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. ICML 2024Minimizing $f$-Divergences by Interpolating Velocity Fields
52. ICML 2024Multiplicative Weights Update, Area Convexity and Random Coordinate Descent for Densest Subgraph Problems
53. ICML 2024Near-Optimal Regret in Linear MDPs with Aggregate Bandit Feedback
54. ICML 2024Neural Operators with Localized Integral and Differential Kernels
55. ICML 2024Neuro-Visualizer: A Novel Auto-Encoder-Based Loss Landscape Visualization Method With an Application in Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning
56. ICML 2024Noise-Adaptive Confidence Sets for Linear Bandits and Application to Bayesian Optimization
57. ICML 2024Nonsmooth Implicit Differentiation: Deterministic and Stochastic Convergence Rates
58. ICML 2024Not all distributional shifts are equal: Fine-grained robust conformal inference
59. ICML 2024On a Neural Implementation of Brenier's Polar Factorization
60. ICML 2024On the Asymptotic Distribution of the Minimum Empirical Risk
61. ICML 2024On the Universality of Volume-Preserving and Coupling-Based Normalizing Flows
62. ICML 2024Online Learning under Budget and ROI Constraints via Weak Adaptivity
63. ICML 2024Optimal Kernel Quantile Learning with Random Features
64. ICML 2024Position: $C^*$-Algebraic Machine Learning $-$ Moving in a New Direction
65. ICML 2024Position: An Inner Interpretability Framework for AI Inspired by Lessons from Cognitive Neuroscience
66. ICML 2024Position: Application-Driven Innovation in Machine Learning
67. ICML 2024Position: Beyond Personhood: Agency, Accountability, and the Limits of Anthropomorphic Ethical Analysis
68. ICML 2024Position: Insights from Survey Methodology can Improve Training Data
69. ICML 2024Position: Mission Critical – Satellite Data is a Distinct Modality in Machine Learning
70. ICML 2024Position: Near to Mid-term Risks and Opportunities of Open-Source Generative AI
71. ICML 2024Position: What Can Large Language Models Tell Us about Time Series Analysis
72. ICML 2024Predicting and Interpreting Energy Barriers of Metallic Glasses with Graph Neural Networks
73. ICML 2024Predictive Coding beyond Correlations
74. ICML 2024Pruned Pivot: Correlation Clustering Algorithm for Dynamic, Parallel, and Local Computation Models
75. ICML 2024Quality-Weighted Vendi Scores And Their Application To Diverse Experimental Design
76. ICML 2024Quantum Theory and Application of Contextual Optimal Transport
77. ICML 2024Rapid Learning without Catastrophic Forgetting in the Morris Water Maze
78. ICML 2024Reference Neural Operators: Learning the Smooth Dependence of Solutions of PDEs on Geometric Deformations
79. ICML 2024Regression Learning with Limited Observations of Multivariate Outcomes and Features
80. ICML 2024REST: Efficient and Accelerated EEG Seizure Analysis through Residual State Updates
81. ICML 2024Rethinking Data Shapley for Data Selection Tasks: Misleads and Merits
82. ICML 2024Revisiting Scalable Hessian Diagonal Approximations for Applications in Reinforcement Learning
83. ICML 2024Riemannian Accelerated Zeroth-order Algorithm: Improved Robustness and Lower Query Complexity
84. ICML 2024Riemannian coordinate descent algorithms on matrix manifolds
85. ICML 2024Self-cognitive Denoising in the Presence of Multiple Noisy Label Sources
86. ICML 2024Semantically-correlated memories in a dense associative model
87. ICML 2024SILVER: Single-loop variance reduction and application to federated learning
88. ICML 2024Simultaneous identification of models and parameters of scientific simulators
89. ICML 2024SleepFM: Multi-modal Representation Learning for Sleep Across Brain Activity, ECG and Respiratory Signals
90. ICML 2024Solving Poisson Equations using Neural Walk-on-Spheres
91. ICML 2024Sparse Dimensionality Reduction Revisited
92. ICML 2024StackSight: Unveiling WebAssembly through Large Language Models and Neurosymbolic Chain-of-Thought Decompilation
93. ICML 2024Stationarity without mean reversion in improper Gaussian processes
94. ICML 2024Statistical Properties of Robust Satisficing
95. ICML 2024Subhomogeneous Deep Equilibrium Models
96. ICML 2024Supervised Matrix Factorization: Local Landscape Analysis and Applications
97. ICML 2024The Non-linear $F$-Design and Applications to Interactive Learning
98. ICML 2024The WMDP Benchmark: Measuring and Reducing Malicious Use with Unlearning
99. ICML 2024Tilting the Odds at the Lottery: the Interplay of Overparameterisation and Curricula in Neural Networks
100. ICML 2024Turnstile $\ell_p$ leverage score sampling with applications

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.