CVPR plagiarism claim sparks arXiv debate

This is less a clean “who was first?” dispute than a test of how AI conferences handle preprints as real scholarly artifacts.

• –CVPR policy does not require authors to compare against every recent arXiv paper, but it does require citation when a work actually inspired the submission.
• –Exact equation reuse with unchanged notation is much harder to dismiss as generic background than broad similarity in method framing.
• –The camera-ready deadline passing does not necessarily end the issue, since proceedings corrections, ethics review, and sanctions can still be handled administratively.
• –For AI researchers, the practical lesson is to preserve timestamps, correspondence, annotated comparisons, and author admissions before escalating.