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What we read in 2025

Writers, activists, and scholars reflect on the most urgent books of 2025—from Palestine and caste to climate, queerness, and resistance. Read their picks.

Meet the Author Whose Fiction Reads Like a Mirror You Didn’t Expect to Look Into

Annie Ernaux’s fiction reflects class, memory and desire with unsettling clarity, holding up a mirror many readers did not ...
IEEE

HyperSDFusion: Bridging Hierarchical Structures in Language and Geometry for Enhanced 3D Text2Shape Generation

Abstract: 3D shape generation from text is a fundamental task in 3D representation learning. The text-shape pairs exhibit a hierarchical structure, where a general text like “chair” covers all 3D ...
Phys.org

Natural language found more complex than it strictly needs to be—and for good reason

Human languages are complex phenomena. Around 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, some with only a handful of remaining speakers, while others, such as Chinese, English, Spanish and Hindi, are ...
IEEE

Characterizing Secretion System Effector Proteins With Structure-Aware Graph Neural Networks and Pre-Trained Language Models

Abstract: The Type III Secretion Systems (T3SSs) play a pivotal role in host-pathogen interactions by mediating the secretion of type III secretion system effectors (T3SEs) into host cells. These ...
GitHub

AdaShield: Safeguarding Multimodal Large Language Models from Structure-based Attack via Adaptive Shield Prompting

2024/03/30 We have released our full training and inference codes. 2024/03/15 We have released our paper. Thanks to all collaborators.