Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers, 2023–2026
Application area: neuroscience_and_cognitive_science
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 2,033 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 66 | 44 | 49 | 24 | 183 |
| 2024 | 189 | 99 | 107 | 29 | 424 |
| 2025 | 342 | 151 | 157 | 23 | 673 |
| 2026 | 227 | 229 | 263 | 34 | 753 |
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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- ICLR 2026Robust Spiking Neural Networks Against Adversarial Attacks
- ICLR 2026SAFA-SNN: Sparsity-Aware On-Device Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning with Fast-Adaptive Structure of Spiking Neural Network
- ICLR 2026SafeFlowMatcher: Safe and Fast Planning using Flow Matching with Control Barrier Functions
- ICLR 2026Scalable and Adaptive Trust-Region Learning via Projection Convex Hull
- ICLR 2026Scaling Laws and Symmetry, Evidence from Neural Force Fields
- ICLR 2026Sci2Pol: Evaluating and Fine-tuning LLMs on Scientific-to-Policy Brief Generation
- ICLR 2026SciNav: A Principled Agent Framework for Scientific Coding Tasks
- ICLR 2026Sculptor: Empowering LLMs with Cognitive Agency via Active Context Management
- ICLR 2026SEED: Towards More Accurate Semantic Evaluation for Visual Brain Decoding
- ICLR 2026Seeing Through the Brain: New Insights from Decoding Visual Stimuli with fMRI
- ICLR 2026Separable Neural Networks: Approximation Theory, NTK Regime, and Preconditioned Gradient Descent
- ICLR 2026Setting up for failure: automatic discovery of the neural mechanisms of cognitive errors
- ICLR 2026Sheaves Reloaded: A Direction Awakening
- ICLR 2026Shoot First, Ask Questions Later? Building Rational Agents that Explore and Act Like People
- ICLR 2026SigmaDock: Untwisting Molecular Docking with Fragment-Based SE(3) Diffusion
- ICLR 2026SMixer: Rethinking Efficient-Training and Event-Driven SNNs
- ICLR 2026Spectral-guided Physical Dynamics Distillation
- ICLR 2026Spike-based Digital Brain: a novel fundamental model for brain activity analysis
- ICLR 2026Spiking Discrepancy Transformer for Point Cloud Analysis
- ICLR 2026SplitLoRA: Balancing Stability and Plasticity in Continual Learning Through Gradient Space Splitting
- ICLR 2026Spurious Correlation-Aware Embedding Regularization for Worst-Group Robustness
- ICLR 2026Stable and Scalable Deep Predictive Coding Networks with Meta Prediction Errors
- ICLR 2026Stretching Beyond the Obvious: A Gradient-Free Framework to Unveil the Hidden Landscape of Visual Invariance
- ICLR 2026SubDyve: Subgraph-Driven Dynamic Propagation for Virtual Screening Enhancement Controlling False Positive
- ICLR 2026TaCo: A Benchmark for Lossless and Lossy Codecs of Heterogeneous Tactile Data
- ICLR 2026TAVAE: A VAE with Adaptable Priors Explains Contextual Modulation in the Visual Cortex
- ICLR 2026Temporal Slowness in Central Vision Drives Semantic Object Learning
- ICLR 2026Tensor learning with orthogonal, Lorentz, and symplectic symmetries
- ICLR 2026The Achilles’ Heel of LLMs: How Altering a Handful of Neurons Can Cripple Language Abilities
- ICLR 2026The Human Brain as a Dynamic Mixture of Expert Models in Video Understanding
- ICLR 2026The Mind's Transformer: Computational Neuroanatomy of LLM-Brain Alignment
- ICLR 2026The Polar Express: Optimal Matrix Sign Methods and their Application to the Muon Algorithm
- ICLR 2026The Tutor-Pupil Augmentation: Enhancing Learning and Interpretability via Input Corrections
- ICLR 2026Theory-Grounded Evaluation of Human-Like Fallacy Patterns in LLM Reasoning
- ICLR 2026To Augment or Not to Augment? Diagnosing Distributional Symmetry Breaking
- ICLR 2026Tokenizing Single-Channel EEG with Time-Frequency Motif Learning
- ICLR 2026Towards Interpretable Visual Decoding with Attention to Brain Representations
- ICLR 2026Towards Lossless Memory-efficient Training of Spiking Neural Networks via Gradient Checkpointing and Spike Compression
- ICLR 2026TP-Spikformer: Token Pruned Spiking Transformer
- ICLR 2026Train on Validation (ToV): Fast data selection with applications to fine-tuning
- ICLR 2026Training Deep Normalization-Free Spiking Neural Networks with Lateral Inhibition
- ICLR 2026Transformers Trained via Gradient Descent Can Provably Learn a Class of Teacher Models
- ICLR 2026Triangle Multiplication is All You Need for Biomolecular Structure Representations
- ICLR 2026TRIBE: TRImodal Brain Encoder for whole-brain fMRI response prediction
- ICLR 2026TusoAI: Agentic Optimization for Scientific Methods
- ICLR 2026Unbalanced Soft-Matching Distance For Neural Representational Comparison With Partial Unit Correspondence
- ICLR 2026Uncovering Semantic Selectivity of Latent Groups in Higher Visual Cortex with Mutual Information-Guided Diffusion
- ICLR 2026Uni-NTFM: A Unified Foundation Model for EEG Signal Representation Learning
- ICLR 2026Unified Brain Surface and Volume Registration
- ICLR 2026UniOD: A Universal Model for Outlier Detection across Diverse Domains
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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.
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