Paper 2 · per-game results

Enduro

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.enduro).

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Enduro screen

Ground truth

External label source
OCAtari
Verified causal labels
2
Labels that move a sprite
2
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 Enduro

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/a1.0000.016
Activation patching / causal mediationcausal / intervention1.000n/a1.0001.0000.900
Causal scrubbingcausal / intervention1.000n/an/a1.0000.333
Interchange interventions / DAScausal / intervention1.000n/an/a1.0000.750
Occlusioncausal / intervention0.9931.0000.9870.8751.000
KernelSHAP / Shapleygradient / correlational0.9891.0000.9790.8750.833
LIMEgradient / correlational0.9851.0000.9700.8750.833
Extremal / meaningful perturbationcausal / intervention0.9210.9330.9100.6251.000
ACDC — automatic circuit discoverycausal / intervention0.800n/an/a0.6671.000
Path patching / IOI circuitcausal / intervention0.800n/an/an/a1.000
NMF/PCA dictionariesdim_reduction0.657n/an/a-0.5531.000
A5 · Local field potentialsgradient / correlational0.523n/an/an/an/a
A2 · Single-unit lesionscausal / intervention0.500n/an/a0.5001.000
A4 · Pairwise correlationsgradient / correlational0.500n/an/a-0.0640.667
Expected Gradientsgradient / correlational0.5001.0000.0000.5001.000
Grad×Input / DeepLIFTgradient / correlational0.5001.0000.0000.5001.000
Guided Backpropgradient / correlational0.5001.0000.0000.5001.000
Integrated Gradientsgradient / correlational0.5001.0000.0000.5001.000
Vanilla gradient (saliency)gradient / correlational0.5001.0000.0000.5001.000
SmoothGradgradient / correlational0.5001.0000.0000.5001.000
RISEgradient / correlational0.4050.7950.0150.0000.500
A6 · Granger causalitygradient / correlational0.400n/an/a0.5001.000
On-distribution counterfactualcausal / intervention0.2650.0000.5300.0001.000
A7 · Dimensionality reduction (NMF/PCA)dim_reduction0.200n/an/an/an/a
Logit / tuned lenscausal / intervention0.064n/an/an/a0.018
A1 · Connectomics / data-flow graphcausal / intervention0.000n/an/a0.500n/a
A3 · Tuning curvesgradient / correlational0.000n/an/a-0.7100.667
Attribution / edge patchinggradient / correlational0.000n/an/a0.0000.800
Sparse autoencodersdim_reduction0.000n/an/a-0.3720.667

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