EAAI Journal 2026 Journal Article
Hierarchical metering data imputation with multi-view learning for accurate electricity consumption prediction
- Zitan Xie
- Zuyuan Yang
- Weifeng Zhong
- Shengli Xie
Accurate electricity consumption prediction enables energy providers to optimize resource allocation, enhance grid stability, and meet fluctuating demands efficiently, with applications spanning across smart grids, energy management systems, and electricity markets. However, this process relies on large amounts of complete meter data, which may be missing or corrupted for various reasons during data collection. This study proposes a novel multi-view learning-based imputation model to deal with missing data in a hierarchical metering system. In this study, the hierarchical system is analyzed using two views to constitute a multi-view dataset, where the master-node view reflects the overall electricity consumption and the sub-node view provides detailed electricity consumption information. Unlike traditional single-view methods, the master-node view is developed to generate complementarity information for effective imputation of sub-nodes. Moreover, a feature alignment-based cross-view mapping is proposed to exploit the alignment relationship between views, and the adaptive multi-view graph learning is introduced to capture the distribution structure of the electricity consumption at different time points. Experimental results on real datasets from a ceramic factory show that our proposed method outperforms the other compared methods. In the prediction after imputation, when the missing rate is 50%, 70%, and 90%, the average performance improvement of our proposed method is about 10. 08% in Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) and 11. 9% in Mean Absolute Error (MAE) across all datasets.