Paper 2 · per-game results

Montezuma's Revenge

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.montezuma_revenge).

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Montezuma's Revenge screen

Ground truth

External label source
AtariARI + OCAtari
Verified causal labels
15
Labels that move a sprite
9
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 Montezuma's Revenge

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/a1.0000.102
Activation patching / causal mediationcausal / intervention1.000n/a1.0001.0000.938
Causal scrubbingcausal / intervention1.000n/an/a1.0000.875
Interchange interventions / DAScausal / intervention1.000n/an/a1.0000.731
KernelSHAP / Shapleygradient / correlational0.9431.0000.8870.9380.400
Occlusioncausal / intervention0.9331.0000.8660.9381.000
A2 · Single-unit lesionscausal / intervention0.925n/an/a0.6961.000
LIMEgradient / correlational0.9230.9750.8710.8750.400
ACDC — automatic circuit discoverycausal / intervention0.889n/an/a0.3331.000
RISEgradient / correlational0.8750.9640.7870.7810.400
Logit / tuned lenscausal / intervention0.842n/an/an/a0.119
Path patching / IOI circuitcausal / intervention0.800n/an/an/a1.000
Extremal / meaningful perturbationcausal / intervention0.7010.9350.4680.9061.000
A7 · Dimensionality reduction (NMF/PCA)dim_reduction0.600n/an/an/an/a
Attribution / edge patchinggradient / correlational0.567n/an/a0.9571.000
Guided Backpropgradient / correlational0.5001.0000.0000.9381.000
Integrated Gradientsgradient / correlational0.5001.0000.0000.9381.000
Vanilla gradient (saliency)gradient / correlational0.5001.0000.0000.9381.000
SmoothGradgradient / correlational0.5001.0000.0000.9381.000
A5 · Local field potentialsgradient / correlational0.402n/an/an/an/a
On-distribution counterfactualcausal / intervention0.3620.7240.0000.1881.000
Grad×Input / DeepLIFTgradient / correlational0.3620.7240.0000.4381.000
Linear probing + control tasksprobing0.336n/an/an/a1.000
A4 · Pairwise correlationsgradient / correlational0.280n/an/a0.3220.867
A6 · Granger causalitygradient / correlational0.210n/an/a0.9621.000
A1 · Connectomics / data-flow graphcausal / intervention0.125n/an/a0.9761.000
A3 · Tuning curvesgradient / correlational0.000n/an/a-0.2261.000
NMF/PCA dictionariesdim_reduction0.000n/an/a0.5241.000
Expected Gradientsgradient / correlational0.0000.0000.0000.9061.000
Sparse autoencodersdim_reduction0.000n/an/a-0.2241.000

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