Hey everyone! I am a n00b here, A quick question.

We plan to submit results to a conference that due in 4 months. Our study currently have good results, in case of other labs are working on the same problem, we would like to archive it on arXiv as soon as possible. However, there is possibilities that other research groups can look into our archived paper, improve upon, and submit to same conference in between. If that is the case, can the reviewers of the conference simply reject our paper and prefer the new one?

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Thanks in advance!