@unpublished {park2026IMAGEnoa,
	title = {Neural Operators with Accurate Jacobian for High-Fidelity Image-Domain Seismic Inversion},
	year = {2026},
	month = {3},
	abstract = {Neural operators (NOs) provide efficient surrogates for wave-equation-based imaging operators, but accurate forward prediction alone does not guarantee reliable inversion. As inversion updates depend on the adjoint Jacobian, errors in learned sensitivities lead to unphysical updates and degraded quality in recovered models. To this end, we propose a Jacobian-informed training strategy that enforces accuracy in Jacobian in the directions where gradient descent occurs during Least-Squares. Numerical experiments with Fourier Neural Operators demonstrate that supervising only a small fraction ($0.1 \sim 0.01\%$) of Jacobian information significantly improves gradient quality and leads to more accurate subsurface velocity reconstruction. In particular, the proposed approach reduces mid to deep layer artifacts and improves structural continuity compared to models trained only with forward misfit term. These results highlight that learning inversion-relevant sensitivities, rather than forward mappings alone, is critical for reliable surrogate-assisted seismic inversion.},
	keywords = {deep learning, derivative-informed, Fisher-information, FNO, IMAGE, Imaging, Inverse problems, reduced-order modeling, RTM, SEG, Uncertainty quantification},
	url = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Submitted/2026/park2026IMAGEnoa/abstract.html},
	url2 = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Submitted/2026/park2026IMAGEnoa/IMAGE_Jayjay.pdf},
	author = {Jeongjin Park and Huseyin Tuna Erdinc and Grant Bruer and Richard Rex and Nisha Chandramoorthy and Felix J. Herrmann}
}
@conference {rex2024IMAGEvc,
	title = {Velocity Continuation for Common Image Gathers with Fourier Neural Operators},
	booktitle = {International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy},
	year = {2024},
	month = {8},
	abstract = {Common-image gathers (CIGs) are pivotal in migration-velocity analysis (MVA). However, MVA is often hindered by the computational burden of traditional migration methods. To bypass these limitations, we introduce a neural-surrogate learning approach that utilizes Fourier Neural Operators (FNOs, Li et al. 2020) to accelerate MVA. Following the velocity-continuation scheme of Siahkoohi, Louboutin, and Herrmann (2022), we train a survey-specific FNO to map the CIGs associated with one migration-velocity model to another without remigration. This methodology leverages the capacity of FNOs to approximate complex PDE-based mappings, rendering computational cost at inference negligible, thereby expediting MVA. By enabling rapid generation and evaluation of CIGs across various velocity models, it offers a pathway to quickly examine velocity models according to preferred properties and to quantify uncertainties in imaged reflectivities at the same time. Additionally, this methodology paves the way for inverse design optimization, updating velocity models to produce CIGs with desirable characteristics.},
	keywords = {CIG, deep learning, FNO, IMAGE, Imaging, SEG, Uncertainty quantification, velocity continuation},
	url = {https://slimgroup.github.io/IMAGE2024/Rex2024SEG/paper.html},
	author = {Richard Rex and Ziyi Yin and Felix J. Herrmann}
}
@article {louboutin2023lmi,
	title = {Learned multiphysics inversion with differentiable programming and machine learning},
	journal = {The Leading Edge},
	volume = {42},
	year = {2023},
	note = {(The Leading Edge)},
	month = {07},
	pages = {452-516},
	abstract = {We present the Seismic Laboratory for Imaging and Modeling/Monitoring (SLIM) open-source software framework for computational geophysics and, more generally, inverse problems involving the wave-equation (e.g., seismic and medical ultrasound), regularization with learned priors, and learned neural surrogates for multiphase flow simulations. By integrating multiple layers of abstraction, our software is designed to be both readable and scalable. This allows researchers to easily formulate their problems in an abstract fashion while exploiting the latest developments in high-performance computing. We illustrate and demonstrate our design principles and their benefits by means of building a scalable prototype for permeability inversion from time-lapse crosswell seismic data, which aside from coupling of wave physics and multiphase flow, involves machine learning.},
	keywords = {CCS, deep learning, Fourier neural operators, GCS, Imaging, inversion, invertible networks, machine learning, monitoring, multiphysics, Normalizing flows, SLIM, software, time-lapse},
	url = {https://library.seg.org/doi/10.1190/tle42070474.1},
	presentation = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Journals/TheLeadingEdge/2023/louboutin2023lmi/le_software.pdf},
	url2 = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Journals/TheLeadingEdge/2023/louboutin2023lmi/le_software.html},
	author = {Mathias Louboutin and Ziyi Yin and Rafael Orozco and Thomas J. Grady II and Ali Siahkoohi and Gabrio Rizzuti and Philipp A. Witte and Olav M{\o}yner and Gerard J. Gorman and Felix J. Herrmann}
}
@conference {siahkoohi2022SEGWSrav,
	title = {Reliable amortized variational inference with conditional normalizing flows via physics-based latent distribution correction},
	booktitle = {IMAGE Workshop on Subsurface Uncertainty Description and Estimation - Moving Away from Single Prediction with Distribution Learning},
	year = {2022},
	note = {(IMAGE Workshop, Houston)},
	month = {09},
	abstract = {Bayesian inference for high-dimensional inverse problems is challenged by the computational costs associated with the forward operator during posterior sampling, as well as the selection of an appropriate prior distribution that encodes our prior knowledge about the unknown. Amortized variational inference addresses these challenges by pretraining a conditional normalizing flow (cNF) that approximates the posterior distribution over the existing model and data joint samples where the prior is implicitly learned from the data. When fed data and normally distributed latent samples as input, the pretrained cNF provides posterior samples for previously unseen data virtually for free. The accuracy of this purely data-driven approach, however, is dependent on the availability of high-fidelity training data, which is rarely the case with geophysical inverse problems, due to the highly heterogeneous structure of the Earth. To overcome this challenge and to minimize the negative bias of data distribution shifts during inference, we propose learning a physics-based correction to the cNF latent distribution to provide a more accurate approximation to the posterior distribution. We accomplish this by parameterizing the cNF latent distribution by a Gaussian distribution with an unknown mean and diagonal covariance, which are estimated by minimizing the Kullback-Leibler divergence between the corrected posterior distribution estimate and the true posterior distribution. For a relatively well-trained cNF, this approach provides reliable posterior samples with a limited computational cost while remaining bound to data and physics. We showcase the computational gains of this approach on a "quasi" real seismic imaging example.},
	keywords = {Bayesian inference, deep learning, Generative models, Imaging, Inverse problems, SEG, Uncertainty quantification, workshop},
	url = {https://www.imageevent.org/Workshop/subsurface-uncertainty-description-estimation-moving-away-single-prediction-distribution-learning},
	presentation = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Conferences/SEG/2022/siahkoohi2022SEGWSrav/Thur-15-55-Siahkoohi.pdf},
	author = {Ali Siahkoohi and Gabrio Rizzuti and Rafael Orozco and Felix J. Herrmann}
}
@presentation {siahkoohi2021ML4SEISMICuqi,
	title = {Uncertainty quantification in imaging and automatic horizon tracking{\textemdash}a Bayesian deep-prior based approach},
	year = {2021},
	month = {11},
	abstract = {In inverse problems, uncertainty quantification (UQ) deals with a probabilistic description of the solution nonuniqueness and data noise sensitivity. Setting seismic imaging into a Bayesian framework allows for a principled way of studying uncertainty by solving for the model posterior distribution. Imaging, however, typically constitutes only the first stage of a sequential workflow, and UQ becomes even more relevant when applied to subsequent tasks that are highly sensitive to the inversion outcome. In this paper, we focus on how UQ trickles down to horizon tracking for the determination of stratigraphic models and investigate its sensitivity with respect to the imaging result. As such, the main contribution of this work consists in a data-guided approach to horizon tracking uncertainty analysis. This work is fundamentally based on a special reparameterization of reflectivity, known as {\textquotedblleft}deep prior{\textquotedblright}. Feasible models are restricted to the output of a convolutional neural network with a fixed input, while weights and biases are Gaussian random variables. Given a deep prior model, the network parameters are sampled from the posterior distribution via a Markov chain Monte Carlo method, from which the conditional mean and point-wise standard deviation of the inferred reflectivities are approximated. For each sample of the posterior distribution, a reflectivity is generated, and the horizons are tracked automatically. In this way, uncertainty on model parameters naturally translates to horizon tracking. As part of the validation for the proposed approach, we verified that the estimated confidence intervals for the horizon tracking coincide with geologically complex regions, such as faults.},
	keywords = {horizon picking, Imaging, machine learning, ML4SEISMIC, SLIM, Uncertainty quantification},
	url = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Conferences/ML4SEISMIC/2021/siahkoohi2021ML4SEISMICuqi/Mon-11-20-Siahkoohi.pdf},
	author = {Ali Siahkoohi and Gabrio Rizzuti and Felix J. Herrmann}
}
@conference {siahkoohi2020SIAMISsiu,
	title = {Seismic Imaging with Uncertainty Quantification: Sampling from the Posterior with Generative Networks},
	booktitle = {SIAM Conference on Imaging Science},
	year = {2020},
	note = {IS20},
	month = {7},
	abstract = {n/a},
	keywords = {Imaging, invertible networks, IS20, McMC, Uncertainty quantification},
	url = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Conferences/SIAMIS/2020/siahkoohi2020SIAMISsiu/siahkoohi2020SIAMISsiu_pres.pdf},
	author = {Ali Siahkoohi and Philipp A. Witte and Mathias Louboutin and Felix J. Herrmann and Gabrio Rizzuti}
}
@conference {siahkoohi2020SEGuqi,
	title = {Uncertainty quantification in imaging and automatic horizon tracking{\textemdash}a Bayesian deep-prior based approach},
	booktitle = {SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts},
	year = {2020},
	note = {(SEG, virtual)},
	month = {09},
	pages = {1636-1640},
	abstract = {In inverse problems, uncertainty quantification (UQ) deals with a probabilistic description of the solution nonuniqueness and data noise sensitivity. Setting seismic imaging into a Bayesian framework allows for a principled way of studying uncertainty by solving for the model posterior distribution. Imaging, however, typically constitutes only the first stage of a sequential workflow, and UQ becomes even more relevant when applied to subsequent tasks that are highly sensitive to the inversion outcome. In this paper, we focus on how UQ trickles down to horizon tracking for the determination of stratigraphic models and investigate its sensitivity with respect to the imaging result. As such, the main contribution of this work consists in a data-guided approach to horizon tracking uncertainty analysis. This work is fundamentally based on a special reparameterization of reflectivity, known as "deep prior". Feasible models are restricted to the output of a convolutional neural network with a fixed input, while weights and biases are Gaussian random variables. Given a deep prior model, the network parameters are sampled from the posterior distribution via a Markov chain Monte Carlo method, from which the conditional mean and point-wise standard deviation of the inferred reflectivities are approximated. For each sample of the posterior distribution, a reflectivity is generated, and the horizons are tracked automatically. In this way, uncertainty on model parameters naturally translates to horizon tracking. As part of the validation for the proposed approach, we verified that the estimated confidence intervals for the horizon tracking coincide with geologically complex regions, such as faults.},
	keywords = {horizon picking, Imaging, machine learning, SEG, Uncertainty quantification},
	doi = {10.1190/segam2020-3417560.1},
	url = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Conferences/SEG/2020/siahkoohi2020SEGuqi/siahkoohi2020SEGuqi.html},
	presentation = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Conferences/SEG/2020/siahkoohi2020SEGuqi/siahkoohi2020SEGuqi_pres.pdf},
	url2 = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Conferences/SEG/2020/siahkoohi2020SEGuqi/siahkoohi2020SEGuqi_pres.mp4},
	software = {https://github.com/slimgroup/Software.SEG2020},
	author = {Ali Siahkoohi and Gabrio Rizzuti and Felix J. Herrmann}
}
@presentation {herrmann2019HOTCSEliwcuq,
	title = {Learned imaging with constraints and uncertainty quantification},
	year = {2019},
	note = {(HotCSE)},
	abstract = {We outline new approaches to incorporate ideas from convolutional networks into wave-based least-squares imaging. The aim is to combine hand-crafted constraints with deep convolutional networks allowing us to directly train a network capable of generating samples from the posterior. The main contributions include combination of weak deep priors with hard handcrafted constraints and a possible new way to sample the posterior.},
	keywords = {deep learning, Expectation Maximization, HotCSE, Imaging, Uncertainty quantification},
	url = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Lectures/HotCSE/2019/herrmann2019HOTCSEliwcuq/herrmann2019HOTCSEliwcuq.pdf},
	author = {Felix J. Herrmann and Ali Siahkoohi and Gabrio Rizzuti}
}
@conference {herrmann2019NIPSliwcuc,
	title = {Learned imaging with constraints and uncertainty quantification},
	booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
	year = {2019},
	note = {(NIPS, Vancouver)},
	month = {12},
	abstract = {We outline new approaches to incorporate ideas from convolutional networks into wave-based least-squares imaging. The aim is to combine hand-crafted constraints with deep convolutional networks allowing us to directly train a network capable of generating samples from the posterior. The main contributions include combination of weak deep priors with hard handcrafted constraints and a possible new way to sample the posterior.},
	keywords = {constraint, deep learning, Imaging, Uncertainty quantification},
	url = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Conferences/NIPS/2019/herrmann2019NIPSliwcuc/herrmann2019NIPSliwcuc.html},
	presentation = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Conferences/NIPS/2019/herrmann2019NIPSliwcuc/herrmann2019NIPSliwcuc_pres.pdf},
	url2 = {https://openreview.net/pdf?id=Hyet2Q29IS},
	author = {Felix J. Herrmann and Ali Siahkoohi and Gabrio Rizzuti}
}
