The size of Australia’s illicit tobacco market is nearly three times bigger than previous estimates, forcing enforcement activities to ramp up retail store inspections, even as experts say it may not ...

Abstract: We introduce multi-scale energy models to learn the prior distribution of images, which can be used in inverse problems to derive the Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) estimate and to sample from ...

Abstract: Large-scale overlapping problems are prevalent in practical engineering applications, and the optimization challenge is significantly amplified due to the existence of shared variables.

Officials are accusing Russia of smaller-scale assaults. President Vladimir V. Putin sought to turn the tables, saying that if Europe were to start a war, Russia is ready. By Lara Jakes Lara Jakes ...