Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue is aimed toward recent theoretical advances and practical computational and mathematical applications in deep learning. The editors would like to provide an opportunity to present state-of-the-art research on the development of cutting-edge neural network model architectures, the understanding, explainability, and interpretability of deep learning models, their mathematical bias and fairness, robustness,  and ethical and societal regulations and considerations, including but not limited to subjects such as image recognition, retrieval, generation and processing, speech, speaker and emotion recognition and synthesis, style translation, generative adversarial models, reinforcement learning, transfer learning, natural language processing, attention mechanisms, transformer-based networks, sequence modelling, data augmentation, time series analysis, biomedical and agricultural applications, computer vision, etc. The Special Issue will address the following non-exhaustive list of topics (however, we also encourage other ideas in the scope of this issue): 

deep learning theory and applications; computational and mathematical applications (information theory; optimization algorithms; probability and statistics; functional analysis; signal processing; graph theory; medical; pharmaceutical; agricultural; automotive; educational; and financial applications; genomic sequence analysis; gaming; etc.); convolutional neural networks; recurrent neural networks; long short-term memory networks; reinforcement learning; transfer learning; autoencoders; attention mechanisms; generative models; transformers; natural language processing; speech and audio processing; object recognition; style transform; scene understanding; classification and clustering; unsupervised; semi-supervised; supervised; and self-supervised learning; explainable AI. 

We hope that the initiative will be attractive to deep learning researchers and experts in mathematical and computational deep learning applications, and we highly encourage you to submit your current research for peer review before the deadline.

Dr. Branislav Popovic
Dr. Marko Janev
Dr. Lazar Kopanja
Guest Editors

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• deep learning
• neural networks
• generative models
• autoencoders
• reinforcement learning
• transfer learning
• style translation
• object recognition
• signal processing
• optimization