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Partial observability is a common challenge in many reinforcement learning applications, which requires an agent to maintain memory, infer latent states, and integrate this past information into exploration. This challenge leads to a number…

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All fields of science depend on mathematical models. Occam's razor refers to the principle that good models should exclude parameters beyond those minimally required to describe the systems they represent. This is because redundancy can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Botond B Antal , Anthony G Chesebro , Helmut H Strey , Lilianne R Mujica-Parodi , Corey Weistuch

A large amount of data has been generated by grid operators solving AC optimal power flow (ACOPF) throughout the years, and we explore how leveraging this data can be used to help solve future ACOPF problems. We use this data to train a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-23 Kyri Baker

Security-constrained unit commitment (SCUC) is solved for power system day-ahead generation scheduling, which is a large-scale mixed-integer linear programming problem and is very computationally intensive. Model reduction of SCUC may bring…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 Arun Venkatesh Ramesh , Xingpeng Li

Unit commitment (UC) optimizes the start-up and shutdown schedules of generating units to meet load demand while minimizing costs. However, the increasing integration of renewable energy introduces uncertainties for real-time scheduling.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Xiang Wei , Ziqing Zhu , Linghua Zhu , Ze Hu , Xian Zhang , Guibin Wang , Siqi Bu , Ka Wing Chan

Machine-learning techniques are essential in modern collider research, yet their probabilistic outputs often lack calibrated uncertainty estimates and finite-sample guarantees, limiting their direct use in statistical inference and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-22 Jack Y. Araz , Michael Spannowsky

Recently increasing penetration of renewable energy generation brings challenges for power system operators to perform efficient power generation daily scheduling, due to the intermittent nature of the renewable generation and discrete…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Yongpei Guan , Kai Pan , Kezhuo Zhou

The deepening penetration of renewable energy is challenging how power system operators cope with the associated variability and uncertainty in the unit commitment problem. Given its computational complexity, several optimization-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-26 Mohamed Awadalla , François Bouffard

Model predictive control (MPC) is a de facto standard control algorithm across the process industries. There remain, however, applications where MPC is impractical because an optimization problem is solved at each time step. We present a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-10 Robert J. Lovelett , Felix Dietrich , Seungjoon Lee , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

The optimal power flow problem plays an important role in the market clearing and operation of electric power systems. However, with increasing uncertainty from renewable energy operation, the optimal operating point of the system changes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-25 Yeesian Ng , Sidhant Misra , Line A. Roald , Scott Backhaus

Traditional learning approaches for classification implicitly assume that each mistake has the same cost. In many real-world problems though, the utility of a decision depends on the underlying context $x$ and decision $y$. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Kush Bhatia , Peter L. Bartlett , Anca D. Dragan , Jacob Steinhardt

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

As renewable wind energy penetration rates continue to increase, one of the major challenges facing grid operators is the question of how to control transmission grids in a reliable and a cost-efficient manner. The stochastic nature of wind…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Kaarthik Sundar , Harsha Nagarajan , Miles Lubin , Line Roald , Sidhant Misra , Russell Bent , Daniel Bienstock

In this paper, the Unit Commitment (UC) problem in a power network with low levels of rotational inertia is studied. Frequency-related constraints, namely the limitation on Rate-of-Change-of-Frequency (RoCoF), frequency nadir and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Matthieu Paturet , Uros Markovic , Stefanos Delikaraoglou , Evangelos Vrettos , Petros Aristidou , Gabriela Hug

Unit maintenance and unit commitment are two critical and interrelated aspects of electric power system operation, both of which face the challenge of coordinating efforts to enhance reliability and economic performance. This challenge…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Hongrui Lu , Yuxiong Huang , Tong He , Gengfeng Li

Techniques from artificial intelligence and machine learning are increasingly employed in nuclear theory, however, the uncertainties that arise from the complex parameter manifold encoded by the neural networks are often overlooked.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-29 Mengyao Huang , Kyle A. Wendt , Nicolas F. Schunck , Erika M. Holmbeck

The thermal unit commitment (UC) problem has historically been formulated as a mixed integer quadratic programming (MIQP), which is difficult to solve efficiently, especially for large-scale systems. The tighter characteristic reduces the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Linfeng Yang , Shifei Chen , Zhaoyang Dong

The unit commitment problem is an important optimization problem in the energy industry used to compute the most economical operating schedules of power plants. Typically, this problem has to be solved repeatedly with different data but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-18 Nagisa Sugishita , Andreas Grothey , Ken McKinnon

Unit commitment is an important optimization problem in power system operations, classified as NP-hard. This paper presents a hybrid quantum-classical method for the unit commitment problem with time-dependent constraints, where decisions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Kien X. Nguyen , Ilya Safro , Xiaoyuan Liu

As the size and ubiquity of artificial intelligence and computational machine learning (ML) models grow, their energy consumption for training and use is rapidly becoming economically and environmentally unsustainable. Neuromorphic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-10-17 Menachem Stern , Sam Dillavou , Dinesh Jayaraman , Douglas J. Durian , Andrea J. Liu