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cs.CVcs.AIphysics.geo-ph Yijia Song, Juliet Biggs, Alin Achim et al. · Mar 22, 2026

Phase unwrapping recovers absolute interferometric phase from wrapped $2\pi$-modulo observations, but fails near surface-breaking faults that create abrupt discontinuities and in large-scale scenes that exceed GPU memory. This work proposes a diffusion-based framework that conditions on SNAPHU estimates and processes large interferograms via overlapping 256$\times$256 tiles with weighted averaging. It claims to handle fault-related phase jumps and scale to real-world Sentinel-1 interferograms without resizing.

Phase unwrapping remains a critical and challenging problem in InSAR processing, particularly in scenarios involving complex deformation patterns. In earthquake-related deformation, shallow sources can generate surface-breaking faults and abrupt displacement discontinuities, which severely disrupt phase continuity and often cause conventional unwrapping algorithms to fail. Another limitation of existing learning-based unwrapping methods is their reliance on fixed and relatively small input sizes, while real InSAR interferograms are typically large-scale and spatially heterogeneous. This mismatch restricts the applicability of many neural network approaches to real-world data. In this work, we present a phase unwrapping framework based on a diffusion model, developed to process large-scale interferograms and to address phase discontinuities caused by deformation. By leveraging a diffusion model architecture, the proposed method can recover physically consistent unwrapped phase fields even in the presence of fault-related phase jumps. Experimental results on both synthetic and real datasets demonstrate that the method effectively addresses discontinuities associated with near-surface deformation and scales well to large InSAR images, offering a practical alternative to manual unwrapping in challenging scenarios.
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physics.geo-phcs.AI Feng Liu, Jian Xu, Xin Cui et al. · Mar 22, 2026

TRACE is a multi-agent LLM system designed to automate end-to-end seismological analysis, from raw waveform processing to physical mechanism inference. The framework addresses the longstanding bottleneck of expert-dependent interpretation in seismology by orchestrating modules for catalog construction, statistical analysis, and cross-perspective reasoning, demonstrated on two distinct tectonic environments: the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence and the 2025 Santorini-Kolumbo volcanic crisis.

Inferring the physical mechanisms that govern earthquake sequences from indirect geophysical observations remains difficult, particularly across tectonically distinct environments where similar seismic patterns can reflect different underlying processes. Current interpretations rely heavily on the expert synthesis of catalogs, spatiotemporal statistics, and candidate physical models, limiting reproducibility and the systematic transfer of insight across settings. Here we present TRACE (Trans-perspective Reasoning and Automated Comprehensive Evaluator), a multi-agent system that combines large language model planning with formal seismological constraints to derive auditable, physically grounded mechanistic inference from raw observations. Applied to the 2019 Ridgecrest sequence, TRACE autonomously identifies stress-perturbation-induced delayed triggering, resolving the cascading interaction between the Mw 6.4 and Mw 7.1 mainshocks; in the Santorini-Kolumbo case, the system identifies a structurally guided intrusion model, distinguishing fault-channeled episodic migration from the continuous propagation expected in homogeneous crustal failure. By providing a generalizable logical infrastructure for interpreting heterogeneous seismic phenomena, TRACE advances the field from expert-dependent analysis toward knowledge-guided autonomous discovery in Earth sciences.