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

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151. ICLR 2026Learning residue level protein dynamics with multiscale Gaussians
152. ICLR 2026Learning to Grasp Anything By Playing with Random Toys
153. ICLR 2026Learning What Matters Now: Dynamic Preference Inference under Contextual Shifts
154. ICLR 2026LLEMA: Accelerating Materials Design via LLM-Guided Evolutionary Search
155. ICLR 2026Local Geometry Attention for Time Series Forecasting under Realistic Corruptions
156. ICLR 2026LogicXGNN: Grounded Logical Rules for Explaining Graph Neural Networks
157. ICLR 2026LORE: Jointly Learning The Intrinsic Dimensionality and Relative Similarity Structure from Ordinal Data
158. ICLR 2026Low-Pass Filtering Improves Behavioral Alignment of Vision Models
159. ICLR 2026Many Eyes, One Mind: Temporal Multi-Perspective and Progressive Distillation for Spiking Neural Networks
160. ICLR 2026MatRIS: Toward Reliable and Efficient Pretrained Machine Learning Interaction Potentials
161. ICLR 2026mCLM: A Modular Chemical Language Model that Generates Functional and Makeable Molecules
162. ICLR 2026MemoryVLA: Perceptual-Cognitive Memory in Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation
163. ICLR 2026Meta-Learning Theory-Informed Inductive Biases using Deep Kernel Gaussian Processes
164. ICLR 2026MindMix: A Multimodal Foundation Model for Auditory Perception Decoding via Deep Neural-Acoustic Alignment
165. ICLR 2026MindPilot: Closed-loop Visual Stimulation Optimization for Brain Modulation with EEG-guided Diffusion
166. ICLR 2026Mixture of Cognitive Reasoners: Modular Reasoning with Brain-Like Specialization
167. ICLR 2026MnemoDyn: Learning Resting State Dynamics from $40$K FMRI sequences
168. ICLR 2026Model-Guided Microstimulation Steers Primate Visual Behavior
169. ICLR 2026Modeling Others' Minds as Code
170. ICLR 2026MoGen: Detailed Neuronal Morphology Generation via Point Cloud Flow Matching
171. ICLR 2026Moving Beyond Diffusion: Hierarchy-to-Hierarchy Autoregression for fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction
172. ICLR 2026Multi-Synaptic Cooperation: A Bio-Inspired Framework for Robust and Scalable Continual Learning
173. ICLR 2026Multifidelity Simulation-based Inference for Computationally Expensive Simulators
174. ICLR 2026Musculoskeletal simulation of limb movement biomechanics in Drosophila melanogaster
175. ICLR 2026Nef-Net v2: Adapting Electrocardio Panorama in the wild
176. ICLR 2026Neural Dynamics Self-Attention for Spiking Transformers
177. ICLR 2026Neural Synchrony Between Socially Interacting Language Models
178. ICLR 2026ODEBrain: Continuous-Time EEG Graph for Modeling Dynamic Brain Networks
179. ICLR 2026Omni-iEEG: A Large-Scale, Comprehensive iEEG Dataset and Benchmark for Epilepsy Research
180. ICLR 2026OmniMouse: Scaling properties of multi-modal, multi-task Brain Models on 150B Neural Tokens
181. ICLR 2026On Powerful Ways to Generate: Autoregression, Diffusion, and Beyond
182. ICLR 2026Online Pseudo-Zeroth-Order Training of Neuromorphic Spiking Neural Networks
183. ICLR 2026Only Brains Align with Brains: Cross-Region Patterns Expose Limits of Normative Models
184. ICLR 2026OXtal: An All-Atom Diffusion Model for Organic Crystal Structure Prediction
185. ICLR 2026PatchDNA: A Flexible and Biologically-Informed Alternative to Tokenization for DNA
186. ICLR 2026PredNext: Explicit Cross-View Temporal Prediction for Unsupervised Learning in Spiking Neural Networks
187. ICLR 2026Pretraining with Re-parametrized Self-Attention: Unlocking Generalizationin SNN-Based Neural Decoding Across Time, Brains, and Tasks
188. ICLR 2026Private Rate-Constrained Optimization with Applications to Fair Learning
189. ICLR 2026Prompt and Parameter Co-Optimization for Large Language Models
190. ICLR 2026PromptHub: Enhancing Multi-Prompt Visual In-Context Learning with Locality-Aware Fusion, Concentration and Alignment
191. ICLR 2026PSDNorm: Temporal Normalization for Deep Learning in Sleep Staging
192. ICLR 2026Read the Room: Video Social Reasoning with Mental-Physical Causal Chains
193. ICLR 2026Readout Representation: Redefining Neural Codes by Input Recovery
194. ICLR 2026Reducing Semantic Mismatch in Brain-to-Text Decoding Through Personalized Multimodal Masking
195. ICLR 2026Reducing Symmetry Increase in Equivariant Neural Networks
196. ICLR 2026Representational Alignment Across Model Layers and Brain Regions with Hierarchical Optimal Transport
197. ICLR 2026RF-MatID: Dataset and Benchmark for Radio Frequency Material Identification
198. ICLR 2026Riemannian High-Order Pooling for Brain Foundation Models
199. ICLR 2026RoboPARA: Dual-Arm Robot Planning with Parallel Allocation and Recomposition Across Tasks
200. ICLR 2026Robust Selective Activation with Randomized Temporal K-Winner-Take-All in Spiking Neural Networks for Continual Learning

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.