arXiv Machine Learning By Salma Alsinan, Maksim Makarenko, Sixiu Liu, Ali Aldawood, Ibrahim Hoteit

Should All Noises Be Treated Equally: Impact of Input Noise Variability on Neural Network Robustness

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The paper examines how varying input noise characteristics—type, scale, and complexity—affect neural network robustness in geophysical tasks such as first break picking and denoising. By training models on fixed noise settings and testing them on both seen and unseen noise scenarios, the study constructs a robustness matrix that reveals how larger noise scales improve generalization and how aligning noise type with task complexity and architecture maximizes performance. Training with compound noise mixtures further mitigates weaknesses of single-noise training, acting as an implicit regularizer that enhances robustness under out‑of‑distribution conditions.

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