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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251. NeurIPS 2025S$^2$M-Former: Spiking Symmetric Mixing Branchformer for Brain Auditory Attention Detection
252. NeurIPS 2025S$^2$NN: Sub-bit Spiking Neural Networks
253. NeurIPS 2025Scalable inference of functional neural connectivity at submillisecond timescales
254. NeurIPS 2025Scaling and context steer LLMs along the same computational path as the human brain
255. NeurIPS 2025SceneWeaver: All-in-One 3D Scene Synthesis with an Extensible and Self-Reflective Agent
256. NeurIPS 2025Scientists' First Exam: Probing Cognitive Abilities of MLLM via Perception, Understanding, and Reasoning
257. NeurIPS 2025SCOUT: Teaching Pre-trained Language Models to Enhance Reasoning via Flow Chain-of-Thought
258. NeurIPS 2025scPilot: Large Language Model Reasoning Toward Automated Single-Cell Analysis and Discovery
259. NeurIPS 2025Securing the Language of Life: Inheritable Watermarks from DNA Language Models to Proteins
260. NeurIPS 2025Seeing Sound, Hearing Sight: Uncovering Modality Bias and Conflict of AI models in Sound Localization
261. NeurIPS 2025Seemingly Redundant Modules Enhance Robust Odor Learning in Fruit Flies
262. NeurIPS 2025Self supervised learning for in vivo localization of microelectrode arrays using raw local field potential
263. NeurIPS 2025Self-Assembling Graph Perceptrons
264. NeurIPS 2025Self-Calibrating BCIs: Ranking and Recovery of Mental Targets Without Labels
265. NeurIPS 2025Self-Supervised Discovery of Neural Circuits in Spatially Patterned Neural Responses with Graph Neural Networks
266. NeurIPS 2025Semi-supervised Vertex Hunting, with Applications in Network and Text Analysis
267. NeurIPS 2025Separating the 'what' and 'how' of compositional computation to enable reuse and continual learning
268. NeurIPS 2025Shaping Sequence Attractor Schema in Recurrent Neural Networks
269. NeurIPS 2025Siegel Neural Networks
270. NeurIPS 2025SimSort: A Data-Driven Framework for Spike Sorting by Large-Scale Electrophysiology Simulation
271. NeurIPS 2025Simulating Society Requires Simulating Thought
272. NeurIPS 2025Simultaneous Swap Regret Minimization via KL-Calibration
273. NeurIPS 2025SING: SDE Inference via Natural Gradients
274. NeurIPS 2025Slow Transition to Low-Dimensional Chaos in Heavy-Tailed Recurrent Neural Networks
275. NeurIPS 2025Smooth and Flexible Camera Movement Synthesis via Temporal Masked Generative Modeling
276. NeurIPS 2025Solving Discrete (Semi) Unbalanced Optimal Transport with Equivalent Transformation Mechanism and KKT-Multiplier Regularization
277. NeurIPS 2025Spatial-Aware Decision-Making with Ring Attractors in Reinforcement Learning Systems
278. NeurIPS 2025Spectral Analysis of Representational Similarity with Limited Neurons
279. NeurIPS 2025Spectral Compressive Imaging via Chromaticity-Intensity Decomposition
280. NeurIPS 2025Spectral Perturbation Bounds for Low-Rank Approximation with Applications to Privacy
281. NeurIPS 2025SPICED: A Synaptic Homeostasis-Inspired Framework for Unsupervised Continual EEG Decoding
282. NeurIPS 2025Spik-NeRF: Spiking Neural Networks for Neural Radiance Fields
283. NeurIPS 2025Spike-RetinexFormer: Rethinking Low-light Image Enhancement with Spiking Neural Networks
284. NeurIPS 2025Spike-timing-dependent Hebbian learning as noisy gradient descent
285. NeurIPS 2025SPINT: Spatial Permutation-Invariant Neural Transformer for Consistent Intracortical Motor Decoding
286. NeurIPS 2025SplashNet: Split‑and‑Share Encoders for Accurate and Efficient Typing with Surface Electromyography
287. NeurIPS 2025SQLens: An End-to-End Framework for Error Detection and Correction in Text-to-SQL
288. NeurIPS 2025Stable Port-Hamiltonian Neural Networks
289. NeurIPS 2025Steering When Necessary: Flexible Steering Large Language Models with Backtracking
290. NeurIPS 2025STEP: A Unified Spiking Transformer Evaluation Platform for Fair and Reproducible Benchmarking
291. NeurIPS 2025STNet: Spectral Transformation Network for Solving Operator Eigenvalue Problem
292. NeurIPS 2025Stochastic Process Learning via Operator Flow Matching
293. NeurIPS 2025STSBench: A Large-Scale Dataset for Modeling Neuronal Activity in the Dorsal Stream of Primate Visual Cortex
294. NeurIPS 2025Styl3R: Instant 3D Stylized Reconstruction for Arbitrary Scenes and Styles
295. NeurIPS 2025SuffixDecoding: Extreme Speculative Decoding for Emerging AI Applications
296. NeurIPS 2025SurfelSplat: Learning Efficient and Generalizable Gaussian Surfel Representations for Sparse-View Surface Reconstruction
297. NeurIPS 2025SWE-SQL: Illuminating LLM Pathways to Solve User SQL Issues in Real-World Applications
298. NeurIPS 2025SynBrain: Enhancing Visual-to-fMRI Synthesis via Probabilistic Representation Learning
299. NeurIPS 2025Synthesizing Performance Constraints for Evaluating and Improving Code Efficiency
300. NeurIPS 2025T2SMark: Balancing Robustness and Diversity in Noise-as-Watermark for Diffusion Models

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.