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

424 papers, page 8 of 9

351. NeurIPS 2024NeuroClips: Towards High-fidelity and Smooth fMRI-to-Video Reconstruction
352. NeurIPS 2024Nonlinear dynamics of localization in neural receptive fields
353. NeurIPS 2024Not so griddy: Internal representations of RNNs path integrating more than one agent
354. NeurIPS 2024Object segmentation from common fate: Motion energy processing enables human-like zero-shot generalization to random dot stimuli
355. NeurIPS 2024OlympicArena: Benchmarking Multi-discipline Cognitive Reasoning for Superintelligent AI
356. NeurIPS 2024One Sample Fits All: Approximating All Probabilistic Values Simultaneously and Efficiently
357. NeurIPS 2024Only Strict Saddles in the Energy Landscape of Predictive Coding Networks?
358. NeurIPS 2024OpenDebateEvidence: A Massive-Scale Argument Mining and Summarization Dataset
359. NeurIPS 2024Parallel Backpropagation for Shared-Feature Visualization
360. NeurIPS 2024Parameter Symmetry and Noise Equilibrium of Stochastic Gradient Descent
361. NeurIPS 2024Partial observation can induce mechanistic mismatches in data-constrained models of neural dynamics
362. NeurIPS 2024Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction with Missing Data: Datasets, Imputation, and Benchmarking
363. NeurIPS 2024Physics-informed Neural Networks for Functional Differential Equations: Cylindrical Approximation and Its Convergence Guarantees
364. NeurIPS 2024Predicting Ground State Properties: Constant Sample Complexity and Deep Learning Algorithms
365. NeurIPS 2024Predictive Attractor Models
366. NeurIPS 2024Pretraining with Random Noise for Fast and Robust Learning without Weight Transport
367. NeurIPS 2024Probabilistic Decomposed Linear Dynamical Systems for Robust Discovery of Latent Neural Dynamics
368. NeurIPS 2024Probablistic Emulation of a Global Climate Model with Spherical DYffusion
369. NeurIPS 2024Provably Optimal Memory Capacity for Modern Hopfield Models: Transformer-Compatible Dense Associative Memories as Spherical Codes
370. NeurIPS 2024PURE: Prompt Evolution with Graph ODE for Out-of-distribution Fluid Dynamics Modeling
371. NeurIPS 2024QKFormer: Hierarchical Spiking Transformer using Q-K Attention
372. NeurIPS 2024realSEUDO for real-time calcium imaging analysis
373. NeurIPS 2024Recurrent Complex-Weighted Autoencoders for Unsupervised Object Discovery
374. NeurIPS 2024Recurrent neural network dynamical systems for biological vision
375. NeurIPS 2024Reinforcement Learning Under Latent Dynamics: Toward Statistical and Algorithmic Modularity
376. NeurIPS 2024Reproducibility of predictive networks for mouse visual cortex
377. NeurIPS 2024Rethinking the Membrane Dynamics and Optimization Objectives of Spiking Neural Networks
378. NeurIPS 2024Retrieval-Retro: Retrieval-based Inorganic Retrosynthesis with Expert Knowledge
379. NeurIPS 2024Retrospective for the Dynamic Sensorium Competition for predicting large-scale mouse primary visual cortex activity from videos
380. NeurIPS 2024Robust and Faster Zeroth-Order Minimax Optimization: Complexity and Applications
381. NeurIPS 2024RTify: Aligning Deep Neural Networks with Human Behavioral Decisions
382. NeurIPS 2024Sample Complexity of Algorithm Selection Using Neural Networks and Its Applications to Branch-and-Cut
383. NeurIPS 2024SAND: Smooth imputation of sparse and noisy functional data with Transformer networks
384. NeurIPS 2024Second-order forward-mode optimization of recurrent neural networks for neuroscience
385. NeurIPS 2024SETLEXSEM CHALLENGE: Using Set Operations to Evaluate the Lexical and Semantic Robustness of Language Models
386. NeurIPS 2024Shaping the distribution of neural responses with interneurons in a recurrent circuit model
387. NeurIPS 2024Smoke and Mirrors in Causal Downstream Tasks
388. NeurIPS 2024Spectral Learning of Shared Dynamics Between Generalized-Linear Processes
389. NeurIPS 2024SpGesture: Source-Free Domain-adaptive sEMG-based Gesture Recognition with Jaccard Attentive Spiking Neural Network
390. NeurIPS 2024Spider2-V: How Far Are Multimodal Agents From Automating Data Science and Engineering Workflows?
391. NeurIPS 2024Spike-based Neuromorphic Model for Sound Source Localization
392. NeurIPS 2024SpikedAttention: Training-Free and Fully Spike-Driven Transformer-to-SNN Conversion with Winner-Oriented Spike Shift for Softmax Operation
393. NeurIPS 2024Spiking Neural Network as Adaptive Event Stream Slicer
394. NeurIPS 2024SS1: Accelerating Inference with Fast and Expressive Sketch Structured Transform
395. NeurIPS 2024Stochastic Optimal Control and Estimation with Multiplicative and Internal Noise
396. NeurIPS 2024Stochastic Optimal Control Matching
397. NeurIPS 2024Stochastic Taylor Derivative Estimator: Efficient amortization for arbitrary differential operators
398. NeurIPS 2024Structured flexibility in recurrent neural networks via neuromodulation
399. NeurIPS 2024Superposed Decoding: Multiple Generations from a Single Autoregressive Inference Pass
400. NeurIPS 2024Take A Shortcut Back: Mitigating the Gradient Vanishing for Training Spiking Neural Networks

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.