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 4 of 9

151. ICML 2024Efficient Non-stationary Online Learning by Wavelets with Applications to Online Distribution Shift Adaptation
152. ICML 2024Estimating the Permanent by Nesting Importance Sampling
153. ICML 2024Estimating Unknown Population Sizes Using the Hypergeometric Distribution
154. ICML 2024Explain Temporal Black-Box Models via Functional Decomposition
155. ICML 2024FairProof : Confidential and Certifiable Fairness for Neural Networks
156. ICML 2024Fast Algorithms for Hypergraph PageRank with Applications to Semi-Supervised Learning
157. ICML 2024Fast, Scalable, Warm-Start Semidefinite Programming with Spectral Bundling and Sketching
158. ICML 2024Faster Maximum Inner Product Search in High Dimensions
159. ICML 2024Fine-grained Classes and How to Find Them
160. ICML 2024Global Reinforcement Learning : Beyond Linear and Convex Rewards via Submodular Semi-gradient Methods
161. ICML 2024Graph Positional and Structural Encoder
162. ICML 2024How Deep Do We Need: Accelerating Training and Inference of Neural ODEs via Control Perspective
163. ICML 2024How Language Model Hallucinations Can Snowball
164. ICML 2024How to Escape Sharp Minima with Random Perturbations
165. ICML 2024Hybrid$^2$ Neural ODE Causal Modeling and an Application to Glycemic Response
166. ICML 2024I/O Complexity of Attention, or How Optimal is FlashAttention?
167. ICML 2024Improving Computational Complexity in Statistical Models with Local Curvature Information
168. ICML 2024Indirectly Parameterized Concrete Autoencoders
169. ICML 2024Individualized Privacy Accounting via Subsampling with Applications in Combinatorial Optimization
170. ICML 2024Information Complexity of Stochastic Convex Optimization: Applications to Generalization, Memorization, and Tracing
171. ICML 2024Interpreting and Improving Large Language Models in Arithmetic Calculation
172. ICML 2024Language Models as Science Tutors
173. ICML 2024Learning Cognitive Maps from Transformer Representations for Efficient Planning in Partially Observed Environments
174. ICML 2024Learning High-Order Relationships of Brain Regions
175. ICML 2024Liouville Flow Importance Sampler
176. ICML 2024Locality-Sensitive Hashing-Based Efficient Point Transformer with Applications in High-Energy Physics
177. ICML 2024Measures of diversity and space-filling designs for categorical data
178. ICML 2024MH-pFLID: Model Heterogeneous personalized Federated Learning via Injection and Distillation for Medical Data Analysis
179. ICML 2024Minimizing $f$-Divergences by Interpolating Velocity Fields
180. ICML 2024Multiplicative Weights Update, Area Convexity and Random Coordinate Descent for Densest Subgraph Problems
181. ICML 2024Near-Optimal Regret in Linear MDPs with Aggregate Bandit Feedback
182. ICML 2024Neural Operators with Localized Integral and Differential Kernels
183. ICML 2024Neuro-Visualizer: A Novel Auto-Encoder-Based Loss Landscape Visualization Method With an Application in Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning
184. ICML 2024Noise-Adaptive Confidence Sets for Linear Bandits and Application to Bayesian Optimization
185. ICML 2024Nonsmooth Implicit Differentiation: Deterministic and Stochastic Convergence Rates
186. ICML 2024Not all distributional shifts are equal: Fine-grained robust conformal inference
187. ICML 2024On a Neural Implementation of Brenier's Polar Factorization
188. ICML 2024On the Asymptotic Distribution of the Minimum Empirical Risk
189. ICML 2024On the Universality of Volume-Preserving and Coupling-Based Normalizing Flows
190. ICML 2024Online Learning under Budget and ROI Constraints via Weak Adaptivity
191. ICML 2024Optimal Kernel Quantile Learning with Random Features
192. ICML 2024Position: $C^*$-Algebraic Machine Learning $-$ Moving in a New Direction
193. ICML 2024Position: An Inner Interpretability Framework for AI Inspired by Lessons from Cognitive Neuroscience
194. ICML 2024Position: Application-Driven Innovation in Machine Learning
195. ICML 2024Position: Beyond Personhood: Agency, Accountability, and the Limits of Anthropomorphic Ethical Analysis
196. ICML 2024Position: Insights from Survey Methodology can Improve Training Data
197. ICML 2024Position: Mission Critical – Satellite Data is a Distinct Modality in Machine Learning
198. ICML 2024Position: Near to Mid-term Risks and Opportunities of Open-Source Generative AI
199. ICML 2024Position: What Can Large Language Models Tell Us about Time Series Analysis
200. ICML 2024Predicting and Interpreting Energy Barriers of Metallic Glasses with Graph Neural Networks

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.