A Frequency-Aware Dynamic Knowledge Distillation Framework: An Effective Tool for Bridging Low- and High-Frequency Seismic Information

Abstract

Seismic data contain rich information across different frequency bands, with low-frequency components primarily characterizing large-scale geological structures and high-frequency components preserving fine-scale seismic details. Effectively integrating these frequency-dependent components is essential for seismic feature learning to better preserve structural continuity and fine-scale details. Knowledge distillation provides an effective means for transferring informative representations from high-quality data. However, existing distillation-based frameworks usually treat seismic features in a full-band manner, ignoring relationships across frequency bands and thereby limiting the coordinated transfer of low- and high-frequency knowledge. To bridge low- and high-frequency seismic features through knowledge distillation, we propose a frequency-aware dynamic knowledge distillation framework (FADKD-Net), which establishes a teacher-student learning framework and performs frequency-aware knowledge transfer between low- and high-frequency bands. Specifically, FADKD-Net decomposes seismic features into low- and high-frequency components and performs targeted distillation to exploit their complementary information. Low-frequency distillation guides the student model to learn stable structural priors, thereby improving the overall continuity of seismic events. Meanwhile, high-frequency distillation enhances detailed feature modeling and improves the representational capability for complex and small-scale structures. Furthermore, a cross-domain feature alignment strategy is proposed to reduce distributional discrepancies across different surveys and enhance the transferability of the seismic representations learned by FADKD-Net.