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

227 papers, page 4 of 5

151. NeurIPS 2026PreCoMem: Predictive Cognitive Memory for Self-Evolving Long-Term Dialogue Agents
152. NeurIPS 2026Predictive Representation Learning for Partially Observed Neural Dynamics
153. NeurIPS 2026Predictively-Oriented Kalman Filtering
154. NeurIPS 2026Probabilistic Data-Driven Modelling of Astrophysical Transients: The Neural Process Family for Ultrafast and Class-Agnostic Light Curve Reconstruction
155. NeurIPS 2026ProSearch: Benchmarking Multi-Constraint Protocol Retrieval in Experimental Science
156. NeurIPS 2026Prototypes of the Mind: A Unified Framework for Probing the Visual Brain
157. NeurIPS 2026Provable Quantization with Randomized Hadamard Transform
158. NeurIPS 2026Proxy-Based Approximation of Shapley and Banzhaf Interactions
159. NeurIPS 2026pyCD: A Unified Benchmark for Reliable Evaluation of Cognitive Diagnosis Models
160. NeurIPS 2026QT-Net: Rethinking Evaluation of AI Models in Atomic Chemical Space
161. NeurIPS 2026Quantum Best Arm Identification with Limited Round of Adaptivity: Lower Bounds and Algorithms
162. NeurIPS 2026Quantum Composite Hypothesis Testing with Small Error
163. NeurIPS 2026RAM-H1200: A Unified Evaluation and Dataset on Hand Radiographs for Rheumatoid Arthritis
164. NeurIPS 2026Reaching a Consensus in Predictive Loops
165. NeurIPS 2026Remote Photoplethysmography Based on a Skin Reflection Exponential Model
166. NeurIPS 2026Representing Part-Whole Hierarchy with Nested Neuronal Coherence
167. NeurIPS 2026Resilient Byzantine Agreement with Predictions
168. NeurIPS 2026Rest-Tuning: Data-Efficient Adaptation of EEG Foundation Models to Individuals via Resting-State Signals
169. NeurIPS 2026Reward Hacking in Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning
170. NeurIPS 2026Robust and Efficient Backdoor Mitigation for ML Models via Tolerant Property Testing
171. NeurIPS 2026S&P: Towards Scalable and Powerful Graph Learning with Hierarchical Structural Acquisition
172. NeurIPS 2026Safe Actions Can Form Unsafe Traces: Benchmarking and Shielding Compositional Emergent Risk in AI Agents
173. NeurIPS 2026SC$^3$: A Multi-Solvent Solubility Challenge and Benchmark
174. NeurIPS 2026Scaling Laws and Tradeoffs in Recurrent Networks of Expressive Neurons
175. NeurIPS 2026Scaling Neural Motor Decoding via Decoupled Behavioral Pretraining
176. NeurIPS 2026ScrapeBench: Evaluating Legal Compliance of AI Agents in Website Scraping
177. NeurIPS 2026Semantic-Level Invariant Representation Learning for Cross-Hospital Clinical EEG Modeling
178. NeurIPS 2026SENSE: Semantic Neural Speech Synthesis from Brain Dynamics via Spatial Graph Encoding
179. NeurIPS 2026SFPR: Structural Fingerprinting for LiDAR-to-OpenStreetMap Place Recognition
180. NeurIPS 2026Sharp Convergence and Sample Complexity of Policy Mirror Descent for Average-Reward MDPs
181. NeurIPS 2026SheafStain: Sheaf-Theoretic Schr\"odinger Bridge for Spatially and Biologically Coherent Virtual Staining
182. NeurIPS 2026Simultaneous Individual, Group and Multigroup Fairness in Set Covering Problems
183. NeurIPS 2026Sliced Inner Product Gromov–Wasserstein Distances
184. NeurIPS 2026SLIDERS: Systematic Reviews via Automated Evidence Synthesis and Reconciliation
185. NeurIPS 2026SLOT-IR: Learning Disentangled Slot Representations for Infrared Spectral Unmixing
186. NeurIPS 2026Slowly Annealed Langevin Dynamics: Theory and Applications to Training-Free Guided Generation
187. NeurIPS 2026Solving Stochastic Control under Multiplicative and Internal Noise via Constrained Optimization
188. NeurIPS 2026Sparse Expansion Utility: Identifying and Routing to Pivotal Steps in LLM Reasoning Chains
189. NeurIPS 2026Sport Is The Next Grand Challenge For Artificial Intelligence: Toward A Science Of Human Physical Skill
190. NeurIPS 2026Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Rethinking EEG Foundation Model Pretraining via Multi-Teacher Distillation
191. NeurIPS 2026SUPERVISE: A Unified Framework for Standardized and Reproducible Superpixel Evaluation
192. NeurIPS 2026Survival Transformers for Longitudinal Data Analysis: Application to Atrial Fibrillation Risk from ECG
193. NeurIPS 2026Task Success Is Not Enough: Side-effect-Aware Evaluation of Tool-Using Language Model Agents
194. NeurIPS 2026Temporal-Scale Sensitivity in Time-Series Tokenization and Scale-Robust Token Estimation by Gated Sum
195. NeurIPS 2026The Alien Space of Science: Sampling Coherent but Cognitively Unavailable Research Directions
196. NeurIPS 2026The Limits of AI-Driven Allocation: Optimal Screening under Aleatoric Uncertainty
197. NeurIPS 2026The Multi-Block DC Function Class: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications
198. NeurIPS 2026The Power of Menus in Dynamic Pricing: Near Optimal Regret and Equivalence Results
199. NeurIPS 2026The Prestige: Benchmarking Cognitive Visual Reasoning using Magic Tricks
200. NeurIPS 2026The Type Theory of Stationary MDPs: Rare Events and Uncertainty Quantification

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.