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

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501. ICML 2024Rethinking Data Shapley for Data Selection Tasks: Misleads and Merits
502. ICML 2024Revisiting Scalable Hessian Diagonal Approximations for Applications in Reinforcement Learning
503. ICML 2024Riemannian Accelerated Zeroth-order Algorithm: Improved Robustness and Lower Query Complexity
504. ICML 2024Riemannian coordinate descent algorithms on matrix manifolds
505. ICML 2024Self-cognitive Denoising in the Presence of Multiple Noisy Label Sources
506. ICML 2024Semantically-correlated memories in a dense associative model
507. ICML 2024SILVER: Single-loop variance reduction and application to federated learning
508. ICML 2024Simultaneous identification of models and parameters of scientific simulators
509. ICML 2024SleepFM: Multi-modal Representation Learning for Sleep Across Brain Activity, ECG and Respiratory Signals
510. ICML 2024Solving Poisson Equations using Neural Walk-on-Spheres
511. ICML 2024Sparse Dimensionality Reduction Revisited
512. ICML 2024StackSight: Unveiling WebAssembly through Large Language Models and Neurosymbolic Chain-of-Thought Decompilation
513. ICML 2024Stationarity without mean reversion in improper Gaussian processes
514. ICML 2024Statistical Properties of Robust Satisficing
515. ICML 2024Subhomogeneous Deep Equilibrium Models
516. ICML 2024Supervised Matrix Factorization: Local Landscape Analysis and Applications
517. ICML 2024The Non-linear $F$-Design and Applications to Interactive Learning
518. ICML 2024The WMDP Benchmark: Measuring and Reducing Malicious Use with Unlearning
519. ICML 2024Tilting the Odds at the Lottery: the Interplay of Overparameterisation and Curricula in Neural Networks
520. ICML 2024Turnstile $\ell_p$ leverage score sampling with applications
521. ICML 2024Two Heads are Actually Better than One: Towards Better Adversarial Robustness via Transduction and Rejection
522. ICML 2024UGrid: An Efficient-And-Rigorous Neural Multigrid Solver for Linear PDEs
523. ICML 2024Uniformly Stable Algorithms for Adversarial Training and Beyond
524. ICML 2024Unlock the Cognitive Generalization of Deep Reinforcement Learning via Granular Ball Representation
525. ICML 2024Unsupervised Representation Learning of Brain Activity via Bridging Voxel Activity and Functional Connectivity
526. ICML 2024Unveiling and Harnessing Hidden Attention Sinks: Enhancing Large Language Models without Training through Attention Calibration
527. ICML 2024Why Do Animals Need Shaping? A Theory of Task Composition and Curriculum Learning
528. ICML 2023A Coupled Flow Approach to Imitation Learning
529. ICML 2023Accuracy on the Curve: On the Nonlinear Correlation of ML Performance Between Data Subpopulations
530. ICML 2023Adaptive Whitening in Neural Populations with Gain-modulating Interneurons
531. ICML 2023Analyzing Diffusion as Serial Reproduction
532. ICML 2023Bandit Multi-linear DR-Submodular Maximization and Its Applications on Adversarial Submodular Bandits
533. ICML 2023Building Neural Networks on Matrix Manifolds: A Gyrovector Space Approach
534. ICML 2023Complexity of Block Coordinate Descent with Proximal Regularization and Applications to Wasserstein CP-dictionary Learning
535. ICML 2023Contextual Combinatorial Bandits with Probabilistically Triggered Arms
536. ICML 2023Convergence of Proximal Point and Extragradient-Based Methods Beyond Monotonicity: the Case of Negative Comonotonicity
537. ICML 2023Cross-Entropy Loss Functions: Theoretical Analysis and Applications
538. ICML 2023D2Match: Leveraging Deep Learning and Degeneracy for Subgraph Matching
539. ICML 2023Delay-agnostic Asynchronous Coordinate Update Algorithm
540. ICML 2023Difference of submodular minimization via DC programming
541. ICML 2023Differentially Private Hierarchical Clustering with Provable Approximation Guarantees
542. ICML 2023DP-Fast MH: Private, Fast, and Accurate Metropolis-Hastings for Large-Scale Bayesian Inference
543. ICML 2023DS-1000: A Natural and Reliable Benchmark for Data Science Code Generation
544. ICML 2023Functional Neural Networks: Shift invariant models for functional data with applications to EEG classification
545. ICML 2023GOAT: A Global Transformer on Large-scale Graphs
546. ICML 2023Harmonic Neural Networks
547. ICML 2023Horizon-Free and Variance-Dependent Reinforcement Learning for Latent Markov Decision Processes
548. ICML 2023Infinite Action Contextual Bandits with Reusable Data Exhaust
549. ICML 2023Intrinsic Sliced Wasserstein Distances for Comparing Collections of Probability Distributions on Manifolds and Graphs
550. ICML 2023Learning Antidote Data to Individual Unfairness

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.