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

424 papers, page 3 of 9

101. ICLR 2024One-hot Generalized Linear Model for Switching Brain State Discovery
102. ICLR 2024Online Stabilization of Spiking Neural Networks
103. ICLR 2024Perceptual Scales Predicted by Fisher Information Metrics
104. ICLR 2024Pre-training Sequence, Structure, and Surface Features for Comprehensive Protein Representation Learning
105. ICLR 2024Predictive auxiliary objectives in deep RL mimic learning in the brain
106. ICLR 2024Predictive, scalable and interpretable knowledge tracing on structured domains
107. ICLR 2024Scalable and Effective Implicit Graph Neural Networks on Large Graphs
108. ICLR 2024Searching for High-Value Molecules Using Reinforcement Learning and Transformers
109. ICLR 2024SNIP: Bridging Mathematical Symbolic and Numeric Realms with Unified Pre-training
110. ICLR 2024Solving High Frequency and Multi-Scale PDEs with Gaussian Processes
111. ICLR 2024Space and time continuous physics simulation from partial observations
112. ICLR 2024Spatio-Temporal Approximation: A Training-Free SNN Conversion for Transformers
113. ICLR 2024Spike-driven Transformer V2: Meta Spiking Neural Network Architecture Inspiring the Design of Next-generation Neuromorphic Chips
114. ICLR 2024Structural Inference with Dynamics Encoding and Partial Correlation Coefficients
115. ICLR 2024Successor Heads: Recurring, Interpretable Attention Heads In The Wild
116. ICLR 2024Sufficient conditions for offline reactivation in recurrent neural networks
117. ICLR 2024Symmetric Basis Convolutions for Learning Lagrangian Fluid Mechanics
118. ICLR 2024Synaptic Weight Distributions Depend on the Geometry of Plasticity
119. ICLR 2024TAB: Temporal Accumulated Batch Normalization in Spiking Neural Networks
120. ICLR 2024The Expressive Leaky Memory Neuron: an Efficient and Expressive Phenomenological Neuron Model Can Solve Long-Horizon Tasks.
121. ICLR 2024Threaten Spiking Neural Networks through Combining Rate and Temporal Information
122. ICLR 2024Towards Energy Efficient Spiking Neural Networks: An Unstructured Pruning Framework
123. ICLR 2024Towards LLM4QPE: Unsupervised Pretraining of Quantum Property Estimation and A Benchmark
124. ICLR 2024Traveling Waves Encode The Recent Past and Enhance Sequence Learning
125. ICLR 2024Turning large language models into cognitive models
126. ICLR 2024UniTabE: A Universal Pretraining Protocol for Tabular Foundation Model in Data Science
127. ICLR 2024Unveiling the Unseen: Identifiable Clusters in Trained Depthwise Convolutional Kernels
128. ICLR 2024VBH-GNN: Variational Bayesian Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks for Cross-subject Emotion Recognition
129. ICML 2024$\bf{\Phi}_\textrm{Flow}$: Differentiable Simulations for PyTorch, TensorFlow and Jax
130. ICML 2024AdsorbDiff: Adsorbate Placement via Conditional Denoising Diffusion
131. ICML 2024An Intrinsic Vector Heat Network
132. ICML 2024Assessing Large Language Models on Climate Information
133. ICML 2024Beyond the ROC Curve: Classification Trees Using Cost-Optimal Curves, with Application to Imbalanced Datasets
134. ICML 2024Biharmonic Distance of Graphs and its Higher-Order Variants: Theoretical Properties with Applications to Centrality and Clustering
135. ICML 2024Box Facets and Cut Facets of Lifted Multicut Polytopes
136. ICML 2024Building Socially-Equitable Public Models
137. ICML 2024Byzantine Resilient and Fast Federated Few-Shot Learning
138. ICML 2024Can AI Assistants Know What They Don't Know?
139. ICML 2024Cell2Sentence: Teaching Large Language Models the Language of Biology
140. ICML 2024CogDPM: Diffusion Probabilistic Models via Cognitive Predictive Coding
141. ICML 2024Combinatorial Approximations for Cluster Deletion: Simpler, Faster, and Better
142. ICML 2024Combinatorial Multivariant Multi-Armed Bandits with Applications to Episodic Reinforcement Learning and Beyond
143. ICML 2024Compositional Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
144. ICML 2024Conformal Validity Guarantees Exist for Any Data Distribution (and How to Find Them)
145. ICML 2024Consistent Submodular Maximization
146. ICML 2024Continuous Treatment Effects with Surrogate Outcomes
147. ICML 2024Dirichlet Flow Matching with Applications to DNA Sequence Design
148. ICML 2024Do Language Models Exhibit the Same Cognitive Biases in Problem Solving as Human Learners?
149. ICML 2024Dr. Strategy: Model-Based Generalist Agents with Strategic Dreaming
150. ICML 2024DS-Agent: Automated Data Science by Empowering Large Language Models with Case-Based Reasoning

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.