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

753 papers, page 9 of 16

401. ICML 2026Latent Diffusion Pretraining for Crystal Property Prediction
402. ICML 2026Learning Biophysical Models of Large-Scale Multineuronal Data To Enable Precise Neurostimulation
403. ICML 2026Learning Coherent Representations: A Topological Approach to Interpretability
404. ICML 2026Learning Dynamic Stability Landscapes in Synchronization Networks
405. ICML 2026Learning Hamiltonian Flow Maps: Mean Flow Consistency for Large-Timestep Molecular Dynamics
406. ICML 2026Learning Multi-Scale Hypergraph for High-Order Brain Connectivity Analysis
407. ICML 2026Learning Permutation-invariant Macroscopic Dynamics
408. ICML 2026Learning to Refine: Spectral-Decoupled Iterative Refinement Framework for Precipitation Nowcasting
409. ICML 2026Learning-Guided Integration Contours Construction for Fast Large-Scale Generalized Eigensolvers
410. ICML 2026Learning, Solving and Optimizing PDEs with TensorGalerkin: an efficient high-performance Galerkin assembly algorithm
411. ICML 2026LERD: Latent Event-Relational Dynamics for Neurodegenerative Classification
412. ICML 2026Less Token, More Signal: MoE Expert Pruning via Critical Token Selection
413. ICML 2026Let EEG Models Learn EEG
414. ICML 2026Leveraging Gauge Freedom for Learning Non-Gradient Population Dynamics of Stochastic Systems
415. ICML 2026LIF Recurrent Memory Enables Long-Horizon Spiking Computation
416. ICML 2026Linear Bandits beyond Inner Product Spaces, the case of Bandit Optimal Transport
417. ICML 2026Linguistic Properties and Model Scale in Brain Encoding: From Small to Compressed Language Models
418. ICML 2026Machine Learning Hamiltonians are Accurate Energy-Force Predictors
419. ICML 2026MalTree: Tracing Malware Evolution using Embeddings at Scale
420. ICML 2026MCP-Persona: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Real-World Personal Applications via Environment Simulation
421. ICML 2026MedCoG: Maximizing LLM Inference Density in Medical Reasoning via Meta-Cognitive Regulation
422. ICML 2026MEG-XL: Data-Efficient Brain-to-Text via Long-Context Pre-Training
423. ICML 2026Mesh Based Simulations with Spatial and Temporal awareness
424. ICML 2026Mind the State: Towards Unified, Context-Aware EEG-to-fMRI Synthesis
425. ICML 2026Mind-Omni: A Unified Multi-Task Framework for Brain-Vision-Language Modeling via Discrete Diffusion
426. ICML 2026MindZero: Learning Online Mental Reasoning With Zero Annotations
427. ICML 2026Mitigating Gradient Pathology in PINNs through Aligned Constraint
428. ICML 2026MMClima: A Framework for Multimodal Climate Science Data and Evaluation
429. ICML 2026Mobility-Embedded POIs: Learning What A Place Is and How It Is Used from Human Movement
430. ICML 2026Multi-Integration of Labels Across Categories for Component Identification in Multi-trial Time Series
431. ICML 2026Multimarginal flow matching with optimal transport potentials
432. ICML 2026Multimodal Scaling Laws for Task & Data-Optimized Models of Visual Cortex
433. ICML 2026NAACA: Training-Free NeuroAuditory Attentive Cognitive Architecture with Oscillatory Working Memory for Salience-Driven Attention Gating
434. ICML 2026Near-Optimal Dynamic Matching via Coarsening with Application to Heart Transplantation
435. ICML 2026Needles in the Haystack: Addressing Signal Dilution Improves scRNA-seq Perturbation Response Modeling and Evaluation
436. ICML 2026Neural Low-Discrepancy Sequences
437. ICML 2026Neural Minimum Weight Perfect Matching for Quantum Error Codes
438. ICML 2026Neural-HSS: Hierarchical Semi-Separable Neural PDE Solver
439. ICML 2026NeurIPS: Neuro-anatomical Inductive Priors for Sphere-based Brain Decoding
440. ICML 2026NeuroCLUS: A Foundation Model with Functional Clustering for Intracranial Neural Decoding
441. ICML 2026NeuronCtrl: Geometry-Aware Safe Closed-Loop Generative Control for Neuronal Microenvironment Dynamics
442. ICML 2026Next-Gen CAPTCHAs: Leveraging the Cognitive Gap for Scalable and Diverse GUI-Agent Defense
443. ICML 2026Omni-fMRI: A Universal Atlas-Free fMRI Foundation Model
444. ICML 2026On the Collapse of Generative Paths: A Criterion and Correction for Diffusion Steering
445. ICML 2026On the Infinite Width and Depth Limits of Predictive Coding Networks
446. ICML 2026Optimal Design for Multinomial Logit Model with Applications to Best Assortment Identification
447. ICML 2026OSF: On Pre-training and Scaling of Sleep Foundation Models
448. ICML 2026PATCHCODE: Discrete Latent Predictive Learning for EEG Foundation Model
449. ICML 2026PCRNet: Phase-aware Complex Refinement Network for EEG-based Auditory Attention Decoding
450. ICML 2026PDAgent: An LLM-Driven Autonomous Agent Framework Towards *In Silico* Protein Design via Directed Mutation

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.