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 19 of 41

901. ICLR 2025Sensitivity-Constrained Fourier Neural Operators for Forward and Inverse Problems in Parametric Differential Equations
902. ICLR 2025Shared-AE: Automatic Identification of Shared Subspaces in High-dimensional Neural and Behavioral Activity
903. ICLR 2025SIM: Surface-based fMRI Analysis for Inter-Subject Multimodal Decoding from Movie-Watching Experiments
904. ICLR 2025SIMPL: Scalable and hassle-free optimisation of neural representations from behaviour
905. ICLR 2025SleepSMC: Ubiquitous Sleep Staging via Supervised Multimodal Coordination
906. ICLR 2025Solving Differential Equations with Constrained Learning
907. ICLR 2025Sparse components distinguish visual pathways & their alignment to neural networks
908. ICLR 2025SPDIM: Source-Free Unsupervised Conditional and Label Shift Adaptation in EEG
909. ICLR 2025Spiking Vision Transformer with Saccadic Attention
910. ICLR 2025Syntactic and Semantic Control of Large Language Models via Sequential Monte Carlo
911. ICLR 2025Synthesizing Realistic fMRI: A Physiological Dynamics-Driven Hierarchical Diffusion Model for Efficient fMRI Acquisition
912. ICLR 2025TabReD: Analyzing Pitfalls and Filling the Gaps in Tabular Deep Learning Benchmarks
913. ICLR 2025Temporal Flexibility in Spiking Neural Networks: Towards Generalization Across Time Steps and Deployment Friendliness
914. ICLR 2025The 3D-PC: a benchmark for visual perspective taking in humans and machines
915. ICLR 2025The impact of allocation strategies in subset learning on the expressive power of neural networks
916. ICLR 2025The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of the Deeper Layers
917. ICLR 2025TopoLM: brain-like spatio-functional organization in a topographic language model
918. ICLR 2025TopoNets: High performing vision and language models with brain-like topography
919. ICLR 2025Toward Generalizing Visual Brain Decoding to Unseen Subjects
920. ICLR 2025Towards Homogeneous Lexical Tone Decoding from Heterogeneous Intracranial Recordings
921. ICLR 2025Tracking objects that change in appearance with phase synchrony
922. ICLR 2025TVNet: A Novel Time Series Analysis Method Based on Dynamic Convolution and 3D-Variation
923. ICLR 2025Underdamped Diffusion Bridges with Applications to Sampling
924. ICLR 2025Vision CNNs trained to estimate spatial latents learned similar ventral-stream-aligned representations
925. ICLR 2025WeatherGFM: Learning a Weather Generalist Foundation Model via In-context Learning
926. ICLR 2025XAIguiFormer: explainable artificial intelligence guided transformer for brain disorder identification
927. ICLR 2025ZAPBench: A Benchmark for Whole-Brain Activity Prediction in Zebrafish
928. ICML 2025A Machine Learning Approach to Duality in Statistical Physics
929. ICML 2025A Model of Place Field Reorganization During Reward Maximization
930. ICML 2025A Multi-Region Brain Model to Elucidate the Role of Hippocampus in Spatially Embedded Decision-Making
931. ICML 2025A New Concentration Inequality for Sampling Without Replacement and Its Application for Transductive Learning
932. ICML 2025A Novel Characterization of the Population Area Under the Risk Coverage Curve (AURC) and Rates of Finite Sample Estimators
933. ICML 2025Accurate Identification of Communication Between Multiple Interacting Neural Populations
934. ICML 2025Alberta Wells Dataset: Pinpointing Oil and Gas Wells from Satellite Imagery
935. ICML 2025All-atom Diffusion Transformers: Unified generative modelling of molecules and materials
936. ICML 2025An Instrumental Value for Data Production and its Application to Data Pricing
937. ICML 2025AnalogGenie-Lite: Enhancing Scalability and Precision in Circuit Topology Discovery through Lightweight Graph Modeling
938. ICML 2025Asymmetric Decision-Making in Online Knowledge Distillation: Unifying Consensus and Divergence
939. ICML 2025Auto-reconfiguration for Latency Minimization in CPU-based DNN Serving
940. ICML 2025Average Sensitivity of Hierarchical $k$-Median Clustering
941. ICML 2025Balancing Efficiency and Expressiveness: Subgraph GNNs with Walk-Based Centrality
942. ICML 2025Breaking Barriers: Combinatorial Algorithms for Non-Monotone Submodular Maximization with Sublinear Adaptivity and $1/e$ Approximation
943. ICML 2025Bridging Layout and RTL: Knowledge Distillation based Timing Prediction
944. ICML 2025BSO: Binary Spiking Online Optimization Algorithm
945. ICML 2025Can Biologically Plausible Temporal Credit Assignment Rules Match BPTT for Neural Similarity? E-prop as an Example
946. ICML 2025Capturing Temporal Dynamics in Large-Scale Canopy Tree Height Estimation
947. ICML 2025CFPT: Empowering Time Series Forecasting through Cross-Frequency Interaction and Periodic-Aware Timestamp Modeling
948. ICML 2025Chaos Meets Attention: Transformers for Large-Scale Dynamical Prediction
949. ICML 2025Closed-form Solutions: A New Perspective on Solving Differential Equations
950. ICML 2025CogReact: A Reinforced Framework to Model Human Cognitive Reaction Modulated by Dynamic Intervention

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.