Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science went from 183 papers in 2023 to 753 in 2026, roughly 4.1x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science work: 824 papers from 2023 to 2026, 41% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Diffusion Models: papers tagged with both rose from 4 in 2023 to 44 in 2026.
• Among the 10 topics under Application Domains, it ranks #4 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Applications · health medicine, is up 61x versus 4.1x here.

Representative papers

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• NeurIPS 2026(Strongly) Replicable Distribution Testers imply High Probability Distribution Testers
• ICML 2026(Be Cautious!) Bio-Foundation Models Are Not Yet Robust to Biologically Plausible Perturbations and ML Transformations
• ICLR 2026A Biologically Plausible Dense Associative Memory with Exponential Capacity
• CVPR 2026Globscope Toward a Global View of the Loss Landscape
• NeurIPS 2025$\mu$PC: Scaling Predictive Coding to 100+ Layer Networks
• ICML 2025Can Biologically Plausible Temporal Credit Assignment Rules Match BPTT for Neural Similarity? E-prop as an Example
• ICLR 2025A Computational Framework for Modeling Emergence of Color Vision in the Human Brain
• CVPR 2025Blurred LiDAR for Sharper 3D: Robust Handheld 3D Scanning with Diffuse LiDAR and RGB
• NeurIPS 2024$\textit{NeuroPath}$: A Neural Pathway Transformer for Joining the Dots of Human Connectomes
• ICML 2024$\bf{\Phi}_\textrm{Flow}$: Differentiable Simulations for PyTorch, TensorFlow and Jax
• ICLR 2024A Cognitive Model for Learning Abstract Relational Structures from Memory-based Decision-Making Tasks
• CVPR 2024Efficient Detection of Long Consistent Cycles and its Application to Distributed Synchronization
• NeurIPS 2023Adaptive whitening with fast gain modulation and slow synaptic plasticity
• ICML 2023Accuracy on the Curve: On the Nonlinear Correlation of ML Performance Between Data Subpopulations
• ICLR 2023A framework for benchmarking Class-out-of-distribution detection and its application to ImageNet
• CVPR 20233D Line Mapping Revisited
• NeurIPS 2026$\mathrm{Bounded\mbox{-}RS}$: A Bounded Evaluation Protocol and Testbed for Representational Systematicity
• ICML 2026A hitchhiker's guide to Poisson gradient estimation
• ICLR 2026A Brain Graph Foundation Model: Pre-Training and Prompt-Tuning across Broad Atlases and Disorders
• CVPR 2026LASAR Towards Spatio-temporal Reasoning with Latent Cognitive Map

All Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers

523 papers, page 10 of 11

451. ICLR 2024On the Posterior Distribution in Denoising: Application to Uncertainty Quantification
452. ICLR 2024One-hot Generalized Linear Model for Switching Brain State Discovery
453. ICLR 2024Online Stabilization of Spiking Neural Networks
454. ICLR 2024Perceptual Scales Predicted by Fisher Information Metrics
455. ICLR 2024Pre-training Sequence, Structure, and Surface Features for Comprehensive Protein Representation Learning
456. ICLR 2024Predictive auxiliary objectives in deep RL mimic learning in the brain
457. ICLR 2024Predictive, scalable and interpretable knowledge tracing on structured domains
458. ICLR 2024Scalable and Effective Implicit Graph Neural Networks on Large Graphs
459. ICLR 2024Searching for High-Value Molecules Using Reinforcement Learning and Transformers
460. ICLR 2024SNIP: Bridging Mathematical Symbolic and Numeric Realms with Unified Pre-training
461. ICLR 2024Solving High Frequency and Multi-Scale PDEs with Gaussian Processes
462. ICLR 2024Space and time continuous physics simulation from partial observations
463. ICLR 2024Spatio-Temporal Approximation: A Training-Free SNN Conversion for Transformers
464. ICLR 2024Spike-driven Transformer V2: Meta Spiking Neural Network Architecture Inspiring the Design of Next-generation Neuromorphic Chips
465. ICLR 2024Structural Inference with Dynamics Encoding and Partial Correlation Coefficients
466. ICLR 2024Successor Heads: Recurring, Interpretable Attention Heads In The Wild
467. ICLR 2024Sufficient conditions for offline reactivation in recurrent neural networks
468. ICLR 2024Symmetric Basis Convolutions for Learning Lagrangian Fluid Mechanics
469. ICLR 2024Synaptic Weight Distributions Depend on the Geometry of Plasticity
470. ICLR 2024TAB: Temporal Accumulated Batch Normalization in Spiking Neural Networks
471. ICLR 2024The Expressive Leaky Memory Neuron: an Efficient and Expressive Phenomenological Neuron Model Can Solve Long-Horizon Tasks.
472. ICLR 2024Threaten Spiking Neural Networks through Combining Rate and Temporal Information
473. ICLR 2024Towards Energy Efficient Spiking Neural Networks: An Unstructured Pruning Framework
474. ICLR 2024Towards LLM4QPE: Unsupervised Pretraining of Quantum Property Estimation and A Benchmark
475. ICLR 2024Traveling Waves Encode The Recent Past and Enhance Sequence Learning
476. ICLR 2024Turning large language models into cognitive models
477. ICLR 2024UniTabE: A Universal Pretraining Protocol for Tabular Foundation Model in Data Science
478. ICLR 2024Unveiling the Unseen: Identifiable Clusters in Trained Depthwise Convolutional Kernels
479. ICLR 2024VBH-GNN: Variational Bayesian Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks for Cross-subject Emotion Recognition
480. ICLR 2023A framework for benchmarking Class-out-of-distribution detection and its application to ImageNet
481. ICLR 2023A Primal-Dual Framework for Transformers and Neural Networks
482. ICLR 2023A probabilistic framework for task-aligned intra- and inter-area neural manifold estimation
483. ICLR 2023A Theoretical Framework for Inference and Learning in Predictive Coding Networks
484. ICLR 2023A View From Somewhere: Human-Centric Face Representations
485. ICLR 2023Actionable Neural Representations: Grid Cells from Minimal Constraints
486. ICLR 2023Anisotropic Message Passing: Graph Neural Networks with Directional and Long-Range Interactions
487. ICLR 2023Backpropagation at the Infinitesimal Inference Limit of Energy-Based Models: Unifying Predictive Coding, Equilibrium Propagation, and Contrastive Hebbian Learning
488. ICLR 2023Bayesian Oracle for bounding information gain in neural encoding models
489. ICLR 2023Bort: Towards Explainable Neural Networks with Bounded Orthogonal Constraint
490. ICLR 2023BrainBERT: Self-supervised representation learning for intracranial recordings
491. ICLR 2023Bridging the Gap between ANNs and SNNs by Calibrating Offset Spikes
492. ICLR 2023Can Neural Networks Learn Implicit Logic from Physical Reasoning?
493. ICLR 2023Contextual bandits with concave rewards, and an application to fair ranking
494. ICLR 2023D4FT: A Deep Learning Approach to Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory
495. ICLR 2023Distilling Cognitive Backdoor Patterns within an Image
496. ICLR 2023Efficient approximation of neural population structure and correlations with probabilistic circuits
497. ICLR 2023FINDE: Neural Differential Equations for Finding and Preserving Invariant Quantities
498. ICLR 2023Harnessing Out-Of-Distribution Examples via Augmenting Content and Style
499. ICLR 2023How gradient estimator variance and bias impact learning in neural networks
500. ICLR 2023HyperDeepONet: learning operator with complex target function space using the limited resources via hypernetwork

FAQ

How many Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

2,033 in total: 183 in 2023, 424 in 2024, 673 in 2025, 753 in 2026.

How many Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 227 Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers, versus 342 the year before.

How many Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 229 Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers, versus 151 the year before.

How many Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 263 Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers, versus 157 the year before.

How many Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 34 Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers, versus 23 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers?

NeurIPS, with 824 papers from 2023 to 2026.