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

824 papers, page 15 of 17

701. NeurIPS 2024Probabilistic Decomposed Linear Dynamical Systems for Robust Discovery of Latent Neural Dynamics
702. NeurIPS 2024Probablistic Emulation of a Global Climate Model with Spherical DYffusion
703. NeurIPS 2024Provably Optimal Memory Capacity for Modern Hopfield Models: Transformer-Compatible Dense Associative Memories as Spherical Codes
704. NeurIPS 2024PURE: Prompt Evolution with Graph ODE for Out-of-distribution Fluid Dynamics Modeling
705. NeurIPS 2024QKFormer: Hierarchical Spiking Transformer using Q-K Attention
706. NeurIPS 2024realSEUDO for real-time calcium imaging analysis
707. NeurIPS 2024Recurrent Complex-Weighted Autoencoders for Unsupervised Object Discovery
708. NeurIPS 2024Recurrent neural network dynamical systems for biological vision
709. NeurIPS 2024Reinforcement Learning Under Latent Dynamics: Toward Statistical and Algorithmic Modularity
710. NeurIPS 2024Reproducibility of predictive networks for mouse visual cortex
711. NeurIPS 2024Rethinking the Membrane Dynamics and Optimization Objectives of Spiking Neural Networks
712. NeurIPS 2024Retrieval-Retro: Retrieval-based Inorganic Retrosynthesis with Expert Knowledge
713. NeurIPS 2024Retrospective for the Dynamic Sensorium Competition for predicting large-scale mouse primary visual cortex activity from videos
714. NeurIPS 2024Robust and Faster Zeroth-Order Minimax Optimization: Complexity and Applications
715. NeurIPS 2024RTify: Aligning Deep Neural Networks with Human Behavioral Decisions
716. NeurIPS 2024Sample Complexity of Algorithm Selection Using Neural Networks and Its Applications to Branch-and-Cut
717. NeurIPS 2024SAND: Smooth imputation of sparse and noisy functional data with Transformer networks
718. NeurIPS 2024Second-order forward-mode optimization of recurrent neural networks for neuroscience
719. NeurIPS 2024SETLEXSEM CHALLENGE: Using Set Operations to Evaluate the Lexical and Semantic Robustness of Language Models
720. NeurIPS 2024Shaping the distribution of neural responses with interneurons in a recurrent circuit model
721. NeurIPS 2024Smoke and Mirrors in Causal Downstream Tasks
722. NeurIPS 2024Spectral Learning of Shared Dynamics Between Generalized-Linear Processes
723. NeurIPS 2024SpGesture: Source-Free Domain-adaptive sEMG-based Gesture Recognition with Jaccard Attentive Spiking Neural Network
724. NeurIPS 2024Spider2-V: How Far Are Multimodal Agents From Automating Data Science and Engineering Workflows?
725. NeurIPS 2024Spike-based Neuromorphic Model for Sound Source Localization
726. NeurIPS 2024SpikedAttention: Training-Free and Fully Spike-Driven Transformer-to-SNN Conversion with Winner-Oriented Spike Shift for Softmax Operation
727. NeurIPS 2024Spiking Neural Network as Adaptive Event Stream Slicer
728. NeurIPS 2024SS1: Accelerating Inference with Fast and Expressive Sketch Structured Transform
729. NeurIPS 2024Stochastic Optimal Control and Estimation with Multiplicative and Internal Noise
730. NeurIPS 2024Stochastic Optimal Control Matching
731. NeurIPS 2024Stochastic Taylor Derivative Estimator: Efficient amortization for arbitrary differential operators
732. NeurIPS 2024Structured flexibility in recurrent neural networks via neuromodulation
733. NeurIPS 2024Superposed Decoding: Multiple Generations from a Single Autoregressive Inference Pass
734. NeurIPS 2024Take A Shortcut Back: Mitigating the Gradient Vanishing for Training Spiking Neural Networks
735. NeurIPS 2024Task-Agnostic Machine-Learning-Assisted Inference
736. NeurIPS 2024Temporal-Difference Learning Using Distributed Error Signals
737. NeurIPS 2024The Bayesian sampling in a canonical recurrent circuit with a diversity of inhibitory interneurons
738. NeurIPS 2024The Intelligible and Effective Graph Neural Additive Network
739. NeurIPS 2024The motion planning neural circuit in goal-directed navigation as Lie group operator search
740. NeurIPS 2024The Selective $G$-Bispectrum and its Inversion: Applications to $G$-Invariant Networks
741. NeurIPS 2024The State of Data Curation at NeurIPS: An Assessment of Dataset Development Practices in the Datasets and Benchmarks Track
742. NeurIPS 2024Time Makes Space: Emergence of Place Fields in Networks Encoding Temporally Continuous Sensory Experiences
743. NeurIPS 2024To Learn or Not to Learn, That is the Question — A Feature-Task Dual Learning Model of Perceptual Learning
744. NeurIPS 2024Towards a "Universal Translator" for Neural Dynamics at Single-Cell, Single-Spike Resolution
745. NeurIPS 2024Towards Accurate and Fair Cognitive Diagnosis via Monotonic Data Augmentation
746. NeurIPS 2024Towards Croppable Implicit Neural Representations
747. NeurIPS 2024Towards Heterogeneous Long-tailed Learning: Benchmarking, Metrics, and Toolbox
748. NeurIPS 2024Trading Place for Space: Increasing Location Resolution Reduces Contextual Capacity in Hippocampal Codes
749. NeurIPS 2024Transductive Active Learning: Theory and Applications
750. NeurIPS 2024Unconditional stability of a recurrent neural circuit implementing divisive normalization

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.