No, not at all. Even a standard CS curriculum doesn't teach enough in the required classes to give enough context to fully understand the preprints in the two s

No, not at all. Even a standard CS curriculum doesn't teach enough in the required classes to give enough context to fully understand the preprints in the two subfields you used as an example. An important part of academic research is understanding the topic of a paper within the context of other current and previous work. It's very challenging to start at the end and work backwards when you don't have a solid grounding in the fundamentals.