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

576 papers, page 8 of 12

351. ICML 2025MindAligner: Explicit Brain Functional Alignment for Cross-Subject Visual Decoding from Limited fMRI Data
352. ICML 2025MindCustomer: Multi-Context Image Generation Blended with Brain Signal
353. ICML 2025MindLLM: A Subject-Agnostic and Versatile Model for fMRI-to-text Decoding
354. ICML 2025Modeling All-Atom Glycan Structures via Hierarchical Message Passing and Multi-Scale Pre-training
355. ICML 2025Neural Encoding and Decoding at Scale
356. ICML 2025Neural Interpretable PDEs: Harmonizing Fourier Insights with Attention for Scalable and Interpretable Physics Discovery
357. ICML 2025Neural Representational Consistency Emerges from Probabilistic Neural-Behavioral Representation Alignment
358. ICML 2025NeuroTree: Hierarchical Functional Brain Pathway Decoding for Mental Health Disorders
359. ICML 2025Not all solutions are created equal: An analytical dissociation of functional and representational similarity in deep linear neural networks
360. ICML 2025Offline Model-based Optimization for Real-World Molecular Discovery
361. ICML 2025OmniArch: Building Foundation Model for Scientific Computing
362. ICML 2025On Temperature Scaling and Conformal Prediction of Deep Classifiers
363. ICML 2025On Zero-Initialized Attention: Optimal Prompt and Gating Factor Estimation
364. ICML 2025OneForecast: A Universal Framework for Global and Regional Weather Forecasting
365. ICML 2025OV-MER: Towards Open-Vocabulary Multimodal Emotion Recognition
366. ICML 2025PDE-Transformer: Efficient and Versatile Transformers for Physics Simulations
367. ICML 2025Perceptually Constrained Precipitation Nowcasting Model
368. ICML 2025Permutation Equivariant Neural Networks for Symmetric Tensors
369. ICML 2025Permutation-based Rank Test in the Presence of Discretization and Application in Causal Discovery with Mixed Data
370. ICML 2025Persistent Topological Features in Large Language Models
371. ICML 2025Physics-Informed Weakly Supervised Learning For Interatomic Potentials
372. ICML 2025Poly2Vec: Polymorphic Fourier-Based Encoding of Geospatial Objects for GeoAI Applications
373. ICML 2025Position: Evaluating Generative AI Systems Is a Social Science Measurement Challenge
374. ICML 2025Position: Human Baselines in Model Evaluations Need Rigor and Transparency (With Recommendations & Reporting Checklist)
375. ICML 2025Position: Principles of Animal Cognition to Improve LLM Evaluations
376. ICML 2025Position: Solve Layerwise Linear Models First to Understand Neural Dynamical Phenomena (Neural Collapse, Emergence, Lazy/Rich Regime, and Grokking)
377. ICML 2025Pre-Training Graph Contrastive Masked Autoencoders are Strong Distillers for EEG
378. ICML 2025Propagation of Chaos for Mean-Field Langevin Dynamics and its Application to Model Ensemble
379. ICML 2025QEM-Bench: Benchmarking Learning-based Quantum Error Mitigation and QEMFormer as a Multi-ranged Context Learning Baseline
380. ICML 2025QuanONet: Quantum Neural Operator with Application to Differential Equation
381. ICML 2025Reflection-Bench: Evaluating Epistemic Agency in Large Language Models
382. ICML 2025Reinforced Learning Explicit Circuit Representations for Quantum State Characterization from Local Measurements
383. ICML 2025Relational Invariant Learning for Robust Solvation Free Energy Prediction
384. ICML 2025Rethink GraphODE Generalization within Coupled Dynamical System
385. ICML 2025Rethink the Role of Deep Learning towards Large-scale Quantum Systems
386. ICML 2025ReverB-SNN: Reversing Bit of the Weight and Activation for Spiking Neural Networks
387. ICML 2025Revisiting Noise Resilience Strategies in Gesture Recognition: Short-Term Enhancement in sEMG Analysis
388. ICML 2025Rhomboid Tiling for Geometric Graph Deep Learning
389. ICML 2025Robust and Conjugate Spatio-Temporal Gaussian Processes
390. ICML 2025RULEBREAKERS: Challenging LLMs at the Crossroads between Formal Logic and Human-like Reasoning
391. ICML 2025Safety-Polarized and Prioritized Reinforcement Learning
392. ICML 2025Scaling Laws for Task-Optimized Models of the Primate Visual Ventral Stream
393. ICML 2025SCENT: Robust Spatiotemporal Learning for Continuous Scientific Data via Scalable Conditioned Neural Fields
394. ICML 2025Self-cross Feature based Spiking Neural Networks for Efficient Few-shot Learning
395. ICML 2025Separating Knowledge and Perception with Procedural Data
396. ICML 2025Socialized Coevolution: Advancing a Better World through Cross-Task Collaboration
397. ICML 2025Sparse Autoencoders for Hypothesis Generation
398. ICML 2025Speculative Prefill: Turbocharging TTFT with Lightweight and Training-Free Token Importance Estimation
399. ICML 2025SpikeVideoFormer: An Efficient Spike-Driven Video Transformer with Hamming Attention and $\mathcal{O}(T)$ Complexity
400. ICML 2025StealthInk: A Multi-bit and Stealthy Watermark for Large Language 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.