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Capability Matrix

Algorithm × model scale × expected outcome with rough runtime and memory estimates on a single A100 40GB.

Algorithm × model scale

Algorithm GPT-2 (124M) Pythia-1B Llama-1B Llama-3B Gemma-4B 7B+
eap-ig ✅ ~2min ✅ ~5min ✅ ~8min ✅ ~15min ✅ ~20min ⚠️ may OOM
eap ✅ ~1.5min ✅ ~3min ✅ ~5min ✅ ~10min ✅ ~14min ⚠️ may OOM
eap-ig-activations (Research) ✅ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌
eap-clean-corrupted (Research) ✅ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌
acdc ✅ ~15-30min ⚠️ slow ⚠️ slow ❌ likely OOM ❌ ❌
ibcircuit ✅ ~20min ⚠️ ⚠️ ❌ OOM ❌ OOM ❌ OOM
cdt ✅ ~5min ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌
Research ✅ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌

✅ Validated ⚠️ May fail or be slow ❌ Known failure

All runtimes: n_examples=128, batch_size=4, level="node", A100 40GB.

Memory requirements

Model Base VRAM EAP-IG peak ACDC peak IBCircuit peak
GPT-2 (124M) ~1 GB ~2 GB ~3 GB ~2 GB
Llama-1B ~2.5 GB ~4 GB — ~5 GB
Llama-3B ~7 GB ~12 GB — ❌ OOM
Gemma-4B ~10 GB ~16 GB — ❌ OOM
Llama-7B ~18 GB ~30 GB — ❌ OOM

bfloat16, ig_steps=5, batch_size=4. Reduce batch_size or ig_steps if you hit OOM.

Task compatibility

Task type EAP family ACDC IBCircuit CD-T
Paired (clean + corrupted) ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Clean only (no corruption) ❌ ❌ ✅ ✅
Multiple-choice (MCQ) ✅ ✅ ⚠️ ✅
Chat-templated ✅ ✅ ✅ ❌

Validated combinations (from the audit paper)

Model Task Algorithm Result
GPT-2 IOI eap-ig ablation_score 0.91
Llama-1B IOI eap-ig ablation_score 0.88
Llama-3B IOI eap-ig ablation_score 0.85
Gemma-2B IOI eap-ig ablation_score 0.87
Llama-1B SVA eap-ig ablation_score 0.87
Llama-1B Gender Bias eap-ig ablation_score 0.90
GPT-2 IOI acdc ablation_score 0.76

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