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

824 papers, page 3 of 17

101. NeurIPS 2026LatentRouter: Can We Choose the Right Multimodal Model Before Seeing Its Answer?
102. NeurIPS 2026Learning Actionable Information Landscapes for Multimodal Active Sensing in Hawkmoths
103. NeurIPS 2026Learning Global Temporal Dynamics in Sparse Networks via Cycle Counts
104. NeurIPS 2026Learning interpretable Schur forms of recurrent weight matrices
105. NeurIPS 2026Learning Provable Neural Network Observer for Uncertain Dynamical Systems
106. NeurIPS 2026Learning Reveals Invisible Structure in Low-Rank RNNs
107. NeurIPS 2026Learning Survival Models with Right-Censored Reporting Delays
108. NeurIPS 2026Learning Transferable Cross-Day Representations for Few-Shot Neural Decoding
109. NeurIPS 2026Learning What's Real: Disentangling Signals and Measurement Artifacts in Multi-Sensor Data, with Applications to Astrophysics
110. NeurIPS 2026Learning When Visual Context Matters for Mouse Behavior Analysis
111. NeurIPS 2026LeCellModel: Interpretable Density Estimation over the Gene Expression Manifold
112. NeurIPS 2026LibriBrain100: One Hundred Hours of Broad and Deep MEG Data for Neural Speech Decoding at Scale
113. NeurIPS 2026Lifting Biomolecular Data Acquisition
114. NeurIPS 2026LLM-Based Multi-Agent Blackboard System for Information Discovery in Data Science
115. NeurIPS 2026Locality Sensitive Hashing for p-Exponential Kernels with Applications to Density Estimation
116. NeurIPS 2026Long-Rollout Stability in AI Weather Models: A Quantitative Benchmark and Analysis
117. NeurIPS 2026MCPHallu: Benchmarking Reasoning, Execution, and Memory Hallucinations in MCP Agents
118. NeurIPS 2026Memory flows: geometry and dynamics of sequential retrieval in input-driven Hopfield networks
119. NeurIPS 2026Meta-Cognitive Memory Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon LLM Agents
120. NeurIPS 2026MICA: Activation Checkpointing for Double-Backward Training of Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials
121. NeurIPS 2026Minimally Invasive Steering of Language Models
122. NeurIPS 2026MIRAGE: Adaptive Multimodal Gating for Whole-Brain fMRI Encoding
123. NeurIPS 2026MixScentNet: A Multiscale Graph-based Framework for Predicting Scent Mixture Perception
124. NeurIPS 2026Model Immunization Beyond Condition Numbers: The Importance of Plateau Regions
125. NeurIPS 2026Multiscale Microenvironment Vector Space Projection for Uncovering Diverse Pathological Biomarker
126. NeurIPS 2026Multivariate Time Series Forecasting needs Cross Variable Loss
127. NeurIPS 2026Mutable Transcripts: Mitigating Context Pollution through Editable Conversation State
128. NeurIPS 2026Neural Circuit Architectural Priors for Rat Locomotion
129. NeurIPS 2026Neural Fractional Stochastic Differential Equations
130. NeurIPS 2026Neural population tuning statistics as priors for multitask generalization
131. NeurIPS 2026Neural Signals Generate Clinical Notes in the Wild
132. NeurIPS 2026Neural-DISCO: Source-Conditioned Counterfactual Editing of Neural Population Activity
133. NeurIPS 2026Neuronal Identity as an Organizational Basis for Analyzing Neural Population Dynamics
134. NeurIPS 2026nnTrace: Detecting and Localizing Silent Bugs in Distributed Training
135. NeurIPS 2026ObsConDA: Observability-Constrained Data Assimilation with Control-Space Inference
136. NeurIPS 2026On Length Bias in EEG-to-Text Decoding
137. NeurIPS 2026On the Primacy Bias in RLVR Training
138. NeurIPS 2026One-Time Soft Alignment Enables Resilient Learning without Weight Transport
139. NeurIPS 2026Online Bayesian Calibration under Gradual and Abrupt System Changes
140. NeurIPS 2026OpenMHC: Accelerating the Science of Wearable Foundation Models
141. NeurIPS 2026OperatorSHAP: Fast and Accurate Shapley Value Estimation for Neural Operators
142. NeurIPS 2026Optimal Ansatz-free Hamiltonian Learning In Situ
143. NeurIPS 2026Parameter symmetries determine representational geometry in overparameterized nonlinear networks
144. NeurIPS 2026Patch Hierarchical Attention Transformers for Efficient Particle Jet Tagging
145. NeurIPS 2026Physics-Informed Optimal Control by Control-Only Supervision with Error Guarantees on Value and Policy
146. NeurIPS 2026Platonic Representations in the Human Brain: Unsupervised Recovery of Universal Geometry
147. NeurIPS 2026PM1: A Multimodal Foundation Model for Genomes, Phenotypes, and Images at Biobank Scale
148. NeurIPS 2026Position: Fair Representations Cannot Hold What They Promise
149. NeurIPS 2026Position: Machine Learning Conferences Should Introduce an Autonomous Research Track
150. NeurIPS 2026Position: We Need Greater Transparency to Maintain Research Pipeline Reliability Despite GenAI

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.