Paper 2 · per-game results

Phoenix

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.phoenix).

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Phoenix screen

Ground truth

External label source
OCAtari
Verified causal labels
8
Labels that move a sprite
5
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 Phoenix

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/a1.0000.062
ACDC — automatic circuit discoverycausal / intervention1.000n/an/a0.0831.000
Activation patching / causal mediationcausal / intervention1.000n/a1.0001.0001.000
Causal scrubbingcausal / intervention1.000n/an/a1.0000.500
Interchange interventions / DAScausal / intervention1.000n/an/a1.0001.000
Path patching / IOI circuitcausal / intervention1.000n/an/an/an/a
A2 · Single-unit lesionscausal / intervention0.993n/an/a0.5291.000
Logit / tuned lenscausal / intervention0.984n/an/an/a0.116
Extremal / meaningful perturbationcausal / intervention0.7820.9960.5690.5381.000
KernelSHAP / Shapleygradient / correlational0.7650.9090.6220.4621.000
LIMEgradient / correlational0.7650.9090.6220.4621.000
Occlusioncausal / intervention0.7650.9090.6220.4621.000
RISEgradient / correlational0.6840.8470.5200.1920.292
On-distribution counterfactualcausal / intervention0.4550.9090.0000.5381.000
Expected Gradientsgradient / correlational0.4550.9090.0000.5771.000
Grad×Input / DeepLIFTgradient / correlational0.4550.9090.0000.5771.000
Guided Backpropgradient / correlational0.4550.9090.0000.5771.000
Integrated Gradientsgradient / correlational0.4550.9090.0000.5771.000
Vanilla gradient (saliency)gradient / correlational0.4550.9090.0000.5771.000
SmoothGradgradient / correlational0.4550.9090.0000.5771.000
A7 · Dimensionality reduction (NMF/PCA)dim_reduction0.400n/an/an/an/a
A6 · Granger causalitygradient / correlational0.333n/an/a0.9700.200
A5 · Local field potentialsgradient / correlational0.308n/an/an/an/a
A4 · Pairwise correlationsgradient / correlational0.221n/an/a0.3000.036
Attribution / edge patchinggradient / correlational0.131n/an/a0.9091.000
Linear probing + control tasksprobing0.116n/an/an/a1.000
A3 · Tuning curvesgradient / correlational0.025n/an/a-0.1841.000
A1 · Connectomics / data-flow graphcausal / intervention0.000n/an/a0.992n/a
NMF/PCA dictionariesdim_reduction0.000n/an/a-0.9281.000
Sparse autoencodersdim_reduction0.000n/an/a-0.2701.000

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