Deciphering Neural Reparameterized Full-Waveform Inversion with Neural Sensitivity Kernel and Wave Tangent Kernel

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14370v1
• Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 04:49:23 GMT
• Title: Deciphering Neural Reparameterized Full-Waveform Inversion with Neural Sensitivity Kernel and Wave Tangent Kernel
• Abstract summary: Full-waveform inversion (FWI) estimates unknown parameters in the wave equation from limited boundary measurements.<n>Recent advances in neural reparameterized FWI (NeurFWI) demonstrate that representing the parameters using a neural network can reduce the reliance on the high-quality initial model and wavefield data.<n>In this study, we establish the neural sensitivity kernel (NSK) and the wave tangent kernel (WTK) to analyze their convergence behavior from both model and data domains.
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• Abstract: Full-waveform inversion (FWI) estimates unknown parameters in the wave equation from limited boundary measurements. Recent advances in neural reparameterized FWI (NeurFWI) demonstrate that representing the parameters using a neural network can reduce the reliance on the high-quality initial model and wavefield data, at the cost of slow high-resolution convergence. However, its underlying theoretical mechanism remains unclear. In this study, we establish the neural sensitivity kernel (NSK) and the wave tangent kernel (WTK) to analyze their convergence behavior from both model and data domains. These theoretical frameworks show that the neural tangent kernel (NTK) induced by neural representation adaptively modulates the original sensitivity and wave tangent kernels. This modulation leads to several key outcomes, i.e., the spectral filtering effect, the gradient wavenumber modulation, and the wave frequency bias, connecting the convergence behavior of NeurFWI with the eigen-structures of NSK and WTK. Building on these insights, we propose several enhanced NeurFWI methods with tailored eigen-structures in NSK and WTK to improve inversion performances and efficiency. We numerically validate these theoretical claims and the proposed methods in seismic exploration, and firstly extend their application to medical imaging.

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