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

2,033 papers, page 12 of 41

551. NeurIPS 2026Bounds on Extrapolation across Phase Transitions with Generalized Regression
552. NeurIPS 2026Brain-OF: An Omnifunctional Foundation Model for fMRI, EEG and MEG
553. NeurIPS 2026Brain2voice 2.0: High-performance voice synthesis brain-computer interface
554. NeurIPS 2026Calibrated Target Noise Recovers Curvature from the Gradients
555. NeurIPS 2026Cannistraci-Hebb Channel-wise Dynamic Sparse Training of Convolutional Neural Networks with Contextual Modulation
556. NeurIPS 2026Capturing Membrane Dynamics and Spike Timing of Human Neurons at Scale using Neural Operators
557. NeurIPS 2026CASL-VAE: Learning Structured Latent Variables from Unpaired Data for Semi-supervised Clustering and Paired Sample Generation
558. NeurIPS 2026Castle-in-the-Air: Probing the Foundational Visual Deficits of MLLMs via Bottom-Up Cognitive Factors
559. NeurIPS 2026Chem-PerturBridge: a harmonized compendium of small molecule perturbation transcriptomic effects
560. NeurIPS 2026Clustering with Weak Distance Oracles
561. NeurIPS 2026Co-Evolving Interpolants and Flows via Path-Flow Alignment
562. NeurIPS 2026CogBench: Evaluating Cognitive-Level Control in LLM Question Generation
563. NeurIPS 2026Computationally Efficient Replicable Learning of Parities and Applications
564. NeurIPS 2026Concise and Logically Consistent Conformal Sets for Neuro-Symbolic Concept-Based Models
565. NeurIPS 2026Conditional independence and graphical models for rankings
566. NeurIPS 2026Conformal Prediction with Paraphrase-Aware Scoring for LLM Uncertainty Quantification
567. NeurIPS 2026Constrained Bombieri Point Processes
568. NeurIPS 2026Constrained Modulatory Reservoirs for Context-Dependent Computation
569. NeurIPS 2026Correctable Fork Tokens: Verifier-Anchored Selective Credit Assignment for Tool-Integrated RLVR
570. NeurIPS 2026CORTEG: Foundation Models Enable Cross-Modality Representation Transfer from Scalp to Intracranial Brain Recordings
571. NeurIPS 2026Cortically-Resolved Recurrent Architecture for fMRI
572. NeurIPS 2026Coupled Integral PINN for Discontinuity
573. NeurIPS 2026CryoAtlas: A Large Curated Dataset and Unified Benchmark for Cryo-EM Atomic Model Building
574. NeurIPS 2026CSBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Project-Level System Construction in Computer Science
575. NeurIPS 2026CutAttn: Discovering Cognitive Transition Layers for Efficient Long-Context Prefilling
576. NeurIPS 2026CyBiasBench: Benchmarking Bias in LLM Agents for Cyber-Attack Scenarios
577. NeurIPS 2026Debiasing Random Oblique Projections for Subsampled OLS and Fast CUR in High Dimensions
578. NeurIPS 2026Decomposing Temporal and Job-Induced Dynamics for Probabilistic Computing Workload Forecasting via Graph-Conditioned Dual-Branch Diffusion
579. NeurIPS 2026Decoupling Label Shift and Surrogate Gradient Errors for Robust Federated Spiking Neural Networks
580. NeurIPS 2026Derived Fields Preserve Fine-Scale Detail in Budgeted Neural Simulators
581. NeurIPS 2026Diagnosing and Repairing Visual Collapse in Compact Medical Multimodal LLMs
582. NeurIPS 2026Difference of Convex Programming in the Wasserstein Space with Applications to MMD Optimization
583. NeurIPS 2026Differentiating Network Design Objectives for Balancing Cost and Distance
584. NeurIPS 2026Direct Conditioning of Audio Diffusion Transformers on fMRI Reveals Cortical Contributions to Sound Reconstruction
585. NeurIPS 2026Distributed Online Convex Optimization with Compressed Communication: Optimal Regret and Applications
586. NeurIPS 2026Diversity Maximization: Algorithms for Distant $k$-Subsets
587. NeurIPS 2026Do Semantic Distance Tests Actually Predict Creativity in Large Language Models?
588. NeurIPS 2026Do Speech BCIs Need Larger Models? Rethinking Neural Decoding beyond Scaling
589. NeurIPS 2026DriveStreamBench: Evaluating User-Conditioned Watch-and-Notify in Streaming Driving Video
590. NeurIPS 2026Echo learning enables biologically plausible temporal credit assignment
591. NeurIPS 2026EEG-X: Toward Device-Agnostic and Noise-Robust Foundation Models for EEG
592. NeurIPS 2026Efficient Training of Deep Spiking Neural Networks with Input-Driven Derivative-Free Updates
593. NeurIPS 2026Efficient Transferable Optimal Transport via Min-Sliced Transport Plans
594. NeurIPS 2026ELPAC: Endpoint-Anchored Latent Progression with Stage-Varying Multimodal Coordination
595. NeurIPS 2026Emergent representations of graphical structure in mechanistic neural models of causal judgment
596. NeurIPS 2026EmpathyChat: Structured Cognitive Reasoning in Empathetic Spoken Dialogue
597. NeurIPS 2026Entangled Schrödinger Bridge Matching
598. NeurIPS 2026Escaping the Cognitive Well: Efficient Competition Math with Off-the-Shelf Models
599. NeurIPS 2026Even Sharper Bounds for Transductive Learning and Its Applications
600. NeurIPS 2026Exact Channel Decoupling via Joint Diagonalization and Uniform Splicing for Diffusion Transformer Quantization

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.