Paper 2 · per-game results

Berzerk

The exact ground truth for this ROM and how every interpretability method scores against it — one of the 42 scored games. Every number is read from site_data.json (games.berzerk).

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Berzerk screen

Ground truth

External label source
AtariARI + OCAtari
Verified causal labels
13
Labels that move a sprite
7
Scorable (enough true causes)
yes
Position regime
yes — a moving tracked sprite at this frame

The screenshot is the exact analysis frame the ground truth is computed on. Labels are imported (AtariARI / OCAtari) then verified causally on the bit-exact machine.

Every method's faithfulness on Berzerk

Each XAI / mechanistic-interpretability method's faithfulness on this ROM, sorted by F (click a header to re-sort). The left border marks the tradition: green = causal / intervention, red = gradient / correlational, amber = other — the split the paper's headline turns on. F is all-regime; content-F and position-F are the two output regimes (n/a where this game has no record for that regime).

MethodFamilyF (all)content-Fposition-FSM
A8 · Whole-state recordingdescriptive1.000n/an/a1.0000.109
Activation patching / causal mediationcausal / intervention1.000n/a1.0001.0000.944
Causal scrubbingcausal / intervention1.000n/an/a1.0000.875
Interchange interventions / DAScausal / intervention1.000n/an/a1.0000.902
Attribution / edge patchinggradient / correlational1.000n/an/a0.9581.000
A2 · Single-unit lesionscausal / intervention0.998n/an/a0.7561.000
A7 · Dimensionality reduction (NMF/PCA)dim_reduction0.800n/an/an/an/a
Logit / tuned lenscausal / intervention0.662n/an/an/a0.209
ACDC — automatic circuit discoverycausal / intervention0.562n/an/a0.2691.000
A3 · Tuning curvesgradient / correlational0.513n/an/a0.2230.875
LIMEgradient / correlational0.3520.6950.0100.4810.260
KernelSHAP / Shapleygradient / correlational0.3480.6910.0040.4810.260
Occlusioncausal / intervention0.3470.6940.0010.4810.833
RISEgradient / correlational0.3350.6700.0000.4810.260
Path patching / IOI circuitcausal / intervention0.298n/an/an/a1.000
Grad×Input / DeepLIFTgradient / correlational0.2870.5550.0200.4441.000
A4 · Pairwise correlationsgradient / correlational0.280n/an/a0.2370.317
A6 · Granger causalitygradient / correlational0.255n/an/a0.8810.719
Extremal / meaningful perturbationcausal / intervention0.2140.4280.0000.4810.833
A5 · Local field potentialsgradient / correlational0.089n/an/an/an/a
Expected Gradientsgradient / correlational0.0580.0960.0200.4811.000
Vanilla gradient (saliency)gradient / correlational0.0580.0960.0200.4811.000
SmoothGradgradient / correlational0.0580.0960.0200.4811.000
Sparse autoencodersdim_reduction0.054n/an/a-0.2210.875
On-distribution counterfactualcausal / intervention0.0490.0980.0000.5741.000
Guided Backpropgradient / correlational0.0480.0960.0000.4811.000
Integrated Gradientsgradient / correlational0.0480.0960.0000.4811.000
Linear probing + control tasksprobing0.043n/an/an/a1.000
A1 · Connectomics / data-flow graphcausal / intervention0.043n/an/a0.9571.000
NMF/PCA dictionariesdim_reduction0.000n/an/a0.9891.000

Source: site_data.json · generated by gen_site_data.py from the committed §R records + leaderboard.json.