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

342 papers, page 3 of 7

101. NeurIPS 2025Elucidated Rolling Diffusion Models for Probabilistic Forecasting of Complex Dynamics
102. NeurIPS 2025Enhanced Self-Distillation Framework for Efficient Spiking Neural Network Training
103. NeurIPS 2025Enhancing LLM Watermark Resilience Against Both Scrubbing and Spoofing Attacks
104. NeurIPS 2025Error Broadcast and Decorrelation as a Potential Artificial and Natural Learning Mechanism
105. NeurIPS 2025Error Forcing in Recurrent Neural Networks
106. NeurIPS 2025ESCA: Enabling Seamless Codec Avatar Execution through Algorithm and Hardware Co-Optimization for Virtual Reality
107. NeurIPS 2025Estimating cognitive biases with attention-aware inverse planning
108. NeurIPS 2025Estimating Hitting Times Locally at Scale
109. NeurIPS 2025Event-Driven Dynamic Scene Depth Completion
110. NeurIPS 2025EvoBrain: Dynamic Multi-Channel EEG Graph Modeling for Time-Evolving Brain Networks
111. NeurIPS 2025Explicitly Modeling Subcortical Vision with a Neuro-Inspired Front-End Improves CNN Robustness
112. NeurIPS 2025Exploring and Leveraging Class Vectors for Classifier Editing
113. NeurIPS 2025Exponential Dynamic Energy Network for High Capacity Sequence Memory
114. NeurIPS 2025Extracting task-relevant preserved dynamics from contrastive aligned neural recordings
115. NeurIPS 2025EyeBench: Predictive Modeling from Eye Movements in Reading
116. NeurIPS 2025Far from the Shallow: Brain-Predictive Reasoning Embedding through Residual Disentanglement
117. NeurIPS 2025Fast Inference for Augmented Large Language Models
118. NeurIPS 2025Fast Solvers for Discrete Diffusion Models: Theory and Applications of High-Order Algorithms
119. NeurIPS 2025Feature Unlearning: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Applications with Shuffling
120. NeurIPS 2025Finding separatrices of dynamical flows with Deep Koopman Eigenfunctions
121. NeurIPS 2025Flexible inference for animal learning rules using neural networks
122. NeurIPS 2025FlowRefiner: A Robust Traffic Classification Framework against Label Noise
123. NeurIPS 2025From Average-Iterate to Last-Iterate Convergence in Games: A Reduction and Its Applications
124. NeurIPS 2025From Synapses to Dynamics: Obtaining Function from Structure in a Connectome Constrained Model of the Head Direction Circuit
125. NeurIPS 2025Fully Autonomous Neuromorphic Navigation and Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance
126. NeurIPS 2025FuXi-Ocean: A Global Ocean Forecasting System with Sub-Daily Resolution
127. NeurIPS 2025Gaussian-Augmented Physics Simulation and System Identification with Complex Colliders
128. NeurIPS 2025Generalizable Insights for Graph Transformers in Theory and Practice
129. NeurIPS 2025Generalizable, real-time neural decoding with hybrid state-space models
130. NeurIPS 2025Generalized and Invariant Single-Neuron In-Vivo Activity Representation Learning
131. NeurIPS 2025Generating Computational Cognitive models using Large Language Models
132. NeurIPS 2025Generating Creative Chess Puzzles
133. NeurIPS 2025GeoRemover: Removing Objects and Their Causal Visual Artifacts
134. NeurIPS 2025GSAlign: Geometric and Semantic Alignment Network for Aerial-Ground Person Re-Identification
135. NeurIPS 2025Guided Diffusion Sampling on Function Spaces with Applications to PDEs
136. NeurIPS 2025Heavy-Ball Momentum Method in Continuous Time and Discretization Error Analysis
137. NeurIPS 2025HetSyn: Versatile Timescale Integration in Spiking Neural Networks via Heterogeneous Synapses
138. NeurIPS 2025Hierarchical Frequency Tagging Probe (HFTP): A Unified Approach to Investigate Syntactic Structure Representations in Large Language Models and the Human Brain
139. NeurIPS 2025High Resolution UDF Meshing via Iterative Networks
140. NeurIPS 2025High-dimensional neuronal activity from low-dimensional latent dynamics: a solvable model
141. NeurIPS 2025HyRF: Hybrid Radiance Fields for Memory-efficient and High-quality Novel View Synthesis
142. NeurIPS 2025I2-NeRF: Learning Neural Radiance Fields Under Physically-Grounded Media Interactions
143. NeurIPS 2025Identifying interactions across brain areas while accounting for individual-neuron dynamics with a Transformer-based variational autoencoder
144. NeurIPS 2025Identifying multi-compartment Hodgkin-Huxley models with high-density extracellular voltage recordings
145. NeurIPS 2025Image Stitching in Adverse Condition: A Bidirectional-Consistency Learning Framework and Benchmark
146. NeurIPS 2025Implicit-ARAP: Efficient Handle-Guided Neural Field Deformation via Local Patch Meshing
147. NeurIPS 2025Improved Approximation Algorithms for Chromatic and Pseudometric-Weighted Correlation Clustering
148. NeurIPS 2025Improved Regret and Contextual Linear Extension for Pandora's Box and Prophet Inequality
149. NeurIPS 2025In Silico Mapping of Visual Categorical Selectivity Across the Whole Brain
150. NeurIPS 2025INC: An Indirect Neural Corrector for Auto-Regressive Hybrid PDE Solvers

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.