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OutageDiT: A Generative Foundation Model for Power Outage Forecasting and Scenario Simulation

OutageDiT is a generative foundation model that produces seven‑day power‑outage trajectories at quarter‑hour resolution, trained on nationwide outage and weather data. It uses a condition encoder to process historical context and future covariates, and a shallow flow decoder to generate full trajectories, enabling point forecasting, uncertainty quantification, and conditional event simulation. The model outperforms strong baselines on forecasting benchmarks and can transfer zero‑shot to unseen regions, linking outage simulation to operational planning under uncertainty.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 18

Benchmarking Physics-Informed Time-Series Models for Operational Global Station Weather Forecasting

arXiv:2406. 14399v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The development of Time-Series Forecasting (TSF) models is often constrained by the lack of comprehensive datasets, especially in Global Station Weather Forecasting (GSWF), where existing datasets are small, temporally short, and spatially sparse.

By Tao Han, Zhibin Wen, Zhenghao Chen, Dazhao Du, Song Guo, Lei Bai
arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

UniGIO: Unified Generative Global In-situ Weather Modeling from Spatiotemporal Incomplete Observations

UniGIO is a generative framework that models global in‑situ weather dynamics directly from incomplete GIO data, unifying forecasting, imputation, and generation across arbitrary missing ratios. It employs an Observation Mixer, Event Aligner, Adaptive Temporal Mixer, and a Mixture‑of‑Experts structure to capture station‑level complementarity, temporal dependencies, and extreme events, refining outputs with a Local Refiner. Experiments on the Weather‑5K dataset show state‑of‑the‑art performance, improving accuracy, fidelity, and extreme event capture by 11%, 12%, and 5% respectively.

By Songru Yang, Zili Liu, Tao Han, Ben Fei, Lei Bai, Chang Liu, Zhengxia Zou, Xiangyang Ji, Wanli Ouyang, Zhenwei Shi
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 7

Evaluating Large Language Models for Forced Outage Risk Prediction: Benefits and Comparison to Machine Learning

This study evaluates large language models (LLMs) for predicting weather‑related forced outage risk in a distribution grid using a zero‑shot approach without labeled training data. The task is framed as binary severity classification over 3h, 6h, and 12h horizons, leveraging six years of outage records and high‑resolution weather data from central Texas. Four zero‑shot LLMs are compared to two supervised classifiers under two input settings—current weather observations and forecast data—showing that supervised models lead on macro‑F1 and precision, while newer LLMs achieve competitive scores and offer complementary strengths in reasoning and geographic scalability.

By Christos Petridis, Zoran Obradovic, Mladen Kezunovic
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 16

AsyncCouple-Flow: Asynchronous Cross-Modal Coupling and Flow Matching for Spatio-Temporal Forecasting

AsyncCouple-Flow introduces a new framework for multi‑modal spatio‑temporal forecasting that tackles three key challenges: differing sampling rates, missing modalities, and autoregressive error accumulation. It employs a Modality‑Aware Token Sparsification module to produce equal‑length sequences, an Asynchronous Cross‑Modal Coupling Graph to fuse data under arbitrary asynchrony and missingness, and a Flow‑Matching Forecasting Head that models multi‑step prediction as a conditional ODE. Experiments on weather and traffic datasets demonstrate that the method outperforms state‑of‑the‑art baselines and remains robust even when up to two modalities are missing.

By Zhixiang Wu, Yining Liu, Bo Zhao, Szu-Yu Chen, Huiran Duan, Chu Lin, Chuanguang Yang
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 2

GenONet: A Generative operator Network for High-Resolution Precipitation Nowcasting

GenONet introduces a Spatio-Temporal U-DeepONet architecture that serves as a generator in a GAN framework for high‑resolution precipitation nowcasting up to three hours ahead. By learning continuous‑time precipitation dynamics with a Deep Operator Network and enforcing physics through a moisture‑conservation loss, the model produces sharp, physically consistent forecasts that outperform baselines, especially for high‑intensity events and longer lead times. Ablation studies confirm the added value of the physics‑informed regularizer and the synergy of operator learning with adversarial training.

By Mohammad Kian Golkar, Luciano Alves de Oliveira, Mohammad Khanjani
arXiv AI
Sep 10

PCSDiff: Diffusion-Based Bias Correction and Super Resolution Toward Practical Operational Medium-Term Precipitation Forecast

PCSDiff is a diffusion-based framework designed to correct systematic biases and enhance spatial resolution in medium-term (10‑day) precipitation forecasts. It uses a Precipitation Intensity‑aware Multi‑branch Decoder to mitigate dynamic multi‑day errors and a two‑phase conditional diffusion super‑resolution module to restore fine‑scale rainfall patterns. Evaluated over China, PCSDiff reduces RMSE by 16.1% and increases ACC by 13.9% compared to raw ECMWF forecasts, outperforming mainstream deep‑learning baselines and enabling low‑latency rolling forecasts for operational use.

By Yuze Sun, Shiyi Wang, Jiancheng Pan, Die Wang, Andreas F. Prein, Wentao Luo, Linhan Jiang, Jie Wu, Quan Zhang, Xiaomeng Huang