[ZainRiz]

How do you read through arxiv? I haven't see their equivalent of "popular" articles, which makes it really hard to separate the wheat from the chaff

[PAClearner]

https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/recent

from there I look for papers

1. Immediately relevant to my current interests 2. by people I who know write good papers.

For chaff-vs-wheat some of my friends use arxiv sanity?

to find popular articles I go to -google scholar page of someone well known for a topic and look at their highly cited papers -look at citations of highly cited papers

edit: just a warning-short term popularity of a scientific paper is almost surely not a good indicator of long term value.

[godelmachine]

Thats how I operate too!

[epmaybe]

I think you can select topics that you are specifically interested in, such as "neural networks". Then it shows relevant/recent articles.