Autoregressive modelling, successful in language tasks, is applied to mineral‑exploration drillholes where lithology is revealed sequentially from shallow to deep. The authors introduce DrillBench, a benchmark of 49,671 Western Australian drillholes for next‑layer prediction and autoregressive stratigraphic generation across a graded transfer spectrum. Experiments show that spatial conditioning helps locally but fails under strong shift, while autoregressive models transfer more robustly; a backbone‑agnostic recipe combining large‑scale pretraining and spatial retrieval improves generalisation, especially in distant geological splits.
By Yihao Ding, Daniel Yitian Su, Yiran Zhang, Christopher M. Gonzalez, Wei Liu
arXiv:2609.36193v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Learning from scientific measurements often requires aligning modalities with different spatial support and resolution. Subsurface characterization is...
By Meher Gajula, Keyla Gonzalez, Ben Lasscock, Alejandro Valenciano
arXiv:2608. 02629v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The use of variable well perforation and injection strategies can improve the efficiency of geological carbon storage operations.
By Yifu Han, Louis J. Durlofsky
The paper introduces a workflow that ranks competing geological interpretations by converting them into spatial priors and assessing their consistency with hydraulic‑head observations. Using a text‑to‑image model to generate 1600 geologic images per interpretation, a variational autoencoder encodes them, and a supervised inverse network maps head data into this latent space, producing log‑conductivity fields for flow simulation. The method is validated on a synthetic Johansen Formation benchmark and applied to two conceptual models of the Culebra Dolomite, yielding compatibility scores that align with independent evidence.
By Harun Ur Rashid, Daniel O'Malley
arXiv:2609.20978v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: High-consequence subsurface decisions often rely on sparse data that permit competing geological interpretations. Determining consistency of these...
By Harun Ur Rashid, Daniel O'Malley
arXiv:2605. 03383v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Geological interpretation infers subsurface properties and structures from indirect geophysical observations.
By Xiaoyu Tao, Mingyue Cheng, Jiahao Wang, Yitong Zhou, Qingyang Mao, Yimin Dou, Qi Liu, Shijin Wang, Enhong Chen
arXiv:2605. 24844v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While general-purpose Large Language Models (LLMs) applied to Geology often hallucinate when reasoning about subsurface structures and deep-time evolution, current AI in Earth sciences predominantly targets surface remote sensing and GIS.
By Chenyou Guo, Zongqi Liu, Yizhou Zhang, Zhaorui Jiang, Ze Liu
arXiv:2606. 25000v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To evaluate whether vision-language models can reason about geological histories, it is necessary to construct observations for which the underlying process history is known.
By Lukas Mosser
The paper presents a framework that adapts general-purpose Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) to seismic data denoising using Parameter‑Efficient Fine‑Tuning with Low‑Rank Adaptation (LoRA). It introduces a kurtosis‑guided unsupervised test‑time adaptation module that updates only LoRA parameters to self‑calibrate for site‑specific noise without ground truth. Experiments on exploration seismic images and DAS data demonstrate that the approach matches or surpasses domain‑specific models and generalizes well to unseen cross‑site data.
By Jiahua Zhao, Umair bin Waheed, Jing Sun, Yang Cui, Nikos Savva, Eric Verschuur
arXiv:2606. 24967v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In ill-posed inverse problems, the recovered solution depends as much on the prior as on the data, yet much of the engineering knowledge that could serve as that prior is recorded qualitatively rather than in formal mathematical form.
By Taiga Saito, Yu Otake, Daijiro Mizutani, Sopheakpolin Mom
arXiv:2607. 04982v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-resolution velocity models are crucial for reservoir characterization and subsurface delineation.
By Francesco Brandolin, Tariq Alkhalifah
arXiv:2607. 16050v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pluvial (rainfall-driven) flooding accounts for 45% of National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) claims in the United States and is harder to predict than its riverine and coastal counterparts, with existing approaches limited to coarse resolution, regional domains, or computationally intensive process-based models unsuitable for daily continental-scale use.
By Yuya Kawakami, Daniel Cayan, Dongyu Liu, Kwan-Liu Ma, Tom Corringham