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

523 papers, page 2 of 11

51. ICLR 2026Coupled Transformer Autoencoder for Disentangling Multi-Region Neural Latent Dynamics
52. ICLR 2026Decoding Dynamic Visual Experience from Calcium Imaging via Cell-Pattern-Aware SSL
53. ICLR 2026Decoding Inner Speech with an End-to-End Brain-to-Text Neural Interface
54. ICLR 2026Decoding Open-Ended Information Seeking Goals from Eye Movements in Reading
55. ICLR 2026DeepSADR: Deep Transfer Learning with Subsequence Interaction and Adaptive Readout for Cancer Drug Response Prediction
56. ICLR 2026Diagnosing Failures in Generalization from Task-Relevant Representational Geometry
57. ICLR 2026Diffusion and Flow-based Copulas: Forgetting and Remembering Dependencies
58. ICLR 2026Directed Semi-Simplicial Learning with Applications to Brain Activity Decoding
59. ICLR 2026Directional Sheaf Hypergraph Networks: Unifying Learning on Directed and Undirected Hypergraphs
60. ICLR 2026Discovering alternative solutions beyond the simplicity bias in recurrent neural networks
61. ICLR 2026Discovering heterogeneous synaptic plasticity rules via large-scale neural evolution
62. ICLR 2026Disentangling the Factors of Convergence between Brains and Computer Vision Models
63. ICLR 2026EarthSE: A Benchmark Evaluating Earth Scientific Exploration Capability for Large Language Models
64. ICLR 2026ECHO: Toward Contextual Seq2Seq Paradigms in Large EEG Models
65. ICLR 2026EgoBrain: Synergizing Minds and Eyes For Human Action Understanding
66. ICLR 2026Einstein Fields: A Neural Perspective To Computational General Relativity
67. ICLR 2026Elastic Optimal Transport: Theory, Application, and Empirical Evaluation
68. ICLR 2026Emergence of Spatial Representation in an Actor-Critic Agent with Hippocampus-Inspired Sequence Generator
69. ICLR 2026End-to-end Listen, Look, Speak and Act
70. ICLR 2026Enhancing Molecular Property Predictions by Learning from Bond Modelling and Interactions
71. ICLR 2026Estimating Dimensionality of Neural Representations from Finite Samples
72. ICLR 2026Evaluating Language Models' Evaluations of Games
73. ICLR 2026Exchangeability of GNN Representations with Applications to Graph Retrieval
74. ICLR 2026Expert Merging: Model Merging with Unsupervised Expert Alignment and Importance-Guided Layer Chunking
75. ICLR 2026Extending Fourier Neural Operators for Modeling Parameterized and Coupled PDEs
76. ICLR 2026Fair Decision Utility in Human-AI Collaboration: Interpretable Confidence Adjustment for Humans with Cognitive Disparities
77. ICLR 2026Fast and Interpretable Protein Substructure Alignment via Optimal Transport
78. ICLR 2026Fast training of accurate physics-informed neural networks without gradient descent
79. ICLR 2026Feature segregation by signed weights in artificial vision systems and biological models
80. ICLR 2026FlashDLM: Accelerating Diffusion Language Model Inference via Efficient KV Caching and Guided Diffusion
81. ICLR 2026FlexProtein: Joint Sequence and Structure Pretraining for Protein Modeling
82. ICLR 2026FlowCast: Advancing Precipitation Nowcasting with Conditional Flow Matching
83. ICLR 2026FM4NPP: A Scaling Foundation Model for Nuclear and Particle Physics
84. ICLR 2026From Fields to Random Trees
85. ICLR 2026From Five Dimensions to Many: Large Language Models as Precise and Interpretable Psychological Profilers
86. ICLR 2026From movement to cognitive maps: recurrent neural networks reveal how locomotor development shapes hippocampal spatial coding
87. ICLR 2026Full-Graph vs. Mini-Batch Training: Comprehensive Analysis from a Batch Size and Fan-Out Size Perspective
88. ICLR 2026Functional MRI Time Series Generation via Wavelet-Based Image Transform and Spectral Flow Matching for Brain Disorder Identification
89. ICLR 2026Generating metamers of human scene understanding
90. ICLR 2026GeoFAR: Geography-Informed Frequency-Aware Super-Resolution for Climate Data
91. ICLR 2026Glance and Focus Reinforcement for Pan-cancer Screening
92. ICLR 2026Global and Local Topology-Aware Graph Generation via Dual Conditioning Diffusion
93. ICLR 2026Greater than the Sum of Its Parts: Building Substructure into Protein Encoding Models
94. ICLR 2026HEEGNet: Hyperbolic Embeddings for EEG
95. ICLR 2026HEIST: A Graph Foundation Model for Spatial Transcriptomics and Proteomics Data
96. ICLR 2026Hippoformer: Integrating Hippocampus-inspired Spatial Memory with Transformers
97. ICLR 2026Homeostatic Adaptation of Optimal Population Codes under Metabolic Stress
98. ICLR 2026Incomplete Data, Complete Dynamics: A Diffusion Approach
99. ICLR 2026Independence Test for Linear Non-Gaussian Data and Applications in Causal Discovery
100. ICLR 2026Inducing Dyslexia in Vision Language Models

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.