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BOOST-RPF: Boosted Sequential Trees for Radial Power Flow
cs.LGcs.SYeess.SY Ehimare Okoyomon, Christoph Goebel · Mar 23, 2026

This paper introduces BOOST-RPF, which tackles power flow analysis in distribution grids by reformulating voltage prediction from a global graph regression task into a sequential path-based learning problem. The key insight is leveraging the radial (tree) topology of distribution networks to decompose them into root-to-leaf paths, then using XGBoost to predict local voltage drops between parent-child bus pairs. This approach aims to combine the speed of machine learning with the size-agnostic, recursive inductive bias of classical solvers like DistFlow.

Accurate power flow analysis is critical for modern distribution systems, yet classical solvers face scalability issues, and current machine learning models often struggle with generalization. We introduce BOOST-RPF, a novel method that reformulates voltage prediction from a global graph regression task into a sequential path-based learning problem. By decomposing radial networks into root-to-leaf paths, we leverage gradient-boosted decision trees (XGBoost) to model local voltage-drop regularities. We evaluate three architectural variants: Absolute Voltage, Parent Residual, and Physics-Informed Residual. This approach aligns the model architecture with the recursive physics of power flow, ensuring size-agnostic application and superior out-of-distribution robustness. Benchmarked against the Kerber Dorfnetz grid and the ENGAGE suite, BOOST-RPF achieves state-of-the-art results with its Parent Residual variant which consistently outperforms both analytical and neural baselines in standard accuracy and generalization tasks. While global Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) often suffer from performance degradation under topological shifts, BOOST-RPF maintains high precision across unseen feeders. Furthermore, the framework displays linear $O(N)$ computational scaling and significantly increased sample efficiency through per-edge supervision, offering a scalable and generalizable alternative for real-time distribution system operator (DSO) applications.
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Ctrl-A: Control-Driven Online Data Augmentation
cs.CVcs.AIcs.LG Jesper B. Christensen, Ciaran Bench, Spencer A. Thomas et al. · Mar 23, 2026

Ctrl-A addresses automated data augmentation by framing it as a control problem, dynamically adjusting per-operation augmentation strengths via a feedback loop that balances training and validation loss ratios. The method introduces Relative Operation Response (ROR) curves to individually tune transformation distributions without manual initialization or expensive search phases. While it achieves competitive results on CIFAR and SVHN benchmarks with minimal computational overhead (~10% vs. TrivialAugment), the evaluation relies on a modified training setup with extended epochs, raising questions about separability of algorithmic gains from training protocol changes.

We introduce ControlAugment (Ctrl-A), an automated data augmentation algorithm for image-vision tasks, which incorporates principles from control theory for online adjustment of augmentation strength distributions during model training. Ctrl-A eliminates the need for initialization of individual augmentation strengths. Instead, augmentation strength distributions are dynamically, and individually, adapted during training based on a control-loop architecture and what we define as relative operation response curves. Using an operation-dependent update procedure provides Ctrl-A with the potential to suppress augmentation styles that negatively impact model performance, alleviating the need for manually engineering augmentation policies for new image-vision tasks. Experiments on the CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and SVHN-core benchmark datasets using the common WideResNet-28-10 architecture demonstrate that Ctrl-A is highly competitive with existing state-of-the-art data augmentation strategies.
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Spatio-Temporal Attention Enhanced Multi-Agent DRL for UAV-Assisted Wireless Networks with Limited Communications
cs.ITcs.AIcs.SY Che Chen, Lanhua Li, Shimin Gong et al. · Mar 23, 2026

The paper addresses multi-UAV coordination under intermittent communications by proposing a Spatio-Temporal Attention enhanced MADRL (STA-MADRL) framework. It combines delay-penalized rewards to incentivize information exchange with a prediction module that recovers missing state data using temporal and spatial attention mechanisms. The authors claim 75% throughput improvements over communication-limited baselines while achieving near-ideal performance without requiring real-time global state sharing.

In this paper, we employ multiple UAVs to accelerate data transmissions from ground users (GUs) to a remote base station (BS) via the UAVs' relay communications. The UAVs' intermittent information exchanges typically result in delays in acquiring the complete system state and hinder their effective collaboration. To maximize the overall throughput, we first propose a delay-tolerant multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL) algorithm that integrates a delay-penalized reward to encourage information sharing among UAVs, while jointly optimizing the UAVs' trajectory planning, network formation, and transmission control strategies. Additionally, considering information loss due to unreliable channel conditions, we further propose a spatio-temporal attention based prediction approach to recover the lost information and enhance each UAV's awareness of the network state. These two designs are envisioned to enhance the network capacity in UAV-assisted wireless networks with limited communications. The simulation results reveal that our new approach achieves over 50\% reduction in information delay and 75% throughput gain compared to the conventional MADRL. Interestingly, it is shown that improving the UAVs' information sharing will not sacrifice the network capacity. Instead, it significantly improves the learning performance and throughput simultaneously. It is also effective in reducing the need for UAVs' information exchange and thus fostering practical deployment of MADRL in UAV-assisted wireless networks.
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