The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

Embodied Gathering: Integrating Performative Interactions and Knowledge-Driven Agents for Virtual Living Heritage

The core value of living cultural heritage lies in dynamic group interactions and contextually embedded rituals. However, traditional virtual reality (VR) heritage applications tend to emphasize high-fidelity spatial reconstruction, often failing to convey these deeper social fra...

Advancing Global Short-Term Wildfire Forecasting with Wildfire-Specific Spatiotemporal Deep Learning

Abstract Reliable daily wildfire forecasting is essential for early warning, air-quality management, and reducing smoke-related health exposure. However, global approaches generally emphasize either fire-weather danger or pixel-wise occurrence prediction and do not explicitly rep...

Sharpening bordering: What counts, where it operates, and what endures

We respond to Laine's account of supply chains as bordering infrastructures by asking three linked questions: What counts as bordering, where does it operate, and what forms endure? We argue that bordering: (1) depends on identifiable mechanisms that differentially organize mobil...

The impact of perceived fairness on consumers’ willingness to pay for water quality improvements: evidence from China

Financing drinking water improvements in low tariff regimes requires price increases, yet affordability alone cannot ensure public acceptance. In a survey experiment with 1027 urban Chinese residents, perceived fairness is associated with 0.58–0.84 RMB/m3 higher WTP for cleaner r...

Dissecting the NVIDIA Hopper Architecture through Microbenchmarking and Multiple Level Analysis

This study presents a comprehensive multi-level analysis of the NVIDIA Hopper GPU architecture, focusing on its performance characteristics and novel features. We benchmark Hopper’s memory subsystem, highlighting improvements in the L2 partitioned cache and global memory access c...

Self-foaming sintering-resistant iron-tungsten powders enable high-cycle thermochemical hydrogen storage

H2-H2O redox cycling of iron powder beds at 650-800 °C offers a compact, safe, economical hydrogen storage method, but sintering-induced capacity loss has stalled its scalability for decades. Here, we show that adding redox-active tungsten to Fe powders solves this problem in sta...

PrefixAgent: An LLM-Powered Design Framework for Efficient Prefix Adder Optimization

Prefix adders are fundamental arithmetic circuits, but their design space grows exponentially with bit-width, posing significant optimization challenges. Previous works face limitations in performance, generalization, and scalability. To address these challenges, we propose Prefi...

CoNewsReader: Supporting Comprehensive Understanding and Raising Critical Thoughts on Social Media News Through Comments

Critical news reading (CNR), which requires grasping the holistic ideas of and raising critical thoughts on the news, is beneficial yet challenging for general people who usually get information on daily social media. Comments under the news can aid CNR by providing complementary...

“Law at Your Fingertips”: Understanding Legal Information Seeking on Video-Sharing Platforms in China

Equipping laypeople with the capabilities to seek legal information has been an important goal for Legal Empowerment in modern society. However, unlike general information-seeking behaviors, legal information seeking is characterized by high stakes, urgency, and a critical need f...