TY - JOUR
T1 - Unifying temporal continuity and structural decomposition for stealthy FDIA detection in smart grids via implicit neural representations
AU - Zhao, Siliang
AU - Luo, Wuman
AU - Shu, Qin
AU - Xu, Fangwei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 The Author(s)
PY - 2026/1
Y1 - 2026/1
N2 - False data injection attacks (FDIAs) pose significant threats to power system security by stealthily manipulating measurements to bypass traditional residual-based detectors. While recent time-series detection methods improve robustness by modeling temporal continuity, they often rely on labeled attack data or static architectures with limited adaptability. This paper proposes a fully unsupervised FDIA detection framework based on implicit neural representations (INRs), which model multivariate power system measurements as continuous functions of time. A transformer-based hypernetwork dynamically generates INR parameters, enabling the model to adapt to varying operating conditions without retraining. To unify temporal continuity and structural decomposition, the proposed framework couples continuous-time INR modeling with a hierarchical trend-seasonal-residual representation and a measurement-type-aware residual structure. Anomalies are identified via a weighted reconstruction error using type-normalized anomaly scores. Extensive experiments on IEEE 14-bus and 118-bus test systems demonstrate that the proposed method achieves near-perfect detection accuracy against both optimization-based and controllable FDIAs, significantly outperforming existing supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised baselines. Moreover, the INR model exhibits strong sensitivity to subtle, temporally-localized perturbations and remains robust under different attack amplitudes. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first FDIA detection framework leveraging INR-based continuous-time modeling with transformer-driven parameterization, offering a scalable, interpretable, and topology-agnostic solution for securing modern power grids.
AB - False data injection attacks (FDIAs) pose significant threats to power system security by stealthily manipulating measurements to bypass traditional residual-based detectors. While recent time-series detection methods improve robustness by modeling temporal continuity, they often rely on labeled attack data or static architectures with limited adaptability. This paper proposes a fully unsupervised FDIA detection framework based on implicit neural representations (INRs), which model multivariate power system measurements as continuous functions of time. A transformer-based hypernetwork dynamically generates INR parameters, enabling the model to adapt to varying operating conditions without retraining. To unify temporal continuity and structural decomposition, the proposed framework couples continuous-time INR modeling with a hierarchical trend-seasonal-residual representation and a measurement-type-aware residual structure. Anomalies are identified via a weighted reconstruction error using type-normalized anomaly scores. Extensive experiments on IEEE 14-bus and 118-bus test systems demonstrate that the proposed method achieves near-perfect detection accuracy against both optimization-based and controllable FDIAs, significantly outperforming existing supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised baselines. Moreover, the INR model exhibits strong sensitivity to subtle, temporally-localized perturbations and remains robust under different attack amplitudes. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first FDIA detection framework leveraging INR-based continuous-time modeling with transformer-driven parameterization, offering a scalable, interpretable, and topology-agnostic solution for securing modern power grids.
KW - Implicit neural representation
KW - Smart grid false data injection attack
KW - Time-series anomaly detection
KW - Transformer hypernetwork
KW - Unsupervised learning
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105026320262
U2 - 10.1016/j.ijepes.2025.111507
DO - 10.1016/j.ijepes.2025.111507
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:105026320262
SN - 0142-0615
VL - 174
JO - International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems
JF - International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems
M1 - 111507
ER -