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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651. NeurIPS 2026Multiscale Microenvironment Vector Space Projection for Uncovering Diverse Pathological Biomarker
652. NeurIPS 2026Multivariate Time Series Forecasting needs Cross Variable Loss
653. NeurIPS 2026Mutable Transcripts: Mitigating Context Pollution through Editable Conversation State
654. NeurIPS 2026Neural Circuit Architectural Priors for Rat Locomotion
655. NeurIPS 2026Neural Fractional Stochastic Differential Equations
656. NeurIPS 2026Neural population tuning statistics as priors for multitask generalization
657. NeurIPS 2026Neural Signals Generate Clinical Notes in the Wild
658. NeurIPS 2026Neural-DISCO: Source-Conditioned Counterfactual Editing of Neural Population Activity
659. NeurIPS 2026Neuronal Identity as an Organizational Basis for Analyzing Neural Population Dynamics
660. NeurIPS 2026nnTrace: Detecting and Localizing Silent Bugs in Distributed Training
661. NeurIPS 2026ObsConDA: Observability-Constrained Data Assimilation with Control-Space Inference
662. NeurIPS 2026On Length Bias in EEG-to-Text Decoding
663. NeurIPS 2026On the Primacy Bias in RLVR Training
664. NeurIPS 2026One-Time Soft Alignment Enables Resilient Learning without Weight Transport
665. NeurIPS 2026Online Bayesian Calibration under Gradual and Abrupt System Changes
666. NeurIPS 2026OpenMHC: Accelerating the Science of Wearable Foundation Models
667. NeurIPS 2026OperatorSHAP: Fast and Accurate Shapley Value Estimation for Neural Operators
668. NeurIPS 2026Optimal Ansatz-free Hamiltonian Learning In Situ
669. NeurIPS 2026Parameter symmetries determine representational geometry in overparameterized nonlinear networks
670. NeurIPS 2026Patch Hierarchical Attention Transformers for Efficient Particle Jet Tagging
671. NeurIPS 2026Physics-Informed Optimal Control by Control-Only Supervision with Error Guarantees on Value and Policy
672. NeurIPS 2026Platonic Representations in the Human Brain: Unsupervised Recovery of Universal Geometry
673. NeurIPS 2026PM1: A Multimodal Foundation Model for Genomes, Phenotypes, and Images at Biobank Scale
674. NeurIPS 2026Position: Fair Representations Cannot Hold What They Promise
675. NeurIPS 2026Position: Machine Learning Conferences Should Introduce an Autonomous Research Track
676. NeurIPS 2026Position: We Need Greater Transparency to Maintain Research Pipeline Reliability Despite GenAI
677. NeurIPS 2026PreCoMem: Predictive Cognitive Memory for Self-Evolving Long-Term Dialogue Agents
678. NeurIPS 2026Predictive Representation Learning for Partially Observed Neural Dynamics
679. NeurIPS 2026Predictively-Oriented Kalman Filtering
680. NeurIPS 2026Probabilistic Data-Driven Modelling of Astrophysical Transients: The Neural Process Family for Ultrafast and Class-Agnostic Light Curve Reconstruction
681. NeurIPS 2026ProSearch: Benchmarking Multi-Constraint Protocol Retrieval in Experimental Science
682. NeurIPS 2026Prototypes of the Mind: A Unified Framework for Probing the Visual Brain
683. NeurIPS 2026Provable Quantization with Randomized Hadamard Transform
684. NeurIPS 2026Proxy-Based Approximation of Shapley and Banzhaf Interactions
685. NeurIPS 2026pyCD: A Unified Benchmark for Reliable Evaluation of Cognitive Diagnosis Models
686. NeurIPS 2026QT-Net: Rethinking Evaluation of AI Models in Atomic Chemical Space
687. NeurIPS 2026Quantum Best Arm Identification with Limited Round of Adaptivity: Lower Bounds and Algorithms
688. NeurIPS 2026Quantum Composite Hypothesis Testing with Small Error
689. NeurIPS 2026RAM-H1200: A Unified Evaluation and Dataset on Hand Radiographs for Rheumatoid Arthritis
690. NeurIPS 2026Reaching a Consensus in Predictive Loops
691. NeurIPS 2026Remote Photoplethysmography Based on a Skin Reflection Exponential Model
692. NeurIPS 2026Representing Part-Whole Hierarchy with Nested Neuronal Coherence
693. NeurIPS 2026Resilient Byzantine Agreement with Predictions
694. NeurIPS 2026Rest-Tuning: Data-Efficient Adaptation of EEG Foundation Models to Individuals via Resting-State Signals
695. NeurIPS 2026Reward Hacking in Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning
696. NeurIPS 2026Robust and Efficient Backdoor Mitigation for ML Models via Tolerant Property Testing
697. NeurIPS 2026S&P: Towards Scalable and Powerful Graph Learning with Hierarchical Structural Acquisition
698. NeurIPS 2026Safe Actions Can Form Unsafe Traces: Benchmarking and Shielding Compositional Emergent Risk in AI Agents
699. NeurIPS 2026SC$^3$: A Multi-Solvent Solubility Challenge and Benchmark
700. NeurIPS 2026Scaling Laws and Tradeoffs in Recurrent Networks of Expressive Neurons

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.