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

183 papers, page 3 of 4

101. ICML 2023Partial Optimality in Cubic Correlation Clustering
102. ICML 2023Provably Convergent Schrödinger Bridge with Applications to Probabilistic Time Series Imputation
103. ICML 2023Quantum 3D Graph Learning with Applications to Molecule Embedding
104. ICML 2023Rotation and Translation Invariant Representation Learning with Implicit Neural Representations
105. ICML 2023Sampling random graph homomorphisms and applications to network data analysis
106. ICML 2023Sampling-based Nyström Approximation and Kernel Quadrature
107. ICML 2023Simplifying Momentum-based Positive-definite Submanifold Optimization with Applications to Deep Learning
108. ICML 2023Smooth Non-stationary Bandits
109. ICML 2023Stochastic Gradient Descent under Markovian Sampling Schemes
110. ICML 2023The Persistent Laplacian for Data Science: Evaluating Higher-Order Persistent Spectral Representations of Data
111. ICML 2023The Statistical Scope of Multicalibration
112. ICML 2023Theoretical Guarantees of Learning Ensembling Strategies with Applications to Time Series Forecasting
113. ICML 2023Towards Bridging the Gaps between the Right to Explanation and the Right to be Forgotten
114. ICML 2023Trainability, Expressivity and Interpretability in Gated Neural ODEs
115. ICML 2023Using Large Language Models to Simulate Multiple Humans and Replicate Human Subject Studies
116. ICML 2023Warm-Start Actor-Critic: From Approximation Error to Sub-optimality Gap
117. ICML 2023Weighted Tallying Bandits: Overcoming Intractability via Repeated Exposure Optimality
118. NeurIPS 2023$H$-Consistency Bounds: Characterization and Extensions
119. NeurIPS 2023A Bounded Ability Estimation for Computerized Adaptive Testing
120. NeurIPS 2023A Framework for Fast and Stable Representations of Multiparameter Persistent Homology Decompositions
121. NeurIPS 2023Adaptive whitening with fast gain modulation and slow synaptic plasticity
122. NeurIPS 2023AMAG: Additive, Multiplicative and Adaptive Graph Neural Network For Forecasting Neuron Activity
123. NeurIPS 2023Bayesian target optimisation for high-precision holographic optogenetics
124. NeurIPS 2023Boosting Spectral Clustering on Incomplete Data via Kernel Correction and Affinity Learning
125. NeurIPS 2023Brain Dissection: fMRI-trained Networks Reveal Spatial Selectivity in the Processing of Natural Images
126. NeurIPS 2023Break It Down: Evidence for Structural Compositionality in Neural Networks
127. NeurIPS 2023CAPP-130: A Corpus of Chinese Application Privacy Policy Summarization and Interpretation
128. NeurIPS 2023Cognitive Model Discovery via Disentangled RNNs
129. NeurIPS 2023Critical Initialization of Wide and Deep Neural Networks using Partial Jacobians: General Theory and Applications
130. NeurIPS 2023Data-Driven Network Neuroscience: On Data Collection and Benchmark
131. NeurIPS 2023DDCoT: Duty-Distinct Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Multimodal Reasoning in Language Models
132. NeurIPS 2023Decoding the Enigma: Benchmarking Humans and AIs on the Many Facets of Working Memory
133. NeurIPS 2023Degraded Polygons Raise Fundamental Questions of Neural Network Perception
134. NeurIPS 2023Disentangling Cognitive Diagnosis with Limited Exercise Labels
135. NeurIPS 2023Distribution-Free Statistical Dispersion Control for Societal Applications
136. NeurIPS 2023Exploiting Correlated Auxiliary Feedback in Parameterized Bandits
137. NeurIPS 2023Fast Exact Leverage Score Sampling from Khatri-Rao Products with Applications to Tensor Decomposition
138. NeurIPS 2023Fast Optimal Transport through Sliced Generalized Wasserstein Geodesics
139. NeurIPS 2023Formalizing locality for normative synaptic plasticity models
140. NeurIPS 2023GAUCHE: A Library for Gaussian Processes in Chemistry
141. NeurIPS 2023Gaussian Partial Information Decomposition: Bias Correction and Application to High-dimensional Data
142. NeurIPS 2023Going Beyond Linear Mode Connectivity: The Layerwise Linear Feature Connectivity
143. NeurIPS 2023Gradient Descent with Linearly Correlated Noise: Theory and Applications to Differential Privacy
144. NeurIPS 2023Hyper-HMM: aligning human brains and semantic features in a common latent event space
145. NeurIPS 2023Individual Arbitrariness and Group Fairness
146. NeurIPS 2023Inferring Hybrid Neural Fluid Fields from Videos
147. NeurIPS 2023Inferring the Future by Imagining the Past
148. NeurIPS 2023Information Maximization Perspective of Orthogonal Matching Pursuit with Applications to Explainable AI
149. NeurIPS 2023Interaction Measures, Partition Lattices and Kernel Tests for High-Order Interactions
150. NeurIPS 2023Joint processing of linguistic properties in brains and 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.