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

424 papers, page 6 of 9

251. NeurIPS 2024Almost Free: Self-concordance in Natural Exponential Families and an Application to Bandits
252. NeurIPS 2024An Autoencoder-Like Nonnegative Matrix Co-Factorization for Improved Student Cognitive Modeling
253. NeurIPS 2024An exactly solvable model for emergence and scaling laws in the multitask sparse parity problem
254. NeurIPS 2024Analytically deriving Partial Information Decomposition for affine systems of stable and convolution-closed distributions
255. NeurIPS 2024APDDv2: Aesthetics of Paintings and Drawings Dataset with Artist Labeled Scores and Comments
256. NeurIPS 2024Artificial Generational Intelligence: Cultural Accumulation in Reinforcement Learning
257. NeurIPS 2024Automating Dataset Updates Towards Reliable and Timely Evaluation of Large Language Models
258. NeurIPS 2024Autonomous Driving with Spiking Neural Networks
259. NeurIPS 2024AutoSurvey: Large Language Models Can Automatically Write Surveys
260. NeurIPS 2024Back to the Continuous Attractor
261. NeurIPS 2024Beyond the Doors of Perception: Vision Transformers Represent Relations Between Objects
262. NeurIPS 2024Bias Amplification in Language Model Evolution: An Iterated Learning Perspective
263. NeurIPS 2024Binding in hippocampal-entorhinal circuits enables compositionality in cognitive maps
264. NeurIPS 2024Biologically Inspired Learning Model for Instructed Vision
265. NeurIPS 2024Brain Treebank: Large-scale intracranial recordings from naturalistic language stimuli
266. NeurIPS 2024Brain-JEPA: Brain Dynamics Foundation Model with Gradient Positioning and Spatiotemporal Masking
267. NeurIPS 2024BrainBits: How Much of the Brain are Generative Reconstruction Methods Using?
268. NeurIPS 2024Bridging semantics and pragmatics in information-theoretic emergent communication
269. NeurIPS 2024Bridging the Divide: Reconsidering Softmax and Linear Attention
270. NeurIPS 2024Can LLMs Implicitly Learn Numeric Parameter Constraints in Data Science APIs?
271. NeurIPS 2024Can Transformers Smell Like Humans?
272. NeurIPS 2024Collaborative Cognitive Diagnosis with Disentangled Representation Learning for Learner Modeling
273. NeurIPS 2024Compositional Generalization Across Distributional Shifts with Sparse Tree Operations
274. NeurIPS 2024Consistency Models for Scalable and Fast Simulation-Based Inference
275. NeurIPS 2024Construction and Application of Materials Knowledge Graph in Multidisciplinary Materials Science via Large Language Model
276. NeurIPS 2024Continuous Spatiotemporal Events Decoupling through Spike-based Bayesian Computation
277. NeurIPS 2024Contrastive-Equivariant Self-Supervised Learning Improves Alignment with Primate Visual Area IT
278. NeurIPS 2024Controlled maximal variability along with reliable performance in recurrent neural networks
279. NeurIPS 2024Cooperate or Collapse: Emergence of Sustainable Cooperation in a Society of LLM Agents
280. NeurIPS 2024Crafting Interpretable Embeddings for Language Neuroscience by Asking LLMs Questions
281. NeurIPS 2024DARNet: Dual Attention Refinement Network with Spatiotemporal Construction for Auditory Attention Detection
282. NeurIPS 2024Designing Cell-Type-Specific Promoter Sequences Using Conservative Model-Based Optimization
283. NeurIPS 2024Differentially Private Equivalence Testing for Continuous Distributions and Applications
284. NeurIPS 2024Discovering plasticity rules that organize and maintain neural circuits
285. NeurIPS 2024DisenGCD: A Meta Multigraph-assisted Disentangled Graph Learning Framework for Cognitive Diagnosis
286. NeurIPS 2024Disentangling the Roles of Distinct Cell Classes with Cell-Type Dynamical Systems
287. NeurIPS 2024Divergences between Language Models and Human Brains
288. NeurIPS 2024Divide-and-Conquer Predictive Coding: a structured Bayesian inference algorithm
289. NeurIPS 2024Doing Experiments and Revising Rules with Natural Language and Probabilistic Reasoning
290. NeurIPS 2024Du-IN: Discrete units-guided mask modeling for decoding speech from Intracranial Neural signals
291. NeurIPS 2024EEG2Video: Towards Decoding Dynamic Visual Perception from EEG Signals
292. NeurIPS 2024EEGPT: Pretrained Transformer for Universal and Reliable Representation of EEG Signals
293. NeurIPS 2024Empowering and Assessing the Utility of Large Language Models in Crop Science
294. NeurIPS 2024Energy-Based Modelling for Discrete and Mixed Data via Heat Equations on Structured Spaces
295. NeurIPS 2024EnOF-SNN: Training Accurate Spiking Neural Networks via Enhancing the Output Feature
296. NeurIPS 2024Entropy testing and its application to testing Bayesian networks
297. NeurIPS 2024Evaluating alignment between humans and neural network representations in image-based learning tasks
298. NeurIPS 2024Evaluating Numerical Reasoning in Text-to-Image Models
299. NeurIPS 2024Exact Gradients for Stochastic Spiking Neural Networks Driven by Rough Signals
300. NeurIPS 2024Exploring Behavior-Relevant and Disentangled Neural Dynamics with Generative 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.