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Supervised Reinforcement Learning for the Coordination of Distributed Energy Resources

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A new paper proposes a Supervised Reinforcement Learning (SRL) framework for coordinating distributed energy resources (DERs). The approach pre-trains policies on demonstration data, then fine-tunes with offline and online RL, outperforming benchmarks even with low-quality data.

SourcearXiv Machine LearningAuthor: Haoyuan Deng, Yihong Zhou, Thomas Morstyn, Yi Wang
Supervised Reinforcement Learning for the Coordination of Distributed Energy Resources
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[2606.24947] Supervised Reinforcement Learning for the Coordination of Distributed Energy Resources

[Submitted on 23 Jun 2026]

Title:Supervised Reinforcement Learning for the Coordination of Distributed Energy Resources

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Abstract:The increasing integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) is crucial for power system decarbonization, yet unlocking DERs' flexibility is challenged by their inherent uncertainties and modelling complexity. As traditional optimization methods struggle with such uncertainty and complexity of DERs, reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising alternative for DER management. However, standard RL methods suffer from sample inefficiency and sub-optimality when trained from scratch. Inspired by the training paradigms in large language models, this paper proposes a Supervised Reinforcement Learning (SRL) framework for learning DER coordination policies. This framework first pre-trains a policy on demonstration data in a supervised-learning fashion, which is then further fine-tuned using RL. Furthermore, we propose a two-step fine-tuning process: offline fine-tuning for enhancing policy performance and online fine-tuning for adapting it to the real-world dynamics. Experiments demonstrate that RL implementations based on the proposed framework significantly outperform all benchmarks, achieving high cost efficiency even under low-quality demonstration data.

Comments: Presented at PSCC2026

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Machine Learning (cs.LG); Systems and Control (eess.SY)

Cite as: arXiv:2606.24947 [cs.LG]

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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.24947

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From: Haoyuan Deng [view email] [v1] Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:17:58 UTC (2,060 KB)

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  • SRL framework combines supervised pre-training on demonstration data with reinforcement learning fine-tuning.
  • Two-step fine-tuning: offline for performance, then online for real-world adaptation.
  • Experiments show significant cost efficiency improvements over traditional optimization and standard RL.
  • Paper presented at PSCC2026.

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