Recently I have seen many papers on arXiv, which seem to be of good quality yet the authors have not (yet?) published to any mainstream publication. an example of this might be "From Generic to Specific Deep Representations for Visual Recognition" .
What is the community's view on this? some particular questions:
What do the big publications think about breaking the double blind with an arXiv upload?
Are the amount and volume of reviews that one gets from people reading their work on arXiv worth the risk?
How does one get visibility for their work? Is the situation very different if you already are a known entity in the field, vs when you are a student looking for their first publication, say? Of course this would be different when submitting to something like ICLR where arXiv IS the platform, rather than just uploading at any random time of the year. I am asking about the latter.
A question that is personally important, if I apply for an internship, would they rate an arXiv publication?
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