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 2025Fixing the Double Penalty in Data-Driven Weather Forecasting Through a Modified Spherical Harmonic Loss Function
52. ICML 2025Flow Matching for Few-Trial Neural Adaptation with Stable Latent Dynamics
53. ICML 2025Flow-field inference from neural data using deep recurrent networks
54. ICML 2025From Black Boxes to Transparent Minds: Evaluating and Enhancing the Theory of Mind in Multimodal Large Language Models
55. ICML 2025Fundamental Bias in Inverting Random Sampling Matrices with Application to Sub-sampled Newton
56. ICML 2025Galileo: Learning Global & Local Features of Many Remote Sensing Modalities
57. ICML 2025Generalized Venn and Venn-Abers Calibration with Applications in Conformal Prediction
58. ICML 2025Generating Hypotheses of Dynamic Causal Graphs in Neuroscience: Leveraging Generative Factor Models of Observed Time Series
59. ICML 2025Geometric and Physical Constraints Synergistically Enhance Neural PDE Surrogates
60. ICML 2025Graph Minimum Factor Distance and Its Application to Large-Scale Graph Data Clustering
61. ICML 2025Habitizing Diffusion Planning for Efficient and Effective Decision Making
62. ICML 2025HEAP: Hyper Extended A-PDHG Operator for Constrained High-dim PDEs
63. ICML 2025Heterogeneous Sufficient Dimension Reduction and Subspace Clustering
64. ICML 2025How Compositional Generalization and Creativity Improve as Diffusion Models are Trained
65. ICML 2025Human Cognition-Inspired Hierarchical Fuzzy Learning Machine
66. ICML 2025Human-Aligned Image Models Improve Visual Decoding from the Brain
67. ICML 2025Hybrid Spiking Vision Transformer for Object Detection with Event Cameras
68. ICML 2025Identifying Neural Dynamics Using Interventional State Space Models
69. ICML 2025Implicit Riemannian Optimism with Applications to Min-Max Problems
70. ICML 2025Improved Regret Analysis in Gaussian Process Bandits: Optimality for Noiseless Reward, RKHS norm, and Non-Stationary Variance
71. ICML 2025Invariant Deep Uplift Modeling for Incentive Assignment in Online Marketing via Probability of Necessity and Sufficiency
72. ICML 2025Inverse problems with experiment-guided AlphaFold
73. ICML 2025Inverse Reinforcement Learning with Switching Rewards and History Dependency for Characterizing Animal Behaviors
74. ICML 2025Latent Mamba Operator for Partial Differential Equations
75. ICML 2025Learn Singularly Perturbed Solutions via Homotopy Dynamics
76. ICML 2025Learning curves theory for hierarchically compositional data with power-law distributed features
77. ICML 2025Learning dynamics in linear recurrent neural networks
78. ICML 2025Learning Initial Basis Selection for Linear Programming via Duality-Inspired Tripartite Graph Representation and Comprehensive Supervision
79. ICML 2025Learning Smooth and Expressive Interatomic Potentials for Physical Property Prediction
80. ICML 2025Learning the Electronic Hamiltonian of Large Atomic Structures
81. ICML 2025Learning Time-Varying Multi-Region Brain Communications via Scalable Markovian Gaussian Processes
82. ICML 2025Learning with Expected Signatures: Theory and Applications
83. ICML 2025Making Hard Problems Easier with Custom Data Distributions and Loss Regularization: A Case Study in Modular Arithmetic
84. ICML 2025Maximum Coverage in Turnstile Streams with Applications to Fingerprinting Measures
85. ICML 2025Maximum Update Parametrization and Zero-Shot Hyperparameter Transfer for Fourier Neural Operators
86. ICML 2025Mechanistic PDE Networks for Discovery of Governing Equations
87. ICML 2025Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse
88. ICML 2025MindAligner: Explicit Brain Functional Alignment for Cross-Subject Visual Decoding from Limited fMRI Data
89. ICML 2025MindCustomer: Multi-Context Image Generation Blended with Brain Signal
90. ICML 2025MindLLM: A Subject-Agnostic and Versatile Model for fMRI-to-text Decoding
91. ICML 2025Modeling All-Atom Glycan Structures via Hierarchical Message Passing and Multi-Scale Pre-training
92. ICML 2025Neural Encoding and Decoding at Scale
93. ICML 2025Neural Interpretable PDEs: Harmonizing Fourier Insights with Attention for Scalable and Interpretable Physics Discovery
94. ICML 2025Neural Representational Consistency Emerges from Probabilistic Neural-Behavioral Representation Alignment
95. ICML 2025NeuroTree: Hierarchical Functional Brain Pathway Decoding for Mental Health Disorders
96. ICML 2025Not all solutions are created equal: An analytical dissociation of functional and representational similarity in deep linear neural networks
97. ICML 2025Offline Model-based Optimization for Real-World Molecular Discovery
98. ICML 2025OmniArch: Building Foundation Model for Scientific Computing
99. ICML 2025On Temperature Scaling and Conformal Prediction of Deep Classifiers
100. ICML 2025On Zero-Initialized Attention: Optimal Prompt and Gating Factor Estimation

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.