Hot papers on arXiv from the past month – September 2020

Here are the most tweeted papers that were uploaded onto arXiv during September 2020. Results are powered by Arxiv Sanity Preserver. Abstract: Hardware, systems and algorithms research communities have historically had different incentive structures and fluctuating motivation to engage with each other explicitly. This historical treatment is odd given that hardware and software have frequently determined which research ideas succeed (and fail). This essay introduces the term hardware lottery to describe when a research idea wins because it is suited to the available software and hardware and not because the idea is superior to alternative research directions.