research_notes/final_reference_audit.md

Bounded final primary-reference check

8 October 2026. This check addresses specific uncertain bibliography entries rather than expanding the novelty search. The primary URLs below were opened directly.

Entry	Verified primary metadata	Correction/result
R3	https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11942 — Mehdi Abbana Bennani, Thang Doan, Masashi Sugiyama; submitted 21 June 2020, v4 4 December 2020	Current author initials/title/year correct. Retrieval turn128view0.
R4	https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.11356 — third author Alexander G. de G. Matthews	Prefer the full name or Matthews, A. G. de G. to avoid ambiguous surname parsing. Retrieval turn130view0.
R5	https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2020/file/2f3bbb9730639e9ea48f309d9a79ff01-Paper.pdf	Authors, title and NeurIPS 2020 match the manuscript. Retrieval turn130view1.
R13	https://arxiv.org/html/2503.10503v4 — Jacob Comeau, Mathieu Bazinet, Pascal Germain, Cem Subakan; v4 26 February 2026	Replace Bazinet J.-F. with M. Retrieval turn128view1.
R14	https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2025/file/b3c2854d9e94282a373d8fa58b567b27-Paper-Conference.pdf — Song Lai, Changyi Ma, Fei Zhu, Zhe Zhao, Xi Lin, Gaofeng Meng, Qingfu Zhang	Title and NeurIPS 2025 venue verified on PDF page 1; full list supplied to root. Retrieval turn129view0.
R21	https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08823 — Ameya Prabhu, Shiven Sinha, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Philip H.S. Torr, Ozan Sener, Puneet K. Dokania	Title and stated NeurIPS 2024 acceptance verified; first name is Ameya. Retrieval turn129view1.
R22	https://proceedings.mlr.press/v274/thede25a.html — Lukas Thede, Karsten Roth, Olivier J Henaff, Matthias Bethge, Zeynep Akata; PMLR 274:1076–1093, 2025	Replace Thede J. with L. Retrieval turn129view2.

The chapter-02 tolerance paragraph was remapped from the kernel references to R10–R12. Its conditional-kernel/minimum-write paragraph was remapped to R7–R9. Chapter 19 appropriately distinguishes author-reported empirical claims, inspected primary methods and the abstract-only Geo-LoRA access boundary. These metadata checks are not independent replications of any external paper's performance.