<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px">**********Apoligize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ***************</div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px">Journal: Algorithms (<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms" target="_blank">https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms</a>)</div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Indexed by MathSciNet, Scopus, </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">EI Compendex, and ESCI; </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">CiteScore: </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">3.3; SJR Q2</span></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px">Special Issue: "<b><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/56U1X6P99B" target="_blank">Deep Learning Architecture and Applications</a></b>"</div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12px">Dear Colleagues,</span><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><p style="font-family:Arial;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:1.6">As one of the fastest-growing topics in machine learning, deep learning algorithms have achieved unprecedented success in recent years. Novel paradigms (such as contrastive learning and few-shot learning) in deep learning and rising neural network architectures (e.g., transformer, masked autoencoder) are dramatically changing the landscape of data-driven algorithms. More importantly, deep learning models, serving as powerful tools, are redefining the next generation of industrial applications spanning image recognition, speech processing, language translation, healthcare, and even sciences. For example, recent advances in deep representation learning are extending the frontiers of human knowledge on protein 3D structures, which sheds new light on fundamental medicine and biology along with potentially bringing in billions of dollars (e.g., in the pharmaceutical market).</p><p style="font-family:Arial;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:1.6">This Special Issue aims to supply a platform for the publication of novel deep learning algorithms/frameworks and their applications in real-world scenarios.  The topics include but are not limited to the following:</p><ul style="font-family:Arial;box-sizing:border-box;margin:10px 0px 1.25rem 1.1rem;padding:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:inherit;list-style-position:outside"><li style="margin:0px 0px 10px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;break-inside:avoid">Supervised learning</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 10px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;break-inside:avoid">Unsupervised learning</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 10px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;break-inside:avoid">Reinforcement learning</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 10px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;break-inside:avoid">Explainability, generability, robustness, and fairness in deep learning</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 10px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;break-inside:avoid">Applications of deep learning</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 10px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;break-inside:avoid">Deep learning for health</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 10px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;break-inside:avoid">Deep learning for sciences</li></ul><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12px">Please note: </span></font></div><div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><b style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">FREE publication policy</b><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">: We have 10 Awards for outstanding manuscripts that can waive the publication fee! Other excellent papers may get a discount on the publication fee. </span><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12px"><b>Submission deadline: March 10, 2023.</b> However, the submissions are reviewed in a round-base: first submit, first review, first accept. </span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">For any questions/suggestions/inquiries, please feel free to reach out <a href="https://xiangzhang.info/" target="_blank">Dr. Xiang Zhang</a> (<a href="mailto:xiang.zhang@uncc.edu" target="_blank">xiang.zhang@uncc.edu</a>). </span><br></li></ul></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12px"><br></span></font></div><div><div style="margin:0px"><p style="font-family:Arial;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:1.6"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:inherit">Guest Editors</em></p></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12px">Dr. Xiang Zhang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA</span><br></div></div><p style="font-family:Arial;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:1.6">Dr. Xiaoxiao Li, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada</p></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica">Xiang Zhang, Ph.D. </span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica">Assistant Professor | </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica">Computer Science</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica">University of North Carolina at Charlotte</font><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica">9201 University City Blvd. | Charlotte, NC 28223</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica"><a href="mailto:xiang.zhang@uncc.edu" target="_blank">xiang.zhang@uncc.edu</a> | <a href="mailto:xiang.alan.zhang@gmail.com" target="_blank">xiang.alan.zhang@gmail.com</a> </span></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.xiangzhang.info/" target="_blank">http://www.xiangzhang.info</a></div></div></div></div></div>