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

824 papers, page 5 of 17

201. NeurIPS 2026Theory Guided and Interpretable Neural Operator Design for Partial Differential Equation Learning
202. NeurIPS 2026TimeES: Probabilistic and Deterministic Time Series Forecasting via Evolutionary Spectra
203. NeurIPS 2026Tio: Language Models with Parallel Streams of Thoughts, Inputs and Outputs
204. NeurIPS 2026Tokenization and Architecture Jointly Allocate Component Roles in Time Series Transformers
205. NeurIPS 2026TorchUMM: A Unified Multimodal Model Codebase for Evaluation, Analysis, and Post-training
206. NeurIPS 2026Towards Error-Free EHRs: Reasoning-Intensive Consistency Verification Between Clinical Notes and Structured Tables in Electronic Health Records
207. NeurIPS 2026Towards Understanding and Measuring Cognitive Atrophy in LLM Behaviour
208. NeurIPS 2026Training a Predictive Coding Network on ImageNet using Equilibrium Propagation
209. NeurIPS 2026Trustworthy Retrosynthesis: Eliminating Hallucinations with a Diverse Ensemble of Reaction Scorers
210. NeurIPS 2026Twisted Schrödinger Bridge Matching
211. NeurIPS 2026Two-Sided Learning in Matching Markets with Interviews
212. NeurIPS 2026Uncovering and Shaping the Latent Representation of 3D Scene Topology in Vision-Language Models
213. NeurIPS 2026Unified High-Probability Analysis of Stochastic Variance-Reduced Estimation
214. NeurIPS 2026Unifying Partner and Environment Diversity to Improve Human-AI Coordination
215. NeurIPS 2026UniRank: Unified List-wise Reranking via Confidence-Ordered Denoising
216. NeurIPS 2026Universal and Efficient Computation with 2D Attention
217. NeurIPS 2026Universal Byte-Level Encoding: UTF-8/UTF-16 Routing to Reduce Cross-Script Token-Budget Disparities
218. NeurIPS 2026VVTRec: Radio Interferometric Reconstruction through Visual and Textual Modality Enrichment
219. NeurIPS 2026Walking the Hypercube: Unbiased Quantum Partition Functions Without the Matrix
220. NeurIPS 2026Weighted Conformal Clustering
221. NeurIPS 2026What Comes Next and Why: Interpretable Next-Event Prediction with Neuro-Symbolic Rules
222. NeurIPS 2026When to Adopt Model Updates
223. NeurIPS 2026Where Tabular Foundation Models Falter on Genetic Data: Datasets That Expose and Provide a Path to Address the Gap
224. NeurIPS 2026Why Cancer cfDNA Models Fail on Chronic Disease: A Geometric Information-Theoretic Bound and Its Architectural Implications
225. NeurIPS 2026Why Transformer-Based Language Models Need Explicit Mechanisms of Cognitive Control
226. NeurIPS 2026WorldCoder-Bench: Benchmarking Physically Grounded 3D World Synthesis
227. NeurIPS 2026Your Benchmark Is an Empirical Measure Over Difficulty
228. NeurIPS 2025$\mu$PC: Scaling Predictive Coding to 100+ Layer Networks
229. NeurIPS 2025$i$MIND: Insightful Multi-subject Invariant Neural Decoding
230. NeurIPS 20253D Gaussian Splatting based Scene-independent Relocalization with Unidirectional and Bidirectional Feature Fusion
231. NeurIPS 20253D Interaction Geometric Pre-training for Molecular Relational Learning
232. NeurIPS 2025A data and task-constrained mechanistic model of the mouse outer retina shows robustness to contrast variations
233. NeurIPS 2025A Dynamic Learning Strategy for Dempster-Shafer Theory with Applications in Classification and Enhancement
234. NeurIPS 2025A Generalist Intracortical Motor Decoder
235. NeurIPS 2025A Generalized Bisimulation Metric of State Similarity between Markov Decision Processes: From Theoretical Propositions to Applications
236. NeurIPS 2025A Multimodal BiMamba Network with Test-Time Adaptation for Emotion Recognition Based on Physiological Signals
237. NeurIPS 2025A Partition Cover Approach to Tokenization
238. NeurIPS 2025A Plug-and-Play Query Synthesis Active Learning Framework for Neural PDE Solvers
239. NeurIPS 2025A Principled Approach to Randomized Selection under Uncertainty: Applications to Peer Review and Grant Funding
240. NeurIPS 2025A Scalable, Causal, and Energy Efficient Framework for Neural Decoding with Spiking Neural Networks
241. NeurIPS 2025Absorb and Converge: Provable Convergence Guarantee for Absorbing Discrete Diffusion Models
242. NeurIPS 2025Accelerating Multimodal Large Language Models via Dynamic Visual-Token Exit and the Empirical Findings
243. NeurIPS 2025Acceleration via silver step-size on Riemannian manifolds with applications to Wasserstein space
244. NeurIPS 2025Activity Pruning for Efficient Spiking Neural Networks
245. NeurIPS 2025Adaptive Fission: Post-training Encoding for Low-latency Spike Neural Networks
246. NeurIPS 2025Adaptive Gradient Masking for Balancing ID and MLLM-based Representations in Recommendation
247. NeurIPS 2025ADMN: A Layer-Wise Adaptive Multimodal Network for Dynamic Input Noise and Compute Resources
248. NeurIPS 2025AI Debate Aids Assessment of Controversial Claims
249. NeurIPS 2025AI-Generated Video Detection via Perceptual Straightening
250. NeurIPS 2025AI-Researcher: Autonomous Scientific Innovation

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.