Paper 2 · per-game results

Private Eye

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.private_eye).

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Private Eye screen

Ground truth

External label source
AtariARI + OCAtari
Verified causal labels
12
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 Private Eye

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/a1.0001.0001.000
Interchange interventions / DAScausal / intervention1.000n/an/a1.0000.917
A2 · Single-unit lesionscausal / intervention0.997n/an/a0.5151.000
Causal scrubbingcausal / intervention0.890n/an/a0.8900.818
Logit / tuned lenscausal / intervention0.878n/an/an/a0.279
Occlusioncausal / intervention0.7510.7640.7390.9601.000
KernelSHAP / Shapleygradient / correlational0.7430.7500.7370.9600.229
LIMEgradient / correlational0.7320.7270.7370.9600.229
RISEgradient / correlational0.7190.7150.7230.9600.229
On-distribution counterfactualcausal / intervention0.6370.7640.5100.9601.000
Grad×Input / DeepLIFTgradient / correlational0.4870.9700.0030.9601.000
A5 · Local field potentialsgradient / correlational0.460n/an/an/an/a
Attribution / edge patchinggradient / correlational0.444n/an/a0.9541.000
Expected Gradientsgradient / correlational0.3840.7640.0030.9601.000
Integrated Gradientsgradient / correlational0.3840.7640.0030.9601.000
Vanilla gradient (saliency)gradient / correlational0.3840.7640.0030.9601.000
SmoothGradgradient / correlational0.3840.7640.0030.9601.000
Guided Backpropgradient / correlational0.3820.7640.0000.9601.000
A1 · Connectomics / data-flow graphcausal / intervention0.364n/an/a1.0001.000
ACDC — automatic circuit discoverycausal / intervention0.364n/an/a0.1671.000
Extremal / meaningful perturbationcausal / intervention0.3520.5150.1880.9601.000
A3 · Tuning curvesgradient / correlational0.223n/an/a0.3271.000
Path patching / IOI circuitcausal / intervention0.222n/an/an/a1.000
Sparse autoencodersdim_reduction0.208n/an/a0.1931.000
A7 · Dimensionality reduction (NMF/PCA)dim_reduction0.200n/an/an/an/a
A6 · Granger causalitygradient / correlational0.105n/an/a0.9820.900
A4 · Pairwise correlationsgradient / correlational0.028n/an/a0.1340.429
NMF/PCA dictionariesdim_reduction0.000n/an/a1.0001.000
Linear probing + control tasksprobing0.000n/an/an/a1.000

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