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

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• 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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601. NeurIPS 2026Exactness Matters for Physical Rule Enforcement
602. NeurIPS 2026Explaining and Breaking the Safety-Helpfulness Ceiling via Preference Dimensional Expansion
603. NeurIPS 2026Extraneous Cognitive Load in Large Language Models
604. NeurIPS 2026Fine-Tuning Language Models to Know What They Know
605. NeurIPS 2026FinReasoning: A Hierarchical Benchmark for Reliable Financial Research Reporting
606. NeurIPS 2026FlatClip: Reusing Image Foundation Models for fMRI Representation Learning via Cortical Flatmaps
607. NeurIPS 2026Fluxtrapolation: A benchmark on extrapolating ecosystem fluxes
608. NeurIPS 2026FracEncoder: Towards Adaptive Cognitive Trajectories via Fractional-Order Context Encoding
609. NeurIPS 2026From Persistence to Survival: Hypothesis Testing, Effect Sizes and Vectorisation for Topological Features
610. NeurIPS 2026From Representation to Intervention: Using Emotion Vectors to Monitor and Guide Language Models
611. NeurIPS 2026GoT: A Game-Theoretic Approach to the Game of Twenty Questions
612. NeurIPS 2026GramStatTexNet: Efficient, Interpretable, and Neuro-Inspired Texture Analysis-by-Synthesis
613. NeurIPS 2026Growing a Neural Network in Breadth, Depth, and Time
614. NeurIPS 2026haphazard: A unified library and benchmark for online learning under varying feature availability
615. NeurIPS 2026HAPS: Hierarchical LLM Routing with Joint Architecture and Parameter Search
616. NeurIPS 2026HOPSE: Scalable Higher-Order Positional and Structural Encoder for Combinatorial Representations
617. NeurIPS 2026How Much is Left? LLMs Linearly Encode Their Remaining Output Length
618. NeurIPS 2026Human-Inspired, Task-Dimension-Guided Exploration for Efficient Learning and Transfer in High Dimensions
619. NeurIPS 2026HumanStereo: A Benchmark for Metric Facial Depth Estimation and Its Evaluation
620. NeurIPS 2026Illusory Pattern Perception Drives Spurious Inference in Large Language Models
621. NeurIPS 2026Indications of Belief-Guided Agency and Meta-Cognitive Monitoring in Large Language Models
622. NeurIPS 2026Inverse Modeling of Neural Recordings via Differentiable Biophysical Simulation
623. NeurIPS 2026Joint EM Image Super-Resolution and Segmentation with Semantic and Structural Priors
624. NeurIPS 2026L-FAME: Longitudinal Focused Attention Meditation EEG Dataset and Benchmark
625. NeurIPS 2026Language Models Demand New Computer Science
626. NeurIPS 2026LAPLEX: The FFT of Learnable Laplace Kernels
627. NeurIPS 2026LatentRouter: Can We Choose the Right Multimodal Model Before Seeing Its Answer?
628. NeurIPS 2026Learning Actionable Information Landscapes for Multimodal Active Sensing in Hawkmoths
629. NeurIPS 2026Learning Global Temporal Dynamics in Sparse Networks via Cycle Counts
630. NeurIPS 2026Learning interpretable Schur forms of recurrent weight matrices
631. NeurIPS 2026Learning Provable Neural Network Observer for Uncertain Dynamical Systems
632. NeurIPS 2026Learning Reveals Invisible Structure in Low-Rank RNNs
633. NeurIPS 2026Learning Survival Models with Right-Censored Reporting Delays
634. NeurIPS 2026Learning Transferable Cross-Day Representations for Few-Shot Neural Decoding
635. NeurIPS 2026Learning What's Real: Disentangling Signals and Measurement Artifacts in Multi-Sensor Data, with Applications to Astrophysics
636. NeurIPS 2026Learning When Visual Context Matters for Mouse Behavior Analysis
637. NeurIPS 2026LeCellModel: Interpretable Density Estimation over the Gene Expression Manifold
638. NeurIPS 2026LibriBrain100: One Hundred Hours of Broad and Deep MEG Data for Neural Speech Decoding at Scale
639. NeurIPS 2026Lifting Biomolecular Data Acquisition
640. NeurIPS 2026LLM-Based Multi-Agent Blackboard System for Information Discovery in Data Science
641. NeurIPS 2026Locality Sensitive Hashing for p-Exponential Kernels with Applications to Density Estimation
642. NeurIPS 2026Long-Rollout Stability in AI Weather Models: A Quantitative Benchmark and Analysis
643. NeurIPS 2026MCPHallu: Benchmarking Reasoning, Execution, and Memory Hallucinations in MCP Agents
644. NeurIPS 2026Memory flows: geometry and dynamics of sequential retrieval in input-driven Hopfield networks
645. NeurIPS 2026Meta-Cognitive Memory Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon LLM Agents
646. NeurIPS 2026MICA: Activation Checkpointing for Double-Backward Training of Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials
647. NeurIPS 2026Minimally Invasive Steering of Language Models
648. NeurIPS 2026MIRAGE: Adaptive Multimodal Gating for Whole-Brain fMRI Encoding
649. NeurIPS 2026MixScentNet: A Multiscale Graph-based Framework for Predicting Scent Mixture Perception
650. NeurIPS 2026Model Immunization Beyond Condition Numbers: The Importance of Plateau Regions

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.