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most citedSignal Enhancement in Distributed Acoustic Sensing Data Using a Guided Unsupervised Deep Learning Network

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physics.geo-ph2026

Depth-progressive 3D seismic velocity model building via 2D generative diffusion models

Shijun Cheng, Randy Harsuko, Mohammad H. Taufik +1

Three-dimensional (3D) velocity model building (VMB) remains computationally challenging with conventional approaches and native 3D neural networks, largely due to the prohibitive…

physics.geo-ph2026

Coarse-to-fine multi-resolution hash encoding for implicit full waveform inversion

Linrong Wang, Shaowen Wang, Fan Min +1

Implicit full waveform inversion (IFWI) reparameterizes the velocity model with a neural network, but it suffers from spectral bias and requires many iterations to converge. Multi-…

physics.geo-ph2026

Shallow-to-deep velocity model building via diffusion models-Part II: Realistic scenarios

Shijun Cheng, Randy Harsuko, Tariq Alkhalifah

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) requires accurate initial velocity models to avoid cycle-skipping, but constructing such models remains challenging in practice. Building on the depth…

physics.geo-ph2026

Shallow-to-deep velocity model building via diffusion models-Part I: Method and Proof of concept

Shijun Cheng, Randy Harsuko, Tariq Alkhalifah

Seismic velocity model building (VMB) is fundamental for understanding subsurface structures. Traditional methods demand high-quality starting models and, also, remain limited in r…

physics.geo-ph2026

Post-FWI Injection of Learned Priors Using a Flow Matching Model

Hao Zhang, Tariq Alkhalifah

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a powerful tool for subsurface velocity reconstruction but remains highly ill-posed, sensitive to acquisition limitations, often requiring some for…

physics.geo-ph2026

Estimation of Elastic Parameters with Guidance-based Diffusion model

Anjali Dixit, Francesco Brandolin, Tariq Alkhalifah

Elastic parameters are fundamental rock properties for reservoir characterization, but their reliable estimation from angle-stack seismic data remains challenging due to strong non…

physics.geo-ph2026

Joint Velocity Slope Diffusion Prior for Structurally Constrained Velocity Model Building

Francesco Brandolin, Tariq Alkhalifah

High-resolution velocity models are crucial for reservoir characterization and subsurface delineation. However, the band limited nature of our surface recorded data limits resoluti…

physics.geo-ph2026

Generative wave propagator

Shijun Cheng, Tariq Alkhalifah

Seismic wavefield simulation is fundamental to seismology, but conventional finite-difference (FD) methods remain limited by numerical dispersion and stability constraints, which o…

physics.geo-ph2026

Mitigating cycle skipping in full waveform inversion using max-pooling-based approximate envelope and shot patching

Xinru Mu, Omar M. Saad, Shaowen Wang +1

Full waveform inversion (FWI) can produce accurate subsurface velocity models. However, the lack of sufficiently low-frequency content in field data often causes cycle skipping and…

cs.LG2026

A Green-Integral-Constrained Neural Solver with Stochastic Physics-Informed Regularization

Mohammad Mahdi Abedi, David Pardo, Tariq Alkhalifah

Standard physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) struggle to simulate highly oscillatory Helmholtz solutions in heterogeneous media because pointwise minimization of second-order…

physics.geo-ph2026

Velocity Model Building and Editing with Guided Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models

Francesco Brandolin, Tariq Alkhalifah

Velocity-model building is a fundamental component of seismic imaging, yet it remains a challenging inverse problem due to limited data coverage, nonlinearity, and the need to inte…

cs.LG2026

LAViG-FLOW: Latent Autoregressive Video Generation for Fluid Flow Simulations

Vittoria De Pellegrini, Tariq Alkhalifah

Modeling and forecasting subsurface multiphase fluid flow fields underpin applications ranging from geological CO2 sequestration (GCS) operations to geothermal production. This is…

cs.LG2026

Target noise: A pre-training based neural network initialization for efficient high resolution learning

Shaowen Wang, Tariq Alkhalifah

Weight initialization plays a crucial role in the optimization behavior and convergence efficiency of neural networks. Most existing initialization methods, such as Xavier and Kaim…

physics.geo-ph2026

Propagating the prior from far to near offset: A self-supervised diffusion framework for progressively recovering near-offsets of towed-streamer data

Shijun Cheng, Tariq Alkhalifah

In marine towed-streamer seismic acquisition, the nearest hydrophone is often two hundred meter away from the source resulting in missing near-offset traces, which degrades critica…

cs.LG2025

Diffusion priors enhanced velocity model building from time-lag images using a neural operator

Xiao Ma, Mohammad Hasyim Taufik, Tariq Alkhalifah

Velocity model building serves as a crucial component for achieving high precision subsurface imaging. However, conventional velocity model building methods are often computational…

physics.geo-ph2025

Diffusion Model-Based Posterior Sampling in Full Waveform Inversion

Mohammad H. Taufik, Tariq Alkhalifah

Bayesian full waveform inversion (FWI) offers uncertainty-aware subsurface models; however, posterior sampling directly on observed seismic shot records is rarely practical at the…

physics.geo-ph2025

High-resolution velocity model estimation with neural operator and the time-shift imaging condition

Xiao Ma, Shaowen Wang, Tariq Alkhalifah

Extracting subsurface velocity information from seismic data is mainly an undetermined problem that requires injecting a priori information to constrain the inversion process. Mach…

physics.geo-ph2025

Velocity model building from seismic images using a Convolutional Neural Operator

Xiao Ma, Tariq Alkhalifah

The success of building a high-resolution velocity model using machine learning is hampered by generalization limitations that often limit the success of the approach on field data…

physics.geo-ph2025

A Deep-Learning-Driven Optimization-Based Inverse Solver for Accelerating the Marchenko Method

Ning Wang, Tariq Alkhalifah

The Marchenko method is a powerful tool for reconstructing full-wavefield Green's functions using surface-recorded seismic data. These Green's functions can then be utilized to pro…

physics.geo-ph2025

Inspired by machine learning optimization: can gradient-based optimizers solve cycle skipping in full waveform inversion given sufficient iterations?

Xinru Mu, Omar M. Saad, Shaowen Wang +1

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…

physics.geo-ph2025

Efficient Upside-Down Rayleigh-Marchenko Imaging through Self-Supervised Focusing Function Estimation

Ning Wang, Matteo Ravasi, Tariq Alkhalifah

The Upside-Down Rayleigh-Marchenko (UD-RM) method has recently emerged as a powerful tool for retrieving subsurface wavefields and images free from artifacts caused by both interna…

physics.geo-ph2025

An effective physics-informed neural operator framework for predicting wavefields

Xiao Ma, Tariq Alkhalifah

Solving the wave equation is fundamental for geophysical applications. However, numerical solutions of the Helmholtz equation face significant computational and memory challenges.…

physics.geo-ph2025

Physics-informed conditional diffusion model for generalizable elastic wave-mode separation

Shijun Cheng, Xinru Mu, Tariq Alkhalifah

Traditional elastic wavefield separation methods, while accurate, often demand substantial computational resources, especially for large geological models or 3D scenarios. Purely d…

physics.geo-ph2025

DiffPINN: Generative diffusion-initialized physics-informed neural networks for accelerating seismic wavefield representation

Shijun Cheng, Tariq Alkhalifah

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) offer a powerful framework for seismic wavefield modeling, yet they typically require time-consuming retraining when applied to different v…