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Herein, we develop a novel algorithm, named single-cell regulatory network inference (ScReNI), for inferring gene regulatory networks at the single-cell level. In ScReNI, the nearest neighbors algorithm is utilized to establish the neighboring cells for each cell, where nonlinear regulatory relationships between gene expression and chromatin accessibility are inferred through a modified random forest. ScReNI is designed to analyze both paired and unpaired datasets for scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq. ScReNI demonstrates more accurate regulatory relationships and outperforms existing cell-specific network inference methods in network-based cell clustering. ScReNI also shows superior performance in inferring cell type-specific regulatory networks through integrating gene expression and chromatin accessibility. Importantly, ScReNI offers the unique function of identifying cell-enriched regulators based on each cell-specific network. 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