Geological intelligence · Interactive 3D inference

Geological
Everything Model

Unified Interactive Inference through Target-Conditioned Representations

One model connects imaging data with local interpretations and measurements to infer structures, geological bodies, and physical properties.

GEM overview: subsurface imaging and human prompts guide a unified model for property modeling, stratigraphy, structures, geobodies, and Martian radar interpretation, with iterative human feedback
Geological Everything Model 3DImaging data + local conditions + interactive refinement
01 Structural & stratigraphic interpretation
02 Geobody identification
03 Physical property modeling

Yimin Dou1 · Xinming Wu1,* · Nathan L. Bangs2 · Harpreet Singh Sethi3 · Jintao Li4 · Hang Gao5 · Zhixiang Guo1

Author affiliations & correspondence
  1. School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, China
  2. Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin, USA
  3. NVIDIA, USA
  4. State Key Laboratory of Ocean Sensing, Ocean College, Zhejiang University, China
  5. National Data Center for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, China

* Corresponding author: xinmwu@ustc.edu.cn

The approach

Specify a target.
Infer in 3D.
Revise with insight.

Images provide spatial context. Local conditions supply the identity, geometry, or value of the target.

GEM brings these inputs together from the start of three-dimensional feature extraction. Interpretation lines, membership masks, relative stratigraphic coordinates, and well logs guide a shared backbone and output head.

Across the reported applications, model weights remain fixed. Interpreters can add, replace, or withdraw conditions and revisit earlier results as their understanding develops.

Read the full abstract

Scientific imaging requires the inference of spatial objects, geometric boundaries, and continuous properties from limited observations. Some tasks in medical imaging, remote sensing, and subsurface imaging share the challenges of missing observations and target ambiguity: high-dimensional data and large-scale training do not necessarily supply all the information needed to determine a target. Local annotations, domain interpretations, and independent measurements can provide additional target constraints. An important question is how these heterogeneous conditions can form representations jointly with observations, enabling one model to infer different targets and revise its predictions. We propose Geological Everything Model 3D (GEM), which explores unified three-dimensional interactive inference through target-conditioned representations. Object membership, geometric relationships, and measured values are encoded as local conditions and supplied with observations to a three-dimensional backbone, allowing conditions to participate in feature extraction from the input stage. Multitask joint training brings discrete object recognition and continuous field estimation into a common conditional prediction interface. An interactive workflow allows conditions to be accumulated, revised, and revisited. Adding, replacing, or withdrawing conditions updates candidate results while retaining valid historical constraints, enabling continued inference with fixed model parameters. Subsurface imaging serves as the principal validation setting, where complex three-dimensional structures, diverse targets, and sparse constraints provide a challenging test. Synthetic benchmarks, field surveys, and blind-well evaluations demonstrate applications to fault and horizon interpretation, geobody identification, stratigraphic coordinates, and physical property estimation. GEM outperforms the compared baselines on field fault slices and some tasks constrained by well logs, whereas specialized models retain advantages on some synthetic tasks, indicating that the benefits depend on the setting. A Martian radar example provides exploratory evidence for application across imaging modalities. These results support the feasibility of the approach for subsurface interpretation and modeling. This work provides an approach to unified modeling and interactive revision for heterogeneous target inference under insufficient observations, with potential extensions to medical imaging and other remote-sensing tasks.

01 / Observe

Imaging volume

Seismic or radar observations supply three-dimensional spatial cues.

02 / Condition

Local information

Interpretations and measurements specify the current target.

03 / Infer & revise

Shared 3D model

Inspect predictions and update conditions while retaining valid constraints.

See GEM in use

Interactive demonstrations

Six narrated workflows, from seismic structures to Martian radar layers. English voice · Chinese & English subtitles.

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01 / NZ3D · Hikurangi3:17

Faults & bottom-simulating reflector

Trace local interfaces, extend them in 3D, and refine fault and BSR interpretations.

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02 / Netherlands F31:28

Salt, faults, strata & slope

Switch between structural interfaces and geological bodies within the same seismic volume.

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03 / Parihaka1:07

Branching channel systems

Use local membership masks to identify channels and revise their three-dimensional extent.

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04 / Romney0:32

Channel interpretation

Specify a channel on a local section and inspect its spatial continuation through the volume.

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05 / NLOG0:18

Salt-body delineation

Outline a salt body locally to guide volumetric segmentation.

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06 / Mars · SHARAD radar2:30

Martian ice-layer interfaces

Explore reflection-interface interpretation in planetary radar imaging.

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From measurements to volumes

Property modeling

Well-log conditions anchor local values; seismic data provide spatial context for the surrounding property field.

Delft

Acoustic impedance

Well-log values constrain a continuous property field within the seismic volume.

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Netherlands F3

Natural gamma ray

Estimate spatial property variation from seismic context and local well measurements.

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Poseidon

Sonic transit time (DTCO)

Extend local sonic-log constraints through the surrounding three-dimensional image.

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Manuscript & resources

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Geological Everything Model 3D: Unified Interactive Inference through Target-Conditioned Representations

The latest manuscript includes Supplementary Information. The arXiv link points to the earlier 2025 preprint.

Cite the arXiv preprint

@article{dou2025gem,
  title={Geological Everything Model 3D:
    A Promptable Foundation Model for Unified
    and Zero-Shot Subsurface Understanding},
  author={Dou, Yimin and Wu, Xinming and
    Bangs, Nathan L. and Sethi, Harpreet Singh and
    Li, Jintao and Gao, Hang and Guo, Zhixiang},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.00419},
  year={2025}
}