3 papers
eess.SY2025
Accelerating Underground Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Scheduling with Decision-Focused Learning
Honghui Zheng, Pietro Favaro, Yury Dvorkin +2
Underground pumped hydro energy storage (UPHES) systems play a critical role in grid-scale energy storage for renewable integration, yet optimal day-ahead scheduling remains comput…
eess.SY2025
Decision-Focused Learning for Neural Network-Constrained HVAC Scheduling
Pietro Favaro, Jean-François Toubeau, François Vallée +1
Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) is a major electricity end-use with a substantial potential for providing grid services, such as demand response. Harnessing this…
eess.SY2025
Decision-Focused Learning for Complex System Identification: HVAC Management System Application
Pietro Favaro, Jean-François Toubeau, François Vallée +1
As opposed to conventional training methods tailored to minimize a given statistical metric or task-agnostic loss (e.g., mean squared error), Decision-Focused Learning (DFL) trains…