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

342 papers, page 7 of 7

301. NeurIPS 2025TAPIP3D: Tracking Any Point in Persistent 3D Geometry
302. NeurIPS 2025Task-Optimized Convolutional Recurrent Networks Align with Tactile Processing in the Rodent Brain
303. NeurIPS 2025TGA: True-to-Geometry Avatar Dynamic Reconstruction
304. NeurIPS 2025THD-BAR: Topology Hierarchical Derived Brain Autoregressive Modeling for EEG Generic Representations
305. NeurIPS 2025The Dual Nature of Plasticity Loss in Deep Continual Learning: Dissection and Mitigation
306. NeurIPS 2025The Emergence of Abstract Thought in Large Language Models Beyond Any Language
307. NeurIPS 2025The Rich and the Simple: On the Implicit Bias of Adam and SGD
308. NeurIPS 2025Tight Bounds for Maximum Weight Matroid Independent Set and Matching in the Zero Communication Model
309. NeurIPS 2025Time-Evolving Dynamical System for Learning Latent Representations of Mouse Visual Neural Activity
310. NeurIPS 2025Time-Masked Transformers with Lightweight Test-Time Adaptation for Neural Speech Decoding
311. NeurIPS 2025Toward Relative Positional Encoding in Spiking Transformers
312. NeurIPS 2025Towards Multiscale Graph-based Protein Learning with Geometric Secondary Structural Motifs
313. NeurIPS 2025Towards Realistic Earth-Observation Constellation Scheduling: Benchmark and Methodology
314. NeurIPS 2025TRACE: Contrastive learning for multi-trial time series data in neuroscience
315. NeurIPS 2025TractoTransformer: Diffusion MRI Streamline Tractography using CNN and Transformer Networks
316. NeurIPS 2025TrajAgent: An LLM-Agent Framework for Trajectory Modeling via Large-and-Small Model Collaboration
317. NeurIPS 2025TransferTraj: A Vehicle Trajectory Learning Model for Region and Task Transferability
318. NeurIPS 2025Transformer brain encoders explain human high-level visual responses
319. NeurIPS 2025Transforming Gaps into Gains: Bridging Model and Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning via Knowledge Weak-Aware Zones
320. NeurIPS 2025TwinMarket: A Scalable Behavioral and Social Simulation for Financial Markets
321. NeurIPS 2025Ultra-high Resolution Watermarking Framework Resistant to Extreme Cropping and Scaling
322. NeurIPS 2025UMA: A Family of Universal Models for Atoms
323. NeurIPS 2025Uncover Governing Law of Pathology Propagation Mechanism Through A Mean-Field Game
324. NeurIPS 2025Unfolding the Black Box of Recurrent Neural Networks for Path Integration
325. NeurIPS 2025Unified 2D-3D Discrete Priors for Noise-Robust and Calibration-Free Multiview 3D Human Pose Estimation
326. NeurIPS 2025UniFoil: A Universal Dataset of Airfoils in Transitional and Turbulent Regimes for Subsonic and Transonic Flows
327. NeurIPS 2025Unifying Symbolic Music Arrangement: Track-Aware Reconstruction and Structured Tokenization
328. NeurIPS 2025Unlocker: Disentangle the Deadlock of Learning between Label-noisy and Long-tailed Data
329. NeurIPS 2025Unveiling the Learning Mind of Language Models: A Cognitive Framework and Empirical Study
330. NeurIPS 2025Unveiling the Spatial-temporal Effective Receptive Fields of Spiking Neural Networks
331. NeurIPS 2025Vector Quantization in the Brain: Grid-like Codes in World Models
332. NeurIPS 2025VideoTitans: Scalable Video Prediction with Integrated Short- and Long-term Memory
333. NeurIPS 2025Visual Anagrams Reveal Hidden Differences in Holistic Shape Processing Across Vision Models
334. NeurIPS 2025Visual Structures Help Visual Reasoning: Addressing the Binding Problem in LVLMs
335. NeurIPS 2025Volume Transmission Implements Context Factorization to Target Online Credit Assignment and Enable Compositional Generalization
336. NeurIPS 2025Wavelet Canonical Coherence for Nonstationary Signals
337. NeurIPS 2025What do you know? Bayesian knowledge inference for navigating agents
338. NeurIPS 2025What Happens During the Loss Plateau? Understanding Abrupt Learning in Transformers
339. NeurIPS 2025What Moves the Eyes: Doubling Mechanistic Model Performance Using Deep Networks to Discover and Test Cognitive Hypotheses
340. NeurIPS 2025Why Playing Against Diverse and Challenging Opponents Speeds Up Coevolution: A Theoretical Analysis on Combinatorial Games
341. NeurIPS 2025Wukong's 72 Transformations: High-fidelity Textured 3D Morphing via Flow Models
342. NeurIPS 2025ZEBRA: Towards Zero-Shot Cross-Subject Generalization for Universal Brain Visual Decoding

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.