Efficient Geothermal Well-Control Optimization via Diffusion-Surrogate Reinforcement Learning
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arXiv:2608.28791v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time decision-making for enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) is challenging because long-term production periods involve high-dimensional control spaces and a large number of time-consuming high-fidelity hydrothermal simulations. Reinforcement learning provides a natural framework for state-dependent sequential control, but direct policy training with numerical simulators is computationally expensive. To address this issue, we propose a diffusion-surrogate guided reinforcement learning framework for long-horizon EGS well-control optimization.
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.28791v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time decision-making for enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) is challenging because long-term production periods involve high-dimensional control spaces and a large number of time-consuming high-fidelity hydrothermal simulations.
- Reinforcement learning provides a natural framework for state-dependent sequential control, but direct policy training with numerical simulators is computationally expensive.
- To address this issue, we propose a diffusion-surrogate guided reinforcement learning framework for long-horizon EGS well-control optimization.
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