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 2025Credit-based self organizing maps: training deep topographic networks with minimal performance degradation
52. ICLR 2025CREIMBO: Cross-Regional Ensemble Interactions in Multi-view Brain Observations
53. ICLR 2025CS-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Large Language Models towards Computer Science Mastery
54. ICLR 2025CURIE: Evaluating LLMs on Multitask Scientific Long-Context Understanding and Reasoning
55. ICLR 2025Debiasing Mini-Batch Quadratics for Applications in Deep Learning
56. ICLR 2025DeeperForward: Enhanced Forward-Forward Training for Deeper and Better Performance
57. ICLR 2025DeepTAGE: Deep Temporal-Aligned Gradient Enhancement for Optimizing Spiking Neural Networks
58. ICLR 2025Descent with Misaligned Gradients and Applications to Hidden Convexity
59. ICLR 2025Differentiable and Learnable Wireless Simulation with Geometric Transformers
60. ICLR 2025Differentiable Optimization of Similarity Scores Between Models and Brains
61. ICLR 2025Discovering Temporally Compositional Neural Manifolds with Switching Infinite GPFA
62. ICLR 2025Discretization-invariance? On the Discretization Mismatch Errors in Neural Operators
63. ICLR 2025Discriminating image representations with principal distortions
64. ICLR 2025Disentangling 3D Animal Pose Dynamics with Scrubbed Conditional Latent Variables
65. ICLR 2025Disentangling Representations through Multi-task Learning
66. ICLR 2025Distilling Structural Representations into Protein Sequence Models
67. ICLR 2025Do Mice Grok? Glimpses of Hidden Progress in Sensory Cortex
68. ICLR 2025Does Spatial Cognition Emerge in Frontier Models?
69. ICLR 2025DSBench: How Far Are Data Science Agents from Becoming Data Science Experts?
70. ICLR 2025Efficient Evolutionary Search Over Chemical Space with Large Language Models
71. ICLR 2025Efficient Neuron Segmentation in Electron Microscopy by Affinity-Guided Queries
72. ICLR 2025Emergent Orientation Maps —— Mechanisms, Coding Efficiency and Robustness
73. ICLR 2025Enhancing the Scalability and Applicability of Kohn-Sham Hamiltonians for Molecular Systems
74. ICLR 2025Examining Alignment of Large Language Models through Representative Heuristics: the case of political stereotypes
75. ICLR 2025Exploring Prosocial Irrationality for LLM Agents: A Social Cognition View
76. ICLR 2025Expressivity of Neural Networks with Random Weights and Learned Biases
77. ICLR 2025Extendable and Iterative Structure Learning Strategy for Bayesian Networks
78. ICLR 2025Fast and Accurate Blind Flexible Docking
79. ICLR 2025Fengbo: a Clifford Neural Operator pipeline for 3D PDEs in Computational Fluid Dynamics
80. ICLR 2025Finding Shared Decodable Concepts and their Negations in the Brain
81. ICLR 2025Fine-Tuning Discrete Diffusion Models via Reward Optimization with Applications to DNA and Protein Design
82. ICLR 2025From Lazy to Rich: Exact Learning Dynamics in Deep Linear Networks
83. ICLR 2025Generalization Bounds and Model Complexity for Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks
84. ICLR 2025Graph Neural Networks for Edge Signals: Orientation Equivariance and Invariance
85. ICLR 2025Group Ligands Docking to Protein Pockets
86. ICLR 2025Hot-pluggable Federated Learning: Bridging General and Personalized FL via Dynamic Selection
87. ICLR 2025Hotspot-Driven Peptide Design via Multi-Fragment Autoregressive Extension
88. ICLR 2025How to Verify Any (Reasonable) Distribution Property: Computationally Sound Argument Systems for Distributions
89. ICLR 2025Hyperbolic Genome Embeddings
90. ICLR 2025IFORMER: INTEGRATING CONVNET AND TRANSFORMER FOR MOBILE APPLICATION
91. ICLR 2025Improving Semantic Understanding in Speech Language Models via Brain-tuning
92. ICLR 2025Improving the Sparse Structure Learning of Spiking Neural Networks from the View of Compression Efficiency
93. ICLR 2025In vivo cell-type and brain region classification via multimodal contrastive learning
94. ICLR 2025Inverse Attention Agents for Multi-Agent Systems
95. ICLR 2025Inverse decision-making using neural amortized Bayesian actors
96. ICLR 2025KAN: Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks
97. ICLR 2025KinPFN: Bayesian Approximation of RNA Folding Kinetics using Prior-Data Fitted Networks
98. ICLR 2025L3Ms — Lagrange Large Language Models
99. ICLR 2025Language Models Trained to do Arithmetic Predict Human Risky and Intertemporal Choice
100. ICLR 2025Large Language Models Assume People are More Rational than We Really are

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.