Physics-informed waveform inversion using pretrained wavefield neural operators

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08967v2
• Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 04:33:19 GMT
• Title: Physics-informed waveform inversion using pretrained wavefield neural operators
• Authors: Xinquan Huang, Fu Wang, Tariq Alkhalifah,
• Abstract summary: Full waveform inversion (FWI) is crucial for reconstructing high-resolution subsurface models.<n>Recent attempts to accelerate FWI using learned wavefield neural operators have shown promise in efficiency and differentiability.<n>We introduce a novel physics-informed FWI framework to enhance the inversion in accuracy while maintaining the efficiency of neural operator-based FWI.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Full waveform inversion (FWI) is crucial for reconstructing high-resolution subsurface models, but it is often hindered, considering the limited data, by its null space resulting in low-resolution models, and more importantly, by its computational cost, especially if needed for real-time applications. Recent attempts to accelerate FWI using learned wavefield neural operators have shown promise in efficiency and differentiability, but typically suffer from noisy and unstable inversion performance. To address these limitations, we introduce a novel physics-informed FWI framework to enhance the inversion in accuracy while maintaining the efficiency of neural operator-based FWI. Instead of relying only on the L2 norm objective function via automatic differentiation, resulting in noisy model reconstruction, we integrate a physics constraint term in the loss function of FWI, improving the quality of the inverted velocity models. Specifically, starting with an initial model to simulate wavefields and then evaluating the loss over how much the resulting wavefield obeys the physical laws (wave equation) and matches the recorded data, we achieve a reduction in noise and artifacts. Numerical experiments using the OpenFWI and Overthrust models demonstrate our method's superior performance, offering cleaner and more accurate subsurface velocity than vanilla approaches. Considering the efficiency of the approach compared to FWI, this advancement represents a significant step forward in the practical application of FWI for real-time subsurface monitoring.

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