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

576 papers, page 3 of 12

101. ICML 2026Functional Equivalence in Attention: A Comprehensive Study with Applications to Linear Mode Connectivity
102. ICML 2026FusionCell: Cross-Attentive Fusion of Layout Geometry and Netlist Topology for Standard-Cell Performance Prediction
103. ICML 2026Generalizable and Actionable Parts Pose Estimation with Symmetry Annotation-Free Learning Strategy
104. ICML 2026Generalized Correctness Models: Learning Calibrated and Cross-Model Correctness Predictors from Historical Patterns
105. ICML 2026Geometric Flow Grounding: A Unified Manifold Decoupling Framework for Dynamics Discovery and Verification
106. ICML 2026Geometry-Aware Neural Optimizer for Shape Optimization and Inversion
107. ICML 2026Geometry-Guided Generative Representation for Functional Brain Graphs
108. ICML 2026GFFMERGE: Efficient Merging of Graph Neural Force Fields and Beyond
109. ICML 2026Global Credit Assignment via Dynamical Criticality
110. ICML 2026Global Plane Waves from Local Gaussians: Periodic Charge Densities in a Blink
111. ICML 2026Gromov-Wasserstein at Scale, Beyond Squared Norms
112. ICML 2026Harnessing Spectrum Video for Subject-Level Few-Shot and Cross-Montage EEG Generalization
113. ICML 2026HDTree: Generative Modeling of Cellular Hierarchies for Robust Lineage Inference
114. ICML 2026Heavy-tailed Physics-Informed Neural Networks
115. ICML 2026High-Fidelity ANN-to-SNN Conversion via Closed-Loop CKA Distillation
116. ICML 2026How (Not) to Hybridize Neural and Mechanistic Models for Epidemiological Forecasting
117. ICML 2026How do Humans Process AI-generated Hallucination Contents: a Neuroimaging Study
118. ICML 2026How Hard Is Science?
119. ICML 2026How High is ‘High’? Rethinking the Roles of Dimensionality in Topological Data Analysis and Manifold Learning
120. ICML 2026Hunt Instead of Wait: Evaluating Deep Data Research on Large Language Models
121. ICML 2026HybridOM: Hybrid Physics-Based and Data-Driven Global Ocean Modeling with Efficient Regional Downscaling
122. ICML 2026Hyperbolic Neural Operator
123. ICML 2026Hyperbolic neural population geometry benefits computation
124. ICML 2026Identifying Connectivity Distributions from Neural Dynamics Using Flows
125. ICML 2026Imposing Boundary Conditions on Neural Operators via Learned Function Extensions
126. ICML 2026Improved Analysis of the Accelerated Noisy Power Method with Applications to Decentralized PCA
127. ICML 2026Improving ML Attacks on LWE with Data Repetition and Stepwise Regression
128. ICML 2026Improving the Performance and Learning Stability of Parallelizable RNNs Designed for Ultra-Low Power Applications
129. ICML 2026Inside the Visual Mind: Neuroscience-Motivated Concept Circuits for Interpreting and Steering Vision Transformers
130. ICML 2026InteractScience: Programmatic and Visually-Grounded Evaluation of Interactive Scientific Demonstration Code Generation
131. ICML 2026Interpretability and Generalization Bounds for Learning Spatial Physics
132. ICML 2026JanusPipe: Efficient Pipeline Parallel Training for Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials
133. ICML 2026Joint Model and Data Sparsification via the Marginal Likelihood
134. ICML 2026Know More, Know Clearer: A Meta-Cognitive Framework for Knowledge Augmentation in Large Language Models
135. ICML 2026LABO: LLM-Accelerated Bayesian Optimization through Broad Exploration and Selective Experimentation
136. ICML 2026Large Language Models Develop Novel Social Biases Through Adaptive Exploration
137. ICML 2026Large-Scale Notification Dispatch with Bundle Treatments and Multi-Outcome Uplift Optimization
138. ICML 2026Latent Diffusion Pretraining for Crystal Property Prediction
139. ICML 2026Learning Biophysical Models of Large-Scale Multineuronal Data To Enable Precise Neurostimulation
140. ICML 2026Learning Coherent Representations: A Topological Approach to Interpretability
141. ICML 2026Learning Dynamic Stability Landscapes in Synchronization Networks
142. ICML 2026Learning Hamiltonian Flow Maps: Mean Flow Consistency for Large-Timestep Molecular Dynamics
143. ICML 2026Learning Multi-Scale Hypergraph for High-Order Brain Connectivity Analysis
144. ICML 2026Learning Permutation-invariant Macroscopic Dynamics
145. ICML 2026Learning to Refine: Spectral-Decoupled Iterative Refinement Framework for Precipitation Nowcasting
146. ICML 2026Learning-Guided Integration Contours Construction for Fast Large-Scale Generalized Eigensolvers
147. ICML 2026Learning, Solving and Optimizing PDEs with TensorGalerkin: an efficient high-performance Galerkin assembly algorithm
148. ICML 2026LERD: Latent Event-Relational Dynamics for Neurodegenerative Classification
149. ICML 2026Less Token, More Signal: MoE Expert Pruning via Critical Token Selection
150. ICML 2026Let EEG Models Learn EEG

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.