François CholletVerified account

why?

Forget arxiv for a moment. What if it was a tech report from a lab.

arxiv and technical report are equivalent in my world

In my world, too. If there is a tech report, that is similar (and by diff. authors), that should be cited.

@jacobeisenstein maybe a good criteria is number of other cites to that tech report / arxiv paper.

Our team has had several arxiv papers cited long before the conference submission.

same, and if one knows about good related work on arXiv, one should cite it +

+ but that's different from saying authors are *responsible* to know about every arXiv and TR