NFL-BA (arXiv:2412.13176) was accepted to NeurIPS 2025's Main Conference Track, confirmed at NeurIPS's own primary records rather than self-reported in the paper's own metadata

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NeurIPS's own proceedings site lists "NFL-BA: Near-Field Light Bundle Adjustment for SLAM in Dynamic Lighting" under "Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38 Main Conference (NeurIPS 2025) Main Conference Track," with the author line "Andrea Dunn Beltran, Daniel Rho, Marc Niethammer, Roni Sengupta" and a DOI of record (10.52202/085713-0522) — matching, exactly, the four-author list and retitled form carried by v3 and v4 of the arXiv preprint, not the five-author v1/v2 list. NeurIPS's separate virtual-conference site corroborates the same paper and author line under "2025 Poster."

This is a stronger form of independent confirmation than the parallel case already in this vault: Bit2Watt's acceptance was first self-reported in a "Comments:" field on its own arXiv listing and then independently checked against IACR's program page. arXiv's abstract page for 2412.13176 carries no such comment anywhere across its four-version submission history — the acceptance surfaces only at the accepting venue's own external records, never in the paper's own self-description.

Beltran et al.'s preprint is the traced ancestor of Ansari's "Contamination Inheritance" case, itself drawn from a study of fabricated citations specifically within NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers — making this confirmed NeurIPS 2025 acceptance directly relevant to, not incidental to, that cluster. See claim-neurips-2025-peer-review-process-clears-beltran-nfl-ba-of-unrefereed-cap for what this acceptance means for the vault's single-source concentration cap.