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

576 papers, page 6 of 12

251. ICML 2026Training Deep Spiking Neural Networks without Normalization
252. ICML 2026TriForces: Augmenting Atomistic GNNs for Transferable Representations
253. ICML 2026U-Cast: A Surprisingly Simple and Efficient Frontier Probabilistic AI Weather Forecaster
254. ICML 2026Ubiquity of Emergent Hebbian Dynamics in Regularized Learning
255. ICML 2026Unbiased and Second-Order-Free Training for High-Dimensional PDEs
256. ICML 2026Uncovering Latent Communication Patterns in Brain Networks via Adaptive Flow Routing
257. ICML 2026UniDrag: Unified Multi-Field Prediction and Robust Shape Optimization for Vehicle Aerodynamics
258. ICML 2026UniSparse: Combining Weight Pruning and Spike Sparsification in Spiking Neural Networks
259. ICML 2026UrbanMLLM: Joint Learning of Cross-view Imagery for Urban Understanding
260. ICML 2026Verbalized Bayesian Persuasion
261. ICML 2026ViEEG: Hierarchical Visual Neural Representation for EEG Brain Decoding
262. ICML 2026VIPO: Value Function Inconsistency Penalized Offline Reinforcement Learning
263. ICML 2026Zeroth-Order Non-Log-Concave Sampling with Variance Reduction and Applications to Inverse Problems
264. ICML 2025A Machine Learning Approach to Duality in Statistical Physics
265. ICML 2025A Model of Place Field Reorganization During Reward Maximization
266. ICML 2025A Multi-Region Brain Model to Elucidate the Role of Hippocampus in Spatially Embedded Decision-Making
267. ICML 2025A New Concentration Inequality for Sampling Without Replacement and Its Application for Transductive Learning
268. ICML 2025A Novel Characterization of the Population Area Under the Risk Coverage Curve (AURC) and Rates of Finite Sample Estimators
269. ICML 2025Accurate Identification of Communication Between Multiple Interacting Neural Populations
270. ICML 2025Alberta Wells Dataset: Pinpointing Oil and Gas Wells from Satellite Imagery
271. ICML 2025All-atom Diffusion Transformers: Unified generative modelling of molecules and materials
272. ICML 2025An Instrumental Value for Data Production and its Application to Data Pricing
273. ICML 2025AnalogGenie-Lite: Enhancing Scalability and Precision in Circuit Topology Discovery through Lightweight Graph Modeling
274. ICML 2025Asymmetric Decision-Making in Online Knowledge Distillation: Unifying Consensus and Divergence
275. ICML 2025Auto-reconfiguration for Latency Minimization in CPU-based DNN Serving
276. ICML 2025Average Sensitivity of Hierarchical $k$-Median Clustering
277. ICML 2025Balancing Efficiency and Expressiveness: Subgraph GNNs with Walk-Based Centrality
278. ICML 2025Breaking Barriers: Combinatorial Algorithms for Non-Monotone Submodular Maximization with Sublinear Adaptivity and $1/e$ Approximation
279. ICML 2025Bridging Layout and RTL: Knowledge Distillation based Timing Prediction
280. ICML 2025BSO: Binary Spiking Online Optimization Algorithm
281. ICML 2025Can Biologically Plausible Temporal Credit Assignment Rules Match BPTT for Neural Similarity? E-prop as an Example
282. ICML 2025Capturing Temporal Dynamics in Large-Scale Canopy Tree Height Estimation
283. ICML 2025CFPT: Empowering Time Series Forecasting through Cross-Frequency Interaction and Periodic-Aware Timestamp Modeling
284. ICML 2025Chaos Meets Attention: Transformers for Large-Scale Dynamical Prediction
285. ICML 2025Closed-form Solutions: A New Perspective on Solving Differential Equations
286. ICML 2025CogReact: A Reinforced Framework to Model Human Cognitive Reaction Modulated by Dynamic Intervention
287. ICML 2025Comparing Comparisons: Informative and Easy Human Feedback with Distinguishability Queries
288. ICML 2025Compressed and distributed least-squares regression: convergence rates with applications to federated learning
289. ICML 2025Context-Informed Neural ODEs Unexpectedly Identify Broken Symmetries: Insights from the Poincaré–Hopf Theorem
290. ICML 2025Contextual Linear Bandits with Delay as Payoff
291. ICML 2025Contour Integration Underlies Human-Like Vision
292. ICML 2025CoPINN: Cognitive Physics-Informed Neural Networks
293. ICML 2025Core Knowledge Deficits in Multi-Modal Language Models
294. ICML 2025CVE-Bench: A Benchmark for AI Agents’ Ability to Exploit Real-World Web Application Vulnerabilities
295. ICML 2025Deep Neural Cellular Potts Models
296. ICML 2025Deep Ridgelet Transform and Unified Universality Theorem for Deep and Shallow Joint-Group-Equivariant Machines
297. ICML 2025Dendritic Localized Learning: Toward Biologically Plausible Algorithm
298. ICML 2025Diagonal Symmetrization of Neural Network Solvers for the Many-Electron Schrödinger Equation
299. ICML 2025Differential Coding for Training-Free ANN-to-SNN Conversion
300. ICML 2025Discovering Symbolic Cognitive Models from Human and Animal Behavior

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.