arXiv Machine Learning By Yu Qin, Andrew Glaws, Aadil Latif, Ryan King

From Graphs to Feeders: Constraint-Guided Diffusion for Rule-Compliant Feeder Generation

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The paper introduces PG‑DiGress, a constraint‑guided discrete denoising diffusion model that generates power‑grid feeder topologies while respecting electrical compatibility and radiality rules. By injecting feeder constraints as soft masks during the reverse diffusion process and applying a final projection step, the model learns categorical node and edge patterns from existing feeder data. Evaluation shows a dramatic improvement in rule compliance, raising the strict feeder pass rate from 13.7% to 96.8%, and the generated graphs can be converted into executable feeder models for downstream analysis.

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