Recent Advances and Applications of Artificial Neural Networks

Dear Colleagues,

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have become a central pillar of modern artificial intelligence, enabling breakthroughs in perception, language understanding, decision-making, and scientific discovery. Rapid progress in deep learning architectures, learning paradigms, optimization strategies, and hardware-aware deployment continues to expand the reach of neural methods into increasingly complex real-world settings.

This Special Issue, “Recent Advances and Applications of Artificial Neural Networks”, invites high-quality original research and survey articles that present novel ANN models, theoretical insights, training and regularization techniques, explainability and robustness methods, efficient and sustainable neural computing, and impactful applications across domains. We particularly welcome contributions that bridge methodological innovation with measurable practical benefits, including reproducibility and rigorous evaluation.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Novel ANN architectures (CNNs, RNNs, Transformers, GNNs, spiking neural networks)
• Self-supervised, weakly supervised, and semi-supervised learning
• Federated, distributed, continual, and lifelong learning
• Neural architecture search, pruning, quantization, and model compression
• Optimization, regularization, and training stability
• Trustworthy AI: robustness, reliability, uncertainty, interpretability, fairness
• Edge/IoT deployment, real-time inference, energy-efficient neural computing
• Multimodal learning and data fusion
• Applications in healthcare, bioinformatics, finance, cybersecurity, manufacturing, robotics
• Computer vision, NLP, speech/audio, time-series forecasting, and anomaly detection
• ANN applications in scientific computing and engineering (digital twins, surrogate models)

Dr. Lien Minh Dang
Prof. Dr. Hyeonjoon Moon
Guest Editors

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