Accelerating Full-Waveform Inversion with Fourier Neural Operators

Luis Vazquez, Qingkai Kong, Eric Matzel, Caifeng Zou, Youngsoo Choi, Zachary E. Ross, Kamyar Azizzadenesheli, & Robert W. Clayton

Published September 8, 2024, SCEC Contribution #13524, 2024 SCEC Annual Meeting Poster #005 (PDF)

Full-Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a powerful tool to determine earth structure models, but it is a computationally expensive approach. To alleviate this, numerous techniques have been proposed to perform FWI more rapidly by leveraging different machine learning paradigms. Here, we employ the recently developed U-NO (U-shaped Fourier Neural Operator) to achieve fast inversion.

Previous studies have shown that Fourier Neural Operator based approach can reduce the computational time for FWI by a factor of 350. This work shows the FWI results obtained from a U-NO model trained using the high-performance computing facilities at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on a 64x64x64 grid-cube. The model is trained using waveforms from 30,000 different Gaussian random velocity models generated by the spectral-element method. We explore the U-NO model capabilities and limitations with a series of experiments. Our initial results show promising inversions using automatic differentiation of the U-NO model. Finally, we are exploring to implement the workflow to a real dataset, which will be also discussed.

This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. The document number is LLNL-ABS-XXXXXX.

Citation
Vazquez, L., Kong, Q., Matzel, E., Zou, C., Choi, Y., Ross, Z. E., Azizzadenesheli, K., & Clayton, R. W. (2024, 09). Accelerating Full-Waveform Inversion with Fourier Neural Operators. Poster Presentation at 2024 SCEC Annual Meeting.

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