Summary of Recovar: Representation Covariances on Deep Latent Spaces For Seismic Event Detection, by Onur Efe et al.
RECOVAR: Representation Covariances on Deep Latent Spaces for Seismic Event Detection
by Onur Efe, Arkadas Ozakin
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A new unsupervised method for earthquake detection is proposed, which learns to detect earthquakes from raw waveforms without requiring ground-truth labels. This approach uses deep autoencoders that learn to reproduce waveforms after a data-compressive bottleneck and a simple triggering algorithm at the bottleneck for labeling. The performance of this method is comparable to or better than some state-of-the-art supervised methods, and it also exhibits strong cross-dataset generalization. This technique has the potential to be applied to time series datasets from other domains. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A new way to detect earthquakes without needing lots of labeled data is developed. It uses a special kind of artificial intelligence called an autoencoder to learn about waveforms and then detects earthquakes by looking for unusual patterns. This method performs just as well or even better than some of the best methods that require labeled data, and it can also work with different types of data from other areas. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Autoencoder » Generalization » Supervised » Time series » Unsupervised
