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

824 papers, page 8 of 17

351. NeurIPS 2025From Synapses to Dynamics: Obtaining Function from Structure in a Connectome Constrained Model of the Head Direction Circuit
352. NeurIPS 2025Fully Autonomous Neuromorphic Navigation and Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance
353. NeurIPS 2025FuXi-Ocean: A Global Ocean Forecasting System with Sub-Daily Resolution
354. NeurIPS 2025Gaussian-Augmented Physics Simulation and System Identification with Complex Colliders
355. NeurIPS 2025Generalizable Insights for Graph Transformers in Theory and Practice
356. NeurIPS 2025Generalizable, real-time neural decoding with hybrid state-space models
357. NeurIPS 2025Generalized and Invariant Single-Neuron In-Vivo Activity Representation Learning
358. NeurIPS 2025Generating Computational Cognitive models using Large Language Models
359. NeurIPS 2025Generating Creative Chess Puzzles
360. NeurIPS 2025GeoRemover: Removing Objects and Their Causal Visual Artifacts
361. NeurIPS 2025GSAlign: Geometric and Semantic Alignment Network for Aerial-Ground Person Re-Identification
362. NeurIPS 2025Guided Diffusion Sampling on Function Spaces with Applications to PDEs
363. NeurIPS 2025Heavy-Ball Momentum Method in Continuous Time and Discretization Error Analysis
364. NeurIPS 2025HetSyn: Versatile Timescale Integration in Spiking Neural Networks via Heterogeneous Synapses
365. NeurIPS 2025Hierarchical Frequency Tagging Probe (HFTP): A Unified Approach to Investigate Syntactic Structure Representations in Large Language Models and the Human Brain
366. NeurIPS 2025High Resolution UDF Meshing via Iterative Networks
367. NeurIPS 2025High-dimensional neuronal activity from low-dimensional latent dynamics: a solvable model
368. NeurIPS 2025HyRF: Hybrid Radiance Fields for Memory-efficient and High-quality Novel View Synthesis
369. NeurIPS 2025I2-NeRF: Learning Neural Radiance Fields Under Physically-Grounded Media Interactions
370. NeurIPS 2025Identifying interactions across brain areas while accounting for individual-neuron dynamics with a Transformer-based variational autoencoder
371. NeurIPS 2025Identifying multi-compartment Hodgkin-Huxley models with high-density extracellular voltage recordings
372. NeurIPS 2025Image Stitching in Adverse Condition: A Bidirectional-Consistency Learning Framework and Benchmark
373. NeurIPS 2025Implicit-ARAP: Efficient Handle-Guided Neural Field Deformation via Local Patch Meshing
374. NeurIPS 2025Improved Approximation Algorithms for Chromatic and Pseudometric-Weighted Correlation Clustering
375. NeurIPS 2025Improved Regret and Contextual Linear Extension for Pandora's Box and Prophet Inequality
376. NeurIPS 2025In Silico Mapping of Visual Categorical Selectivity Across the Whole Brain
377. NeurIPS 2025INC: An Indirect Neural Corrector for Auto-Regressive Hybrid PDE Solvers
378. NeurIPS 2025Inference of Whole Brain Electrophysiological Networks Through Multimodal Integration of Simultaneous Scalp and Intracranial EEG
379. NeurIPS 2025Inference with correlated priors using sisters cells
380. NeurIPS 2025Inpainting the Neural Picture: Inferring Unrecorded Brain Area Dynamics from Multi-Animal Datasets
381. NeurIPS 2025InstaInpaint: Instant 3D-Scene Inpainting with Masked Large Reconstruction Model
382. NeurIPS 2025Interpretable Next-token Prediction via the Generalized Induction Head
383. NeurIPS 2025Intrinsic Goals for Autonomous Agents: Model-Based Exploration in Virtual Zebrafish Predicts Ethological Behavior and Whole-Brain Dynamics
384. NeurIPS 2025IPSI: Enhancing Structural Inference with Automatically Learned Structural Priors
385. NeurIPS 2025Is Limited Participant Diversity Impeding EEG-based Machine Learning?
386. NeurIPS 2025Is Your Diffusion Model Actually Denoising?
387. NeurIPS 2025Jacobian-Based Interpretation of Nonlinear Neural Encoding Model
388. NeurIPS 2025Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma Beyond Euclidean Geometry
389. NeurIPS 2025Joint Modeling of fMRI and EEG Imaging Using Ordinary Differential Equation-Based Hypergraph Neural Networks
390. NeurIPS 2025Kernel Regression in Structured Non-IID Settings: Theory and Implications for Denoising Score Learning
391. NeurIPS 2025Know Thyself by Knowing Others: Learning Neuron Identity from Population Context
392. NeurIPS 2025Large Language Models as Model Organisms for Human Associative Learning
393. NeurIPS 2025Large Language Models Think Too Fast To Explore Effectively
394. NeurIPS 2025Learning Dynamics of RNNs in Closed-Loop Environments
395. NeurIPS 2025Learning Efficient Fuse-and-Refine for Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Splatting
396. NeurIPS 2025Learning from positive and unlabeled examples -Finite size sample bounds
397. NeurIPS 2025Learning Juntas under Markov Random Fields
398. NeurIPS 2025Learning the Plasticity: Plasticity-Driven Learning Framework in Spiking Neural Networks
399. NeurIPS 2025Learning to cluster neuronal function
400. NeurIPS 2025Let Brain Rhythm Shape Machine Intelligence for Connecting Dots on Graphs

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.