# Causal Faithfulness Evaluation on FineWeb Temporal

Source: [Causal Faithfulness Evaluation on FineWeb Temporal](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/causal-faithfulness-evaluation-on-fineweb-temporal>)

Collection index: [llms.txt](<https://www.sota2.com/research/llms.txt>)

Data updated: 2026-05-22T07:41:28.496Z

Evaluation of model causal faithfulness on the FineWeb Temporal dataset, measured using nAOPC, nComp, and \|∆CE\| scores.

A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage.

| Scope | Recorded value |
| --- | --- |
| Task | Causal Faithfulness Evaluation |
| Dataset (including any stated split) | FineWeb Temporal |
| Metric | nAOPC |
| Unit | SCALAR |
| Direction | Higher is better |
| Results loaded | 28 of 28 |
| Coverage | All results currently returned for this benchmark |

Evaluation settings may differ between results. The original papers and recorded configurations are needed to establish comparability. A shared metric name alone does not establish an identical protocol.

## Metrics

- [nAOPC](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/causal-faithfulness-evaluation-on-fineweb-temporal.md?metric=nAOPC>): Higher is better; unit: SCALAR.

- [nComp](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/causal-faithfulness-evaluation-on-fineweb-temporal.md?metric=nComp>): Higher is better; unit: SCALAR.

- [Delta CE](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/causal-faithfulness-evaluation-on-fineweb-temporal.md?metric=Delta%20CE>): Lower is better; unit: SCALAR.

## Recorded results

| Method | nAOPC | Result date | Report paper |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GAE | 0.985 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| Retrain | 0.983 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| FaithfulSAE | 0.982 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| SAEBoost | 0.971 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| TERM | 0.965 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| Finetune | 0.963 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| Fixed | 0.962 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| GAE | 0.96 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| SAEBoost | 0.958 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| FaithfulSAE | 0.936 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| GAE | 0.915 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| SAEBoost | 0.908 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| Retrain | 0.895 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| Retrain | 0.894 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| Finetune | 0.859 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| FaithfulSAE | 0.858 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| Fixed | 0.857 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| Finetune | 0.856 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| TERM | 0.853 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| TERM | 0.845 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| Fixed | 0.839 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| GAE | 0.768 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| Retrain | 0.766 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| TERM | 0.741 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| Fixed | 0.735 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| Finetune | 0.725 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| FaithfulSAE | 0.725 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |
| SAEBoost | 0.704 | Not recorded | 6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05 |

### GAE

nAOPC: 0.985. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08afce.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"Pythia-1.4B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Retrain

nAOPC: 0.983. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08afcb.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"Pythia-1.4B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### FaithfulSAE

nAOPC: 0.982. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08afcd.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa798d1e209131cea7e2ba.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"Pythia-1.4B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SAEBoost

nAOPC: 0.971. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08afcc.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7a131e209131cea80f3b.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"Pythia-1.4B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### TERM

nAOPC: 0.965. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08afc9.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa57e21e209131ce9a95d3.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"Pythia-1.4B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Finetune

nAOPC: 0.963. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08afca.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"Pythia-1.4B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Fixed

nAOPC: 0.962. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08afc8.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"Pythia-1.4B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GAE

nAOPC: 0.96. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08af9d.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"GPT-2 Small"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SAEBoost

nAOPC: 0.958. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08af9b.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7a131e209131cea80f3b.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"GPT-2 Small"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### FaithfulSAE

nAOPC: 0.936. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08af9c.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa798d1e209131cea7e2ba.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"GPT-2 Small"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GAE

nAOPC: 0.915. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08afa4.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"Pythia-1.4B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SAEBoost

nAOPC: 0.908. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08afa2.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7a131e209131cea80f3b.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"Pythia-1.4B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Retrain

nAOPC: 0.895. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08af9a.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"GPT-2 Small"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Retrain

nAOPC: 0.894. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08afa1.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"Pythia-1.4B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Finetune

nAOPC: 0.859. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08afa0.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"Pythia-1.4B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### FaithfulSAE

nAOPC: 0.858. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08afa3.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa798d1e209131cea7e2ba.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"Pythia-1.4B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Fixed

nAOPC: 0.857. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08af97.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"GPT-2 Small"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Finetune

nAOPC: 0.856. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08af99.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"GPT-2 Small"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### TERM

nAOPC: 0.853. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08af98.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa57e21e209131ce9a95d3.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"GPT-2 Small"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### TERM

nAOPC: 0.845. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08af9f.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa57e21e209131ce9a95d3.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"Pythia-1.4B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Fixed

nAOPC: 0.839. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08af9e.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"Pythia-1.4B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GAE

nAOPC: 0.768. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08afc7.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"GPT-2 Small"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Retrain

nAOPC: 0.766. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08afc4.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"GPT-2 Small"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### TERM

nAOPC: 0.741. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08afc2.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa57e21e209131ce9a95d3.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"GPT-2 Small"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Fixed

nAOPC: 0.735. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08afc1.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"GPT-2 Small"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Finetune

nAOPC: 0.725. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08afc3.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"GPT-2 Small"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### FaithfulSAE

nAOPC: 0.725. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08afc6.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa798d1e209131cea7e2ba.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"GPT-2 Small"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SAEBoost

nAOPC: 0.704. Result ID: 6a1008a4fbc373592c08afc5.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a0fe320f984739ed6739e05.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7a131e209131cea80f3b.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model":"GPT-2 Small"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

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