Conference Background The 8th International Conference on Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems (MLPRIS 2026) will be held during July 17-19, 2026 in Chengdu, China. The conference will cover issues on Advanced Control and Detection Technology, Artificial Neural Networks, Audio/Speech Recognition, Music Analysis, Multimedia Systems, Biometrics, Biomedical Pattern Analysis and Information Systems, Data/web Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Human-computer Interaction, etc. Call For Papers The 8th International Conference on Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems (MLPRIS 2026) will be held during July 17-19, 2026 in Chengdu, China. You are invited to submit papers and participate in our academic exchange. Topics: The conference is soliciting state-of-the-art research papers in the following areas of interest: Supervised Learning Unsupervised & Self-Supervised Learning Reinforcement Learning Statistical Learning Theory Optimization Methods Language Modeling & Text Generation Speech Recognition & Synthesis Information Retrieval & Extraction Machine Translation & Multilingual NLP Sentiment Analysis & Opinion Mining Data/web Mining and Knowledge Discovery Image & Video Processing Feature Extraction & Representation Face, Gesture, and Pose Recognition Document Analysis & Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Explainable AI (XAI) & Interpretability Model Efficiency & Compression Architectural Innovations Transfer Learning, Multi-Task Learning & Meta-Learning Biometric Identification Pattern Classification Object Recognition Robotics & Autonomous Systems Cybersecurity Expert Systems Intelligent Agents Fuzzy Systems Evolutionary Computation Cybersecurity Automated Driving & Autonomous Vehicles Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Cognitive Computing & Human-AI Collaboration