Table 1 List of symbols and definitions used in the mathematical modeling section.

From: Ranking-oriented machine learning framework for probabilistic wind power forecasting with temporal reliability constraints

Symbol

Description

Unit/meaning

\(W^{(\tau )}_{\kappa }\)

True wind power at site \(\kappa\) and time \(\tau\)

MW

\(\hat{W}^{(\tau )}_{\kappa }\)

Predicted wind power output

MW

\(\chi ^{(\tau )}_{\kappa }\)

Input feature vector (meteorological and turbine data)

\(\phi ^{(\tau -1)}_{\kappa }\)

Lagged feature embedding from previous step

\(\nu ^{(\tau -2)}_{\kappa }\)

Volatility or uncertainty estimator at lag 2

\(R^{(\tau )}_{\kappa }\)

Predicted rank order of site \(\kappa\) at time \(\tau\)

Ordinal index

\(\pi ^{(\tau )}_{\kappa }\)

Ground-truth ranking probability distribution

\(\mathcal {L}^{(\tau )}_{\text {MSE}}\)

Mean squared error loss component

\(\hbox {MW}^2\)

\(\mathcal {L}^{(\tau )}_{\text {rank}}\)

Listwise ranking loss term

Dimensionless

\(\mathcal {L}^{(\tau )}_{\text {temp}}\)

Temporal rank deviation penalty

Dimensionless

\(\alpha , \beta , \gamma\)

Weighting coefficients for composite loss terms

\(W^{\max }_{\kappa }\)

Rated power capacity of wind turbine/farm

MW

\(\delta _{\text {smooth}}\)

Threshold for rank curvature smoothness

\(\varepsilon _{\text {spread}}\)

Minimum quantile spread to prevent overconfidence

MW

N

Total number of sites in the forecasting system

T

Total number of forecasting horizons

B

Training batch set of samples

\(\eta ^{(k)}\)

Learning rate at iteration k

\(\Theta , \Phi , \Xi\)

Trainable parameter sets of the model

\(\lambda\)

Regularization coefficient for weight decay

\(R_{\text {reg}}\)

\(\ell _2\) regularization term for complexity control

\(NDCG(\tau )\)

Normalized discounted cumulative gain metric

Dimensionless

TRSI

Temporal rank stability index

Dimensionless

\(q_{\kappa }, k_{\upsilon }, v_{\upsilon }\)

Query, key, and value vectors in attention mechanism

\(\alpha ^{(\tau )}_{\kappa \rightarrow \upsilon }\)

Attention coefficient between site \(\kappa\) and \(\upsilon\)

\(c^{(\tau )}_{\kappa }\)

Context vector aggregated by attention weights

\(\sigma (\cdot )\)

Activation function (e.g., sigmoid, ReLU)

\(\zeta ^{(\tau )}_{\kappa }\)

Time-aware feature embedding

\(\Psi _{\text {final}}\)

Unified evaluation metric (Eq. 27)

Dimensionless