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Generative Anchored Fields: Controlled Data Generation via Emergent Velocity Fields and Transport Algebra

Machine Learning 2026-02-17 v2

Abstract

We present Generative Anchored Fields (GAF), a generative model that learns independent endpoint predictors, JJ (noise) and KK (data), from any point on a linear bridge. Unlike existing approaches that use a single trajectory or score predictor, GAF is trained to recover the bridge endpoints directly via coordinate learning. The velocity field v=KJv=K-J emerges from their time-conditioned disagreement. This factorization enables \textit{Transport Algebra}: algebraic operations on multiple J/KJ/K heads for compositional control. With class-specific KnK_n heads, GAF defines directed transport maps between a shared base noise distribution and multiple data domains, allowing controllable interpolation, multi-class composition, and semantic editing. This is achieved either directly on the predicted data coordinates (KK) using Iterative Endpoint Refinement (IER), a novel sampler that achieves high-quality generation in 585-8 steps, or on the emergent velocity field (vv). We achieve strong sample quality (FID 7.51 on ImageNet 256×256256\times256 and 7.277.27 on CelebA-HQ 256×256256\times 256, without classifier-free guidance) while treating compositional generation as an architectural primitive. Code available at https://github.com/IDLabMedia/GAF.

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@article{arxiv.2511.22693,
  title  = {Generative Anchored Fields: Controlled Data Generation via Emergent Velocity Fields and Transport Algebra},
  author = {Deressa Wodajo Deressa and Hannes Mareen and Peter Lambert and Glenn Van Wallendael},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.22693},
  year   = {2026}
}

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24 pages, 26 figures

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