Dear Colleagues,

The 20th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2021) will be held on 13–16 December, Pasadena, CA, USA (https://www.icmla-conference.org/icmla21/index.html).

The aim of the conference is to bring researchers working in the areas of machine learning and applications together. The conference will cover both theoretical and experimental research results. Submission of machine learning papers describing machine learning applications in fields such as medicine, biology, industry, manufacturing, security, education, virtual environments, game playing, and problem-solving is strongly encouraged.

The main topics of this Special Issue include but are not limited to:

• General machine learning (reinforcement learning, feature selection, etc.);
• Deep learning (neural network models, deep reinforcement learning, etc.);
• Machine learning performance and optimization;
• Probabilistic inference (Bayesian methods, graphical models, Monte Carlo methods, etc.);
• Trustworthy machine learning (security, privacy, adversarial learning, etc.);
• Applications (gaming, problem-solving, virtual environments, industry, manufacturing, homeland security, medicine, bioinformatics and system biology, healthcare, neuroscience, economics, business, social good, web, mobile data, time series data, multimedia data, natural language processing, data mining, information retrieval, knowledge discovery, etc.).

Contributions describing applications of machine learning (ML) techniques to real-world problems, interdisciplinary research involving machine learning, experimental and/or theoretical studies yielding new insights into the design of ML systems, and papers describing development of new analytical frameworks are also welcome. Extended versions of conference papers that show significant improvement (minimum of over 50%) can also be considered for publication in this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Guangzhi Qu
Prof. Dr. Daniela Raicu
Guest Editors

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