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Record W4408661070 · doi:10.1038/s43247-025-02200-9

Generalizable deep learning models for predicting laboratory earthquakes

2025· article· en· W4408661070 on OpenAlexaff
Chonglang Wang, Kaiwen Xia, Wei Yao, Chris Marone

Bibliographic record

VenueCommunications Earth & Environment · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicSeismology and Earthquake Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
FundersChina Scholarship CouncilNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsDeep learningArtificial intelligenceComputer scienceMachine learningSeismologyGeology

Abstract

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Machine learning models can predict laboratory earthquakes using Acoustic emission, the lab equivalent of microseismicity, and changes in fault zone elastic properties during the lab seismic cycle. Applying them to natural earthquakes requires testing their generalizability across lab settings and stress conditions. Here, we show a fine-tuned convolutional neural network (CNN) model effectively transfer across different conditions. Our model employs techniques from natural language processing, including decoder techniques, to capture the relationship between AE and fault stress. We fine-tune the regression head of a deep CNN while fixing the decoder’s weights and successfully predict lab seismic events for a range of conditions. With fine-tuning, CNN models trained on one lab fault configuration predict time to failure and shear stress for another configuration at varying fault slip rates. These results demonstrate the potential of extending lab-based methods to different conditions that could eventually include tectonic earthquakes and seismic forecasting. A deep convolutional neural network model enables the time to failure and shear stress to be predicted across different types of laboratory earthquakes under a range of materials and conditions.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.746
Threshold uncertainty score0.876

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.246
Teacher spread0.216 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

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