LARA: LLM-based Agile Power Distribution Network Restoration from Disastrous Events (2026.findings-eacl)
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| Challenge: | a large language model generates high-level restoration plans over a compact catalogue of feasible actions. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that generates restoration plans over a catalogue of feasible actions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms a time-capped solver on an IEEE 13-node power distribution feeder by 13% while using less than 1% of its wall-clock runtime. |
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