Unilateral Alignment: An interpretable machine learning method for geophysical logs calibration

Abstract

Most of the existing machine learning studies in logs interpretation do not consider the data distribution discrepancy issue, so the trained model cannot well generalize to the unseen data without calibrating the logs. In this paper, we formulated the geophysical logs calibration problem and give its statistical explanation, and then exhibited an interpretable machine learning method, i.e., Unilateral Alignment, which could align the logs from one well to another without losing the physical meanings. The involved UA method is an unsupervised feature domain adaptation method, so it does not rely on any labels from cores. The experiments in 3 wells and 6 tasks showed the effectiveness and interpretability from multiple views.

Keywords

• Interpretable machine learning
• Geophysical logs calibration
• Data distribution discrepancy