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