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

576 papers, page 12 of 12

551. ICML 2023Learning Functional Distributions with Private Labels
552. ICML 2023Learning Mixtures of Gaussians with Censored Data
553. ICML 2023Learning to acquire novel cognitive tasks with evolution, plasticity and meta-meta-learning
554. ICML 2023Masked Bayesian Neural Networks : Theoretical Guarantee and its Posterior Inference
555. ICML 2023Monge, Bregman and Occam: Interpretable Optimal Transport in High-Dimensions with Feature-Sparse Maps
556. ICML 2023On Penalty-based Bilevel Gradient Descent Method
557. ICML 2023On Strengthening and Defending Graph Reconstruction Attack with Markov Chain Approximation
558. ICML 2023Optimal LP Rounding and Linear-Time Approximation Algorithms for Clustering Edge-Colored Hypergraphs
559. ICML 2023Optimal Online Generalized Linear Regression with Stochastic Noise and Its Application to Heteroscedastic Bandits
560. ICML 2023Partial Optimality in Cubic Correlation Clustering
561. ICML 2023Provably Convergent Schrödinger Bridge with Applications to Probabilistic Time Series Imputation
562. ICML 2023Quantum 3D Graph Learning with Applications to Molecule Embedding
563. ICML 2023Rotation and Translation Invariant Representation Learning with Implicit Neural Representations
564. ICML 2023Sampling random graph homomorphisms and applications to network data analysis
565. ICML 2023Sampling-based Nyström Approximation and Kernel Quadrature
566. ICML 2023Simplifying Momentum-based Positive-definite Submanifold Optimization with Applications to Deep Learning
567. ICML 2023Smooth Non-stationary Bandits
568. ICML 2023Stochastic Gradient Descent under Markovian Sampling Schemes
569. ICML 2023The Persistent Laplacian for Data Science: Evaluating Higher-Order Persistent Spectral Representations of Data
570. ICML 2023The Statistical Scope of Multicalibration
571. ICML 2023Theoretical Guarantees of Learning Ensembling Strategies with Applications to Time Series Forecasting
572. ICML 2023Towards Bridging the Gaps between the Right to Explanation and the Right to be Forgotten
573. ICML 2023Trainability, Expressivity and Interpretability in Gated Neural ODEs
574. ICML 2023Using Large Language Models to Simulate Multiple Humans and Replicate Human Subject Studies
575. ICML 2023Warm-Start Actor-Critic: From Approximation Error to Sub-optimality Gap
576. ICML 2023Weighted Tallying Bandits: Overcoming Intractability via Repeated Exposure Optimality

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.