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 16 of 17

751. NeurIPS 2024Understanding and Improving Training-free Loss-based Diffusion Guidance
752. NeurIPS 2024Understanding the Limits of Vision Language Models Through the Lens of the Binding Problem
753. NeurIPS 2024UniAR: A Unified model for predicting human Attention and Responses on visual content
754. NeurIPS 2024Uniform Last-Iterate Guarantee for Bandits and Reinforcement Learning
755. NeurIPS 2024Unsupervised Discovery of Formulas for Mathematical Constants
756. NeurIPS 2024UrbanDataLayer: A Unified Data Pipeline for Urban Science
757. NeurIPS 2024Visual Decoding and Reconstruction via EEG Embeddings with Guided Diffusion
758. NeurIPS 2024Visual Pinwheel Centers Act as Geometric Saliency Detectors
759. NeurIPS 2023$H$-Consistency Bounds: Characterization and Extensions
760. NeurIPS 2023A Bounded Ability Estimation for Computerized Adaptive Testing
761. NeurIPS 2023A Framework for Fast and Stable Representations of Multiparameter Persistent Homology Decompositions
762. NeurIPS 2023Adaptive whitening with fast gain modulation and slow synaptic plasticity
763. NeurIPS 2023AMAG: Additive, Multiplicative and Adaptive Graph Neural Network For Forecasting Neuron Activity
764. NeurIPS 2023Bayesian target optimisation for high-precision holographic optogenetics
765. NeurIPS 2023Boosting Spectral Clustering on Incomplete Data via Kernel Correction and Affinity Learning
766. NeurIPS 2023Brain Dissection: fMRI-trained Networks Reveal Spatial Selectivity in the Processing of Natural Images
767. NeurIPS 2023Break It Down: Evidence for Structural Compositionality in Neural Networks
768. NeurIPS 2023CAPP-130: A Corpus of Chinese Application Privacy Policy Summarization and Interpretation
769. NeurIPS 2023Cognitive Model Discovery via Disentangled RNNs
770. NeurIPS 2023Critical Initialization of Wide and Deep Neural Networks using Partial Jacobians: General Theory and Applications
771. NeurIPS 2023Data-Driven Network Neuroscience: On Data Collection and Benchmark
772. NeurIPS 2023DDCoT: Duty-Distinct Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Multimodal Reasoning in Language Models
773. NeurIPS 2023Decoding the Enigma: Benchmarking Humans and AIs on the Many Facets of Working Memory
774. NeurIPS 2023Degraded Polygons Raise Fundamental Questions of Neural Network Perception
775. NeurIPS 2023Disentangling Cognitive Diagnosis with Limited Exercise Labels
776. NeurIPS 2023Distribution-Free Statistical Dispersion Control for Societal Applications
777. NeurIPS 2023Exploiting Correlated Auxiliary Feedback in Parameterized Bandits
778. NeurIPS 2023Fast Exact Leverage Score Sampling from Khatri-Rao Products with Applications to Tensor Decomposition
779. NeurIPS 2023Fast Optimal Transport through Sliced Generalized Wasserstein Geodesics
780. NeurIPS 2023Formalizing locality for normative synaptic plasticity models
781. NeurIPS 2023GAUCHE: A Library for Gaussian Processes in Chemistry
782. NeurIPS 2023Gaussian Partial Information Decomposition: Bias Correction and Application to High-dimensional Data
783. NeurIPS 2023Going Beyond Linear Mode Connectivity: The Layerwise Linear Feature Connectivity
784. NeurIPS 2023Gradient Descent with Linearly Correlated Noise: Theory and Applications to Differential Privacy
785. NeurIPS 2023Hyper-HMM: aligning human brains and semantic features in a common latent event space
786. NeurIPS 2023Individual Arbitrariness and Group Fairness
787. NeurIPS 2023Inferring Hybrid Neural Fluid Fields from Videos
788. NeurIPS 2023Inferring the Future by Imagining the Past
789. NeurIPS 2023Information Maximization Perspective of Orthogonal Matching Pursuit with Applications to Explainable AI
790. NeurIPS 2023Interaction Measures, Partition Lattices and Kernel Tests for High-Order Interactions
791. NeurIPS 2023Joint processing of linguistic properties in brains and language models
792. NeurIPS 2023Large Language Models are Fixated by Red Herrings: Exploring Creative Problem Solving and Einstellung Effect using the Only Connect Wall Dataset
793. NeurIPS 2023Large language models implicitly learn to straighten neural sentence trajectories to construct a predictive representation of natural language.
794. NeurIPS 2023Learning better with Dale’s Law: A Spectral Perspective
795. NeurIPS 2023Matrix Compression via Randomized Low Rank and Low Precision Factorization
796. NeurIPS 2023MoCa: Measuring Human-Language Model Alignment on Causal and Moral Judgment Tasks
797. NeurIPS 2023Modeling Human Visual Motion Processing with Trainable Motion Energy Sensing and a Self-attention Network
798. NeurIPS 2023Multiclass Boosting: Simple and Intuitive Weak Learning Criteria
799. NeurIPS 2023Multimodal Deep Learning Model Unveils Behavioral Dynamics of V1 Activity in Freely Moving Mice
800. NeurIPS 2023NeuroEvoBench: Benchmarking Evolutionary Optimizers for Deep Learning Applications

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.