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physics.geo-ph2026

Distributed Proximal Stein Variational Gradient Descent Algorithm for Large-scale Bayesian Inference in Traveltime Tomography

Akshay Vishwakarma, Kamal Aghazade, Ali Siahkoohi +1

We present a distributed framework for large-scale Bayesian inverse problems governed by the eikonal equation, with a specific focus on seismic traveltime tomography. Traditional d…

physics.geo-ph2025

Automatic Penalty Parameter Selection by Residual Whiteness Principle (RWP) and GCV for Full Waveform Inversion

Kamal Aghazade, Toktam Zand, Ali Gholami

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…

physics.geo-ph2025

Direct inversion of data-space Hessian for efficient time-domain extended-source waveform inversion using the multiplier method

Mahdi Sonbolestan, 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…

physics.geo-ph2025

Weighted Lagrange Multiplier Method for Robust Source-Independent Waveform Inversion

Ali Gholami, Kamal Aghazade, Akshay Vishwakarma

The Lagrange multiplier method has proven highly effective for mitigating the ill-conditioning of full waveform inversion (FWI), enabling robust and computationally efficient algor…

physics.geo-ph2025

Robust acoustic and elastic full waveform inversion by adaptive Tikhonov-TV regularization

Kamal Aghazade, Ali Gholami

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a powerful wave-based imaging technique, but its inherent ill-posedness and non-convexity lead to local minima and poor convergence. Regularization…

physics.geo-ph2025

Fast Azimuthally Anisotropic 3D Radon Transform by Generalized Fourier Slice Theorem

Ahmadreza Mokhtari, Ali Gholami

Expensive computation of the conventional sparse Radon transform limits its use for effective transformation of 3D anisotropic seismic data cubes. We introduce a fast algorithm for…

math.NA2025★ 9 cited

Optimal Space-Variant Anisotropic Tikhonov Regularization for Full Waveform Inversion of Sparse Data

Ali Gholami, Silvia Gazzola

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a challenging, ill-posed nonlinear inverse problem that requires robust regularization techniques to stabilize the solution and yield geologically…

physics.geo-ph2024

Fast and Automatic Full Waveform Inversion by Dual Augmented Lagrangian

Kamal Aghazade, 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…

physics.geo-ph2024

Robust Estimation of Structural Orientation Parameters and 2D/3D Local Anisotropic Tikhonov Regularization

Ali Gholami, Silvia Gazzola

Understanding the orientation of geological structures is crucial for analyzing the complexity of the Earths' subsurface. For instance, information about geological structure orien…

math.NA2024

Automatic nonstationary anisotropic Tikhonov regularization through bilevel optimization

Silvia Gazzola, Ali Gholami

Regularization techniques are necessary to compute meaningful solutions to discrete ill-posed inverse problems. The well-known 2-norm Tikhonov regularization method equipped with a…

math.NA2024

Robust elastic full-waveform inversion using an alternating direction method of multipliers with reconstructed wavefields

Kamal Aghazade, Ali Gholami, Hossein S. Aghamiry +1

Elastic full-waveform inversion (EFWI) is a process used to estimate subsurface properties by fitting seismic data while satisfying wave propagation physics. The problem is formula…