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To address this, we propose a method for estimating a three-axis ground reaction force (GRF) and two-axis center of pressure (CoP) using a shoe embedded with three uniaxial load cells. The estimation was conducted under five gait conditions: straight walking, turning, uphill, downhill, and running. Data were collected from 40 healthy young adults. Four deep-learning models\u2014Fully Connected Neural Network (FCNN), Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Sequence-to-Sequence Long Short-Term Memory (Seq2Seq-LSTM), and Transformer\u2014were evaluated. Among them, Seq2Seq-LSTM and CNN achieved the highest performance in predicting both GRF and CoP. However, the medio-lateral (ML) components showed lower accuracy than the vertical and anterior\u2013posterior directions. In slope conditions, particularly for vertical GRF, relatively higher root mean-square error (RMSE) values were observed. Despite some variation across gait types, predicted values showed high agreement with measurements. Compared with previous studies, the proposed method achieved comparable or better performance with a minimal sensor setup. These findings highlight the feasibility of accurate GRF and CoP estimation in diverse gait scenarios and support the potential for real-world applications. 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