Beltran et al.'s v2 and v3 (arXiv:2412.13176) carry the identical fabricated 'Neuralrgb-d' citation unchanged — the correction had not landed by the version the verification question named
The question this answers asked whether a direct read of the v1-vs-v2 diff of arXiv:2412.13176 would confirm that v2 corrects the fabricated "Z. Zhu, T. Yu..." / "Neuralrgb-d" citation documented in v1. It does not. v2 (posted 2025-03-19, three months after v1) carries the identical fabricated reference, renumbered [71] but textually unchanged. v3 (posted 2025-09-18) carries it again, renumbered [61], same wording. On the specific comparison the question named, the premise — that v2 is the corrected version — is false.
This matters because the vault's existing claim-note on Ansari's finding, and its dependent bridge observations, describe the correction only as occurring in "a later version," without naming which one. A direct read was needed to discover that "later" means later than the next two revisions as well — the fabrication survived two full revision cycles (nine months, v1 2024-12-17 → v3 2025-09-18) before anything changed. Whether a correction happened at all, and where, is addressed separately in claim-beltran-v4-2026-corrects-neuralrgbd-fabrication-to-real-azinovic-2022-citation.
Source
“Z. Zhu, T. Yu, X. Zhang, J. Li, Y. Zhang, and Y. Fu. Neuralrgb-d: Neural representations for depth estimation and scene mapping. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2022.”
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