Counterfactual concept swaps in CNNs
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Pre-registered interchange interventions (concept swaps) testing Circuits neuron explanations in InceptionV1: data and results. • 1 item • Updated
base int64 0 1.15k | source int64 0 1.15k | dtheta float64 -180 175 | clean_decode_base float64 0 355 | clean_decode_source float64 0 355 | eligible bool 2
classes | effect_denominator float64 1.64 84.1 | family_decode float64 0 355 | family_success bool 2
classes | family_effect_numerator float64 -0.99 38.2 | complement_decode float64 0 355 | complement_success bool 2
classes | complement_effect_numerator float64 1.08 59.9 | all_decode float64 0 355 | all_success bool 1
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24 | 0 | -120 | 120 | 355 | true | 20.497358 | 10 | false | 13.378156 | 110 | false | 5.069792 | 355 | true | 20.497358 |
This dataset holds the stimuli and per-pair outcomes from
counterfactually-causal-analysis-of-convolutional-neural-networks-with-concept-swaps.
That repository tests causally whether the 10 InceptionV1 mixed3b curve detectors
(Cammarata et al. 2020) mediate curve orientation for the next
layer, using interchange interventions (Huang et al. 2023).
| File | Description |
|---|---|
data/stimuli.csv |
Synthetic arcs for the selection split (jitter seed 1) and the confirmatory split (seed 2). Columns: split, idx (row in the split), kind, theta (degrees; direction from the arc midpoint to its centre of curvature), radius, width, polarity (0 = dark on light), cell (nuisance cell), dy/dx (jitter in pixels). |
images/<split>/<idx>.png |
The rendered 224×224 stimuli, with zero-padded file names (0000.png, 0001.png, …). The arc midpoint is at pixel (111,111), the receptive-field centre of mixed4a unit (6,6), shifted by the cell's jitter (dy, dx). |
data/pairs_h1_confirmatory.csv |
The 4608 confirmatory (base, source) minimal pairs. Columns: base and source (the idx of the confirmatory stimuli); dtheta; clean decodes of base and source; eligible; then, for family (the 10 curve units), complement (the other 470 channels) and all, the decoded orientation after the swap, *_success (within 10° of the clean source decode) and *_effect_numerator (⟨z_p−z_b, z_s−z_b⟩). effect_denominator is ‖z_s−z_b‖². |
results/*.json |
All aggregate results: E1 replication, E2 synthetic, E3 natural images, plus the post-hoc (not pre-registered) robustness checks in posthoc_robustness.json and the post-hoc audit checks in posthoc_audit.json and posthoc_audit2.json. Per-set null distributions are included for the pre-registered tests (e2_synthetic.json, e3_natural.json); the post-hoc JSONs store null summaries (mean, q95, p) only. The verdict field in each test applies the H1 three-way rule to every test. The pre-registered verdicts of the secondary tests are in results/results.md. |
results/results.md |
The generated results tables. |
results/preregistration.md |
The pre-registered hypotheses and decision rules. |
The headline per-pair statistic can be recomputed from pairs_h1_confirmatory.csv: IIA = mean of family_success
over eligible rows. The dataset is reproducible with uv run python main.py, then --phase posthoc,
--phase audit, --phase audit2, --phase report and --phase export (each as
uv run python main.py --phase <name>).
results/e3_natural.json
lists only the relative file names of the confirmatory images (image_ids_test; Windows path separators in the
reported run).