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Physically-Augmented Deep Learning (PADL): Integration of Physical Context for Improved Seismic Event Discrimination
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  • Mitchell Lee Solomon,
  • Micah Billouin,
  • Kevin Chow,
  • Jad Zeineddine,
  • Alex Almaraz,
  • Anand Rangarajan,
  • Anthony Smith,
  • Adrian M. Peter
Mitchell Lee Solomon
Florida Institute of Technology

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Micah Billouin
Florida Institute of Technology
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Kevin Chow
University of Florida
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Jad Zeineddine
University of Florida
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Alex Almaraz
University of Florida
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Anand Rangarajan
University of Florida
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Anthony Smith
Florida Institute of Technology
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Adrian M. Peter
Florida Institute of Technology
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Abstract

\justifying Deep learning has established itself as the go-to methodology for automated event discrimination. However, these methodologies still provide suboptimal performance in many classification tasks, including the seismic source categorization problem considered in this article. Here, we develop a novel deep learning framework that allows for the direct integration of environmental context, which we refer to as Physically-Augmented Deep Learning (PADL). Specifically, we augment the learning process by incorporating seismic velocity models generated from a physics-based simulator. Our experiments couple real observational waveform data and synthetic velocity models from the Tularosa Basin region and demonstrate near-perfect classification accuracy when employing PADL. A robust set of ablation studies on joint and independent convolutional neural networks and various combinations of real and simulated input data confirm the efficacy of our PADL framework.