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Power system networks are often modeled as homogeneous graphs, which limits the ability of graph neural network (GNN) to capture individual generator features at the same nodes. By introducing the proposed virtual node-splitting strategy,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Thuan Pham , Xingpeng Li

Power flow analysis is used to evaluate the flow of electricity in the power system network. Power flow calculation is used to determine the steady-state variables of the system, such as the voltage magnitude/phase angle of each bus and the…

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The increasing penetration of renewable energy sources introduces significant variability and uncertainty in modern power systems, making accurate state prediction critical for reliable grid operation. Conventional forecasting methods often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Dhruv Suri , Mohak Mangal

Power flow analysis is a fundamental tool for power system analysis, planning, and operational control. Traditional Newton-Raphson methods suffer from limitations such as initial value sensitivity and low efficiency in batch computation,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Xuezhi Liu

Solving the nonlinear AC optimal power flow (AC OPF) problem remains a major computational bottleneck for real-time grid operations. In this paper, we propose a residual learning paradigm that uses fast DC optimal power flow (DC OPF)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Muhy Eddin Za'ter , Bri-Mathias Hodge , Kyri Baker

Solving the AC optimal power flow problem (AC-OPF) is critical to the efficient and safe planning and operation of power grids. Small efficiency improvements in this domain have the potential to lead to billions of dollars of cost savings,…

Power flow analysis plays a critical role in the control and operation of power systems. The high computational burden of traditional solution methods led to a shift towards data-driven approaches, exploiting the availability of digital…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Victor Eeckhout , Hossein Fani , Md Umar Hashmi , Geert Deconinck

Power control in decentralized wireless networks poses a complex stochastic optimization problem when formulated as the maximization of the average sum rate for arbitrary interference graphs. Recent work has introduced data-driven design…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Ivana Nikoloska , Osvaldo Simeone

The large size of multiscale, distribution and transmission, power grids hinder fast system-wide estimation and real-time control and optimization of operations. This paper studies graph reduction methods of power grids that are favorable…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Colin Grudzien , Deepjyoti Deka , Michael Chertkov , Scott N Backhaus

Machine learning assisted optimal power flow (OPF) aims to reduce the computational complexity of these non-linear and non-convex constrained optimization problems by consigning expensive (online) optimization to offline training. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Thomas Falconer , Letif Mones

Electric power grids regularly experience uncertain fluctuations from load demands and renewables, which poses a risk of violating operational limits designed to safeguard the system. In this paper, we consider the robust AC OPF problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Dongchan Lee , Konstantin Turitsyn , Daniel K. Molzahn , Line A. Roald

The classical optimal power flow problem optimizes the power flow in a power network considering the associated flow and operating constraints. In this paper, we investigate optimal power flow in the context of utility-maximizing demand…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Majid Khonji , Chi-Kin Chau , Khaled Elbassioni

In this paper, we develop an online method that leverages machine learning to obtain feasible solutions to the AC optimal power flow (OPF) problem with negligible optimality gaps on extremely fast timescales (e.g., milliseconds), bypassing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Ahmed Zamzam , Kyri Baker

This paper proposes a graph computation based sequential power flow calculation method for Line Commutated Converter (LCC) based large-scale AC/DC systems to achieve a high computing performance. Based on the graph theory, the complex AC/DC…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Wei Feng , Jingjin Wu , Chen Yuan , Guangyi Liu , Renchang Dai , Qingxin Shi , Fangxing Li

Efficiently solving unbalanced three-phase power flow in distribution grids is pivotal for grid analysis and simulation. There is a pressing need for scalable algorithms capable of handling large-scale unbalanced power grids that can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-09 Salah Ghamizi , Jun Cao , Aoxiang Ma , Pedro Rodriguez

The simulation of microcirculatory blood flow in realistic vascular architectures poses significant challenges due to the multiscale nature of the problem and the topological complexity of capillary networks. In this work, we propose a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Paolo Botta , Piermario Vitullo , Thomas Ventimiglia , Andreas Linninger , Paolo Zunino

Effective power flow modeling critically affects the ability to efficiently solve large-scale grid optimization problems, especially those with topology-related decision variables. In this work, we put forth a generative modeling approach…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Young-ho Cho , Hao Zhu

We consider the problem of predicting power failure cascades due to branch failures. We propose a flow-free model based on graph neural networks that predicts grid states at every generation of a cascade process given an initial contingency…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Sathwik Chadaga , Xinyu Wu , Eytan Modiano

Due to mutual interference between users, power allocation problems in wireless networks are often non-convex and computationally challenging. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently emerged as a promising approach to tackling these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Lili Chen , Jingge Zhu , Jamie Evans

Graphical models are a succinct way to represent the structure in probability distributions. This article analyzes the graphical model of nodal voltages in non-radial power distribution grids. Using algebraic and structural properties of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Deepjyoti Deka , Saurav Talukdar , Michael Chertkov , Murti Salapaka