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

151 papers, page 3 of 4

101. ICLR 2025Neuron-based Multifractal Analysis of Neuron Interaction Dynamics in Large Models
102. ICLR 2025Neuroplastic Expansion in Deep Reinforcement Learning
103. ICLR 2025Node Similarities under Random Projections: Limits and Pathological Cases
104. ICLR 2025Nonlinear multiregion neural dynamics with parametric impulse response communication channels
105. ICLR 2025On Designing General and Expressive Quantum Graph Neural Networks with Applications to MILP Instance Representation
106. ICLR 2025On the Expressive Power of Sparse Geometric MPNNs
107. ICLR 2025On the expressiveness and spectral bias of KANs
108. ICLR 2025One for all and all for one: Efficient computation of partial Wasserstein distances on the line
109. ICLR 2025One Hundred Neural Networks and Brains Watching Videos: Lessons from Alignment
110. ICLR 2025Partial Gromov-Wasserstein Metric
111. ICLR 2025Population Transformer: Learning Population-level Representations of Neural Activity
112. ICLR 2025PostCast: Generalizable Postprocessing for Precipitation Nowcasting via Unsupervised Blurriness Modeling
113. ICLR 2025Probabilistic Geometric Principal Component Analysis with application to neural data
114. ICLR 2025Pushing the Limits of All-Atom Geometric Graph Neural Networks: Pre-Training, Scaling, and Zero-Shot Transfer
115. ICLR 2025QP-SNN: Quantized and Pruned Spiking Neural Networks
116. ICLR 2025Quantum (Inspired) $D^2$-sampling with Applications
117. ICLR 2025Range, not Independence, Drives Modularity in Biologically Inspired Representations
118. ICLR 2025Rationalizing and Augmenting Dynamic Graph Neural Networks
119. ICLR 2025Real-time design of architectural structures with differentiable mechanics and neural networks
120. ICLR 2025ReCogLab: a framework testing relational reasoning & cognitive hypotheses on LLMs
121. ICLR 2025Rethinking the role of frames for SE(3)-invariant crystal structure modeling
122. ICLR 2025Scalable and Certifiable Graph Unlearning: Overcoming the Approximation Error Barrier
123. ICLR 2025Score-based free-form architectures for high-dimensional Fokker-Planck equations
124. ICLR 2025Self-Attention-Based Contextual Modulation Improves Neural System Identification
125. ICLR 2025Sensitivity-Constrained Fourier Neural Operators for Forward and Inverse Problems in Parametric Differential Equations
126. ICLR 2025Shared-AE: Automatic Identification of Shared Subspaces in High-dimensional Neural and Behavioral Activity
127. ICLR 2025SIM: Surface-based fMRI Analysis for Inter-Subject Multimodal Decoding from Movie-Watching Experiments
128. ICLR 2025SIMPL: Scalable and hassle-free optimisation of neural representations from behaviour
129. ICLR 2025SleepSMC: Ubiquitous Sleep Staging via Supervised Multimodal Coordination
130. ICLR 2025Solving Differential Equations with Constrained Learning
131. ICLR 2025Sparse components distinguish visual pathways & their alignment to neural networks
132. ICLR 2025SPDIM: Source-Free Unsupervised Conditional and Label Shift Adaptation in EEG
133. ICLR 2025Spiking Vision Transformer with Saccadic Attention
134. ICLR 2025Syntactic and Semantic Control of Large Language Models via Sequential Monte Carlo
135. ICLR 2025Synthesizing Realistic fMRI: A Physiological Dynamics-Driven Hierarchical Diffusion Model for Efficient fMRI Acquisition
136. ICLR 2025TabReD: Analyzing Pitfalls and Filling the Gaps in Tabular Deep Learning Benchmarks
137. ICLR 2025Temporal Flexibility in Spiking Neural Networks: Towards Generalization Across Time Steps and Deployment Friendliness
138. ICLR 2025The 3D-PC: a benchmark for visual perspective taking in humans and machines
139. ICLR 2025The impact of allocation strategies in subset learning on the expressive power of neural networks
140. ICLR 2025The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of the Deeper Layers
141. ICLR 2025TopoLM: brain-like spatio-functional organization in a topographic language model
142. ICLR 2025TopoNets: High performing vision and language models with brain-like topography
143. ICLR 2025Toward Generalizing Visual Brain Decoding to Unseen Subjects
144. ICLR 2025Towards Homogeneous Lexical Tone Decoding from Heterogeneous Intracranial Recordings
145. ICLR 2025Tracking objects that change in appearance with phase synchrony
146. ICLR 2025TVNet: A Novel Time Series Analysis Method Based on Dynamic Convolution and 3D-Variation
147. ICLR 2025Underdamped Diffusion Bridges with Applications to Sampling
148. ICLR 2025Vision CNNs trained to estimate spatial latents learned similar ventral-stream-aligned representations
149. ICLR 2025WeatherGFM: Learning a Weather Generalist Foundation Model via In-context Learning
150. ICLR 2025XAIguiFormer: explainable artificial intelligence guided transformer for brain disorder identification

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.