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 12 of 17

551. NeurIPS 2025Unfolding the Black Box of Recurrent Neural Networks for Path Integration
552. NeurIPS 2025Unified 2D-3D Discrete Priors for Noise-Robust and Calibration-Free Multiview 3D Human Pose Estimation
553. NeurIPS 2025UniFoil: A Universal Dataset of Airfoils in Transitional and Turbulent Regimes for Subsonic and Transonic Flows
554. NeurIPS 2025Unifying Symbolic Music Arrangement: Track-Aware Reconstruction and Structured Tokenization
555. NeurIPS 2025Unlocker: Disentangle the Deadlock of Learning between Label-noisy and Long-tailed Data
556. NeurIPS 2025Unveiling the Learning Mind of Language Models: A Cognitive Framework and Empirical Study
557. NeurIPS 2025Unveiling the Spatial-temporal Effective Receptive Fields of Spiking Neural Networks
558. NeurIPS 2025Vector Quantization in the Brain: Grid-like Codes in World Models
559. NeurIPS 2025VideoTitans: Scalable Video Prediction with Integrated Short- and Long-term Memory
560. NeurIPS 2025Visual Anagrams Reveal Hidden Differences in Holistic Shape Processing Across Vision Models
561. NeurIPS 2025Visual Structures Help Visual Reasoning: Addressing the Binding Problem in LVLMs
562. NeurIPS 2025Volume Transmission Implements Context Factorization to Target Online Credit Assignment and Enable Compositional Generalization
563. NeurIPS 2025Wavelet Canonical Coherence for Nonstationary Signals
564. NeurIPS 2025What do you know? Bayesian knowledge inference for navigating agents
565. NeurIPS 2025What Happens During the Loss Plateau? Understanding Abrupt Learning in Transformers
566. NeurIPS 2025What Moves the Eyes: Doubling Mechanistic Model Performance Using Deep Networks to Discover and Test Cognitive Hypotheses
567. NeurIPS 2025Why Playing Against Diverse and Challenging Opponents Speeds Up Coevolution: A Theoretical Analysis on Combinatorial Games
568. NeurIPS 2025Wukong's 72 Transformations: High-fidelity Textured 3D Morphing via Flow Models
569. NeurIPS 2025ZEBRA: Towards Zero-Shot Cross-Subject Generalization for Universal Brain Visual Decoding
570. NeurIPS 2024$\textit{NeuroPath}$: A Neural Pathway Transformer for Joining the Dots of Human Connectomes
571. NeurIPS 2024A Canonicalization Perspective on Invariant and Equivariant Learning
572. NeurIPS 2024A generalized neural tangent kernel for surrogate gradient learning
573. NeurIPS 2024A Polar coordinate system represents syntax in large language models
574. NeurIPS 2024A Recipe for Charge Density Prediction
575. NeurIPS 2024A scalable generative model for dynamical system reconstruction from neuroimaging data
576. NeurIPS 2024A Simple and Adaptive Learning Rate for FTRL in Online Learning with Minimax Regret of $\Theta(T^{2/3})$ and its Application to Best-of-Both-Worlds
577. NeurIPS 2024A Unified Confidence Sequence for Generalized Linear Models, with Applications to Bandits
578. NeurIPS 2024A Unifying Normative Framework of Decision Confidence
579. NeurIPS 2024Abrupt Learning in Transformers: A Case Study on Matrix Completion
580. NeurIPS 2024Active learning of neural population dynamics using two-photon holographic optogenetics
581. NeurIPS 2024ActSort: An active-learning accelerated cell sorting algorithm for large-scale calcium imaging datasets
582. NeurIPS 2024Advancing Spiking Neural Networks for Sequential Modeling with Central Pattern Generators
583. NeurIPS 2024Advancing Training Efficiency of Deep Spiking Neural Networks through Rate-based Backpropagation
584. NeurIPS 2024AllClear: A Comprehensive Dataset and Benchmark for Cloud Removal in Satellite Imagery
585. NeurIPS 2024Almost Free: Self-concordance in Natural Exponential Families and an Application to Bandits
586. NeurIPS 2024An Autoencoder-Like Nonnegative Matrix Co-Factorization for Improved Student Cognitive Modeling
587. NeurIPS 2024An exactly solvable model for emergence and scaling laws in the multitask sparse parity problem
588. NeurIPS 2024Analytically deriving Partial Information Decomposition for affine systems of stable and convolution-closed distributions
589. NeurIPS 2024APDDv2: Aesthetics of Paintings and Drawings Dataset with Artist Labeled Scores and Comments
590. NeurIPS 2024Artificial Generational Intelligence: Cultural Accumulation in Reinforcement Learning
591. NeurIPS 2024Automating Dataset Updates Towards Reliable and Timely Evaluation of Large Language Models
592. NeurIPS 2024Autonomous Driving with Spiking Neural Networks
593. NeurIPS 2024AutoSurvey: Large Language Models Can Automatically Write Surveys
594. NeurIPS 2024Back to the Continuous Attractor
595. NeurIPS 2024Beyond the Doors of Perception: Vision Transformers Represent Relations Between Objects
596. NeurIPS 2024Bias Amplification in Language Model Evolution: An Iterated Learning Perspective
597. NeurIPS 2024Binding in hippocampal-entorhinal circuits enables compositionality in cognitive maps
598. NeurIPS 2024Biologically Inspired Learning Model for Instructed Vision
599. NeurIPS 2024Brain Treebank: Large-scale intracranial recordings from naturalistic language stimuli
600. NeurIPS 2024Brain-JEPA: Brain Dynamics Foundation Model with Gradient Positioning and Spatiotemporal Masking

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.