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

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• 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

2,033 papers, page 39 of 41

1901. ICLR 2023Noise-Robust De-Duplication at Scale
1902. ICLR 2023On the Importance and Applicability of Pre-Training for Federated Learning
1903. ICLR 2023On the Sensitivity of Reward Inference to Misspecified Human Models
1904. ICLR 2023On the Trade-Off between Actionable Explanations and the Right to be Forgotten
1905. ICLR 2023Progressive Voronoi Diagram Subdivision Enables Accurate Data-free Class-Incremental Learning
1906. ICLR 2023Protein Representation Learning via Knowledge Enhanced Primary Structure Reasoning
1907. ICLR 2023Provably Efficient Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning: Iterated CVaR and Worst Path
1908. ICLR 2023Robust Fair Clustering: A Novel Fairness Attack and Defense Framework
1909. ICLR 2023Simplicial Hopfield networks
1910. ICLR 2023SmartFRZ: An Efficient Training Framework using Attention-Based Layer Freezing
1911. ICLR 2023Thalamus: a brain-inspired algorithm for biologically-plausible continual learning and disentangled representations
1912. ICLR 2023Training language models to summarize narratives improves brain alignment
1913. ICLR 2023Understanding Neural Coding on Latent Manifolds by Sharing Features and Dividing Ensembles
1914. ICLR 2023What Can we Learn From The Selective Prediction And Uncertainty Estimation Performance Of 523 Imagenet Classifiers?
1915. ICLR 2023Where to Begin? On the Impact of Pre-Training and Initialization in Federated Learning
1916. ICLR 2023WiNeRT: Towards Neural Ray Tracing for Wireless Channel Modelling and Differentiable Simulations
1917. ICLR 2023Winning Both the Accuracy of Floating Point Activation and the Simplicity of Integer Arithmetic
1918. ICLR 2023Words are all you need? Language as an approximation for human similarity judgments
1919. ICML 2023A Coupled Flow Approach to Imitation Learning
1920. ICML 2023Accuracy on the Curve: On the Nonlinear Correlation of ML Performance Between Data Subpopulations
1921. ICML 2023Adaptive Whitening in Neural Populations with Gain-modulating Interneurons
1922. ICML 2023Analyzing Diffusion as Serial Reproduction
1923. ICML 2023Bandit Multi-linear DR-Submodular Maximization and Its Applications on Adversarial Submodular Bandits
1924. ICML 2023Building Neural Networks on Matrix Manifolds: A Gyrovector Space Approach
1925. ICML 2023Complexity of Block Coordinate Descent with Proximal Regularization and Applications to Wasserstein CP-dictionary Learning
1926. ICML 2023Contextual Combinatorial Bandits with Probabilistically Triggered Arms
1927. ICML 2023Convergence of Proximal Point and Extragradient-Based Methods Beyond Monotonicity: the Case of Negative Comonotonicity
1928. ICML 2023Cross-Entropy Loss Functions: Theoretical Analysis and Applications
1929. ICML 2023D2Match: Leveraging Deep Learning and Degeneracy for Subgraph Matching
1930. ICML 2023Delay-agnostic Asynchronous Coordinate Update Algorithm
1931. ICML 2023Difference of submodular minimization via DC programming
1932. ICML 2023Differentially Private Hierarchical Clustering with Provable Approximation Guarantees
1933. ICML 2023DP-Fast MH: Private, Fast, and Accurate Metropolis-Hastings for Large-Scale Bayesian Inference
1934. ICML 2023DS-1000: A Natural and Reliable Benchmark for Data Science Code Generation
1935. ICML 2023Functional Neural Networks: Shift invariant models for functional data with applications to EEG classification
1936. ICML 2023GOAT: A Global Transformer on Large-scale Graphs
1937. ICML 2023Harmonic Neural Networks
1938. ICML 2023Horizon-Free and Variance-Dependent Reinforcement Learning for Latent Markov Decision Processes
1939. ICML 2023Infinite Action Contextual Bandits with Reusable Data Exhaust
1940. ICML 2023Intrinsic Sliced Wasserstein Distances for Comparing Collections of Probability Distributions on Manifolds and Graphs
1941. ICML 2023Learning Antidote Data to Individual Unfairness
1942. ICML 2023Learning Functional Distributions with Private Labels
1943. ICML 2023Learning Mixtures of Gaussians with Censored Data
1944. ICML 2023Learning to acquire novel cognitive tasks with evolution, plasticity and meta-meta-learning
1945. ICML 2023Masked Bayesian Neural Networks : Theoretical Guarantee and its Posterior Inference
1946. ICML 2023Monge, Bregman and Occam: Interpretable Optimal Transport in High-Dimensions with Feature-Sparse Maps
1947. ICML 2023On Penalty-based Bilevel Gradient Descent Method
1948. ICML 2023On Strengthening and Defending Graph Reconstruction Attack with Markov Chain Approximation
1949. ICML 2023Optimal LP Rounding and Linear-Time Approximation Algorithms for Clustering Edge-Colored Hypergraphs
1950. ICML 2023Optimal Online Generalized Linear Regression with Stochastic Noise and Its Application to Heteroscedastic Bandits

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.