EvEMTBench is an open, executable, and versioned benchmark designed to standardize the evaluation of machine‑learning methods for power system protection. It defines 12 protection and event‑analysis functions across four grids (20–345 kV) as 24 scored tasks, enabling structured assessment under varied observability, distribution shifts, and cross‑grid transfer scenarios. The benchmark includes committed data partitions, leakage controls, and reproducible reporting, and demonstrates that wider observability does not always help, that shifted conditions expose hidden failures, and that fault detection transfers better than fault localization.
arXiv:2608. 20181v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Studies of machine-learning-based power-system protection increasingly report near-perfect scores, yet the meaning of those scores depends strongly on the evaluation setting.
arXiv:2510. 00831v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The increasing complexity of modern power systems, driven by the integration of inverter-based and distributed energy resources, challenges the reliability of conventional protection schemes and motivates the use of machine learning for protection tasks.
arXiv:2609.16744v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of renewable energy sources into the electrical grid introduces complex challenges in fault detection and coordination of grid recovery...
arXiv:2308. 07867v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The absence of formal performance guarantees in machine learning (ML) has limited its adoption for safety-critical power system applications, where confidence and interpretability are as vital as accuracy.
arXiv:2608. 16494v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern power systems face growing operational complexity driven by the integration of renewable energy sources, decentralization, and the need for real-time decision-making across a wide range of timescales.
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.
The paper presents a machine‑learning framework for classifying power‑system contingencies into safe, moderate, or severe categories. Using Newton‑Raphson load flow data, the study applies SMOTE, PCA, and classifiers (KNN, Random Forest, SVM) to IEEE‑14 and IEEE‑30 bus systems, evaluating performance with precision, recall, and F1 score. Random Forest achieved the highest F1 scores, while PCA improved overall performance more than SMOTE, which boosted recall at the cost of some false positives.
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.
arXiv:2607. 08918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cyber-physical power systems are vulnerable to cascading failures caused by tight interdependencies between power and communication infrastructures.
The paper introduces a hybrid two‑stage machine learning pipeline for fault detection and classification in high‑voltage transmission networks. Stage 1 uses an Isolation Forest anomaly detector combined with an optional supervised binary detector, while Stage 2 applies a Random Forest multiclass classifier only to samples flagged by Stage 1. Feature engineering maps six raw channels to eighteen features, including zero‑sequence symmetrical components, achieving end‑to‑end accuracies of 95.8 % on the TLFaultDataset and 97.25 % on an independent single‑point dataset, surpassing federated benchmarks without GPU or federated infrastructure.
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arXiv:2607. 13221v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-time N-1 contingency screening in an energy management system trades assurance against cost: verifying every credible outage with full power flow is too slow, while fast linear-sensitivity screening gives no statistical guarantee and can silently pass unsafe operating points, especially when a controller drives the system into unfamiliar regimes.