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QSTAformer: A Quantum-Enhanced Transformer for Robust Short-Term Voltage Stability Assessment against Adversarial Attacks

Li, Yang, Ma, Chong, Li, Yuanzheng, Li, Sen, Chen, Yanbo, Dong, Zhaoyang

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Abstract--Short-term voltage stability assessment (STVSA) is critical for secure power system operation. While classical machine learning-based methods have demonstrated strong performance, they still face challenges in robustness under adversarial conditions. This paper proposes QST Aformer--a tailored quantum-enhanced Transformer architecture that embeds parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) into attention mechanisms--for robust and efficient STVSA. A dedicated adversarial training strategy is developed to defend against both white-box and gray-box attacks. Furthermore, diverse PQC architectures are benchmarked to explore trade-offs between expressiveness, convergence, and efficiency. T o the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to systematically investigate the adversarial vulnerability of quantum machine learning-based STVSA. Case studies on the IEEE 39-bus system demonstrate that QST Aformer achieves competitive accuracy, reduced complexity, and stronger robustness, underscoring its potential for secure and scalable STVSA under adversarial conditions. ITH the high penetration of converter-interfaced renewable energy sources and the growing deployment of fast-acting power electronic devices, maintaining short-term voltage stability (STVS) in modern power systems has become a pressing challenge [1]. STVS characterizes a power system's ability to preserve acceptable voltage profiles during the initial seconds following a disturbance [2], and this stability is primarily influenced by the dynamic behavior of fast acting loads, Li is with the School of Electrical Engineering, Northeast Electric Power University, Jilin 132012, China (e-mail: liyang@neepu.edu.cn). C. Ma is with State Grid Shandong Electric Power Company Jiaozhou Power Supply Company, Jiaozhou 266300, China (email:machong58112233@163.com). Z. Li is with the School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China (email: Y uanzheng Li@hust.edu.cn). Sen Li is with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.


MoE-GraphSAGE-Based Integrated Evaluation of Transient Rotor Angle and Voltage Stability in Power Systems

Zhang, Kunyu, Yang, Guang, Shi, Fashun, He, Shaoying, Zhang, Yuchi

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The large-scale integration of renewable energy and power electronic devices has increased the complexity of power system stability, making transient stability assessment more challenging. Conventional methods are limited in both accuracy and computational efficiency. To address these challenges, this paper proposes MoE-GraphSAGE, a graph neural network framework based on the MoE for unified TAS and TVS assessment. The framework leverages GraphSAGE to capture the power grid's spatiotemporal topological features and employs multi-expert networks with a gating mechanism to model distinct instability modes jointly. Experimental results on the IEEE 39-bus system demonstrate that MoE-GraphSAGE achieves superior accuracy and efficiency, offering an effective solution for online multi-task transient stability assessment in complex power systems.


Graph Embedding Dynamic Feature-based Supervised Contrastive Learning of Transient Stability for Changing Power Grid Topologies

Lv, Zijian, Chen, Xin, Feng, Zijian

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Accurate online transient stability prediction is critical for ensuring power system stability when facing disturbances. While traditional transient stablity analysis replies on the time domain simulations can not be quickly adapted to the power grid toplogy change. In order to vectorize high-dimensional power grid topological structure information into low-dimensional node-based graph embedding streaming data, graph embedding dynamic feature (GEDF) has been proposed. The transient stability GEDF-based supervised contrastive learning (GEDF-SCL) model uses supervised contrastive learning to predict transient stability with GEDFs, considering power grid topology information. To evaluate the performance of the proposed GEDF-SCL model, power grids of varying topologies were generated based on the IEEE 39-bus system model. Transient operational data was obtained by simulating N-1 and N-$\bm{m}$-1 contingencies on these generated power system topologies. Test result demonstrated that the GEDF-SCL model can achieve high accuracy in transient stability prediction and adapt well to changing power grid topologies.


Transferable Deep Learning Power System Short-Term Voltage Stability Assessment with Physics-Informed Topological Feature Engineering

Feng, Zijian, Chen, Xin, Lv, Zijian, Sun, Peiyuan, Wu, Kai

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Deep learning (DL) algorithms have been widely applied to short-term voltage stability (STVS) assessment in power systems. However, transferring the knowledge learned in one power grid to other power grids with topology changes is still a challenging task. This paper proposed a transferable DL-based model for STVS assessment by constructing the topology-aware voltage dynamic features from raw PMU data. Since the reactive power flow and grid topology are essential to voltage stability, the topology-aware and physics-informed voltage dynamic features are utilized to effectively represent the topological and temporal patterns from post-disturbance system dynamic trajectories. The proposed DL-based STVS assessment model is tested under random operating conditions on the New England 39-bus system. It has 99.99\% classification accuracy of the short-term voltage stability status using the topology-aware and physics-informed voltage dynamic features. In addition to high accuracy, the experiments show good adaptability to PMU errors. Moreover, The proposed STVS assessment method has outstanding performance on new grid topologies after fine-tuning. In particular, the highest accuracy reaches 99.68\% in evaluation, which demonstrates a good knowledge transfer ability of the proposed model for power grid topology change.


Distributed Learning of Neural Lyapunov Functions for Large-Scale Networked Dissipative Systems

Jena, Amit, Huang, Tong, Sivaranjani, S., Kalathil, Dileep, Xie, Le

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

This paper considers the problem of characterizing the stability region of a large-scale networked system comprised of dissipative nonlinear subsystems, in a distributed and computationally tractable way. One standard approach to estimate the stability region of a general nonlinear system is to first find a Lyapunov function for the system and characterize its region of attraction as the stability region. However, classical approaches, such as sum-of-squares methods and quadratic approximation, for finding a Lyapunov function either do not scale to large systems or give very conservative estimates for the stability region. In this context, we propose a new distributed learning based approach by exploiting the dissipativity structure of the subsystems. Our approach has two parts: the first part is a distributed approach to learn the storage functions (similar to the Lyapunov functions) for all the subsystems, and the second part is a distributed optimization approach to find the Lyapunov function for the networked system using the learned storage functions of the subsystems. We demonstrate the superior performance of our proposed approach through extensive case studies in microgrid networks.


Data-Driven Security Assessment of the Electric Power System

Meghdadi, Seyedali, Tack, Guido, Liebman, Ariel

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The transition to a new low emission energy future results in a changing mix of generation and load types due to significant growth in renewable energy penetration and reduction in system inertia due to the exit of ageing fossil fuel power plants. This increases technical challenges for electrical grid planning and operation. This study introduces a new decomposition approach to account for the system security for short term planning using conventional machine learning tools. The immediate value of this work is that it provides extendable and computationally efficient guidelines for using supervised learning tools to assess first swing transient stability status. To provide an unbiased evaluation of the final model fit on the training dataset, the proposed approach was examined on a previously unseen test set. It distinguished stable and unstable cases in the test set accurately, with only 0.57% error, and showed a high precision in predicting the time of instability, with 6.8% error and mean absolute error as small as 0.0145.


Fusion of Similarity Data in Clustering

Lange, Tilman, Buhmann, Joachim M.

Neural Information Processing Systems

Fusing multiple information sources can yield significant benefits to successfully accomplish learning tasks. Many studies have focussed on fusing information in supervised learning contexts. We present an approach to utilize multiple information sources in the form of similarity data for unsupervised learning. Based on similarity information, the clustering task is phrased as a nonnegative matrix factorization problem of a mixture of similarity measurements. The tradeoff between the informativeness of data sources and the sparseness of their mixture is controlled by an entropy-based weighting mechanism. For the purpose of model selection, a stability-based approach is employed to ensure the selection of the most self-consistent hypothesis. The experiments demonstrate the performance of the method on toy as well as real world data sets.


Fusion of Similarity Data in Clustering

Lange, Tilman, Buhmann, Joachim M.

Neural Information Processing Systems

Fusing multiple information sources can yield significant benefits to successfully accomplish learning tasks. Many studies have focussed on fusing information in supervised learning contexts. We present an approach to utilize multiple information sources in the form of similarity data for unsupervised learning. Based on similarity information, the clustering task is phrased as a nonnegative matrix factorization problem of a mixture of similarity measurements. The tradeoff between the informativeness of data sources and the sparseness of their mixture is controlled by an entropy-based weighting mechanism. For the purpose of model selection, a stability-based approach is employed to ensure the selection of the most self-consistent hypothesis. The experiments demonstrate the performance of the method on toy as well as real world data sets.


Fusion of Similarity Data in Clustering

Lange, Tilman, Buhmann, Joachim M.

Neural Information Processing Systems

Fusing multiple information sources can yield significant benefits to successfully accomplishlearning tasks. Many studies have focussed on fusing information in supervised learning contexts. We present an approach to utilize multiple information sources in the form of similarity data for unsupervised learning. Based on similarity information, the clustering task is phrased as a nonnegative matrix factorization problem of a mixture ofsimilarity measurements. The tradeoff between the informativeness ofdata sources and the sparseness of their mixture is controlled by an entropy-based weighting mechanism. For the purpose of model selection, astability-based approach is employed to ensure the selection of the most self-consistent hypothesis. The experiments demonstrate the performance of the method on toy as well as real world data sets.