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

824 papers, page 9 of 17

401. NeurIPS 2025LibriBrain: Over 50 Hours of Within-Subject MEG to Improve Speech Decoding Methods at Scale
402. NeurIPS 2025List-Level Distribution Coupling with Applications to Speculative Decoding and Lossy Compression
403. NeurIPS 2025LLM Generated Persona is a Promise with a Catch
404. NeurIPS 2025Local-Global Coupling Spiking Graph Transformer for Brain Disorders Diagnosis from Two Perspectives
405. NeurIPS 2025Localist Topographic Expert Routing: A Barrel Cortex-Inspired Modular Network for Sensorimotor Processing
406. NeurIPS 2025Long-term Intracortical Neural activity and Kinematics (LINK): An intracortical neural dataset for chronic brain-machine interfaces, neuroscience, and machine learning
407. NeurIPS 2025Looking Into the Water by Unsupervised Learning of the Surface Shape
408. NeurIPS 2025LUNA: Efficient and Topology-Agnostic Foundation Model for EEG Signal Analysis
409. NeurIPS 2025Mars-Bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Foundation Models for Mars Science Tasks
410. NeurIPS 2025Measuring and Controlling Solution Degeneracy across Task-Trained Recurrent Neural Networks
411. NeurIPS 2025Mechanistic Interpretability of RNNs emulating Hidden Markov Models
412. NeurIPS 2025MEIcoder: Decoding Visual Stimuli from Neural Activity by Leveraging Most Exciting Inputs
413. NeurIPS 2025Memory by accident: a theory of learning as a byproduct of network stabilization
414. NeurIPS 2025Meta-Learning an In-Context Transformer Model of Human Higher Visual Cortex
415. NeurIPS 2025MI-TRQR: Mutual Information-Based Temporal Redundancy Quantification and Reduction for Energy-Efficient Spiking Neural Networks
416. NeurIPS 2025Military AI Needs Technically-Informed Regulation to Safeguard AI Research and its Applications
417. NeurIPS 2025MixSignGraph: A Sign Sequence is Worth Mixed Graphs of Nodes
418. NeurIPS 2025MLE-STAR: Machine Learning Engineering Agent via Search and Targeted Refinement
419. NeurIPS 2025Model Merging in Pre-training of Large Language Models
420. NeurIPS 2025Model–Behavior Alignment under Flexible Evaluation: When the Best-Fitting Model Isn’t the Right One
421. NeurIPS 2025Modeling Dynamic Neural Activity by combining Naturalistic Video Stimuli and Stimulus-independent Latent Factors
422. NeurIPS 2025Modeling Neural Activity with Conditionally Linear Dynamical Systems
423. NeurIPS 2025Modelling the control of offline processing with reinforcement learning
424. NeurIPS 2025MoGe-2: Accurate Monocular Geometry with Metric Scale and Sharp Details
425. NeurIPS 2025Monotone and Separable Set Functions: Characterizations and Neural Models
426. NeurIPS 2025MoRE-Brain: Routed Mixture of Experts for Interpretable and Generalizable Cross-Subject fMRI Visual Decoding
427. NeurIPS 2025MPMAvatar: Learning 3D Gaussian Avatars with Accurate and Robust Physics-Based Dynamics
428. NeurIPS 2025Multi-dataset Joint Pre-training of Emotional EEG Enables Generalizable Affective Computing
429. NeurIPS 2025Multiplication-Free Parallelizable Spiking Neurons with Efficient Spatio-Temporal Dynamics
430. NeurIPS 2025MUniverse: A Simulation and Benchmarking Suite for Motor Unit Decomposition
431. NeurIPS 2025NavBench: Probing Multimodal Large Language Models for Embodied Navigation
432. NeurIPS 2025NEED: Cross-Subject and Cross-Task Generalization for Video and Image Reconstruction from EEG Signals
433. NeurIPS 2025Neural Correlates of Serial Dependence: Synaptic Short-term Plasticity Orchestrates Repulsion and Attraction
434. NeurIPS 2025NeurIPT: Foundation Model for Neural Interfaces
435. NeurIPS 2025Neurons as Detectors of Coherent Sets in Sensory Dynamics
436. NeurIPS 2025NOBLE - Neural Operator with Biologically-informed Latent Embeddings to Capture Experimental Variability in Biological Neuron Models
437. NeurIPS 2025NoPo-Avatar: Generalizable and Animatable Avatars from Sparse Inputs without Human Poses
438. NeurIPS 2025OMiSO: Adaptive optimization of state-dependent brain stimulation to shape neural population states
439. NeurIPS 2025OmniGaze: Reward-inspired Generalizable Gaze Estimation in the Wild
440. NeurIPS 2025Open Vision Reasoner: Transferring Linguistic Cognitive Behavior for Visual Reasoning
441. NeurIPS 2025Orient Anything V2: Unifying Orientation and Rotation Understanding
442. NeurIPS 2025Orochi: Versatile Biomedical Image Processor
443. NeurIPS 2025Orthogonal Contrastive Learning for Multi-Representation fMRI Analysis
444. NeurIPS 2025PANORAMA: A Dataset and Benchmarks Capturing Decision Trails and Rationales in Patent Examination
445. NeurIPS 2025PLMTrajRec: A Scalable and Generalizable Trajectory Recovery Method with Pre-trained Language Models
446. NeurIPS 2025POCO: Scalable Neural Forecasting through Population Conditioning
447. NeurIPS 2025Pose Splatter: A 3D Gaussian Splatting Model for Quantifying Animal Pose and Appearance
448. NeurIPS 2025Position: Bridge the Gaps between Machine Unlearning and AI Regulation
449. NeurIPS 2025Position: Machine Learning Conferences Should Establish a "Refutations and Critiques" Track
450. NeurIPS 2025Pre-trained Large Language Models Learn to Predict Hidden Markov Models In-context

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.