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

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51. ICLR 2024Learning interpretable control inputs and dynamics underlying animal locomotion
52. ICLR 2024Learning Over Molecular Conformer Ensembles: Datasets and Benchmarks
53. ICLR 2024Learning Planning Abstractions from Language
54. ICLR 2024Learning Polynomial Problems with $SL(2, \mathbb{R})$-Equivariance
55. ICLR 2024Learning semilinear neural operators: A unified recursive framework for prediction and data assimilation.
56. ICLR 2024Learning the greatest common divisor: explaining transformer predictions
57. ICLR 2024Learning Thresholds with Latent Values and Censored Feedback
58. ICLR 2024Learning to Reject with a Fixed Predictor: Application to Decontextualization
59. ICLR 2024Leveraging Generative Models for Unsupervised Alignment of Neural Time Series Data
60. ICLR 2024LipSim: A Provably Robust Perceptual Similarity Metric
61. ICLR 2024Manipulating dropout reveals an optimal balance of efficiency and robustness in biological and machine visual systems
62. ICLR 2024MAPE-PPI: Towards Effective and Efficient Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction via Microenvironment-Aware Protein Embedding
63. ICLR 2024Mayfly: a Neural Data Structure for Graph Stream Summarization
64. ICLR 2024MgNO: Efficient Parameterization of Linear Operators via Multigrid
65. ICLR 2024Modeling state-dependent communication between brain regions with switching nonlinear dynamical systems
66. ICLR 2024MOFDiff: Coarse-grained Diffusion for Metal-Organic Framework Design
67. ICLR 2024Most discriminative stimuli for functional cell type clustering
68. ICLR 2024Multi-modal Gaussian Process Variational Autoencoders for Neural and Behavioral Data
69. ICLR 2024Neuroformer: Multimodal and Multitask Generative Pretraining for Brain Data
70. ICLR 2024On the generalization capacity of neural networks during generic multimodal reasoning
71. ICLR 2024On the Posterior Distribution in Denoising: Application to Uncertainty Quantification
72. ICLR 2024One-hot Generalized Linear Model for Switching Brain State Discovery
73. ICLR 2024Online Stabilization of Spiking Neural Networks
74. ICLR 2024Perceptual Scales Predicted by Fisher Information Metrics
75. ICLR 2024Pre-training Sequence, Structure, and Surface Features for Comprehensive Protein Representation Learning
76. ICLR 2024Predictive auxiliary objectives in deep RL mimic learning in the brain
77. ICLR 2024Predictive, scalable and interpretable knowledge tracing on structured domains
78. ICLR 2024Scalable and Effective Implicit Graph Neural Networks on Large Graphs
79. ICLR 2024Searching for High-Value Molecules Using Reinforcement Learning and Transformers
80. ICLR 2024SNIP: Bridging Mathematical Symbolic and Numeric Realms with Unified Pre-training
81. ICLR 2024Solving High Frequency and Multi-Scale PDEs with Gaussian Processes
82. ICLR 2024Space and time continuous physics simulation from partial observations
83. ICLR 2024Spatio-Temporal Approximation: A Training-Free SNN Conversion for Transformers
84. ICLR 2024Spike-driven Transformer V2: Meta Spiking Neural Network Architecture Inspiring the Design of Next-generation Neuromorphic Chips
85. ICLR 2024Structural Inference with Dynamics Encoding and Partial Correlation Coefficients
86. ICLR 2024Successor Heads: Recurring, Interpretable Attention Heads In The Wild
87. ICLR 2024Sufficient conditions for offline reactivation in recurrent neural networks
88. ICLR 2024Symmetric Basis Convolutions for Learning Lagrangian Fluid Mechanics
89. ICLR 2024Synaptic Weight Distributions Depend on the Geometry of Plasticity
90. ICLR 2024TAB: Temporal Accumulated Batch Normalization in Spiking Neural Networks
91. ICLR 2024The Expressive Leaky Memory Neuron: an Efficient and Expressive Phenomenological Neuron Model Can Solve Long-Horizon Tasks.
92. ICLR 2024Threaten Spiking Neural Networks through Combining Rate and Temporal Information
93. ICLR 2024Towards Energy Efficient Spiking Neural Networks: An Unstructured Pruning Framework
94. ICLR 2024Towards LLM4QPE: Unsupervised Pretraining of Quantum Property Estimation and A Benchmark
95. ICLR 2024Traveling Waves Encode The Recent Past and Enhance Sequence Learning
96. ICLR 2024Turning large language models into cognitive models
97. ICLR 2024UniTabE: A Universal Pretraining Protocol for Tabular Foundation Model in Data Science
98. ICLR 2024Unveiling the Unseen: Identifiable Clusters in Trained Depthwise Convolutional Kernels
99. ICLR 2024VBH-GNN: Variational Bayesian Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks for Cross-subject Emotion Recognition

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.