SeisLM: a Foundation Model for Seismic Waveforms
Geophysics
2024-10-22 v1 Machine Learning
Abstract
We introduce the Seismic Language Model (SeisLM), a foundational model designed to analyze seismic waveforms -- signals generated by Earth's vibrations such as the ones originating from earthquakes. SeisLM is pretrained on a large collection of open-source seismic datasets using a self-supervised contrastive loss, akin to BERT in language modeling. This approach allows the model to learn general seismic waveform patterns from unlabeled data without being tied to specific downstream tasks. When fine-tuned, SeisLM excels in seismological tasks like event detection, phase-picking, onset time regression, and foreshock-aftershock classification. The code has been made publicly available on https://github.com/liutianlin0121/seisLM.
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@article{arxiv.2410.15765,
title = {SeisLM: a Foundation Model for Seismic Waveforms},
author = {Tianlin Liu and Jannes Münchmeyer and Laura Laurenti and Chris Marone and Maarten V. de Hoop and Ivan Dokmanić},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.15765},
year = {2024}
}