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

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101. NeurIPS 2024LM-HT SNN: Enhancing the Performance of SNN to ANN Counterpart through Learnable Multi-hierarchical Threshold Model
102. NeurIPS 2024Long-Range Feedback Spiking Network Captures Dynamic and Static Representations of the Visual Cortex under Movie Stimuli
103. NeurIPS 2024Marrying Causal Representation Learning with Dynamical Systems for Science
104. NeurIPS 2024Mirror and Preconditioned Gradient Descent in Wasserstein Space
105. NeurIPS 2024MiSO: Optimizing brain stimulation to create neural activity states
106. NeurIPS 2024Model Based Inference of Synaptic Plasticity Rules
107. NeurIPS 2024MonkeySee: Space-time-resolved reconstructions of natural images from macaque multi-unit activity
108. NeurIPS 2024Multivariate Stochastic Dominance via Optimal Transport and Applications to Models Benchmarking
109. NeurIPS 2024Nearly Optimal Approximation of Matrix Functions by the Lanczos Method
110. NeurIPS 2024NeuMA: Neural Material Adaptor for Visual Grounding of Intrinsic Dynamics
111. NeurIPS 2024Neural decoding from stereotactic EEG: accounting for electrode variability across subjects
112. NeurIPS 2024Neural Embeddings Rank: Aligning 3D latent dynamics with movements
113. NeurIPS 2024Neural Pfaffians: Solving Many Many-Electron Schrödinger Equations
114. NeurIPS 2024Neuro-Vision to Language: Enhancing Brain Recording-based Visual Reconstruction and Language Interaction
115. NeurIPS 2024NeuroBOLT: Resting-state EEG-to-fMRI Synthesis with Multi-dimensional Feature Mapping
116. NeurIPS 2024NeuroClips: Towards High-fidelity and Smooth fMRI-to-Video Reconstruction
117. NeurIPS 2024Nonlinear dynamics of localization in neural receptive fields
118. NeurIPS 2024Not so griddy: Internal representations of RNNs path integrating more than one agent
119. NeurIPS 2024Object segmentation from common fate: Motion energy processing enables human-like zero-shot generalization to random dot stimuli
120. NeurIPS 2024OlympicArena: Benchmarking Multi-discipline Cognitive Reasoning for Superintelligent AI
121. NeurIPS 2024One Sample Fits All: Approximating All Probabilistic Values Simultaneously and Efficiently
122. NeurIPS 2024Only Strict Saddles in the Energy Landscape of Predictive Coding Networks?
123. NeurIPS 2024OpenDebateEvidence: A Massive-Scale Argument Mining and Summarization Dataset
124. NeurIPS 2024Parallel Backpropagation for Shared-Feature Visualization
125. NeurIPS 2024Parameter Symmetry and Noise Equilibrium of Stochastic Gradient Descent
126. NeurIPS 2024Partial observation can induce mechanistic mismatches in data-constrained models of neural dynamics
127. NeurIPS 2024Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction with Missing Data: Datasets, Imputation, and Benchmarking
128. NeurIPS 2024Physics-informed Neural Networks for Functional Differential Equations: Cylindrical Approximation and Its Convergence Guarantees
129. NeurIPS 2024Predicting Ground State Properties: Constant Sample Complexity and Deep Learning Algorithms
130. NeurIPS 2024Predictive Attractor Models
131. NeurIPS 2024Pretraining with Random Noise for Fast and Robust Learning without Weight Transport
132. NeurIPS 2024Probabilistic Decomposed Linear Dynamical Systems for Robust Discovery of Latent Neural Dynamics
133. NeurIPS 2024Probablistic Emulation of a Global Climate Model with Spherical DYffusion
134. NeurIPS 2024Provably Optimal Memory Capacity for Modern Hopfield Models: Transformer-Compatible Dense Associative Memories as Spherical Codes
135. NeurIPS 2024PURE: Prompt Evolution with Graph ODE for Out-of-distribution Fluid Dynamics Modeling
136. NeurIPS 2024QKFormer: Hierarchical Spiking Transformer using Q-K Attention
137. NeurIPS 2024realSEUDO for real-time calcium imaging analysis
138. NeurIPS 2024Recurrent Complex-Weighted Autoencoders for Unsupervised Object Discovery
139. NeurIPS 2024Recurrent neural network dynamical systems for biological vision
140. NeurIPS 2024Reinforcement Learning Under Latent Dynamics: Toward Statistical and Algorithmic Modularity
141. NeurIPS 2024Reproducibility of predictive networks for mouse visual cortex
142. NeurIPS 2024Rethinking the Membrane Dynamics and Optimization Objectives of Spiking Neural Networks
143. NeurIPS 2024Retrieval-Retro: Retrieval-based Inorganic Retrosynthesis with Expert Knowledge
144. NeurIPS 2024Retrospective for the Dynamic Sensorium Competition for predicting large-scale mouse primary visual cortex activity from videos
145. NeurIPS 2024Robust and Faster Zeroth-Order Minimax Optimization: Complexity and Applications
146. NeurIPS 2024RTify: Aligning Deep Neural Networks with Human Behavioral Decisions
147. NeurIPS 2024Sample Complexity of Algorithm Selection Using Neural Networks and Its Applications to Branch-and-Cut
148. NeurIPS 2024SAND: Smooth imputation of sparse and noisy functional data with Transformer networks
149. NeurIPS 2024Second-order forward-mode optimization of recurrent neural networks for neuroscience
150. NeurIPS 2024SETLEXSEM CHALLENGE: Using Set Operations to Evaluate the Lexical and Semantic Robustness of Language Models

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.