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Fangzhou Lin
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2025.6 – Present

GRAFT: Grid-Aware Load Forecasting with Multi-Source Textual Alignment and Fusion

Strict spatiotemporal alignment and cross-modal fusion between multi-source text and power-load signals.

ForecastingAI / NLPMultimodalPower Systems

A research framework for power-load forecasting that addresses the underuse of external information through strict spatiotemporal alignment, cross-modal fusion, and interpretability evaluation over multi-source text and load data. In February 2026, I submitted the first-author manuscript to Applied Energy, where it is currently under peer review.

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Background

To address the insufficient use of external information in power-load forecasting, I built the GRAFT framework and carried out a systematic study on strict spatiotemporal alignment, cross-modal fusion, and interpretable evaluation over multi-source text and power-load data.

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Core Work

  • Built the dataset, designed the experiments, analysed the results, and wrote the manuscript
  • Led the multi-source text processing pipeline and model training work

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Methods

  • Introduced text embeddings, cross-attention, and an external memory interface
  • Built the study on a 2019–2021 multi-source text and load dataset covering five Australian states
  • Established a three-dimensional evaluation framework over forecasting scale, region, and text source, with visualization analysis

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Outcomes

  • First-author manuscript: "GRAFT: Grid-Aware Load Forecasting with Multi-Source Textual Alignment and Fusion"
  • Submitted to Applied Energy in February 2026
  • Currently under peer review

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Tech Stack

PythonPyTorchCross-Attention

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Figures

GRAFT end-to-end architecture overview
GRAFT end-to-end architecture overview
Cross-modal attention heatmap between text tokens and load horizons
Cross-modal attention heatmap between text tokens and load horizons
Forecasting error across horizons vs. time-series-only baselines
Forecasting error across horizons vs. time-series-only baselines