I think that is a fork before the actual repo was made private.
XuezheMax's GitHub profile shows that his contributions in April were all to private repositories.
XuezheMax's GitHub profile shows that his contributions in April were all to private repositories.
It's only got 3 commits and 2 are from 18 hours ago--one of which fiddled the repo-made-public date and added the arxiv link--so perhaps there's a private working repo and they decided to make a ~clean public repo at the last minute (i.e., maybe the authors are self-conscious about the commit log).