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 7 of 12

301. ICML 2025Discrete and Continuous Difference of Submodular Minimization
302. ICML 2025DUNIA: Pixel-Sized Embeddings via Cross-Modal Alignment for Earth Observation Applications
303. ICML 2025Dynamical Modeling of Behaviorally Relevant Spatiotemporal Patterns in Neural Imaging Data
304. ICML 2025Dynamical phases of short-term memory mechanisms in RNNs
305. ICML 2025E-LDA: Toward Interpretable LDA Topic Models with Strong Guarantees in Logarithmic Parallel Time
306. ICML 2025EEG-Language Pretraining for Highly Label-Efficient Clinical Phenotyping
307. ICML 2025Efficient and Scalable Density Functional Theory Hamiltonian Prediction through Adaptive Sparsity
308. ICML 2025Efficient ANN-SNN Conversion with Error Compensation Learning
309. ICML 2025Evaluating LLMs Across Multi-Cognitive Levels: From Medical Knowledge Mastery to Scenario-Based Problem Solving
310. ICML 2025Faster and Stronger: When ANN-SNN Conversion Meets Parallel Spiking Calculation
311. ICML 2025Faster Global Minimum Cut with Predictions
312. ICML 2025Feature Learning beyond the Lazy-Rich Dichotomy: Insights from Representational Geometry
313. ICML 2025Finding Wasserstein Ball Center: Efficient Algorithm and The Applications in Fairness
314. ICML 2025Fixing the Double Penalty in Data-Driven Weather Forecasting Through a Modified Spherical Harmonic Loss Function
315. ICML 2025Flow Matching for Few-Trial Neural Adaptation with Stable Latent Dynamics
316. ICML 2025Flow-field inference from neural data using deep recurrent networks
317. ICML 2025From Black Boxes to Transparent Minds: Evaluating and Enhancing the Theory of Mind in Multimodal Large Language Models
318. ICML 2025Fundamental Bias in Inverting Random Sampling Matrices with Application to Sub-sampled Newton
319. ICML 2025Galileo: Learning Global & Local Features of Many Remote Sensing Modalities
320. ICML 2025Generalized Venn and Venn-Abers Calibration with Applications in Conformal Prediction
321. ICML 2025Generating Hypotheses of Dynamic Causal Graphs in Neuroscience: Leveraging Generative Factor Models of Observed Time Series
322. ICML 2025Geometric and Physical Constraints Synergistically Enhance Neural PDE Surrogates
323. ICML 2025Graph Minimum Factor Distance and Its Application to Large-Scale Graph Data Clustering
324. ICML 2025Habitizing Diffusion Planning for Efficient and Effective Decision Making
325. ICML 2025HEAP: Hyper Extended A-PDHG Operator for Constrained High-dim PDEs
326. ICML 2025Heterogeneous Sufficient Dimension Reduction and Subspace Clustering
327. ICML 2025How Compositional Generalization and Creativity Improve as Diffusion Models are Trained
328. ICML 2025Human Cognition-Inspired Hierarchical Fuzzy Learning Machine
329. ICML 2025Human-Aligned Image Models Improve Visual Decoding from the Brain
330. ICML 2025Hybrid Spiking Vision Transformer for Object Detection with Event Cameras
331. ICML 2025Identifying Neural Dynamics Using Interventional State Space Models
332. ICML 2025Implicit Riemannian Optimism with Applications to Min-Max Problems
333. ICML 2025Improved Regret Analysis in Gaussian Process Bandits: Optimality for Noiseless Reward, RKHS norm, and Non-Stationary Variance
334. ICML 2025Invariant Deep Uplift Modeling for Incentive Assignment in Online Marketing via Probability of Necessity and Sufficiency
335. ICML 2025Inverse problems with experiment-guided AlphaFold
336. ICML 2025Inverse Reinforcement Learning with Switching Rewards and History Dependency for Characterizing Animal Behaviors
337. ICML 2025Latent Mamba Operator for Partial Differential Equations
338. ICML 2025Learn Singularly Perturbed Solutions via Homotopy Dynamics
339. ICML 2025Learning curves theory for hierarchically compositional data with power-law distributed features
340. ICML 2025Learning dynamics in linear recurrent neural networks
341. ICML 2025Learning Initial Basis Selection for Linear Programming via Duality-Inspired Tripartite Graph Representation and Comprehensive Supervision
342. ICML 2025Learning Smooth and Expressive Interatomic Potentials for Physical Property Prediction
343. ICML 2025Learning the Electronic Hamiltonian of Large Atomic Structures
344. ICML 2025Learning Time-Varying Multi-Region Brain Communications via Scalable Markovian Gaussian Processes
345. ICML 2025Learning with Expected Signatures: Theory and Applications
346. ICML 2025Making Hard Problems Easier with Custom Data Distributions and Loss Regularization: A Case Study in Modular Arithmetic
347. ICML 2025Maximum Coverage in Turnstile Streams with Applications to Fingerprinting Measures
348. ICML 2025Maximum Update Parametrization and Zero-Shot Hyperparameter Transfer for Fourier Neural Operators
349. ICML 2025Mechanistic PDE Networks for Discovery of Governing Equations
350. ICML 2025Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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.