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

2,033 papers, page 21 of 41

1001. ICML 2025Latent Mamba Operator for Partial Differential Equations
1002. ICML 2025Learn Singularly Perturbed Solutions via Homotopy Dynamics
1003. ICML 2025Learning curves theory for hierarchically compositional data with power-law distributed features
1004. ICML 2025Learning dynamics in linear recurrent neural networks
1005. ICML 2025Learning Initial Basis Selection for Linear Programming via Duality-Inspired Tripartite Graph Representation and Comprehensive Supervision
1006. ICML 2025Learning Smooth and Expressive Interatomic Potentials for Physical Property Prediction
1007. ICML 2025Learning the Electronic Hamiltonian of Large Atomic Structures
1008. ICML 2025Learning Time-Varying Multi-Region Brain Communications via Scalable Markovian Gaussian Processes
1009. ICML 2025Learning with Expected Signatures: Theory and Applications
1010. ICML 2025Making Hard Problems Easier with Custom Data Distributions and Loss Regularization: A Case Study in Modular Arithmetic
1011. ICML 2025Maximum Coverage in Turnstile Streams with Applications to Fingerprinting Measures
1012. ICML 2025Maximum Update Parametrization and Zero-Shot Hyperparameter Transfer for Fourier Neural Operators
1013. ICML 2025Mechanistic PDE Networks for Discovery of Governing Equations
1014. ICML 2025Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse
1015. ICML 2025MindAligner: Explicit Brain Functional Alignment for Cross-Subject Visual Decoding from Limited fMRI Data
1016. ICML 2025MindCustomer: Multi-Context Image Generation Blended with Brain Signal
1017. ICML 2025MindLLM: A Subject-Agnostic and Versatile Model for fMRI-to-text Decoding
1018. ICML 2025Modeling All-Atom Glycan Structures via Hierarchical Message Passing and Multi-Scale Pre-training
1019. ICML 2025Neural Encoding and Decoding at Scale
1020. ICML 2025Neural Interpretable PDEs: Harmonizing Fourier Insights with Attention for Scalable and Interpretable Physics Discovery
1021. ICML 2025Neural Representational Consistency Emerges from Probabilistic Neural-Behavioral Representation Alignment
1022. ICML 2025NeuroTree: Hierarchical Functional Brain Pathway Decoding for Mental Health Disorders
1023. ICML 2025Not all solutions are created equal: An analytical dissociation of functional and representational similarity in deep linear neural networks
1024. ICML 2025Offline Model-based Optimization for Real-World Molecular Discovery
1025. ICML 2025OmniArch: Building Foundation Model for Scientific Computing
1026. ICML 2025On Temperature Scaling and Conformal Prediction of Deep Classifiers
1027. ICML 2025On Zero-Initialized Attention: Optimal Prompt and Gating Factor Estimation
1028. ICML 2025OneForecast: A Universal Framework for Global and Regional Weather Forecasting
1029. ICML 2025OV-MER: Towards Open-Vocabulary Multimodal Emotion Recognition
1030. ICML 2025PDE-Transformer: Efficient and Versatile Transformers for Physics Simulations
1031. ICML 2025Perceptually Constrained Precipitation Nowcasting Model
1032. ICML 2025Permutation Equivariant Neural Networks for Symmetric Tensors
1033. ICML 2025Permutation-based Rank Test in the Presence of Discretization and Application in Causal Discovery with Mixed Data
1034. ICML 2025Persistent Topological Features in Large Language Models
1035. ICML 2025Physics-Informed Weakly Supervised Learning For Interatomic Potentials
1036. ICML 2025Poly2Vec: Polymorphic Fourier-Based Encoding of Geospatial Objects for GeoAI Applications
1037. ICML 2025Position: Evaluating Generative AI Systems Is a Social Science Measurement Challenge
1038. ICML 2025Position: Human Baselines in Model Evaluations Need Rigor and Transparency (With Recommendations & Reporting Checklist)
1039. ICML 2025Position: Principles of Animal Cognition to Improve LLM Evaluations
1040. ICML 2025Position: Solve Layerwise Linear Models First to Understand Neural Dynamical Phenomena (Neural Collapse, Emergence, Lazy/Rich Regime, and Grokking)
1041. ICML 2025Pre-Training Graph Contrastive Masked Autoencoders are Strong Distillers for EEG
1042. ICML 2025Propagation of Chaos for Mean-Field Langevin Dynamics and its Application to Model Ensemble
1043. ICML 2025QEM-Bench: Benchmarking Learning-based Quantum Error Mitigation and QEMFormer as a Multi-ranged Context Learning Baseline
1044. ICML 2025QuanONet: Quantum Neural Operator with Application to Differential Equation
1045. ICML 2025Reflection-Bench: Evaluating Epistemic Agency in Large Language Models
1046. ICML 2025Reinforced Learning Explicit Circuit Representations for Quantum State Characterization from Local Measurements
1047. ICML 2025Relational Invariant Learning for Robust Solvation Free Energy Prediction
1048. ICML 2025Rethink GraphODE Generalization within Coupled Dynamical System
1049. ICML 2025Rethink the Role of Deep Learning towards Large-scale Quantum Systems
1050. ICML 2025ReverB-SNN: Reversing Bit of the Weight and Activation for Spiking Neural Networks

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.