aware Distillation of a Grid Foundation Model for Real-Time Edge Inference

The paper presents a physics‑aware distillation of a large Grid Foundation Model (GridFM) for real‑time edge inference. A 20.1 M‑parameter, 12‑layer teacher is compressed into a 0.62 M‑parameter, 6‑layer student, achieving a 32.5× reduction in parameters and halving message‑passing depth while improving accuracy on active‑power dispatch by up to 48 % and always outperforming the teacher on reactive‑power dispatch. The distillation objective combines masked power‑flow loss with output, physics‑residual, latent‑state, and attention transfer, though the physics‑residual term proved detrimental in this setting.

By Vlad Alexandru S\u{a}nduleac, Shahariya Rasheed Rayamarakkarveettil Puthanpurayil, Noman Khan, Remus Teodorescu
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 15

MxGPS: Multiplex Graph Transformers for a Power Grid Foundation Model

Single-task fine-tuning of graph neural networks (GNNs) for power grid problems exhibits a systematic failure mode: models that achieve the lowest in-distribution error degrade the most under topology shift. We term this topology overfitting: the tendency of task-specific gradient signals to encode relational structure particular to the training topologies rather than the underlying physics, causing models to fail on unseen grids despite strong in-distribution performance.

arXiv AI
Aug 11

Tools to Explain Neural Networks for Power System Dynamics

arXiv:2608. 08048v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents, for the first time in power systems literature to our knowledge, analytical tools to explain the training performance of machine learning surrogate models for power system dynamics.

By Petros Ellinas, Johanna Vorwerk, Spyros Chatzivasileiadis
arXiv AI
Jul 16

MxGPS: Multiplex Graph Transformers for a Power Grid Foundation Model

arXiv:2607. 13763v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Single-task fine-tuning of graph neural networks (GNNs) for power grid problems exhibits a systematic failure mode: models that achieve the lowest in-distribution error degrade the most under topology shift.

By Charilaos Papaioannou, Ioannis Tsantilas, Dimitris Giannakakos, Vasilis Michalakopoulos, Sotiris Pelekis, Vangelis Marinakis, Arsam Aryandoust, Antonello Monti, Ricardo J. Bessa, Perdo P. Vergara, Jochen Cremer, Elissaios Sarmas
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 25

GridSFM: A Foundation Model for Solving AC Optimal Power Flow

GridSFM is a 15‑million‑parameter physics‑inspired graph neural network that serves as a foundation model for solving AC Optimal Power Flow (AC‑OPF) across diverse grid topologies. Pretrained on 54 topologies ranging from 500 to 4,000 buses, it achieves a 2.45 % zero‑shot generation‑cost error on a held‑out 10,000‑bus case and adapts to unseen grids with only 100 solved instances using a physics‑informed fine‑tuning scheme based on Newton’s method. The authors address the disconnected feasible set of AC‑OPF by lifting and relaxing constraints with logarithmically penalized slacks, proving the resulting elastic feasible set is contractible and that solutions can be projected back onto the original feasible set.

By Luke Bhan, Weiwei Yang, Margaret Capetz, Baosen Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 29

AC Power Flow Contingency Analysis Using a Single Deep Neural Network

The paper introduces a method that uses a single deep neural network, trained only on basecase AC power flow data, to predict post-contingency operating states for any single-line outage. It frames this prediction as a fixed-point iteration and provides sufficient convergence conditions, certifying them via semidefinite programming. Numerical experiments on the IEEE 118-bus system show that the certified conditions hold for all tested contingencies and that accurate state estimates are achieved in only a few iterations.

By Md Obaidur Rahman, Junjie Qin, Vassilis Kekatos