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. ICLR 2025Large Language Models Often Say One Thing and Do Another
102. ICLR 2025Learning and aligning single-neuron invariance manifolds in visual cortex
103. ICLR 2025Learning local equivariant representations for quantum operators
104. ICLR 2025Learning stochastic dynamics from snapshots through regularized unbalanced optimal transport
105. ICLR 2025Learning the Complexity of Weakly Noisy Quantum States
106. ICLR 2025Lie Algebra Canonicalization: Equivariant Neural Operators under arbitrary Lie Groups
107. ICLR 2025Linear Partial Gromov-Wasserstein Embedding
108. ICLR 2025MAPS: Advancing Multi-Modal Reasoning in Expert-Level Physical Science
109. ICLR 2025Measuring And Improving Persuasiveness Of Large Language Models
110. ICLR 2025Meta-Dynamical State Space Models for Integrative Neural Data Analysis
111. ICLR 2025Metamizer: A Versatile Neural Optimizer for Fast and Accurate Physics Simulations
112. ICLR 2025MindSimulator: Exploring Brain Concept Localization via Synthetic fMRI
113. ICLR 2025Minimal Variance Model Aggregation: A principled, non-intrusive, and versatile integration of black box models
114. ICLR 2025MLE-bench: Evaluating Machine Learning Agents on Machine Learning Engineering
115. ICLR 2025Modeling dynamic social vision highlights gaps between deep learning and humans
116. ICLR 2025MOFFlow: Flow Matching for Structure Prediction of Metal-Organic Frameworks
117. ICLR 2025MotherNet: Fast Training and Inference via Hyper-Network Transformers
118. ICLR 2025Multi-modal brain encoding models for multi-modal stimuli
119. ICLR 2025Multi-session, multi-task neural decoding from distinct cell-types and brain regions
120. ICLR 2025NetFormer: An interpretable model for recovering dynamical connectivity in neuronal population dynamics
121. ICLR 2025NeurFlow: Interpreting Neural Networks through Neuron Groups and Functional Interactions
122. ICLR 2025NeuroLM: A Universal Multi-task Foundation Model for Bridging the Gap between Language and EEG Signals
123. ICLR 2025Neuron Platonic Intrinsic Representation From Dynamics Using Contrastive Learning
124. ICLR 2025Neuron-based Multifractal Analysis of Neuron Interaction Dynamics in Large Models
125. ICLR 2025Neuroplastic Expansion in Deep Reinforcement Learning
126. ICLR 2025Node Similarities under Random Projections: Limits and Pathological Cases
127. ICLR 2025Nonlinear multiregion neural dynamics with parametric impulse response communication channels
128. ICLR 2025On Designing General and Expressive Quantum Graph Neural Networks with Applications to MILP Instance Representation
129. ICLR 2025On the Expressive Power of Sparse Geometric MPNNs
130. ICLR 2025On the expressiveness and spectral bias of KANs
131. ICLR 2025One for all and all for one: Efficient computation of partial Wasserstein distances on the line
132. ICLR 2025One Hundred Neural Networks and Brains Watching Videos: Lessons from Alignment
133. ICLR 2025Partial Gromov-Wasserstein Metric
134. ICLR 2025Population Transformer: Learning Population-level Representations of Neural Activity
135. ICLR 2025PostCast: Generalizable Postprocessing for Precipitation Nowcasting via Unsupervised Blurriness Modeling
136. ICLR 2025Probabilistic Geometric Principal Component Analysis with application to neural data
137. ICLR 2025Pushing the Limits of All-Atom Geometric Graph Neural Networks: Pre-Training, Scaling, and Zero-Shot Transfer
138. ICLR 2025QP-SNN: Quantized and Pruned Spiking Neural Networks
139. ICLR 2025Quantum (Inspired) $D^2$-sampling with Applications
140. ICLR 2025Range, not Independence, Drives Modularity in Biologically Inspired Representations
141. ICLR 2025Rationalizing and Augmenting Dynamic Graph Neural Networks
142. ICLR 2025Real-time design of architectural structures with differentiable mechanics and neural networks
143. ICLR 2025ReCogLab: a framework testing relational reasoning & cognitive hypotheses on LLMs
144. ICLR 2025Rethinking the role of frames for SE(3)-invariant crystal structure modeling
145. ICLR 2025Scalable and Certifiable Graph Unlearning: Overcoming the Approximation Error Barrier
146. ICLR 2025Score-based free-form architectures for high-dimensional Fokker-Planck equations
147. ICLR 2025Self-Attention-Based Contextual Modulation Improves Neural System Identification
148. ICLR 2025Sensitivity-Constrained Fourier Neural Operators for Forward and Inverse Problems in Parametric Differential Equations
149. ICLR 2025Shared-AE: Automatic Identification of Shared Subspaces in High-dimensional Neural and Behavioral Activity
150. ICLR 2025SIM: Surface-based fMRI Analysis for Inter-Subject Multimodal Decoding from Movie-Watching Experiments

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.