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Extended full-waveform inversion (FWI) has shown promising results for accurate estimation of subsurface parameters when the initial models are not sufficiently accurate. Frequency-domain applications have shown that the augmented…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-16 Ali Gholami , Hossein S. Aghamiry , Stephane Operto

The Lagrange multiplier method has proven highly effective for mitigating the ill-conditioning of full waveform inversion (FWI), enabling robust and computationally efficient algorithms that converge to accurate velocity models even from…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Ali Gholami , Kamal Aghazade , Akshay Vishwakarma

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is an effective method for imaging subsurface properties using sparsely recorded data. It involves solving a wave propagation problem to estimate model parameters that accurately reproduce the data. Recent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Ali Gholami

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) stands as a nonlinear, high-resolution technology for subsurface imaging via surface-recorded data. This paper introduces an augmented Lagrangian dual formulation for FWI, rooted in the viewpoint that Lagrange…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-12-13 Kamal Aghazade , Ali Gholami

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a modeling algorithm used for seismic data processing and subsurface structure inversion. Theoretically, the main advantage of FWI is its ability to obtain useful subsurface structure information, such as…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-09-26 Jiahang Li , Hitoshi Mikada , Junichi Takekawa

The full-waveform inversion (FWI) addresses the computation and characterization of subsurface model parameters by matching predicted data to observed seismograms in the frame of nonlinear optimization. We formulate FWI as a nonlinearly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-26 Ali Gholami , Hossein S. Aghamiry , Stéphane Operto

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a waveform matching procedure, which can provide a subsurface model with a wavelength-scale resolution. However, this high resolution makes FWI prone to cycle skipping, which drives the inversion to a local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Hossein S. Aghamiry , Ali Gholami , Stéphane Operto

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is an iterative nonlinear waveform matching procedure subject to wave-equation constraint. FWI is highly nonlinear when the wave-equation constraint is enforced at each iteration. To mitigate nonlinearity,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Hossein S. Aghamiry , Ali Gholami , Stephane Operto

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a powerful seismic imaging technique used to estimate high-resolution physical properties of subsurface structures by minimizing the misfit between observed and modeled seismic data. FWI is inherently a…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Kamal Aghazade , Toktam Zand , Ali Gholami

The augmented Lagrangian (AL) method has been successfully applied for solving the full waveform inversion (FWI) problem. In AL-based FWI, the Lagrange multipliers serve as source extensions, offering several advantages to the inversion,…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Mahdi Sonbolestan , Ali Gholami

Full waveform inversion (FWI) updates the subsurface model from an initial model by comparing observed and synthetic seismograms. Due to high nonlinearity, FWI is easy to be trapped into local minima. Extended domain FWI, including…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Pengliang Yang , Wei Zhou

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a high-resolution and computationally intensive imaging technique to reconstruct unknown parameters in the computational model in which the waves propagate; however, an accurate model of only part of this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Hossein S. Aghamiry , Ali Gholami , Stephane Operto , Alison Malcolm

Wavefield reconstruction inversion (WRI) extends the search space of Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) by allowing for wave equation errors during wavefield reconstruction to match the data from the first iteration. Then, the wavespeeds are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Hossein S. Aghamiry , Ali Gholami , Stéphane Operto

Most recently, He and Yuan [arXiv:2108.08554, 2021] have proposed a balanced augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) for the canonical convex programming problem with linear constraints, which advances the original ALM by balancing its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Shengjie Xu

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a seismic imaging method that provides quantitative inference about subsurface properties with a wavelength-scale resolution. Its frequency-domain formulation is computationally efficient when processing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Hossein S. Aghamiry , Ali Gholami , Kamal Aghazade , Mahdi Sonbolestan , Stephane Operto

The state-of-art seismic imaging techniques treat inversion tasks such as FWI and LSRTM as PDE-constrained optimization problems. Due to the large-scale nature, gradient-based optimization algorithms are preferred in practice to update the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-16 Yunan Yang

We develop two new variants of alternating direction methods of multipliers (ADMM) and two parallel primal-dual decomposition algorithms to solve a wide range class of constrained convex optimization problems. Our approach relies on a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-15 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Yuzixuan Zhu

In this paper, we consider large-scale linearly constrained composite convex optimization problem, whose objective is a sum of a smooth function and a possibly nonsmooth function. We propose a scalable \textbf{F}rank-\textbf{W}olfe based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-13 Ya-Feng Liu , Xiangfeng Wang , Xin Liu , Shiqian Ma

This paper proposes and analyzes an accelerated inexact dampened augmented Lagrangian (AIDAL) method for solving linearly-constrained nonconvex composite optimization problems. Each iteration of the AIDAL method consists of: (i) inexactly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Weiwei Kong , Renato D. C. Monteiro

Full waveform inversion is an ill-posed inverse problem whose solution non-uniqueness -- i.e., arising from band-limited, finite-aperture, noisy data -- calls for uncertainty quantification to avoid overconfident geological interpretations.…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-03-27 Kamal Aghazade , Ali Siahkoohi , Ali Gholami
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