Revisiting Deep AC-OPF

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Hauptverfasser: Dada, Oluwatomisin I., Lawrence, Neil D.
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author Dada, Oluwatomisin I.
Lawrence, Neil D.
author_facet Dada, Oluwatomisin I.
Lawrence, Neil D.
contents Recent work has proposed machine learning (ML) approaches as fast surrogates for solving AC optimal power flow (AC-OPF), with claims of significant speed-ups and high accuracy. In this paper, we revisit these claims through a systematic evaluation of ML models against a set of simple yet carefully designed linear baselines. We introduce OPFormer-V, a transformer-based model for predicting bus voltages, and compare it to both the state-of-the-art DeepOPF-V model and simple linear methods. Our findings reveal that, while OPFormer-V improves over DeepOPF-V, the relative gains of the ML approaches considered are less pronounced than expected. Simple linear baselines can achieve comparable performance. These results highlight the importance of including strong linear baselines in future evaluations.
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spellingShingle Revisiting Deep AC-OPF
Dada, Oluwatomisin I.
Lawrence, Neil D.
Systems and Control
Machine Learning
Recent work has proposed machine learning (ML) approaches as fast surrogates for solving AC optimal power flow (AC-OPF), with claims of significant speed-ups and high accuracy. In this paper, we revisit these claims through a systematic evaluation of ML models against a set of simple yet carefully designed linear baselines. We introduce OPFormer-V, a transformer-based model for predicting bus voltages, and compare it to both the state-of-the-art DeepOPF-V model and simple linear methods. Our findings reveal that, while OPFormer-V improves over DeepOPF-V, the relative gains of the ML approaches considered are less pronounced than expected. Simple linear baselines can achieve comparable performance. These results highlight the importance of including strong linear baselines in future evaluations.
title Revisiting Deep AC-OPF
topic Systems and Control
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00655