Transcending Classical Neural Network Boundaries: A Quantum-Classical Synergistic Paradigm for Seismic Data Processing

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Main Authors: Yuan, Zhengyi, Dong, Xintong, Wang, Xinyang, Cong, Zheng, Dong, Shiqi
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author Yuan, Zhengyi
Dong, Xintong
Wang, Xinyang
Cong, Zheng
Dong, Shiqi
author_facet Yuan, Zhengyi
Dong, Xintong
Wang, Xinyang
Cong, Zheng
Dong, Shiqi
contents In recent years, a number of neural-network (NN) methods have exhibited good performance in seismic data processing, such as denoising, interpolation, and frequency-band extension. However, these methods rely on stacked perceptrons and standard activation functions, which imposes a bottleneck on the representational capacity of deep-learning models, making it difficult to capture the complex and non-stationary dynamics of seismic wavefields. Different from the classical perceptron-stacked NNs which are fundamentally confined to real-valued Euclidean spaces, the quantum NNs leverage the exponential state space of quantum mechanics to map the features into high-dimensional Hilbert spaces, transcending the representational boundary of classical NNs. Based on this insight, we propose a quantum-classical synergistic generative adversarial network (QC-GAN) for seismic data processing, serving as the first application of quantum NNs in seismic exploration. In QC-GAN, a quantum pathway is used to exploit the high-order feature correlations, while the convolutional pathway specializes in extracting the waveform structures of seismic wavefields. Furthermore, we design a QC feature complementarity loss to enforce the feature orthogonality in the proposed QC-GAN. This novel loss function can ensure that the two pathways encode non-overlapping information to enrich the capacity of feature representation. On the whole, by synergistically integrating the quantum and convolutional pathways, the proposed QC-GAN breaks the representational bottleneck inherent in classical GAN. Experimental results on denoising and interpolation tasks demonstrate that QC-GAN preserves wavefield continuity and amplitude-phase information under complex noise conditions.
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spellingShingle Transcending Classical Neural Network Boundaries: A Quantum-Classical Synergistic Paradigm for Seismic Data Processing
Yuan, Zhengyi
Dong, Xintong
Wang, Xinyang
Cong, Zheng
Dong, Shiqi
Machine Learning
Geophysics
In recent years, a number of neural-network (NN) methods have exhibited good performance in seismic data processing, such as denoising, interpolation, and frequency-band extension. However, these methods rely on stacked perceptrons and standard activation functions, which imposes a bottleneck on the representational capacity of deep-learning models, making it difficult to capture the complex and non-stationary dynamics of seismic wavefields. Different from the classical perceptron-stacked NNs which are fundamentally confined to real-valued Euclidean spaces, the quantum NNs leverage the exponential state space of quantum mechanics to map the features into high-dimensional Hilbert spaces, transcending the representational boundary of classical NNs. Based on this insight, we propose a quantum-classical synergistic generative adversarial network (QC-GAN) for seismic data processing, serving as the first application of quantum NNs in seismic exploration. In QC-GAN, a quantum pathway is used to exploit the high-order feature correlations, while the convolutional pathway specializes in extracting the waveform structures of seismic wavefields. Furthermore, we design a QC feature complementarity loss to enforce the feature orthogonality in the proposed QC-GAN. This novel loss function can ensure that the two pathways encode non-overlapping information to enrich the capacity of feature representation. On the whole, by synergistically integrating the quantum and convolutional pathways, the proposed QC-GAN breaks the representational bottleneck inherent in classical GAN. Experimental results on denoising and interpolation tasks demonstrate that QC-GAN preserves wavefield continuity and amplitude-phase information under complex noise conditions.
title Transcending Classical Neural Network Boundaries: A Quantum-Classical Synergistic Paradigm for Seismic Data Processing
topic Machine Learning
Geophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23984