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We propose a novel computational method for unit commitment UC, which does not require linearized approximation and provides several orders of magnitude performance improvement over current state-of-the-art. The performance improvement is…

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

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

The unit commitment problem (UC) is an optimization problem concerning the operation of electrical generators. Many algorithms have been proposed for the UC and in recent years a more decentralized approach, by solving the UC with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-23 Rogier Hans Wuijts , Marjan van den Akker , Machteld van den Broek

Cost-sensitive learning relies on the availability of a known and fixed cost matrix. However, in some scenarios, the cost matrix is uncertain during training, and re-train a classifier after the cost matrix is specified would not be an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-09-11 Rui Wang , Ke Tang

In this work we solve the day-ahead unit commitment (UC) problem, by formulating it as a Markov decision process (MDP) and finding a low-cost policy for generation scheduling. We present two reinforcement learning algorithms, and devise a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Gal Dalal , Shie Mannor

Day-ahead operations involves a complex and computationally intensive optimization process to determine the generator commitment schedule and dispatch. The optimization process is a mixed-integer linear program (MILP) also known as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-16 Arun Venkatesh Ramesh , Xingpeng Li

Modern network-constrained unit commitment (NCUC) bears a heavy computational burden due to the ever-growing model scale. This situation becomes more challenging when detailed operational characteristics, complicated constraints, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Zekuan Yu , Haiwang Zhong , Guangchun Ruan , Xinfei Yan

Model predictive control (MPC) is a powerful tool for controlling complex nonlinear systems under constraints, but often struggles with model uncertainties and the design of suitable cost functions. To address these challenges, we discuss…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Sebastian Hirt , Andreas Höhl , Johannes Pohlodek , Joachim Schaeffer , Maik Pfefferkorn , Richard D. Braatz , Rolf Findeisen

The unit commitment problem (UC) is crucial for the operation and market mechanism of power systems. With the development of modern electricity, the scale of power systems is expanding, and solving the UC problem is also becoming more and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Jiangwei Hou , Qiaozhu Zhai , Yuzhou Zhou , Xiaohong Guan

In this paper, we present a robust adaptive model predictive control (MPC) scheme for linear systems subject to parametric uncertainty and additive disturbances. The proposed approach provides a computationally efficient formulation with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-12 Johannes Köhler , Elisa Andina , Raffaele Soloperto , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

To take unit commitment (UC) decisions under uncertain net load, most studies utilize a stochastic UC (SUC) model that adopts a one-size-fits-all representation of uncertainty. Disregarding contextual information such as weather forecasts…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Ogun Yurdakul , Feng Qiu , Sahin Albayrak

In the rapidly evolving research on artificial intelligence (AI) the demand for fast, computationally efficient, and scalable solutions has increased in recent years. The problem of optimizing the computing resources for distributed machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Zulfiya R. Gabidullina , Hamid R. Rabiee

Security-constrained unit commitment (SCUC) model is used for power system day-ahead scheduling. However, current SCUC model uses a static network to deliver power and meet demand optimally. A dynamic network can provide a lower optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-16 Arun Venkatesh Ramesh , Xingpeng Li , Kory W. Hedman

The increasing penetration of renewable energy sources introduces significant uncertainty in power system operations, making traditional deterministic unit commitment approaches computationally expensive. This paper presents a machine…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-15 Amir Bahador Javadi , Amin Kargarian , Mort Naraghi-Pour

Many applications require the collection of data on different variables or measurements over many system performance metrics. We term those broadly as measures or variables. Often data collection along each measure incurs a cost, thus it is…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-11-30 Donghui Yan , Zhiwei Qin , Songxiang Gu , Haiping Xu , Ming Shao

The machine learning (ML) techniques to predict unitarity (UNI) and bounded from below (BFB) constraints in multi-scalar models is employed. The effectiveness of this approach is demonstrated by applying it to the two and three Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-18 Darius Jurčiukonis

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

We present ML-UCB, a generalized upper confidence bound algorithm that integrates arbitrary machine learning models into multi-armed bandit frameworks. A fundamental challenge in deploying sophisticated ML models for sequential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Yajing Liu , Erkao Bao , Linqi Song

Machine learning (ML) is increasingly applied to optimize system performance in tasks such as resource management and network simulation. Unlike traditional ML tasks (e.g., image classification), networked systems often operate in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Daiyang Yu , Xinyu Chen , Yihan Zhang , Yan Liang , Yaqi Qiao , Fan Lai

In this paper, we propose a machine learning (ML) method to learn how to solve a generic constrained continuous optimization problem. To the best of our knowledge, the generic methods that learn to optimize, focus on unconstrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Seyedrazieh Bayati , Faramarz Jabbarvaziri