Table 1.

Comparison of Transformer-based NILM methods.

Reference	Name	Publication Date	Dataset	Framework
				Task	Main Components	Loss
Lin et al. [24]	MA-net and MAED-net	August 2020	REDD	r and c	Encoders and Decoders	MSE
Yue et al. [25]	BERT4NILM	November 2020	REDD and UK-DALE	r and c	Encoders	MSE +KL divergence +soft-margin
Yue et al. [26]	ELTransformer	March 2022	REDD and UK-DALE	r and c	Encoders	MSE
Sykiotis et al. [27]	ELECTRIcity	April 2022	REDD and UK-DALE and Refit	r and c	Encoders	MSE +KL divergence