In my field (Computer Vision/Machine Learning) newest research papers usually get into arXiv before getting accepted in any conferences. So I try to keep up wit

In my field (Computer Vision/Machine Learning) newest research papers usually get into arXiv before getting accepted in any conferences. So I try to keep up with the arxiv's rss of this field. Further more I follow other people interested in this field on twitter/google +/facebook, some of which are researchers in this field. Moreover when a major conference's program is released I try to look into the proceedings.