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 4 of 7

151. NeurIPS 2025Inference of Whole Brain Electrophysiological Networks Through Multimodal Integration of Simultaneous Scalp and Intracranial EEG
152. NeurIPS 2025Inference with correlated priors using sisters cells
153. NeurIPS 2025Inpainting the Neural Picture: Inferring Unrecorded Brain Area Dynamics from Multi-Animal Datasets
154. NeurIPS 2025InstaInpaint: Instant 3D-Scene Inpainting with Masked Large Reconstruction Model
155. NeurIPS 2025Interpretable Next-token Prediction via the Generalized Induction Head
156. NeurIPS 2025Intrinsic Goals for Autonomous Agents: Model-Based Exploration in Virtual Zebrafish Predicts Ethological Behavior and Whole-Brain Dynamics
157. NeurIPS 2025IPSI: Enhancing Structural Inference with Automatically Learned Structural Priors
158. NeurIPS 2025Is Limited Participant Diversity Impeding EEG-based Machine Learning?
159. NeurIPS 2025Is Your Diffusion Model Actually Denoising?
160. NeurIPS 2025Jacobian-Based Interpretation of Nonlinear Neural Encoding Model
161. NeurIPS 2025Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma Beyond Euclidean Geometry
162. NeurIPS 2025Joint Modeling of fMRI and EEG Imaging Using Ordinary Differential Equation-Based Hypergraph Neural Networks
163. NeurIPS 2025Kernel Regression in Structured Non-IID Settings: Theory and Implications for Denoising Score Learning
164. NeurIPS 2025Know Thyself by Knowing Others: Learning Neuron Identity from Population Context
165. NeurIPS 2025Large Language Models as Model Organisms for Human Associative Learning
166. NeurIPS 2025Large Language Models Think Too Fast To Explore Effectively
167. NeurIPS 2025Learning Dynamics of RNNs in Closed-Loop Environments
168. NeurIPS 2025Learning Efficient Fuse-and-Refine for Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Splatting
169. NeurIPS 2025Learning from positive and unlabeled examples -Finite size sample bounds
170. NeurIPS 2025Learning Juntas under Markov Random Fields
171. NeurIPS 2025Learning the Plasticity: Plasticity-Driven Learning Framework in Spiking Neural Networks
172. NeurIPS 2025Learning to cluster neuronal function
173. NeurIPS 2025Let Brain Rhythm Shape Machine Intelligence for Connecting Dots on Graphs
174. NeurIPS 2025LibriBrain: Over 50 Hours of Within-Subject MEG to Improve Speech Decoding Methods at Scale
175. NeurIPS 2025List-Level Distribution Coupling with Applications to Speculative Decoding and Lossy Compression
176. NeurIPS 2025LLM Generated Persona is a Promise with a Catch
177. NeurIPS 2025Local-Global Coupling Spiking Graph Transformer for Brain Disorders Diagnosis from Two Perspectives
178. NeurIPS 2025Localist Topographic Expert Routing: A Barrel Cortex-Inspired Modular Network for Sensorimotor Processing
179. NeurIPS 2025Long-term Intracortical Neural activity and Kinematics (LINK): An intracortical neural dataset for chronic brain-machine interfaces, neuroscience, and machine learning
180. NeurIPS 2025Looking Into the Water by Unsupervised Learning of the Surface Shape
181. NeurIPS 2025LUNA: Efficient and Topology-Agnostic Foundation Model for EEG Signal Analysis
182. NeurIPS 2025Mars-Bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Foundation Models for Mars Science Tasks
183. NeurIPS 2025Measuring and Controlling Solution Degeneracy across Task-Trained Recurrent Neural Networks
184. NeurIPS 2025Mechanistic Interpretability of RNNs emulating Hidden Markov Models
185. NeurIPS 2025MEIcoder: Decoding Visual Stimuli from Neural Activity by Leveraging Most Exciting Inputs
186. NeurIPS 2025Memory by accident: a theory of learning as a byproduct of network stabilization
187. NeurIPS 2025Meta-Learning an In-Context Transformer Model of Human Higher Visual Cortex
188. NeurIPS 2025MI-TRQR: Mutual Information-Based Temporal Redundancy Quantification and Reduction for Energy-Efficient Spiking Neural Networks
189. NeurIPS 2025Military AI Needs Technically-Informed Regulation to Safeguard AI Research and its Applications
190. NeurIPS 2025MixSignGraph: A Sign Sequence is Worth Mixed Graphs of Nodes
191. NeurIPS 2025MLE-STAR: Machine Learning Engineering Agent via Search and Targeted Refinement
192. NeurIPS 2025Model Merging in Pre-training of Large Language Models
193. NeurIPS 2025Model–Behavior Alignment under Flexible Evaluation: When the Best-Fitting Model Isn’t the Right One
194. NeurIPS 2025Modeling Dynamic Neural Activity by combining Naturalistic Video Stimuli and Stimulus-independent Latent Factors
195. NeurIPS 2025Modeling Neural Activity with Conditionally Linear Dynamical Systems
196. NeurIPS 2025Modelling the control of offline processing with reinforcement learning
197. NeurIPS 2025MoGe-2: Accurate Monocular Geometry with Metric Scale and Sharp Details
198. NeurIPS 2025Monotone and Separable Set Functions: Characterizations and Neural Models
199. NeurIPS 2025MoRE-Brain: Routed Mixture of Experts for Interpretable and Generalizable Cross-Subject fMRI Visual Decoding
200. NeurIPS 2025MPMAvatar: Learning 3D Gaussian Avatars with Accurate and Robust Physics-Based Dynamics

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.