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 2026Temporal Weighted Encoding: Towards Maximal-Capacity Spike Coding for ANN–SNN Conversion
502. ICML 2026Terminal Dimension Reduction for Time Series with Applications
503. ICML 2026The Geometry of Representational Failures in Vision Language Models
504. ICML 2026The Hippocampal Place Field Gradient: A Bio-inspired Framework Building Multiscale Representation for Better Sample Efficiency
505. ICML 2026Think Fast and Slow: Step-Level Cognitive Depth Adaptation for LLM Agents
506. ICML 2026TimeSeed: Effective Time Series Forecasting with Sparse Endogenous Variables
507. ICML 2026Topology-Preserving Neural Operator Learning via Hodge Decomposition
508. ICML 2026Torus Graphs for Large Scale Neural Phase Analysis
509. ICML 2026Towards Diverse Scientific Hypothesis Search with Large Language Models
510. ICML 2026Towards Professional-Grade Financial Agents: Benchmarking, Tooling, and Structured Reasoning
511. ICML 2026Towards the Training of Deeper Predictive Coding Neural Networks
512. ICML 2026Towards Universal Gene Regulatory Network Inference: Unlocking Generalizable Regulatory Knowledge in Single-cell Foundation Models
513. ICML 2026Training AI Co-Scientists Using Rubric Rewards
514. ICML 2026Training Deep Spiking Neural Networks without Normalization
515. ICML 2026TriForces: Augmenting Atomistic GNNs for Transferable Representations
516. ICML 2026U-Cast: A Surprisingly Simple and Efficient Frontier Probabilistic AI Weather Forecaster
517. ICML 2026Ubiquity of Emergent Hebbian Dynamics in Regularized Learning
518. ICML 2026Unbiased and Second-Order-Free Training for High-Dimensional PDEs
519. ICML 2026Uncovering Latent Communication Patterns in Brain Networks via Adaptive Flow Routing
520. ICML 2026UniDrag: Unified Multi-Field Prediction and Robust Shape Optimization for Vehicle Aerodynamics
521. ICML 2026UniSparse: Combining Weight Pruning and Spike Sparsification in Spiking Neural Networks
522. ICML 2026UrbanMLLM: Joint Learning of Cross-view Imagery for Urban Understanding
523. ICML 2026Verbalized Bayesian Persuasion
524. ICML 2026ViEEG: Hierarchical Visual Neural Representation for EEG Brain Decoding
525. ICML 2026VIPO: Value Function Inconsistency Penalized Offline Reinforcement Learning
526. ICML 2026Zeroth-Order Non-Log-Concave Sampling with Variance Reduction and Applications to Inverse Problems
527. NeurIPS 2026(Strongly) Replicable Distribution Testers imply High Probability Distribution Testers
528. NeurIPS 2026$\mathrm{Bounded\mbox{-}RS}$: A Bounded Evaluation Protocol and Testbed for Representational Systematicity
529. NeurIPS 2026A Hebbian Recurrent Neural Network Explains the Hierarchical Geometry of Sequence Memory
530. NeurIPS 2026A latent control model for realistic rodent motion
531. NeurIPS 2026A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness Judgments of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models
532. NeurIPS 2026Active Probabilistic Reasoning in Humans and LLMs
533. NeurIPS 2026Adaptive Multi-Frame Learning for Expressive and Stable Atomic Representations
534. NeurIPS 2026AffordSim: A Scalable Data Generator and Benchmark for Affordance-Aware Robotic Manipulation
535. NeurIPS 2026Agentic Abstention: Do Agents Know When to Stop Instead of Act?
536. NeurIPS 2026Aligning MLLMs with the Latent Structure of Human Cognition via Behavior-Derived Semantic Dimensions
537. NeurIPS 2026AlphaPROBE: Alpha Mining via principled retriveval and on-graph biased evolution
538. NeurIPS 2026Announced Breaks Separate Conformal Reliability from Frequency Calibration
539. NeurIPS 2026Anymotion: A Dataset, Benchmark, and Baseline for Controllable Human Motion Editing
540. NeurIPS 2026Approximate Matrix–Vectors Under a Bounded $\ell_1$ Assumption and Applications to Kernel Matrices
541. NeurIPS 2026Attention-based Routing for Interpretable Multimodal Brain Encoding
542. NeurIPS 2026AUTOMEM: Automated Learning of Memory as a Cognitive Skill
543. NeurIPS 2026B[FM]$^2$: Brain Foundation Model via Flow Matching with SplitUNet
544. NeurIPS 2026Beyond DSA: Conjugacy-based Comparison of Dynamical Systems
545. NeurIPS 2026Beyond High and Low: Evaluating Graded Cognitive Diversity in LLM Persona Simulations
546. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Raw Observations: Distilling and Storing Invariant Driving Memories for Generalizable Autonomous Driving
547. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Task Success: Probing Cognitive Primitives in Web Agents
548. NeurIPS 2026Beyond the Full Slate: Evaluating MNL Algorithms on All Slates
549. NeurIPS 2026Bias, Measurement Error, and Double-Dipping: When Can GNN Convolutions Help Brain Connectome Prediction?
550. NeurIPS 2026Binding Visual Features Point by Point

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.