@unpublished {zeng2026IMAGEssn,
	title = {Self-attention summary networks for subsurface velocity-model building from common-image gathers},
	year = {2026},
	month = {3},
	abstract = {Common-image gathers (CIGs) contain physically meaningful information about velocity-model errors through reflector focusing and residual moveout, but in conventional imaging workflows they are typically used only as diagnostic tools. In this work, we propose a multiscale self-attention summary network that maps high-dimensional 3D CIG volumes into compact conditioning embeddings for probabilistic subsurface velocity inversion. These learned embeddings preserve offset-dependent kinematic structure and spatial coherence while reducing variability caused by background-velocity mismatch. Conditioned on these summary embeddings, a flow-matching model learns a transport from a Gaussian source distribution to the posterior distribution of plausible velocity fields. Numerical experiments show that, compared with direct conditioning on raw CIGs, the proposed summary network improves posterior velocity inference. In particular, the multiscale attention design provides greater robustness to background-model mismatch, yielding more accurate posterior reconstructions and lower predictive uncertainty.},
	keywords = {attention, Bayesian inference, CIG, deep learning, diffusion models, FWI, IMAGE, Imaging, Inverse problems, learned summary statistics, RTM, SEG, uncertainty calibration, Uncertainty quantification, velocity model building, WISE},
	url = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Submitted/2026/zeng2026IMAGEssn/abstract.html},
	url2 = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Submitted/2026/zeng2026IMAGEssn/IMAGE_Shiqin.pdf},
	author = {Shiqin Zeng and Yunlin Zeng and Abhinav Prakash Gahlot and Zijun Deng and Felix J. Herrmann}
}
@conference {herrmann20205IMAGEapg,
	title = {Attention Please: Getting the Most from CIGs with Learned Summary Statistics},
	booktitle = {International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy},
	year = {2025},
	month = {8},
	keywords = {attention, Bayesian inference, CIG, deep learning, diffusion models, FWI, IMAGE, Imaging, Inverse problems, learned summary statistics, RTM, SEG, uncertainty calibration, Uncertainty quantification, velocity model building, WISE},
	url = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Conferences/SEG/2025/herrmann20205IMAGEapg},
	author = {Shiqin Zeng and Rafael Orozco and Yunlin Zeng and Huseyin Tuna Erdinc and Abhinav Prakash Gahlot and Felix J. Herrmann}
}
@conference {zeng2025ML4SEISMICssn,
	title = {Self-attention summary networks for velocity model building from common-image gathers},
	booktitle = {ML4SEISMIC Partners Meeting},
	year = {2025},
	month = {11},
	abstract = {This study develops a self-attention-based summary network designed to efficiently encode and compress seismic information residing in subsurface-offset Common Image Gathers (CIGs) into low-dimensional latent representations suitable for conditional machine-learning enabled velocity-model building. The proposed network functions as a compact seismic encoder that captures global spatial dependencies through self-attention mechanisms while preserving essential local structural features critical for accurate reconstruction. When integrated within a flow matching generative network, the summary network learns to effectively summarize seismic information from CIGs via a new multi-scale attention mechanisms. This integration enables efficient training and inference, facilitating fast and physically consistent generation of seismic velocity models conditioned on CIGs.},
	keywords = {attention, CIG, deep learning, flow-matching, Generative models, ML4SEISMIC, SLIM, Summary Statistics, Uncertainty quantification},
	url = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Conferences/ML4SEISMIC/2025/zeng2025ML4SEISMICssn},
	author = {Shiqin Zeng and Abhinav Prakash Gahlot and Yunlin Zeng and Zijun Deng and Felix J. Herrmann}
}
