Generative Anchored Fields: Controlled Data Generation via Emergent Velocity Fields and Transport Algebra
Abstract
We present Generative Anchored Fields (GAF), a generative model that learns independent endpoint predictors, (noise) and (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 emerges from their time-conditioned disagreement. This factorization enables \textit{Transport Algebra}: algebraic operations on multiple heads for compositional control. With class-specific 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 () using Iterative Endpoint Refinement (IER), a novel sampler that achieves high-quality generation in steps, or on the emergent velocity field (). We achieve strong sample quality (FID 7.51 on ImageNet and on CelebA-HQ , without classifier-free guidance) while treating compositional generation as an architectural primitive. Code available at https://github.com/IDLabMedia/GAF.
Cite
@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