Methods Index

This page maps MI techniques to the metrics that use them. Methods are not an evidence category — they are implementation techniques that produce evidence in various families (causal, structural, representational, etc.). Each metric’s canonical page is in its evidence-type category; this page is a cross-reference for readers who want to find “all metrics that use ACDC” or “all metrics that use DAS.”

Circuit Discovery Methods

Method	Metric	Evidence family	Canonical page
ACDC (Conmy et al. 2023)	C10 ACDC	Causal	MI Causal
EAP (Syed et al. 2023)	C14 Position-Aware EAP	Causal	MI Causal
Information Bottleneck	C13 IB Circuit Discovery	Causal	MI Causal
CircuitLens	C20 CircuitLens	Causal	MI Causal

Attribution Methods

Method	Metric	Evidence family	Canonical page
Sparse Feature Circuits	C08 SFC	Causal	MI Causal
Relevance Patching / LRP	C11, C19 RelP	Causal	MI Causal
Contextual Decomposition	C12 CD	Causal	MI Causal
VPD	C18 VPD	Causal	MI Causal
Activation Patching	C2	Causal	Core A01 Pearl SCM
Path Patching	C33	Causal	MI Causal

Steering & Editing Methods

Method	Metric	Evidence family	Canonical page
CAA (Panickssery et al. 2024)	C09 CAA	Steering	MI Steering
LEACE (Belrose et al. 2023)	C15 Concept Erasure	Steering	MI Steering
RepE (Zou et al. 2023)	C16 RepE	Steering	MI Steering
Steering-Bench	B21	Steering	MI Steering

Interchange Intervention Methods

Method	Metric	Evidence family	Canonical page
DAS / IIA (Geiger et al. 2024)	C1 DAS-IIA	Causal	MI Causal
Causal Scrubbing (Chan et al. 2022)	C4	Causal	MI Causal

Causal Discovery Methods

Method	Metric	Evidence family	Canonical page
NOTEARS (Zheng et al. 2018)	C9	Causal	MI Causal
oCSE (Sun et al. 2023)	C7	Causal	MI Causal
PC Algorithm	C42	Causal	MI Causal
Granger Causality	C56	Information-theoretic	MI Information

Decomposition Methods

Method	Metric	Evidence family	Canonical page
SAE	AQ01-AQ09	Artifact quality	MI Artifact Quality
Transcoder	AQ10-AQ12	Artifact quality	MI Artifact Quality
Crosscoder	AQ13-AQ15	Artifact quality	MI Artifact Quality
CLT / Circuit Tracing	FH01-FH05	Faithfulness	MI Faithfulness