Paper 2 · per-game results

Centipede

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.centipede).

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Centipede screen

Ground truth

External label source
OCAtari
Verified causal labels
8
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 Centipede

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
A2 · Single-unit lesionscausal / intervention1.000n/an/a0.7141.000
A8 · Whole-state recordingdescriptive1.000n/an/a1.0000.055
Activation patching / causal mediationcausal / intervention1.000n/a1.0001.0000.958
Causal scrubbingcausal / intervention1.000n/an/a1.0000.500
Interchange interventions / DAScausal / intervention1.000n/an/a1.0000.900
Path patching / IOI circuitcausal / intervention1.000n/an/an/an/a
Attribution / edge patchinggradient / correlational1.000n/an/a0.9761.000
Logit / tuned lenscausal / intervention0.928n/an/an/a0.074
ACDC — automatic circuit discoverycausal / intervention0.800n/an/a0.4441.000
A7 · Dimensionality reduction (NMF/PCA)dim_reduction0.600n/an/an/an/a
Grad×Input / DeepLIFTgradient / correlational0.5001.0000.0000.5501.000
On-distribution counterfactualcausal / intervention0.4250.8510.0000.4501.000
Occlusioncausal / intervention0.4250.8510.0000.4500.875
LIMEgradient / correlational0.3790.7570.0000.4500.472
KernelSHAP / Shapleygradient / correlational0.3730.7470.0000.4000.472
Linear probing + control tasksprobing0.341n/an/an/a1.000
RISEgradient / correlational0.3390.6780.0000.4500.472
Extremal / meaningful perturbationcausal / intervention0.3140.6280.0000.4500.875
NMF/PCA dictionariesdim_reduction0.273n/an/a0.9891.000
A6 · Granger causalitygradient / correlational0.143n/an/a0.8470.273
A4 · Pairwise correlationsgradient / correlational0.129n/an/a0.1430.143
A5 · Local field potentialsgradient / correlational0.101n/an/an/an/a
A1 · Connectomics / data-flow graphcausal / intervention0.000n/an/a0.972n/a
A3 · Tuning curvesgradient / correlational0.000n/an/a-0.5891.000
Expected Gradientsgradient / correlational0.0000.0000.0000.5001.000
Guided Backpropgradient / correlational0.0000.0000.0000.4501.000
Integrated Gradientsgradient / correlational0.0000.0000.0000.5001.000
Sparse autoencodersdim_reduction0.000n/an/a-0.4461.000
Vanilla gradient (saliency)gradient / correlational0.0000.0000.0000.5001.000
SmoothGradgradient / correlational0.0000.0000.0000.5001.000

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