Feature-based Inversion of 2.5D Controlled Source Electromagnetic Data using Generative Priors

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Autori principali: Zhou, Hongyu, Sun, Haoran, Guo, Rui, Li, Maokun, Yang, Fan, Xu, Shenheng
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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author Zhou, Hongyu
Sun, Haoran
Guo, Rui
Li, Maokun
Yang, Fan
Xu, Shenheng
author_facet Zhou, Hongyu
Sun, Haoran
Guo, Rui
Li, Maokun
Yang, Fan
Xu, Shenheng
contents In this study, we investigate feature-based 2.5D controlled source marine electromagnetic (mCSEM) data inversion using generative priors. Two-and-half dimensional modeling using finite difference method (FDM) is adopted to compute the response of horizontal electric dipole (HED) excitation. Rather than using a neural network to approximate the entire inverse mapping in a black-box manner, we adopt a plug-andplay strategy in which a variational autoencoder (VAE) is used solely to learn prior information on conductivity distributions. During the inversion process, the conductivity model is iteratively updated using the Gauss Newton method, while the model space is constrained by projections onto the learned VAE decoder. This framework preserves explicit control over data misfit and enables flexible adaptation to different survey configurations. Numerical and field experiments demonstrate that the proposed approach effectively incorporates prior information, improves reconstruction accuracy, and exhibits good generalization performance.
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spellingShingle Feature-based Inversion of 2.5D Controlled Source Electromagnetic Data using Generative Priors
Zhou, Hongyu
Sun, Haoran
Guo, Rui
Li, Maokun
Yang, Fan
Xu, Shenheng
Geophysics
Machine Learning
In this study, we investigate feature-based 2.5D controlled source marine electromagnetic (mCSEM) data inversion using generative priors. Two-and-half dimensional modeling using finite difference method (FDM) is adopted to compute the response of horizontal electric dipole (HED) excitation. Rather than using a neural network to approximate the entire inverse mapping in a black-box manner, we adopt a plug-andplay strategy in which a variational autoencoder (VAE) is used solely to learn prior information on conductivity distributions. During the inversion process, the conductivity model is iteratively updated using the Gauss Newton method, while the model space is constrained by projections onto the learned VAE decoder. This framework preserves explicit control over data misfit and enables flexible adaptation to different survey configurations. Numerical and field experiments demonstrate that the proposed approach effectively incorporates prior information, improves reconstruction accuracy, and exhibits good generalization performance.
title Feature-based Inversion of 2.5D Controlled Source Electromagnetic Data using Generative Priors
topic Geophysics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02145