Weight-adaptive residual-enhanced and physics-constrained machine learning framework for reservoir pressure prediction in small data regimeShow others and affiliations
2026 (English)In: Engineering applications of artificial intelligence, ISSN 0952-1976, E-ISSN 1873-6769, Vol. 182, article id 115893Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Machine learning has been widely applied in oilfield exploration and development. However, purely data-driven machine learning models face challenges regarding high data dependency and weak generalizability. Furthermore, these models often neglect the domain knowledge behind the data. This paper integrates physical knowledge with machine learning architectures and develops a weight-adaptive residual-enhanced and physics-constrained machine learning (WR-PCML) framework for reservoir pressure prediction in small data regime. First, a physics-constrained machine learning (PCML) architecture for reservoir pressure prediction is proposed to embed laws of physics into the machine learning algorithm. Subsequently, a weight-adaptive adjustment strategy based on multiobjective optimization is proposed to optimize the PCML model parameters by simultaneously considering the gradients of all of the loss terms. Finally, the systematic residuals between the observations and physics are compensated for by a residual enhancement mechanism, and the WR-PCML model is constructed. Compared with benchmark methods such as theory-guided neural networks, WR-PCML mitigates the sensitivity to manual weight setting through the adaptive loss strategy. Additionally, the residual-enhanced module improves the prediction of physics-constrained models with incomplete mechanisms resulting from noise and measurement errors. The experimental results demonstrate that WR-PCML can accurately predict long-term reservoir pressure using short-term small data, outperforming benchmark methods by 40.63% in two-dimensional and 25.81% in three-dimensional pressure prediction scenarios.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier BV , 2026. Vol. 182, article id 115893
Keywords [en]
Weight-adaptive, Residual-enhanced, Physics-constrained machine learning, Small data regime, Reservoir pressure prediction
National Category
Computer Sciences Probability Theory and Statistics Signal Processing
Research subject
Dependable Communication and Computation Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-119380DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2026.115893Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105046710041OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-119380DiVA, id: diva2:2092675
Note
Funder: Taishan Scholars Program (tsqn202211203); National Natural Science Foundation of China (U24A20277); Shandong Province Natural Science Foundation (ZR2024QF100); Quancheng Laboratory, China (QCL20250201, QCL20250302); Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences) (2025ZDZX01, 2026ZDCX02); Research Program of Liaoning Liaohe Laboratory (LLL25ZZ-05-01)
2026-08-172026-08-172026-08-17Bibliographically approved