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

523 papers, page 9 of 11

401. ICLR 2024Complex priors and flexible inference in recurrent circuits with dendritic nonlinearities
402. ICLR 2024Continuous Field Reconstruction from Sparse Observations with Implicit Neural Networks
403. ICLR 2024Critical Learning Periods Emerge Even in Deep Linear Networks
404. ICLR 2024Crystalformer: Infinitely Connected Attention for Periodic Structure Encoding
405. ICLR 2024Decoding Natural Images from EEG for Object Recognition
406. ICLR 2024Deep Geodesic Canonical Correlation Analysis for Covariance-Based Neuroimaging Data
407. ICLR 2024Defining Expertise: Applications to Treatment Effect Estimation
408. ICLR 2024Diffeomorphic Mesh Deformation via Efficient Optimal Transport for Cortical Surface Reconstruction
409. ICLR 2024DNABERT-2: Efficient Foundation Model and Benchmark For Multi-Species Genomes
410. ICLR 2024Emergent Communication with Conversational Repair
411. ICLR 2024Emergent mechanisms for long timescales depend on training curriculum and affect performance in memory tasks
412. ICLR 2024Enhancing Small Medical Learners with Privacy-preserving Contextual Prompting
413. ICLR 2024Epitopological learning and Cannistraci-Hebb network shape intelligence brain-inspired theory for ultra-sparse advantage in deep learning
414. ICLR 2024Estimating Shape Distances on Neural Representations with Limited Samples
415. ICLR 2024Evaluating Representation Learning on the Protein Structure Universe
416. ICLR 2024Exploring Effective Stimulus Encoding via Vision System Modeling for Visual Prostheses
417. ICLR 2024Fast and unified path gradient estimators for normalizing flows
418. ICLR 2024Fine-Tuned Language Models Generate Stable Inorganic Materials as Text
419. ICLR 2024FlashAttention-2: Faster Attention with Better Parallelism and Work Partitioning
420. ICLR 2024Forward Learning with Top-Down Feedback: Empirical and Analytical Characterization
421. ICLR 2024How connectivity structure shapes rich and lazy learning in neural circuits
422. ICLR 2024Implicit Gaussian process representation of vector fields over arbitrary latent manifolds
423. ICLR 2024In-Context Learning Dynamics with Random Binary Sequences
424. ICLR 2024Intriguing Properties of Generative Classifiers
425. ICLR 2024Invariance-based Learning of Latent Dynamics
426. ICLR 2024Large Brain Model for Learning Generic Representations with Tremendous EEG Data in BCI
427. ICLR 2024Large Content And Behavior Models To Understand, Simulate, And Optimize Content And Behavior
428. ICLR 2024Large Language Models as Optimizers
429. ICLR 2024Learning Delays in Spiking Neural Networks using Dilated Convolutions with Learnable Spacings
430. ICLR 2024Learning dynamic representations of the functional connectome in neurobiological networks
431. ICLR 2024Learning interpretable control inputs and dynamics underlying animal locomotion
432. ICLR 2024Learning Over Molecular Conformer Ensembles: Datasets and Benchmarks
433. ICLR 2024Learning Planning Abstractions from Language
434. ICLR 2024Learning Polynomial Problems with $SL(2, \mathbb{R})$-Equivariance
435. ICLR 2024Learning semilinear neural operators: A unified recursive framework for prediction and data assimilation.
436. ICLR 2024Learning the greatest common divisor: explaining transformer predictions
437. ICLR 2024Learning Thresholds with Latent Values and Censored Feedback
438. ICLR 2024Learning to Reject with a Fixed Predictor: Application to Decontextualization
439. ICLR 2024Leveraging Generative Models for Unsupervised Alignment of Neural Time Series Data
440. ICLR 2024LipSim: A Provably Robust Perceptual Similarity Metric
441. ICLR 2024Manipulating dropout reveals an optimal balance of efficiency and robustness in biological and machine visual systems
442. ICLR 2024MAPE-PPI: Towards Effective and Efficient Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction via Microenvironment-Aware Protein Embedding
443. ICLR 2024Mayfly: a Neural Data Structure for Graph Stream Summarization
444. ICLR 2024MgNO: Efficient Parameterization of Linear Operators via Multigrid
445. ICLR 2024Modeling state-dependent communication between brain regions with switching nonlinear dynamical systems
446. ICLR 2024MOFDiff: Coarse-grained Diffusion for Metal-Organic Framework Design
447. ICLR 2024Most discriminative stimuli for functional cell type clustering
448. ICLR 2024Multi-modal Gaussian Process Variational Autoencoders for Neural and Behavioral Data
449. ICLR 2024Neuroformer: Multimodal and Multitask Generative Pretraining for Brain Data
450. ICLR 2024On the generalization capacity of neural networks during generic multimodal reasoning

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.