2023/03/27 by Deepan Muthirayan, Pramod P. Khargonekar, Muthirayan, Deepan +1
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · Engineering · #Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Machine Learning (stat.ML) #Optimization and Search Problems #Smart Grid Energy Management #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2303.15617
openalex publication_date 2023/03/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this paper, we consider the problem of learning online to manage Demand Response (DR) resources. A typical DR mechanism requires the DR manager to assign a baseline to the participating consumer, where the baseline is an estimate of the counterfactual consumption of the consumer had it not been called to provide the DR service. A challenge in estimating baseline is the incentive the consumer has to inflate the baseline estimate. We consider the problem of learning online to estimate the baseline and to optimize the operating costs over a period of time under such incentives. We propose an online learning scheme that employs least-squares for estimation with a perturbation to the reward price (for the DR services or load curtailment) that is designed to balance the exploration and exploitation trade-off that arises with online learning. We show that, our proposed scheme is able to achieve a very low regret of O((logT)2) with respect to the optimal operating cost over T days of the DR program with full knowledge of the baseline, and is individually rational for the consumers to participate. Our scheme is significantly better than the averaging type approach, which only fetches O(T1/3) regret.