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 5 of 7

201. NeurIPS 2025Multi-dataset Joint Pre-training of Emotional EEG Enables Generalizable Affective Computing
202. NeurIPS 2025Multiplication-Free Parallelizable Spiking Neurons with Efficient Spatio-Temporal Dynamics
203. NeurIPS 2025MUniverse: A Simulation and Benchmarking Suite for Motor Unit Decomposition
204. NeurIPS 2025NavBench: Probing Multimodal Large Language Models for Embodied Navigation
205. NeurIPS 2025NEED: Cross-Subject and Cross-Task Generalization for Video and Image Reconstruction from EEG Signals
206. NeurIPS 2025Neural Correlates of Serial Dependence: Synaptic Short-term Plasticity Orchestrates Repulsion and Attraction
207. NeurIPS 2025NeurIPT: Foundation Model for Neural Interfaces
208. NeurIPS 2025Neurons as Detectors of Coherent Sets in Sensory Dynamics
209. NeurIPS 2025NOBLE - Neural Operator with Biologically-informed Latent Embeddings to Capture Experimental Variability in Biological Neuron Models
210. NeurIPS 2025NoPo-Avatar: Generalizable and Animatable Avatars from Sparse Inputs without Human Poses
211. NeurIPS 2025OMiSO: Adaptive optimization of state-dependent brain stimulation to shape neural population states
212. NeurIPS 2025OmniGaze: Reward-inspired Generalizable Gaze Estimation in the Wild
213. NeurIPS 2025Open Vision Reasoner: Transferring Linguistic Cognitive Behavior for Visual Reasoning
214. NeurIPS 2025Orient Anything V2: Unifying Orientation and Rotation Understanding
215. NeurIPS 2025Orochi: Versatile Biomedical Image Processor
216. NeurIPS 2025Orthogonal Contrastive Learning for Multi-Representation fMRI Analysis
217. NeurIPS 2025PANORAMA: A Dataset and Benchmarks Capturing Decision Trails and Rationales in Patent Examination
218. NeurIPS 2025PLMTrajRec: A Scalable and Generalizable Trajectory Recovery Method with Pre-trained Language Models
219. NeurIPS 2025POCO: Scalable Neural Forecasting through Population Conditioning
220. NeurIPS 2025Pose Splatter: A 3D Gaussian Splatting Model for Quantifying Animal Pose and Appearance
221. NeurIPS 2025Position: Bridge the Gaps between Machine Unlearning and AI Regulation
222. NeurIPS 2025Position: Machine Learning Conferences Should Establish a "Refutations and Critiques" Track
223. NeurIPS 2025Pre-trained Large Language Models Learn to Predict Hidden Markov Models In-context
224. NeurIPS 2025Predicting Functional Brain Connectivity with Context-Aware Deep Neural Networks
225. NeurIPS 2025Predictive Coding Enhances Meta-RL To Achieve Interpretable Bayes-Optimal Belief Representation Under Partial Observability
226. NeurIPS 2025Proxy Target: Bridging the Gap Between Discrete Spiking Neural Networks and Continuous Control
227. NeurIPS 2025Puppeteer: Rig and Animate Your 3D Models
228. NeurIPS 2025QCircuitBench: A Large-Scale Dataset for Benchmarking Quantum Algorithm Design
229. NeurIPS 2025Quantifying and Alleviating Co-Adaptation in Sparse-View 3D Gaussian Splatting
230. NeurIPS 2025Quantifying Task-relevant Similarities in Representations Using Decision Variable Correlations
231. NeurIPS 2025Quantifying Uncertainty in Error Consistency: Towards Reliable Behavioral Comparison of Classifiers
232. NeurIPS 2025RANK++LETR: Learn to Rank and Optimize Candidates for Line Segment Detection
233. NeurIPS 2025Rao-Blackwellised Reparameterisation Gradients
234. NeurIPS 2025RAPTR: Radar-based 3D Pose Estimation using Transformer
235. NeurIPS 2025REArtGS: Reconstructing and Generating Articulated Objects via 3D Gaussian Splatting with Geometric and Motion Constraints
236. NeurIPS 2025ReCon-GS: Continuum-Preserved Guassian Streaming for Fast and Compact Reconstruction of Dynamic Scenes
237. NeurIPS 2025REFED: A Subject Real-time Dynamic Labeled EEG-fNIRS Synchronized Recorded Emotion Dataset
238. NeurIPS 2025Register and [CLS] tokens induce a decoupling of local and global features in large ViTs
239. NeurIPS 2025Reinforced Active Learning for Large-Scale Virtual Screening with Learnable Policy Model
240. NeurIPS 2025REMI: Reconstructing Episodic Memory During Internally Driven Path Planning
241. NeurIPS 2025REVE: A Foundation Model for EEG - Adapting to Any Setup with Large-Scale Pretraining on 25,000 Subjects
242. NeurIPS 2025Revisiting Generative Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Based on Human Cognitive Laws
243. NeurIPS 2025Riemannian Flow Matching for Brain Connectivity Matrices via Pullback Geometry
244. NeurIPS 2025RigAnyFace: Scaling Neural Facial Mesh Auto-Rigging with Unlabeled Data
245. NeurIPS 2025RIGNO: A Graph-based Framework For Robust And Accurate Operator Learning For PDEs On Arbitrary Domains
246. NeurIPS 2025RiverMamba: A State Space Model for Global River Discharge and Flood Forecasting
247. NeurIPS 2025RNNs perform task computations by dynamically warping neural representations
248. NeurIPS 2025Role Bias in Diffusion Models: Diagnosing and Mitigating through Intermediate Decomposition
249. NeurIPS 2025Rooms from Motion: Un-posed Indoor 3D Object Detection as Localization and Mapping
250. NeurIPS 2025RPG360: Robust 360 Depth Estimation with Perspective Foundation Models and Graph Optimization

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.