---
title: "Samar Ansari"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Samar Ansari"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["contamination inheritance","reference fabrication","large language models","NeurIPS","training-data contamination"]
seek_code_commit: "7d6d9ed"
---


Researcher (School of Computing and Engineering Sciences, University of
Chester) and author of "Compound Deception in Elite Peer Review: A Failure
Mode Taxonomy of 100 Fabricated Citations at NeurIPS 2025" (arXiv 2602.05930,
2026), an analysis of 100 hallucinated citations across 53 NeurIPS 2025
accepted papers.

Matters to this vault as the source of the clearest documented case found so
far of an AI-generated citation artifact propagating from one model's output
into what a later model reproduces — named "Contamination Inheritance" — a
concrete instance of the general training-data compounding mechanism this
vault's Matthew-effect-in-LLMs cluster asks about.

## References
- [[claim-ansari-2026-contamination-inheritance-citation-error-propagates-across-models]]