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 11 of 17

501. NeurIPS 2025Slow Transition to Low-Dimensional Chaos in Heavy-Tailed Recurrent Neural Networks
502. NeurIPS 2025Smooth and Flexible Camera Movement Synthesis via Temporal Masked Generative Modeling
503. NeurIPS 2025Solving Discrete (Semi) Unbalanced Optimal Transport with Equivalent Transformation Mechanism and KKT-Multiplier Regularization
504. NeurIPS 2025Spatial-Aware Decision-Making with Ring Attractors in Reinforcement Learning Systems
505. NeurIPS 2025Spectral Analysis of Representational Similarity with Limited Neurons
506. NeurIPS 2025Spectral Compressive Imaging via Chromaticity-Intensity Decomposition
507. NeurIPS 2025Spectral Perturbation Bounds for Low-Rank Approximation with Applications to Privacy
508. NeurIPS 2025SPICED: A Synaptic Homeostasis-Inspired Framework for Unsupervised Continual EEG Decoding
509. NeurIPS 2025Spik-NeRF: Spiking Neural Networks for Neural Radiance Fields
510. NeurIPS 2025Spike-RetinexFormer: Rethinking Low-light Image Enhancement with Spiking Neural Networks
511. NeurIPS 2025Spike-timing-dependent Hebbian learning as noisy gradient descent
512. NeurIPS 2025SPINT: Spatial Permutation-Invariant Neural Transformer for Consistent Intracortical Motor Decoding
513. NeurIPS 2025SplashNet: Split‑and‑Share Encoders for Accurate and Efficient Typing with Surface Electromyography
514. NeurIPS 2025SQLens: An End-to-End Framework for Error Detection and Correction in Text-to-SQL
515. NeurIPS 2025Stable Port-Hamiltonian Neural Networks
516. NeurIPS 2025Steering When Necessary: Flexible Steering Large Language Models with Backtracking
517. NeurIPS 2025STEP: A Unified Spiking Transformer Evaluation Platform for Fair and Reproducible Benchmarking
518. NeurIPS 2025STNet: Spectral Transformation Network for Solving Operator Eigenvalue Problem
519. NeurIPS 2025Stochastic Process Learning via Operator Flow Matching
520. NeurIPS 2025STSBench: A Large-Scale Dataset for Modeling Neuronal Activity in the Dorsal Stream of Primate Visual Cortex
521. NeurIPS 2025Styl3R: Instant 3D Stylized Reconstruction for Arbitrary Scenes and Styles
522. NeurIPS 2025SuffixDecoding: Extreme Speculative Decoding for Emerging AI Applications
523. NeurIPS 2025SurfelSplat: Learning Efficient and Generalizable Gaussian Surfel Representations for Sparse-View Surface Reconstruction
524. NeurIPS 2025SWE-SQL: Illuminating LLM Pathways to Solve User SQL Issues in Real-World Applications
525. NeurIPS 2025SynBrain: Enhancing Visual-to-fMRI Synthesis via Probabilistic Representation Learning
526. NeurIPS 2025Synthesizing Performance Constraints for Evaluating and Improving Code Efficiency
527. NeurIPS 2025T2SMark: Balancing Robustness and Diversity in Noise-as-Watermark for Diffusion Models
528. NeurIPS 2025TAPIP3D: Tracking Any Point in Persistent 3D Geometry
529. NeurIPS 2025Task-Optimized Convolutional Recurrent Networks Align with Tactile Processing in the Rodent Brain
530. NeurIPS 2025TGA: True-to-Geometry Avatar Dynamic Reconstruction
531. NeurIPS 2025THD-BAR: Topology Hierarchical Derived Brain Autoregressive Modeling for EEG Generic Representations
532. NeurIPS 2025The Dual Nature of Plasticity Loss in Deep Continual Learning: Dissection and Mitigation
533. NeurIPS 2025The Emergence of Abstract Thought in Large Language Models Beyond Any Language
534. NeurIPS 2025The Rich and the Simple: On the Implicit Bias of Adam and SGD
535. NeurIPS 2025Tight Bounds for Maximum Weight Matroid Independent Set and Matching in the Zero Communication Model
536. NeurIPS 2025Time-Evolving Dynamical System for Learning Latent Representations of Mouse Visual Neural Activity
537. NeurIPS 2025Time-Masked Transformers with Lightweight Test-Time Adaptation for Neural Speech Decoding
538. NeurIPS 2025Toward Relative Positional Encoding in Spiking Transformers
539. NeurIPS 2025Towards Multiscale Graph-based Protein Learning with Geometric Secondary Structural Motifs
540. NeurIPS 2025Towards Realistic Earth-Observation Constellation Scheduling: Benchmark and Methodology
541. NeurIPS 2025TRACE: Contrastive learning for multi-trial time series data in neuroscience
542. NeurIPS 2025TractoTransformer: Diffusion MRI Streamline Tractography using CNN and Transformer Networks
543. NeurIPS 2025TrajAgent: An LLM-Agent Framework for Trajectory Modeling via Large-and-Small Model Collaboration
544. NeurIPS 2025TransferTraj: A Vehicle Trajectory Learning Model for Region and Task Transferability
545. NeurIPS 2025Transformer brain encoders explain human high-level visual responses
546. NeurIPS 2025Transforming Gaps into Gains: Bridging Model and Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning via Knowledge Weak-Aware Zones
547. NeurIPS 2025TwinMarket: A Scalable Behavioral and Social Simulation for Financial Markets
548. NeurIPS 2025Ultra-high Resolution Watermarking Framework Resistant to Extreme Cropping and Scaling
549. NeurIPS 2025UMA: A Family of Universal Models for Atoms
550. NeurIPS 2025Uncover Governing Law of Pathology Propagation Mechanism Through A Mean-Field Game

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.