Paper 2 · per-game results

Double Dunk

The exact ground truth for this ROM and how every interpretability method scores against it — one of the 44 scored games. Every number is read from site_data.json (games.double_dunk).

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Double Dunk screen

Ground truth

External label source
OCAtari
Verified causal labels
10
Labels that move a sprite
8
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 Double Dunk

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/a1.0000.094
Activation patching / causal mediationcausal / intervention1.000n/a1.0001.0000.967
Causal scrubbingcausal / intervention1.000n/an/a1.0000.889
Interchange interventions / DAScausal / intervention1.000n/an/a1.0000.882
Path patching / IOI circuitcausal / intervention1.000n/an/an/an/a
A2 · Single-unit lesionscausal / intervention0.979n/an/a0.1551.000
Occlusioncausal / intervention0.8360.7970.8740.6151.000
Logit / tuned lenscausal / intervention0.827n/an/an/a0.114
ACDC — automatic circuit discoverycausal / intervention0.667n/an/a0.2501.000
A7 · Dimensionality reduction (NMF/PCA)dim_reduction0.600n/an/an/an/a
KernelSHAP / Shapleygradient / correlational0.5890.7970.3810.6150.500
RISEgradient / correlational0.4720.6980.2460.5380.500
LIMEgradient / correlational0.4540.7970.1110.5380.500
Sparse autoencodersdim_reduction0.439n/an/a0.4771.000
Grad×Input / DeepLIFTgradient / correlational0.4080.8170.0000.5381.000
On-distribution counterfactualcausal / intervention0.3990.7970.0000.5381.000
Expected Gradientsgradient / correlational0.3990.7970.0000.5381.000
Guided Backpropgradient / correlational0.3990.7970.0000.5381.000
Integrated Gradientsgradient / correlational0.3990.7970.0000.5381.000
Vanilla gradient (saliency)gradient / correlational0.3990.7970.0000.5381.000
SmoothGradgradient / correlational0.3990.7970.0000.5381.000
Extremal / meaningful perturbationcausal / intervention0.3960.5550.2370.5381.000
A3 · Tuning curvesgradient / correlational0.378n/an/a0.6531.000
A1 · Connectomics / data-flow graphcausal / intervention0.333n/an/a0.9621.000
A6 · Granger causalitygradient / correlational0.298n/an/a0.7420.270
A4 · Pairwise correlationsgradient / correlational0.295n/an/a0.0810.111
A5 · Local field potentialsgradient / correlational0.225n/an/an/an/a
Attribution / edge patchinggradient / correlational0.000n/an/a0.8911.000
NMF/PCA dictionariesdim_reduction0.000n/an/a0.9981.000

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