The paper investigates how geological text descriptions can aid hydraulic‑conductivity inversion, a problem that remains ill‑posed even with complete head observations. Using a synthetic Darcy‑flow benchmark, the authors show that after training with sparse observations, incorporating textual descriptions can improve reconstruction when structural ambiguity persists, though the benefit varies with observation density, flow direction, and specific content. They find that editing the text shifts reconstructions toward the described geometry, but they do not demonstrate a clear advantage of text over equivalent numerical inputs, and they suggest that these insights could inform joint measurement and knowledge acquisition strategies.
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.
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...
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.
arXiv:2610.19187v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a powerful tool for high-resolution subsurface model reconstruction, but it remains highly nonlinear and ill-posed,...
arXiv:2603. 06829v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Subsurface ore detection is of paramount importance given the rising depletion of shallow mineral resources in recent years.
arXiv:2607. 04982v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-resolution velocity models are crucial for reservoir characterization and subsurface delineation.
arXiv:2609.36193v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning from scientific measurements often requires aligning modalities with different spatial support and resolution. Subsurface characterization is...
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.
arXiv:2608. 08959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gravimetry images subsurface density contrasts associated with geological structures, geothermal systems, and intrusive bodies.
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.
arXiv:2610. 09281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Bayesian inverse problems, posterior sampling requires generating samples that are consistent with given observations while capturing the range of plausible solutions.
The paper introduces OCL-PDE, a generative framework for solving partial differential equation (PDE) inverse problems. It uses a learned observation‑complementary latent representation that retains reconstruction‑relevant information and combines it with observations to recover unknown fields. The method, built on a physics‑aware autoencoder and conditional Flow Matching, improves reconstruction accuracy and fine‑detail recovery compared to baseline approaches.