strong

Definition

High-performing. The phrase "strong baseline" is a claim about fairness: the comparison was against a well-tuned existing method, not a weakened stand-in, which is what makes a reported improvement meaningful. Watch for the opposite polarity elsewhere — a strong assumption is a restrictive one, and weaker assumptions are what you want in a theoretical result.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Walkthrough: LLaDA-Image — Building the Visual Prior from Images Alone, Then Distilling to 2–4 StepsLLaDA-Image: Building Strong Image Generators with Fully Open Training Recipes