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

824 papers, page 10 of 17

451. NeurIPS 2025Predicting Functional Brain Connectivity with Context-Aware Deep Neural Networks
452. NeurIPS 2025Predictive Coding Enhances Meta-RL To Achieve Interpretable Bayes-Optimal Belief Representation Under Partial Observability
453. NeurIPS 2025Proxy Target: Bridging the Gap Between Discrete Spiking Neural Networks and Continuous Control
454. NeurIPS 2025Puppeteer: Rig and Animate Your 3D Models
455. NeurIPS 2025QCircuitBench: A Large-Scale Dataset for Benchmarking Quantum Algorithm Design
456. NeurIPS 2025Quantifying and Alleviating Co-Adaptation in Sparse-View 3D Gaussian Splatting
457. NeurIPS 2025Quantifying Task-relevant Similarities in Representations Using Decision Variable Correlations
458. NeurIPS 2025Quantifying Uncertainty in Error Consistency: Towards Reliable Behavioral Comparison of Classifiers
459. NeurIPS 2025RANK++LETR: Learn to Rank and Optimize Candidates for Line Segment Detection
460. NeurIPS 2025Rao-Blackwellised Reparameterisation Gradients
461. NeurIPS 2025RAPTR: Radar-based 3D Pose Estimation using Transformer
462. NeurIPS 2025REArtGS: Reconstructing and Generating Articulated Objects via 3D Gaussian Splatting with Geometric and Motion Constraints
463. NeurIPS 2025ReCon-GS: Continuum-Preserved Guassian Streaming for Fast and Compact Reconstruction of Dynamic Scenes
464. NeurIPS 2025REFED: A Subject Real-time Dynamic Labeled EEG-fNIRS Synchronized Recorded Emotion Dataset
465. NeurIPS 2025Register and [CLS] tokens induce a decoupling of local and global features in large ViTs
466. NeurIPS 2025Reinforced Active Learning for Large-Scale Virtual Screening with Learnable Policy Model
467. NeurIPS 2025REMI: Reconstructing Episodic Memory During Internally Driven Path Planning
468. NeurIPS 2025REVE: A Foundation Model for EEG - Adapting to Any Setup with Large-Scale Pretraining on 25,000 Subjects
469. NeurIPS 2025Revisiting Generative Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Based on Human Cognitive Laws
470. NeurIPS 2025Riemannian Flow Matching for Brain Connectivity Matrices via Pullback Geometry
471. NeurIPS 2025RigAnyFace: Scaling Neural Facial Mesh Auto-Rigging with Unlabeled Data
472. NeurIPS 2025RIGNO: A Graph-based Framework For Robust And Accurate Operator Learning For PDEs On Arbitrary Domains
473. NeurIPS 2025RiverMamba: A State Space Model for Global River Discharge and Flood Forecasting
474. NeurIPS 2025RNNs perform task computations by dynamically warping neural representations
475. NeurIPS 2025Role Bias in Diffusion Models: Diagnosing and Mitigating through Intermediate Decomposition
476. NeurIPS 2025Rooms from Motion: Un-posed Indoor 3D Object Detection as Localization and Mapping
477. NeurIPS 2025RPG360: Robust 360 Depth Estimation with Perspective Foundation Models and Graph Optimization
478. NeurIPS 2025S$^2$M-Former: Spiking Symmetric Mixing Branchformer for Brain Auditory Attention Detection
479. NeurIPS 2025S$^2$NN: Sub-bit Spiking Neural Networks
480. NeurIPS 2025Scalable inference of functional neural connectivity at submillisecond timescales
481. NeurIPS 2025Scaling and context steer LLMs along the same computational path as the human brain
482. NeurIPS 2025SceneWeaver: All-in-One 3D Scene Synthesis with an Extensible and Self-Reflective Agent
483. NeurIPS 2025Scientists' First Exam: Probing Cognitive Abilities of MLLM via Perception, Understanding, and Reasoning
484. NeurIPS 2025SCOUT: Teaching Pre-trained Language Models to Enhance Reasoning via Flow Chain-of-Thought
485. NeurIPS 2025scPilot: Large Language Model Reasoning Toward Automated Single-Cell Analysis and Discovery
486. NeurIPS 2025Securing the Language of Life: Inheritable Watermarks from DNA Language Models to Proteins
487. NeurIPS 2025Seeing Sound, Hearing Sight: Uncovering Modality Bias and Conflict of AI models in Sound Localization
488. NeurIPS 2025Seemingly Redundant Modules Enhance Robust Odor Learning in Fruit Flies
489. NeurIPS 2025Self supervised learning for in vivo localization of microelectrode arrays using raw local field potential
490. NeurIPS 2025Self-Assembling Graph Perceptrons
491. NeurIPS 2025Self-Calibrating BCIs: Ranking and Recovery of Mental Targets Without Labels
492. NeurIPS 2025Self-Supervised Discovery of Neural Circuits in Spatially Patterned Neural Responses with Graph Neural Networks
493. NeurIPS 2025Semi-supervised Vertex Hunting, with Applications in Network and Text Analysis
494. NeurIPS 2025Separating the 'what' and 'how' of compositional computation to enable reuse and continual learning
495. NeurIPS 2025Shaping Sequence Attractor Schema in Recurrent Neural Networks
496. NeurIPS 2025Siegel Neural Networks
497. NeurIPS 2025SimSort: A Data-Driven Framework for Spike Sorting by Large-Scale Electrophysiology Simulation
498. NeurIPS 2025Simulating Society Requires Simulating Thought
499. NeurIPS 2025Simultaneous Swap Regret Minimization via KL-Calibration
500. NeurIPS 2025SING: SDE Inference via Natural Gradients

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.