Machine Learning Applications and Big Data Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

Machine learning (ML) has become a critical component in real-world application domains like industry, transportation, healthcare, manufacturing, and beyond. As organizations move towards digital environments, there will be a surge in data availability, which can introduce novel opportunities and challenges for any machine learning task. Big data, characterized by massive volumes, high velocity, and diverse varieties of data formats, can increase the power and performance of machine learning algorithms designed to solve downstream tasks. Although it introduces new problems with respect to scalability, efficiency, and complexity, the synergy between machine learning and big data can offer unprecedented capabilities to reveal complex patterns and trends. Understanding the applications of machine learning in the context of big data and mitigating any associated challenges still have the potential to advance the modeling of data-driven systems.

The scope of this Special Issue is to collect recent advancements in machine learning applications that are targeted towards tackling the challenges of big data. This Special Issue will also highly value interdisciplinary research to bring new challenges, research questions, approaches, and datasets.

This Special Issue invites new research contributions to machine learning tasks specifically tailored for big data challenges. The scope includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• Information retrieval;
• Computer vision;
• Natural language processing;
• Social network analysis;
• Knowledge discovery;
• Trustworthy and secure ML;
• Multi-modal ML systems;
• ML for big graphs;
• Lightweight and efficient models;
• Spatiotemporal and geospatial ML;
• Distributed and parallel ML;
• Applied research such as healthcare, industry, and manufacturing.

Dr. Arunkumar Bagavathi
Dr. Tao Hu
Dr. Atriya Sen
Guest Editors

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• big data
• data science
• machine learning
• artificial intelligence