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We expand our novel computational method for unit commitment (UC) to include long-horizon planning. We introduce a fast novel algorithm to commit hydro-generators, provably accurately. We solve problems with thousands of generators at 5…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Shaked Regev , Eve Tsybina , Slaven Peles

The deep penetration of wind and solar power is a critical component of the future power grid. However, the intermittency and stochasticity of these renewable resources bring significant challenges to the reliable and economic operation of…

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The flexibility of a power generation unit determines how quickly and often it can ramp up or down. In energy models, it depends on assumptions on the technical characteristics of the unit, such as its installed capacity or turbine…

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Model-based clustering is a powerful tool that is often used to discover hidden structure in data by grouping observational units that exhibit similar response values. Recently, clustering methods have been developed that permit…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-24 Sally Paganin , Garritt L. Page , Fernando Andrés Quintana

Ensuring that predicted probabilities align with observed frequencies is critical in high-stakes domains such as clinical decision support, autonomous driving and financial risk assessment. Existing calibration methods typically apply a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Tomer Lavi , Bracha Shapira , Nadav Rappoport

The growing number of individual generating units, hybrid resources, and security constraints has significantly increased the computational burden of network-constrained unit commitment (UC), where most solution time is spent exploring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Guangwen Wang , Jiaqi Wu , Yang Weng , Baosen Zhang

The high penetration of converter-based renewable energy sources has brought challenges to the power system frequency control. It is essential to consider the frequency security constraints and frequency control reserve requirements in unit…

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Control co-design (CCD) is a technique for improving the closed-loop performance of systems through the coordinated design of both plant parameters and an optimal control policy. While model predictive control (MPC) is an attractive control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Austin L. Nash , Herschel C. Pangborn , Neera Jain

Unitary coupled cluster (UCC), originally developed as a variational alternative to the popular traditional coupled cluster method, has seen a resurgence as a functional form for use on quantum computers. However, the number of excitors…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-01-07 Maria-Andreea Filip , Alex J. W. Thom

Unit commitment (UC) is a fundamental problem in the day-ahead electricity market, and it is critical to solve UC problems efficiently. Mathematical optimization techniques like dynamic programming, Lagrangian relaxation, and mixed-integer…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-10 Jingtao Qin , Yuanqi Gao , Mikhail Bragin , Nanpeng Yu

Efficient methods for large-scale security constrained unit commitment (SCUC) problems have long been an important research topic and a challenge especially in market clearing computation. For large-scale SCUC, the Lagrangian relaxation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Xuan Li , Qiaozhu Zhai , Jingxuan Zhou , Xiaohong Guan

Data clustering is an instrumental tool in the area of energy resource management. One problem with conventional clustering is that it does not take the final use of the clustered data into account, which may lead to a very suboptimal use…

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Embedding tables are used by machine learning systems to work with categorical features. In modern Recommendation Systems, these tables can be very large, necessitating the development of new methods for fitting them in memory, even during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Henry Ling-Hei Tsang , Thomas Dybdahl Ahle

The joint management of heat and power systems is believed to be key to the integration of renewables into energy systems with a large penetration of district heating. Determining the day-ahead unit commitment and production schedules for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-22 Marco Zugno , Juan M. Morales , Henrik Madsen

High intensive computation applications can usually take days to months to finish an execution. During this time, it is common to have variations of the available resources when considering that such hardware is usually shared among a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Kiran Mantripragada , Alecio Binotto , Leonardo P. Tizzei

Power systems Unit Commitment (UC) problem determines the generator commitment schedule and dispatch decisions to realize the reliable and economic operation of power networks. The growing penetration of stochastic renewables and demand…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Xuan He , Yuxin Pan , Yize Chen , Danny H. K. Tsang

In this paper we introduce a continuous time multi stage stochastic optimization for scheduling generating units, their commitment, reserve capacities and their continuous time generation profiles in the day-ahead wholesale electricity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Kári Hreinsson , Bita Analui , Anna Scaglione

It has been hypothesized that some form of "modular" structure in artificial neural networks should be useful for learning, compositionality, and generalization. However, defining and quantifying modularity remains an open problem. We cast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Richard D. Lange , David S. Rolnick , Konrad P. Kording

Unitary Coupled Cluster (UCC) theory is a promising variational method for electronic structure calculations, especially for strongly correlated systems and quantum computers. However, its practical application is limited by the steep…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Prateek Vaish , Brenda Rubenstein

The transmission-constrained unit commitment (TC-UC) problem is one of the most relevant problems solved by independent system operators for the daily operation of power systems. Given its computational complexity, this problem is usually…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Salvador Pineda , Juan Miguel Morales , Asunción Jiménez-Cordero