Jun 13, 2026 · cs.LGJ/K move · Enter open · S save
Sen Li, Xu Yang, S. Mostafa Mousavi, Anye Cao+4
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. · School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China · School of Mines, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China · State Key Laboratory of Coal Exploration and Intelligent Mining, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
Inaccurately labeled training data, or "label noise", poses a significant threat to the integrity of supervised machine learning models. This corruption directly degrades performance by teaching the model erroneous mappings between features and labels, which leads to poor generalization and reduced accuracy on properly labeled validation and test data. Current seismological applications mainly rely on large-scale training sets or data augmentation to reduce the label-noise impact, which can be labor-intensive and costly. Here, we introduce a Label Noise-Contrastive Robust Learning (LaNCoR) approach that can effectively handle noisy labels in seismic signal processing tasks, without requiring large-scale training datasets. In this approach, the input waveform feature and label representation distributions are aligned in the feature space to correct mislabeling and reduce its impact on the training process. We present LaNCoR's performance on the task of P-phase arrival-time picking of real microseismic data using two baseline models and training approaches. Our results indicate that LaNCoR can improve performance by up to 28.8% across performance metrics. This approach holds great promise for model training in seismology and geosciences.