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Main Authors: Naiff, Danilo, Schaeffer, Bernardo P., Pires, Gustavo, Stojkovic, Dragan, Rapstine, Thomas, Ramos, Fabio
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.24083
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author Naiff, Danilo
Schaeffer, Bernardo P.
Pires, Gustavo
Stojkovic, Dragan
Rapstine, Thomas
Ramos, Fabio
author_facet Naiff, Danilo
Schaeffer, Bernardo P.
Pires, Gustavo
Stojkovic, Dragan
Rapstine, Thomas
Ramos, Fabio
contents Note: The final version of this article was published in Computers and Geosciences, Volume 206, January 2026, 106038. DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2025.106038. Readers should refer to the published version for the most up-to-date content. Three-dimensional digital reconstruction of porous media presents a fundamental challenge in geoscience, requiring simultaneous resolution of fine-scale pore structures while capturing representative elementary volumes. We introduce a computational framework that addresses this challenge through latent diffusion models operating within the EDM framework. Our approach reduces dimensionality via a custom variational autoencoder trained in binary geological volumes, improving efficiency and also enabling the generation of larger volumes than previously possible with diffusion models. A key innovation is our controlled unconditional sampling methodology, which enhances distribution coverage by first sampling target statistics from their empirical distributions, then generating samples conditioned on these values. Extensive testing on four distinct rock types demonstrates that conditioning on porosity - a readily computable statistic - is sufficient to ensure a consistent representation of multiple complex properties, including permeability, two-point correlation functions, and pore size distributions. The framework achieves better generation quality than pixel-space diffusion while enabling significantly larger volume reconstruction (256-cube voxels) with substantially reduced computational requirements, establishing a new state-of-the-art for digital rock physics applications.
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spellingShingle Controlled Latent Diffusion Models for 3D Porous Media Reconstruction
Naiff, Danilo
Schaeffer, Bernardo P.
Pires, Gustavo
Stojkovic, Dragan
Rapstine, Thomas
Ramos, Fabio
Geophysics
Machine Learning
Note: The final version of this article was published in Computers and Geosciences, Volume 206, January 2026, 106038. DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2025.106038. Readers should refer to the published version for the most up-to-date content. Three-dimensional digital reconstruction of porous media presents a fundamental challenge in geoscience, requiring simultaneous resolution of fine-scale pore structures while capturing representative elementary volumes. We introduce a computational framework that addresses this challenge through latent diffusion models operating within the EDM framework. Our approach reduces dimensionality via a custom variational autoencoder trained in binary geological volumes, improving efficiency and also enabling the generation of larger volumes than previously possible with diffusion models. A key innovation is our controlled unconditional sampling methodology, which enhances distribution coverage by first sampling target statistics from their empirical distributions, then generating samples conditioned on these values. Extensive testing on four distinct rock types demonstrates that conditioning on porosity - a readily computable statistic - is sufficient to ensure a consistent representation of multiple complex properties, including permeability, two-point correlation functions, and pore size distributions. The framework achieves better generation quality than pixel-space diffusion while enabling significantly larger volume reconstruction (256-cube voxels) with substantially reduced computational requirements, establishing a new state-of-the-art for digital rock physics applications.
title Controlled Latent Diffusion Models for 3D Porous Media Reconstruction
topic Geophysics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.24083