Foundational model for power system

Weiwei Yang – Microsoft Research

Modern power grid operations require solving AC Optimal Power Flow (AC‑OPF) in near real time, yet traditional solvers still take minutes to hours. In this talk, we will present our approach to building a foundation model for power system management, covering the end‑to‑end process, from curating large‑scale training datasets, to designing model architectures, to developing effective training regimes for generalization across grid conditions.