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:2607. 16031v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data-driven pre-fault dynamic security assessment (DSA) rapidly evaluates the dynamic risk of credible contingencies on a power system using machine learning.
By Olayiwola Arowolo, Maosheng Yang, Jochen Cremer
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:2605.23194v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Fast and reliable optimal power flow (OPF) approximation is important for power system operation, yet heterogeneous OPF graph models are ofte...
By Massimiliano Lupo Pasini, Yijiang Li, Kibaek Kim, Teja Kuruganti
arXiv:2610.32487v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: This letter poses state estimation (SE) as an in-context tabular prediction (ICTP) problem. The key idea is a tabular arrangement in which historical...
By Ayushi Jolotia, Parikshit Pareek
Grid foundation models (GridFMs) are graph transformers pretrained on a masked power-flow objective, and evaluate power flow orders of magnitude faster than an iterative solver. Their size, however, t...
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
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: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: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
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
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