arXiv AI By Yunqin Zhu, Feng Qiu, Yao Xie

OutageDiT: A Foundation Model for Power Outage Forecasting and Scenario Generation

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OutageDiT is a foundation model designed to generate seven‑day power‑outage trajectories at 15‑minute resolution. It uses a condition encoder to process historical context and future covariates, and a shallow flow‑matching decoder to sample complete outage trajectories, enabling point forecasting, uncertainty quantification, and conditional scenario generation. The model improves forecast accuracy and scenario quality over strong baselines and can transfer zero‑shot to held‑out regions, linking outage forecasting to operational planning under uncertainty.

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