Expanding the Transient Stability Region of Attraction of Networked Grid-Interactive Inverters: A Probabilistic Active Learning Framework

arXiv:2608.22661 2026 Dynamics 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Sep 1, 2026

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The paper presents a concrete uncertainty-guided frontier-search mechanism for enlarging a conservatively certified region of attraction. It combines an inner region certified by a neural Lyapunov function with a Gaussian-process surrogate whose posterior uncertainty selects expensive trajectory simulations near the unknown stable-unstable boundary. The transferable asset is an active stability-envelope learner for recurrent networks, state-space models, neural ODEs, and learned controllers. It predicts a sharp transition in the learned stability margin and can reduce the number of long-horizon rollouts required to map that transition.

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Gaussian-Process Stability-Frontier Expansion

Train or initialize a Lyapunov certificate for a recurrent, state-space, or neural-ODE model on an inner set, then actively discover a larger stable state envelope instead of assuming that the certificate generalizes out of distribution. A Gaussian process models the signed stability margin or binary long-horizon outcome, and new simulations are selected where posterior uncertainty and proximity to the estimated boundary are both high.

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Paper: Expanding the Transient Stability Region of Attraction of Networked Grid-Interactive Inverters: A Probabilistic Active Learning Framework arXiv:2608.22661