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

2,033 papers, page 3 of 41

101. ICLR 2026Elastic Optimal Transport: Theory, Application, and Empirical Evaluation
102. ICLR 2026Emergence of Spatial Representation in an Actor-Critic Agent with Hippocampus-Inspired Sequence Generator
103. ICLR 2026End-to-end Listen, Look, Speak and Act
104. ICLR 2026Enhancing Molecular Property Predictions by Learning from Bond Modelling and Interactions
105. ICLR 2026Estimating Dimensionality of Neural Representations from Finite Samples
106. ICLR 2026Evaluating Language Models' Evaluations of Games
107. ICLR 2026Exchangeability of GNN Representations with Applications to Graph Retrieval
108. ICLR 2026Expert Merging: Model Merging with Unsupervised Expert Alignment and Importance-Guided Layer Chunking
109. ICLR 2026Extending Fourier Neural Operators for Modeling Parameterized and Coupled PDEs
110. ICLR 2026Fair Decision Utility in Human-AI Collaboration: Interpretable Confidence Adjustment for Humans with Cognitive Disparities
111. ICLR 2026Fast and Interpretable Protein Substructure Alignment via Optimal Transport
112. ICLR 2026Fast training of accurate physics-informed neural networks without gradient descent
113. ICLR 2026Feature segregation by signed weights in artificial vision systems and biological models
114. ICLR 2026FlashDLM: Accelerating Diffusion Language Model Inference via Efficient KV Caching and Guided Diffusion
115. ICLR 2026FlexProtein: Joint Sequence and Structure Pretraining for Protein Modeling
116. ICLR 2026FlowCast: Advancing Precipitation Nowcasting with Conditional Flow Matching
117. ICLR 2026FM4NPP: A Scaling Foundation Model for Nuclear and Particle Physics
118. ICLR 2026From Fields to Random Trees
119. ICLR 2026From Five Dimensions to Many: Large Language Models as Precise and Interpretable Psychological Profilers
120. ICLR 2026From movement to cognitive maps: recurrent neural networks reveal how locomotor development shapes hippocampal spatial coding
121. ICLR 2026Full-Graph vs. Mini-Batch Training: Comprehensive Analysis from a Batch Size and Fan-Out Size Perspective
122. ICLR 2026Functional MRI Time Series Generation via Wavelet-Based Image Transform and Spectral Flow Matching for Brain Disorder Identification
123. ICLR 2026Generating metamers of human scene understanding
124. ICLR 2026GeoFAR: Geography-Informed Frequency-Aware Super-Resolution for Climate Data
125. ICLR 2026Glance and Focus Reinforcement for Pan-cancer Screening
126. ICLR 2026Global and Local Topology-Aware Graph Generation via Dual Conditioning Diffusion
127. ICLR 2026Greater than the Sum of Its Parts: Building Substructure into Protein Encoding Models
128. ICLR 2026HEEGNet: Hyperbolic Embeddings for EEG
129. ICLR 2026HEIST: A Graph Foundation Model for Spatial Transcriptomics and Proteomics Data
130. ICLR 2026Hippoformer: Integrating Hippocampus-inspired Spatial Memory with Transformers
131. ICLR 2026Homeostatic Adaptation of Optimal Population Codes under Metabolic Stress
132. ICLR 2026Incomplete Data, Complete Dynamics: A Diffusion Approach
133. ICLR 2026Independence Test for Linear Non-Gaussian Data and Applications in Causal Discovery
134. ICLR 2026Inducing Dyslexia in Vision Language Models
135. ICLR 2026Inferring brain plasticity rule under long-term stimulation with structured recurrent dynamics
136. ICLR 2026InputDSA: Demixing, then comparing recurrent and externally driven dynamics
137. ICLR 2026Instilling an Active Mind in Avatars via Cognitive Simulation
138. ICLR 2026Is the Reversal Curse a Binding Problem? Uncovering Limitations of Transformers from a Basic Generalization Failure
139. ICLR 2026Is This Just Fantasy? Language Model Representations Reflect Human Judgments of Event Plausibility
140. ICLR 2026JanusVLN: Decoupling Semantics and Spatiality with Dual Implicit Memory for Vision-Language Navigation
141. ICLR 2026Joint Adaptation of Uni-modal Foundation Models for Multi-modal Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis
142. ICLR 2026KANO: Kolmogorov-Arnold Neural Operator
143. ICLR 2026Language and Experience: A Computational Model of Social Learning in Complex Tasks
144. ICLR 2026Latent Geometry-Driven Network Automata for Complex Network Dismantling
145. ICLR 2026LaVCa: LLM-assisted Visual Cortex Captioning
146. ICLR 2026Learning Brain Representation with Hierarchical Visual Embeddings
147. ICLR 2026Learning Data-Efficient and Generalizable Neural Operators via Fundamental Physics Knowledge
148. ICLR 2026Learning Distributions over Permutations and Rankings with Factorized Representations
149. ICLR 2026Learning from the Electronic Structure of Molecules across the Periodic Table
150. ICLR 2026Learning From the Past with Cascading Eligibility Traces

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.