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We propose an extended full-waveform inversion formulation that includes general convex constraints on the model. Though the full problem is highly nonconvex, the overarching optimization scheme arrives at geologically plausible results by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-23 Ernie Esser , Lluis Guasch , Tristan van Leeuwen , Aleksandr Y. Aravkin , Felix J. Herrmann

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) is a powerful yet computationally expensive technique that can yield subsurface models at high resolution. Randomly selected shots ("mini-batches") can be used to approximate the misfit and the gradient of FWI,…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-05-25 Bharath Shekar

This paper focuses on the regularization of backward time-fractional diffusion problem on unbounded domain. This problem is well-known to be ill-posed, whence the need of a regularization method in order to recover stable approximate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Walter Simo Tao Lee

This paper focuses on scattered data fitting problems on spheres. We study the approximation performance of a class of weighted spectral filter algorithms, including Tikhonov regularization, Landaweber iteration, spectral cut-off, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Shao-Bo Lin

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

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) estimates physical parameters in the wave equation from limited measurements and has been widely applied in geophysical exploration, medical imaging, and non-destructive testing. Conventional FWI methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Ruihua Chen , Yisi Luo , Bangyu Wu , Deyu Meng

Waveform inversion seeks to estimate an inaccessible heterogeneous medium from data gathered by sensors that emit probing signals and measure the generated waves. It is an inverse problem for a second order wave equation or a first order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Alexander V. Mamonov , Jörn Zimmerling

In this work, we introduce a function space setting for a wide class of structural/weighted total variation (TV) regularization methods motivated by their applications in inverse problems. In particular, we consider a regularizer that is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Michael Hintermüller , Martin Holler , Kostas Papafitsoros

A novel approach to full waveform inversion (FWI), based on a data driven reduced order model (ROM) of the wave equation operator is introduced. The unknown medium is probed with pulses and the time domain pressure waveform data is recorded…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-03 Alexander V. Mamonov , Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Jörn Zimmerling

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

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) reconstructs high-resolution subsurface models via multi-variate optimization but faces challenges with solver selection and data availability. Deep Learning (DL) offers a promising alternative, bridging…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Christopher Zerafa

This paper develops a discrete data-driven approach for solving the inverse source problem of the wave equation with final time measurements. Focusing on the $L^2$-Tikhonov regularization method, we analyze its convergence under two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Qiling Gu , Wenlong Zhang , Zhidong Zhang

The Arnoldi-Tikhonov method is a well-established regularization technique for solving large-scale ill-posed linear inverse problems. This method leverages the Arnoldi decomposition to reduce computational complexity by projecting the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Davide Bianchi , Marco Donatelli , Davide Furchì , Lothar Reichel

Fractional Tikhonov regularization methods have been recently proposed to reduce the oversmoothing property of the Tikhonov regularization in standard form, in order to preserve the details of the approximated solution. Their regularization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-07 Davide Bianchi , Alessandro Buccini , Marco Donatelli , Stefano Serra-Capizzano

To obtain high-resolution images of subsurface structures from seismic data, seismic imaging techniques such as Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) serve as crucial tools. However, FWI involves solving a nonlinear and often non-unique inverse…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-06-10 Yuke Xie , Hervé Chauris , Nicolas Desassis

This paper deals with Tikhonov regularization for linear and nonlinear ill-posed operator equations with wavelet Besov norm penalties. We focus on $B^0_{p,1}$ penalty terms which yield estimators that are sparse with respect to a wavelet…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Thorsten Hohage , Philip Miller

Tikhonov regularization is studied in the case of linear pseudodifferential operator as the forward map and additive white Gaussian noise as the measurement error. The measurement model for an unknown function $u(x)$ is \begin{eqnarray*}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-03 Hanne Kekkonen , Matti Lassas , Samuli Siltanen

In the workflow of Full-Waveform Inversion (FWI), we often tune the parameters of the inversion to help us avoid cycle skipping and obtain high resolution models. For example, typically start by using objective functions that avoid cycle…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-02-11 Bingbing Sun , Tariq Alkhalifah

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a technique having the potential for building high-resolution elastic velocity models. We proposed to apply this technique to wireline monopole acoustic logging data to obtain the near wellbore formation…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-05-04 Huaigu Tang , Arthur Chuen Hon Cheng , Elita Yunyue Li , Xinding Fang