ROMNet: a hybrid reduced order modeling and machine learning approach to waveform inversion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25160v1
• Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:13:39 GMT
• Title: ROMNet: a hybrid reduced order modeling and machine learning approach to waveform inversion
• Abstract summary: Waveform inversion seeks to estimate the wave speed of a heterogeneous, inaccessible medium.<n>We introduce the methodology, called ROMNet, and test it with numerical simulations.<n>We compare the performance of ROMNet with the direct ROM-based inversion and with two representative deep learning approaches to FWI.
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• Abstract: Waveform inversion seeks to estimate the wave speed of a heterogeneous, inaccessible medium, from time-resolved measurements of the waves at user controlled sensors. We consider this inverse problem for acoustic waves and an active array of source/receiver sensors that emit probing signals and measure the generated pressure waves. The forward map, from the wave speed to the measurements, is nonlinear and oscillatory. The oscillations cause cycle skipping, the main impediment to using the standard, nonlinear least-squares data fitting formulation, known as full waveform inversion (FWI). A recently introduced alternative waveform inversion approach computes from the measurements an algebraic surrogate of the wave operator, a reduced order model (ROM) matrix, which is then used to estimate the wave speed. The mapping from the measurements to the ROM is nonlinear, but well understood. It is computed efficiently, in a non-iterative manner. The nonlinear mapping from the ROM to the wave speed is less understood, and its approximation involves time-consuming optimization. Our goal in this paper is to use a neural network to map the ROM matrix to a nearby one, that has a simpler and explicit dependence on the wave speed. This simplifies and reduces the computational cost of the ROM-based waveform inversion. We introduce the methodology, called ROMNet, and test it with numerical simulations, using two training data sets: The first set consists of random media with variations of the wave speed modeled by a superposition of Gaussians with random amplitudes and standard deviations. The second is the publicly available GeoFWI dataset introduced for benchmarking FWI using deep learning. We compare the performance of ROMNet with the direct ROM-based inversion and with two representative deep learning approaches to FWI: ``Fourier-DeepONet" and ``InversionNet".

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