Optimal transport based seismic inversion: Beyond cycle skip**

B Engquist, Y Yang - Communications on Pure and Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Full‐waveform inversion (FWI) is today a standard process for the inverse problem of
seismic imaging. PDE‐constrained optimization is used to determine unknown parameters …

A mean field game inverse problem

L Ding, W Li, S Osher, W Yin - Journal of Scientific Computing, 2022 - Springer
Mean-field games arise in various fields, including economics, engineering, and machine
learning. They study strategic decision-making in large populations where the individuals …

Wasserstein of Wasserstein loss for learning generative models

Y Dukler, W Li, A Lin… - … conference on machine …, 2019 - proceedings.mlr.press
The Wasserstein distance serves as a loss function for unsupervised learning which
depends on the choice of a ground metric on sample space. We propose to use the …

Full waveform inversion using a high-dimensional local-coherence misfit function

Y Yu, J Yang, J Huang, W Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Conventional full-waveform seismic inversion (FWI) tries to estimate a subsurface model that
can accurately predict surface records by minimizing an-norm misfit between observed and …

Enhancing Seismic Waveform Inversion using a Three-Step Strategy with Adversarial Neural Networks and Seismic Envelope

W Tian, Y Liu, X Di - IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Seismic full waveform inversion (FWI) represents a state-of-the-art technique for estimating
the parameter model. Conventional FWI faces the challenge of cycle skip**, because it …

Application of an unbalanced optimal transport distance and a mixed L1/Wasserstein distance to full waveform inversion

D Li, MP Lamoureux, W Liao - Geophysical Journal International, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Full waveform inversion (FWI) is an important and popular technique in subsurface Earth
property estimation. In this paper, several improvements to the FWI methodology are …

Wasserstein metric-driven Bayesian inversion with applications to signal processing

M Motamed, D Appelo - International Journal for Uncertainty …, 2019 - dl.begellhouse.com
We present a Bayesian framework based on a new exponential likelihood function driven by
the quadratic Wasserstein metric. Compared to conventional Bayesian models based on …

[PDF][PDF] The Wasserstein–Fisher–Rao metric for waveform based earthquake location

D Zhou, J Chen, H Wu, D Yang, L Qiu - J. Comput. Math, 2023 - doc.global-sci.org
In this paper, we apply the Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao (WFR) metric from the unbalanced
optimal transport theory to the earthquake location problem. Compared with the quadratic …

The quadratic Wasserstein metric with squaring scaling for seismic velocity inversion

Z Li, Y Tang, J Chen, H Wu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2201.11305, 2022 - arxiv.org
The quadratic Wasserstein metric has shown its power in measuring the difference between
probability densities, which benefits optimization objective function with better convexity and …

Analysis and application of optimal transport for challenging seismic inverse problems

Y Yang - arxiv preprint arxiv:1902.01226, 2019 - arxiv.org
In seismic exploration, sources and measurements of seismic waves on the surface are
used to determine model parameters representing geophysical properties of the earth. Full …