Physics-Aware Distillation of a Grid Foundation Model for Real-Time Edge Inference
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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.
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