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Full--waveform inversion (FWI) is a method used to determine properties of the Earth from information on the surface. We use the squared Wasserstein distance (squared $W_2$ distance) as an objective function to invert for the velocity of…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-09-14 Srinath Mahankali

In this paper, we introduce a novel, data-driven approach for solving high-dimensional Bayesian inverse problems based on partial differential equations (PDEs), called Weak Neural Variational Inference (WNVI). The method complements real…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-31 Vincent C. Scholz , Yaohua Zang , Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis

Conventional full waveform inversion (FWI) using least square distance (LSD) between the observed and predicted seismograms suffers from local minima. Recently, earth mover's distance (EMD) has been introduced to FWI to compute the misfit…

Geophysics · Physics 2018-08-23 Peng Yong , Wenyuan Liao , Jianping Huang , Zhenchun Li , Yaoting Lin

Full waveform inversion (FWI) often faces challenges due to inadequate seismic observations, resulting in band-limited and geologically inaccurate inversion results. Incorporating prior information from potential velocity distributions,…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Fu Wang , Xinquan Huang , Tariq Alkhalifah

We present Lift and Relax for Waveform Inversion (LRWI), an approach that mitigates the local minima issue in seismic full waveform inversion (FWI) via a combination of two convexification techniques. The first technique (Lift) extends the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-08 Zhilong Fang , Laurent Demanet

Full waveform inversion (FWI) aims to reconstruct unknown physical coefficients in wave equations using the wavefield data generated from multiple incoming sources. In this work, we propose an offline-online computational strategy for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Wen Ding , Kui Ren , Lu Zhang

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

This paper investigates the impact of big data on deep learning models to help solve the full waveform inversion (FWI) problem. While it is well known that big data can boost the performance of deep learning models in many tasks, its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Peng Jin , Yinan Feng , Shihang Feng , Hanchen Wang , Yinpeng Chen , Benjamin Consolvo , Zicheng Liu , Youzuo Lin

We introduce a probabilistic technique for full-waveform inversion, employing variational inference and conditional normalizing flows to quantify uncertainty in migration-velocity models and its impact on imaging. Our approach integrates…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-04-16 Ziyi Yin , Rafael Orozco , Mathias Louboutin , Felix J. Herrmann

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is one of a family of methods that allows the reconstruction of earth subsurface parameters from measurements of waves at or near the surface. This is a numerical optimization problem that uses the whole…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Mauricio A. Londoño , Francisco J. Rodríguez-Cortés

Full waveform inversion (FWI) iteratively updates the velocity model by minimizing the difference between observed and simulated data. Due to the high computational cost and memory requirements associated with global optimization…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-09-19 Xinru Mu , Omar M. Saad , Shaowen Wang , Tariq Alkhalifah

The availability of low frequency data is an important factor in the success of full waveform inversion (FWI) in the acoustic regime. The low frequencies help determine the kinematically relevant, low-wavenumber components of the velocity…

Geophysics · Physics 2016-01-21 Yunyue Elita Li , Laurent Demanet

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a nonlinear PDE constrained optimization problem, which seeks to estimate constitutive parameters of a medium such as phase velocity, density, and anisotropy, by fitting waveforms. Attenuation is an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Hossein S. Aghamiry , Ali Gholami , Stephane Operto

Seismic full waveform inversion (FWI) has seen promising advancements through deep learning. Existing approaches typically focus on task-specific models trained and evaluated in isolation that lead to limited generalization across different…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Koustav Ghosal , Abhranta Panigrahi , Arnav Chavan , ArunSingh , Deepak Gupta

Ultrasound computed tomography is emerging as a promising safe and accessible modality for soft-tissue medical imaging, with full waveform inversion playing a key role in unlocking its full potential for high-resolution, quantitative…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Yifei Sun , Yubing Li , Chang Su , Lekang Jiang , Xiangwei Lu , Ligang Cui , He Sun , Weijun Lin

Classically, anisotropic surface wave tomography is treated as an optimisation problem where it proceeds through a linearised two-step approach. It involves the construction of 2D group or phase velocity maps for each considered period,…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-12-08 John Keith Magali

Seismic inversion is a core problem in geophysical exploration, where traditional methods suffer from high computational costs and are susceptible to initial model dependence. In recent years, deep generative model-based seismic inversion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Haofei Xu , Wei Cheng , Sizhe Li , Jie Xiong

Implicit full waveform inversion (IFWI) introduces implicit neural representations to parameterize the subsurface velocity model as a continuous function of spatial coordinates, which alleviates the dependence on the initial model and…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 Zefeng Wang , Shijun Cheng , Weijian Mao , Wei Ouyang , Huanhuan Tang

PDE-constrained optimization problems are often treated using the reduced formulation where the PDE constraints are eliminated. This approach is known to be more computationally feasible than other alternatives at large scales. However, the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Sagi Buchatsky , Eran Treister

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