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

342 papers, page 2 of 7

51. NeurIPS 2025Bridging Equivariant GNNs and Spherical CNNs for Structured Physical Domains
52. NeurIPS 2025Bridging Scales: Spectral Theory Reveals How Local Connectivity Rules Sculpt Global Neural Dynamics in Spatially Extended Networks
53. NeurIPS 2025Bridging the Gap Between Cross-Domain Theory and Practical Application: A Case Study on Molecular Dissolution
54. NeurIPS 2025Caption This, Reason That: VLMs Caught in the Middle
55. NeurIPS 2025CellVerse: Do Large Language Models Really Understand Cell Biology?
56. NeurIPS 2025CGBench: Benchmarking Language Model Scientific Reasoning for Clinical Genetics Research
57. NeurIPS 2025Characterizing control between interacting subsystems with deep Jacobian estimation
58. NeurIPS 2025ChemPile: A 250 GB Diverse and Curated Dataset for Chemical Foundation Models
59. NeurIPS 2025CLiFT: Compressive Light-Field Tokens for Compute Efficient and Adaptive Neural Rendering
60. NeurIPS 2025Cloud4D: Estimating Cloud Properties at a High Spatial and Temporal Resolution
61. NeurIPS 2025Coarse-to-Fine 3D Part Assembly via Semantic Super-Parts and Symmetry-Aware Pose Estimation
62. NeurIPS 2025Cognitive Mirrors: Exploring the Diverse Functional Roles of Attention Heads in LLM Reasoning
63. NeurIPS 2025Cognitive Predictive Processing: A Human-inspired Framework for Adaptive Exploration in Open-World Reinforcement Learning
64. NeurIPS 2025CogPhys: Assessing Cognitive Load via Multimodal Remote and Contact-based Physiological Sensing
65. NeurIPS 2025Comparator-Adaptive $\Phi$-Regret: Improved Bounds, Simpler Algorithms, and Applications to Games
66. NeurIPS 2025Compress, Gather, and Recompute: REFORMing Long-Context Processing in Transformers
67. NeurIPS 2025Concept-Guided Interpretability via Neural Chunking
68. NeurIPS 2025Conformal Linguistic Calibration: Trading-off between Factuality and Specificity
69. NeurIPS 2025Connectome-Based Modelling Reveals Orientation Maps in the Drosophila Optic Lobe
70. NeurIPS 2025Contrastive Consolidation of Top-Down Modulations Achieves Sparsely Supervised Continual Learning
71. NeurIPS 2025Contribution of task-irrelevant stimuli to drift of neural representations
72. NeurIPS 2025Controlled Visual Hallucination via Thalamus-Driven Decoupling Network for Domain Adaptation of Black-Box Predictors
73. NeurIPS 2025Cross-modal Associations in Vision and Language Models: Revisiting the Bouba-Kiki Effect
74. NeurIPS 2025Cross-Modal Representational Knowledge Distillation for Enhanced Spike-informed LFP Modeling
75. NeurIPS 2025CRRL: Learning Channel-invariant Neural Representations for High-performance Cross-day Decoding
76. NeurIPS 2025CSBrain: A Cross-scale Spatiotemporal Brain Foundation Model for EEG Decoding
77. NeurIPS 2025Curl Descent : Non-Gradient Learning Dynamics with Sign-Diverse Plasticity
78. NeurIPS 2025DAAC: Discrepancy-Aware Adaptive Contrastive Learning for Medical Time series
79. NeurIPS 2025DAWP: A framework for global observation forecasting via Data Assimilation and Weather Prediction in satellite observation space
80. NeurIPS 2025DCA: Graph-Guided Deep Embedding Clustering for Brain Atlases
81. NeurIPS 2025Decomposing motor units through elimination for real-time intention driven assistive neurotechnology
82. NeurIPS 2025Decomposing stimulus-specific sensory neural information via diffusion models
83. NeurIPS 2025Deep RL Needs Deep Behavior Analysis: Exploring Implicit Planning by Model-Free Agents in Open-Ended Environments
84. NeurIPS 2025Dendritic Resonate-and-Fire Neuron for Effective and Efficient Long Sequence Modeling
85. NeurIPS 2025DevFD : Developmental Face Forgery Detection by Learning Shared and Orthogonal LoRA Subspaces
86. NeurIPS 2025Dimensionality Mismatch Between Brains and Artificial Neural Networks
87. NeurIPS 2025Disentangling Superpositions: Interpretable Brain Encoding Model with Sparse Concept Atoms
88. NeurIPS 2025Distributional Autoencoders Know the Score
89. NeurIPS 2025Does Object Binding Naturally Emerge in Large Pretrained Vision Transformers?
90. NeurIPS 2025Don’t Give Up on Democratizing AI for the Wrong Reasons
91. NeurIPS 2025DSRF: A Dynamic and Scalable Reasoning Framework for Solving RPMs
92. NeurIPS 2025Dual-Res Tandem Mamba-3D: Bilateral Breast Lesion Detection and Classification on Non-contrast Chest CT
93. NeurIPS 2025DyMU: Dynamic Merging and Virtual Unmerging for Efficient Variable-Length VLMs
94. NeurIPS 2025Dynamic Siamese Expansion Framework for Improving Robustness in Online Continual Learning
95. NeurIPS 2025Dynamical modeling of nonlinear latent factors in multiscale neural activity with real-time inference
96. NeurIPS 2025Dynamical Properties of Tokens in Self-Attention and Effects of Positional Encoding
97. NeurIPS 2025Efficient Allocation of Working Memory Resource for Utility Maximization in Humans and Recurrent Neural Networks
98. NeurIPS 2025Efficient Training of Minimal and Maximal Low-Rank Recurrent Neural Networks
99. NeurIPS 2025egoEMOTION: Egocentric Vision and Physiological Signals for Emotion and Personality Recognition in Real-world Tasks
100. NeurIPS 2025EgoExOR: An Ego-Exo-Centric Operating Room Dataset for Surgical Activity Understanding

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.