The five-volume proceedings set LNAI 15281-15285, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2024, held in Kyoto, Japan, in November 18–24, 2024.The 145 full papers and 35 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 543 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Machine Learning, Deep LearningPart II: Deep Learning, Federated Learning, Generative AI, Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, Part III: Large Language Models, Computer VisionPart IV: Computer Vision, Autonomous Driving, Agents and Multiagent Systems, Knowledge Graphs, Speech Processing, OptimizationPart V: Optimization, General Applications, Medical Applications, Theoretical Foundations of AI