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

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51. ICML 2026Credit Assignment via Neural Manifold Noise Correlation
52. ICML 2026Cross-Subject Modeling for Widefield Calcium Imaging via Atlas-Aligned Spatiotemporal Tokenization
53. ICML 2026CSG: Cognitive Structure Generation for Intelligent Education
54. ICML 2026CVSearch: Empowering Multimodal LLMs with Cognitive Visual Search for High-Resolution Image Perception
55. ICML 2026Darwinian Memory: A Training-Free Self-Regulating Memory System for GUI Agent Evolution
56. ICML 2026DecAEvolve: Decompose, Adapt, and Evolve for Effective LLM-based Scientific Equation Discovery
57. ICML 2026DecoderTCR: Compositional Pretraining and Entropy-Guided Decoding for TCR-pMHC Interactions
58. ICML 2026Decoupling Universal Laws and Environmental Heterogeneity: A Physics-Inspired Framework for Robust Spatio-Temporal Forecasting
59. ICML 2026Deep Coupling Learning for Solving PDEs
60. ICML 2026DeepAnalyze: Agentic Large Language Models for Autonomous Data Science
61. ICML 2026Demystifying When Pruning Works via Representation Hierarchies
62. ICML 2026Derivative Informed Learning of Exchange-Correlation Functionals
63. ICML 2026Discovering Differences in Strategic Behavior between Humans and LLMs
64. ICML 2026DiscoverLLM: From Executing Intents to Discovering Them
65. ICML 2026Discrete Diffusion Samplers and Bridges: Off-Policy Algorithms and Applications in Latent Spaces
66. ICML 2026DISSOLVR: An Interpretable and Fast Framework for Aqueous and Organic Solubility Prediction
67. ICML 2026Distributional Inverse Reinforcement Learning
68. ICML 2026Do Neural Operators Forget Geometry? The Forgetting Hypothesis in Deep Operator Learning
69. ICML 2026DualTimesField: Rethinking Time Series as Continuous-Time Trends and Events
70. ICML 2026Dynamic Compression Flows for Neuroscience Data
71. ICML 2026Dynamic Regret via Discounted-to-Dynamic Reduction with Applications to Curved Losses and Adam Optimizer
72. ICML 2026Dynamics and Representation Structure of Local Approximations to Gradient-Based Learning in Linear Recurrent Neural Networks
73. ICML 2026EduMirror: Modeling Educational Social Dynamics with Value-driven Multi-agent Simulation
74. ICML 2026EEG-Based Multimodal Learning via Hyperbolic Mixture-of-Curvature Experts
75. ICML 2026EEG-FM-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for the Systematic Evaluation and Diagnostic Analyses of EEG Foundation Models
76. ICML 2026Efficient Adaptive Testing via Gradient Path Matching Subset Selection for AI Education
77. ICML 2026Efficient and Safe Molecular Assembly via Reinforcement Learning and Constraint Solving
78. ICML 2026Efficient Equivariant High-Order Crystal Tensor Prediction via Cartesian Local-Environment Many-Body Coupling
79. ICML 2026Efficient Prediction of SO(3)-Equivariant Hamiltonian Matrices via SO(2) Local Frames
80. ICML 2026Efficiently Training Time-to-First-Spike Spiking Neural Networks from Scratch
81. ICML 2026EmBrace: A Collective Knowledge Fusion Framework Toward Unified EEG Foundation Models
82. ICML 2026Enhancing Neural Theorem Proving via High-Quality Proof Selection and Verifier Feedback
83. ICML 2026EnterpriseOps-Gym: Environments and Evaluations for Stateful Agentic Planning and Tool Use in Enterprise Settings
84. ICML 2026Equivariant Covariance Tensors: Guaranteed SPD Uncertainty for Tensor-Valued Geometric Learning
85. ICML 2026Error Amplification Limits ANN-to-SNN Conversion in Continuous Control
86. ICML 2026EvoC2F: Compiling Tool Orchestration for Efficient and Evolvable LLM Agents
87. ICML 2026Excited Pfaffians: Generalized Neural Wave Functions Across Structure and State
88. ICML 2026Factorized Scheduling Principle: Learning Interpretable and Transferable Policies via Structured Additive Functions
89. ICML 2026Fast Reconstruction of Mixtures of Bernoulli Product Distributions
90. ICML 2026Fine-grained Analysis of Brain-LLM Alignment through Input Attribution
91. ICML 2026FIRE-Bench: Evaluating AI Agents on the Rediscovery of Scientific Insights
92. ICML 2026FLIP2: Expanding Protein Fitness Landscape Benchmarks for Real-World Machine Learning Applications
93. ICML 2026Formalizing the Binding Problem
94. ICML 2026FOVI: A biologically-inspired foveated interface for deep vision models
95. ICML 2026Frequency Matching in Spiking Neural Networks for mmWave Sensing
96. ICML 2026From Associations to Activations: Comparing Behavioral and Hidden-State Semantic Geometry in LLMs
97. ICML 2026From Human Labels to Literature: Semi-Supervised Learning of NMR Chemical Shifts at Scale
98. ICML 2026From Representation to Action: A Unified Laplacian Framework for Spatial Representation and Path Planning
99. ICML 2026Functional Attention: From Pairwise Affinities to Functional Correspondences
100. ICML 2026Functional Decomposition and Shapley Interactions for Interpreting Survival 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.