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 15 of 41

701. NeurIPS 2026Scaling Neural Motor Decoding via Decoupled Behavioral Pretraining
702. NeurIPS 2026ScrapeBench: Evaluating Legal Compliance of AI Agents in Website Scraping
703. NeurIPS 2026Semantic-Level Invariant Representation Learning for Cross-Hospital Clinical EEG Modeling
704. NeurIPS 2026SENSE: Semantic Neural Speech Synthesis from Brain Dynamics via Spatial Graph Encoding
705. NeurIPS 2026SFPR: Structural Fingerprinting for LiDAR-to-OpenStreetMap Place Recognition
706. NeurIPS 2026Sharp Convergence and Sample Complexity of Policy Mirror Descent for Average-Reward MDPs
707. NeurIPS 2026SheafStain: Sheaf-Theoretic Schr\"odinger Bridge for Spatially and Biologically Coherent Virtual Staining
708. NeurIPS 2026Simultaneous Individual, Group and Multigroup Fairness in Set Covering Problems
709. NeurIPS 2026Sliced Inner Product Gromov–Wasserstein Distances
710. NeurIPS 2026SLIDERS: Systematic Reviews via Automated Evidence Synthesis and Reconciliation
711. NeurIPS 2026SLOT-IR: Learning Disentangled Slot Representations for Infrared Spectral Unmixing
712. NeurIPS 2026Slowly Annealed Langevin Dynamics: Theory and Applications to Training-Free Guided Generation
713. NeurIPS 2026Solving Stochastic Control under Multiplicative and Internal Noise via Constrained Optimization
714. NeurIPS 2026Sparse Expansion Utility: Identifying and Routing to Pivotal Steps in LLM Reasoning Chains
715. NeurIPS 2026Sport Is The Next Grand Challenge For Artificial Intelligence: Toward A Science Of Human Physical Skill
716. NeurIPS 2026Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Rethinking EEG Foundation Model Pretraining via Multi-Teacher Distillation
717. NeurIPS 2026SUPERVISE: A Unified Framework for Standardized and Reproducible Superpixel Evaluation
718. NeurIPS 2026Survival Transformers for Longitudinal Data Analysis: Application to Atrial Fibrillation Risk from ECG
719. NeurIPS 2026Task Success Is Not Enough: Side-effect-Aware Evaluation of Tool-Using Language Model Agents
720. NeurIPS 2026Temporal-Scale Sensitivity in Time-Series Tokenization and Scale-Robust Token Estimation by Gated Sum
721. NeurIPS 2026The Alien Space of Science: Sampling Coherent but Cognitively Unavailable Research Directions
722. NeurIPS 2026The Limits of AI-Driven Allocation: Optimal Screening under Aleatoric Uncertainty
723. NeurIPS 2026The Multi-Block DC Function Class: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications
724. NeurIPS 2026The Power of Menus in Dynamic Pricing: Near Optimal Regret and Equivalence Results
725. NeurIPS 2026The Prestige: Benchmarking Cognitive Visual Reasoning using Magic Tricks
726. NeurIPS 2026The Type Theory of Stationary MDPs: Rare Events and Uncertainty Quantification
727. NeurIPS 2026Theory Guided and Interpretable Neural Operator Design for Partial Differential Equation Learning
728. NeurIPS 2026TimeES: Probabilistic and Deterministic Time Series Forecasting via Evolutionary Spectra
729. NeurIPS 2026Tio: Language Models with Parallel Streams of Thoughts, Inputs and Outputs
730. NeurIPS 2026Tokenization and Architecture Jointly Allocate Component Roles in Time Series Transformers
731. NeurIPS 2026TorchUMM: A Unified Multimodal Model Codebase for Evaluation, Analysis, and Post-training
732. NeurIPS 2026Towards Error-Free EHRs: Reasoning-Intensive Consistency Verification Between Clinical Notes and Structured Tables in Electronic Health Records
733. NeurIPS 2026Towards Understanding and Measuring Cognitive Atrophy in LLM Behaviour
734. NeurIPS 2026Training a Predictive Coding Network on ImageNet using Equilibrium Propagation
735. NeurIPS 2026Trustworthy Retrosynthesis: Eliminating Hallucinations with a Diverse Ensemble of Reaction Scorers
736. NeurIPS 2026Twisted Schrödinger Bridge Matching
737. NeurIPS 2026Two-Sided Learning in Matching Markets with Interviews
738. NeurIPS 2026Uncovering and Shaping the Latent Representation of 3D Scene Topology in Vision-Language Models
739. NeurIPS 2026Unified High-Probability Analysis of Stochastic Variance-Reduced Estimation
740. NeurIPS 2026Unifying Partner and Environment Diversity to Improve Human-AI Coordination
741. NeurIPS 2026UniRank: Unified List-wise Reranking via Confidence-Ordered Denoising
742. NeurIPS 2026Universal and Efficient Computation with 2D Attention
743. NeurIPS 2026Universal Byte-Level Encoding: UTF-8/UTF-16 Routing to Reduce Cross-Script Token-Budget Disparities
744. NeurIPS 2026VVTRec: Radio Interferometric Reconstruction through Visual and Textual Modality Enrichment
745. NeurIPS 2026Walking the Hypercube: Unbiased Quantum Partition Functions Without the Matrix
746. NeurIPS 2026Weighted Conformal Clustering
747. NeurIPS 2026What Comes Next and Why: Interpretable Next-Event Prediction with Neuro-Symbolic Rules
748. NeurIPS 2026When to Adopt Model Updates
749. NeurIPS 2026Where Tabular Foundation Models Falter on Genetic Data: Datasets That Expose and Provide a Path to Address the Gap
750. NeurIPS 2026Why Cancer cfDNA Models Fail on Chronic Disease: A Geometric Information-Theoretic Bound and Its Architectural Implications

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.