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

2,033 papers, page 17 of 41

801. ICLR 2025Composing Unbalanced Flows for Flexible Docking and Relaxation
802. ICLR 2025Conditional Diffusion with Ordinal Regression: Longitudinal Data Generation for Neurodegenerative Disease Studies
803. ICLR 2025Correlating instruction-tuning (in multimodal models) with vision-language processing (in the brain)
804. ICLR 2025Credit-based self organizing maps: training deep topographic networks with minimal performance degradation
805. ICLR 2025CREIMBO: Cross-Regional Ensemble Interactions in Multi-view Brain Observations
806. ICLR 2025CS-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Large Language Models towards Computer Science Mastery
807. ICLR 2025CURIE: Evaluating LLMs on Multitask Scientific Long-Context Understanding and Reasoning
808. ICLR 2025Debiasing Mini-Batch Quadratics for Applications in Deep Learning
809. ICLR 2025DeeperForward: Enhanced Forward-Forward Training for Deeper and Better Performance
810. ICLR 2025DeepTAGE: Deep Temporal-Aligned Gradient Enhancement for Optimizing Spiking Neural Networks
811. ICLR 2025Descent with Misaligned Gradients and Applications to Hidden Convexity
812. ICLR 2025Differentiable and Learnable Wireless Simulation with Geometric Transformers
813. ICLR 2025Differentiable Optimization of Similarity Scores Between Models and Brains
814. ICLR 2025Discovering Temporally Compositional Neural Manifolds with Switching Infinite GPFA
815. ICLR 2025Discretization-invariance? On the Discretization Mismatch Errors in Neural Operators
816. ICLR 2025Discriminating image representations with principal distortions
817. ICLR 2025Disentangling 3D Animal Pose Dynamics with Scrubbed Conditional Latent Variables
818. ICLR 2025Disentangling Representations through Multi-task Learning
819. ICLR 2025Distilling Structural Representations into Protein Sequence Models
820. ICLR 2025Do Mice Grok? Glimpses of Hidden Progress in Sensory Cortex
821. ICLR 2025Does Spatial Cognition Emerge in Frontier Models?
822. ICLR 2025DSBench: How Far Are Data Science Agents from Becoming Data Science Experts?
823. ICLR 2025Efficient Evolutionary Search Over Chemical Space with Large Language Models
824. ICLR 2025Efficient Neuron Segmentation in Electron Microscopy by Affinity-Guided Queries
825. ICLR 2025Emergent Orientation Maps —— Mechanisms, Coding Efficiency and Robustness
826. ICLR 2025Enhancing the Scalability and Applicability of Kohn-Sham Hamiltonians for Molecular Systems
827. ICLR 2025Examining Alignment of Large Language Models through Representative Heuristics: the case of political stereotypes
828. ICLR 2025Exploring Prosocial Irrationality for LLM Agents: A Social Cognition View
829. ICLR 2025Expressivity of Neural Networks with Random Weights and Learned Biases
830. ICLR 2025Extendable and Iterative Structure Learning Strategy for Bayesian Networks
831. ICLR 2025Fast and Accurate Blind Flexible Docking
832. ICLR 2025Fengbo: a Clifford Neural Operator pipeline for 3D PDEs in Computational Fluid Dynamics
833. ICLR 2025Finding Shared Decodable Concepts and their Negations in the Brain
834. ICLR 2025Fine-Tuning Discrete Diffusion Models via Reward Optimization with Applications to DNA and Protein Design
835. ICLR 2025From Lazy to Rich: Exact Learning Dynamics in Deep Linear Networks
836. ICLR 2025Generalization Bounds and Model Complexity for Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks
837. ICLR 2025Graph Neural Networks for Edge Signals: Orientation Equivariance and Invariance
838. ICLR 2025Group Ligands Docking to Protein Pockets
839. ICLR 2025Hot-pluggable Federated Learning: Bridging General and Personalized FL via Dynamic Selection
840. ICLR 2025Hotspot-Driven Peptide Design via Multi-Fragment Autoregressive Extension
841. ICLR 2025How to Verify Any (Reasonable) Distribution Property: Computationally Sound Argument Systems for Distributions
842. ICLR 2025Hyperbolic Genome Embeddings
843. ICLR 2025IFORMER: INTEGRATING CONVNET AND TRANSFORMER FOR MOBILE APPLICATION
844. ICLR 2025Improving Semantic Understanding in Speech Language Models via Brain-tuning
845. ICLR 2025Improving the Sparse Structure Learning of Spiking Neural Networks from the View of Compression Efficiency
846. ICLR 2025In vivo cell-type and brain region classification via multimodal contrastive learning
847. ICLR 2025Inverse Attention Agents for Multi-Agent Systems
848. ICLR 2025Inverse decision-making using neural amortized Bayesian actors
849. ICLR 2025KAN: Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks
850. ICLR 2025KinPFN: Bayesian Approximation of RNA Folding Kinetics using Prior-Data Fitted Networks

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.