empirically-grounded

Definition

Claims that rest on measured data rather than on argument or intuition alone. Authors use the phrase to say their design choices were derived from observations — an analysis, a pilot study, a set of ablations — rather than assumed. Treat it as a promise to be checked: the label carries no weight until you locate the experiments that actually support the claim.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Deep Dive — Large Discovery Models: giving an LLM a value signal for what to try nextLarge Discovery Models: Empirically-grounded Model-Based Open-Ended Search