International conference on neural computing for advanced applications Haijun Zhang Yinggen Ke Zhou Wu Tianyong Hao Zhao zhang Weizhi Meng Yuanyuan Mu editors ; Part 2 The two volume set CCIS 1869 and 1870 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Neural Computing for Advanced Applications NCAA 2023 held in Hefei China in July 2023. The 83 full papers and 1 short paper presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 211 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: Neural network (NN) theory NN based control systems neuro system integration and engineering applications; Machine learning and deep learning for data mining and data driven applications; Computational intelligence nature inspired optimizers and their engineering applications; Deep learning driven pattern recognition computer vision and its industrial applications; Natural language processing knowledge graphs recommender systems and their applications; Neural computing based fault diagnosis and forecasting prognostic management and cyber physical system security; Sequence learning for spreading dynamics forecasting and intelligent techniques against epidemic spreading (2); Applications of Data Mining Machine Learning and Neural Computing in Language Studies; Computational intelligent Fault Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control and Their Engineering Applications; and Other Neural computing related topics