8.9SYJul 10
Dissipativity-Based Multiport Stability Root-Cause Identification and Mitigation for Solid-State TransformersXiangyu Meng, Dong Xie, Hongjian Lin et al.
For solid-state transformers (SSTs) in high-power grid-connected applications, improperly designed control loops can excite strong inherent AC-DC port coupling, leading to low-frequency oscillation issues, especially under weak grid conditions. To address this problem, this article establishes a multiport admittance matrix for the SST, encompassing its AC dq axes and primary DC port, to characterize its inherent dynamics. Subsequently, a multiport dissipativity analysis is conducted to evaluate the robust stability of the SST. By leveraging the decomposition of passivity conditions into distinct self- and coupling-dissipativity indices, the specific root causes of instability are diagnosed. This framework reveals that a severe coupling-dissipativity failure, induced by the internal dynamics of the synchronization loop, is the dominant instability mechanism rather than a localized self-dissipativity issue. Guided by this diagnosis, a stabilizing controller featuring dynamics-free orthogonal signal reconstruction is designed to reshape the admittance characteristics of the SST. This enhancement specifically targets the identified coupling-dissipativity deficiencies, thereby resolving the root cause of the instability. Finally, the stability analysis and the effectiveness of the enhancement strategy are validated on a down-scaled SST prototype. Experimental results demonstrate that the criterion accurately predicts the coupling-induced oscillations and that the enhanced controller guarantees stable operation under challenging weak-grid conditions.
3.2SIJun 17
Maintaining Leiden Communities in Large Dynamic GraphsChunxu Lin, Yumao Xie, Yixiang Fang et al.
Community detection is a foundational capability in large-scale industrial graph analytics, powering applications such as fraud-ring discovery, recommendation systems, and hierarchical indexing for retrieval-augmented generation. Among modularity-based methods, the Leiden algorithm has been widely adopted in production because it delivers high-quality communities with connectivity guarantees. However, real-world graphs evolve continuously, and timely community updates are needed to keep downstream features and retrieval indices fresh. Meanwhile, existing dynamic Leiden approaches recompute the communities whenever their vertices and edges change, thereby almost degrading to near-full recomputation under frequent updates. To alleviate the efficiency issue, we study the efficient maintenance of Leiden communities in large dynamic graphs and present a novel algorithm, called Hierarchical Incremental Tree Leiden (HIT-Leiden). We first provide a boundedness analysis showing that prior incremental Leiden methods can incur essentially unbounded work even for small updates. Guided by this analysis, we propose HIT-Leiden which effectively reduces the range of affected vertices by maintaining connected components and hierarchical community structures. Extensive experiments on large real-world dynamic graphs demonstrate that HIT-Leiden achieves community quality comparable to the state-of-the-art competitors while delivering speedups of up to five orders of magnitude over existing solutions. The production deployment results show that HIT-Leiden meets stringent latency requirements under high-rate updates at scale.