This book contains original, peer-reviewed research articles from the 5th International Conference on Recent Trends in Machine Learning, IoT, Smart Cities, and Applications, held in Hyderabad, India on 28–29 March 2024. It includes the most recent research trends and advancements in machine learning, smart cities, IoT, AI, cyber-physical systems, cybernetics, data science, neural networks, and cognition. This book addresses the comprehensive nature of AI, ML, and DL to highlight its role in the modelling, identification, optimisation, prediction, forecasting, and control of future intelligent systems.