Self-Flow-Matching assisted Full Waveform Inversion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.13425v1
• Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 02:10:01 GMT
• Title: Self-Flow-Matching assisted Full Waveform Inversion
• Abstract summary: Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a high-resolution seismic imaging method that estimates subsurface velocity by matching simulated and recorded waveforms.<n>FWI is highly nonlinear, prone to cycle skipping, and sensitive to noise.<n>We introduce Self-Flow-Matching assisted Full-Waveform Inversion (SFM-FWI), a physics-driven framework that eliminates the need for large-scale offline pretraining.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a high-resolution seismic imaging method that estimates subsurface velocity by matching simulated and recorded waveforms. However, FWI is highly nonlinear, prone to cycle skipping, and sensitive to noise, particularly when low frequencies are missing or the initial model is poor, leading to failures under imperfect acquisition. Diffusion-regularized FWI introduces generative priors to encourage geologically realistic models, but these priors typically require costly offline pretraining and can deteriorate under distribution shift. Moreover, they assume Gaussian initialization and a fixed noise schedule, in which it is unclear how to map a deterministic FWI iterate and its starting model to a well-defined diffusion time or noise level. To address these limitations, we introduce Self-Flow-Matching assisted Full-Waveform Inversion (SFM-FWI), a physics-driven framework that eliminates the need for large-scale offline pretraining while avoiding the noise-level alignment ambiguity. SFM-FWI leverages flow matching to learn a transport field without assuming Gaussian initialization or a predefined noise schedule, so the initial model can be used directly as the starting point of the dynamics. Our approach trains a single flow network online using the governing physics and observed data. At each outer iteration, we build an interpolated model and update the flow by backpropagating the FWI data misfit, providing self-supervision without external training pairs. Experiments on challenging synthetic benchmarks show that SFM-FWI delivers more accurate reconstructions, greater noise robustness, and more stable convergence than standard FWI and pretraining-free regularization methods.

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